Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: People that are crazy because sane, sanitized Christianity is killing us. We need some folks that got some crazy on it, like people that believe that the gospel of the Book of Acts, that same God will show up today.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Hello, and welcome to the well, an Elam Fellowship leadership podcast. My name is Thomas, and I'm excited that you are joining us today as we receive the second part from our new friend Sean Smith's word on day three of the 2025 Oasis conference. In our last episode, Sean began to teach on what it looks like for us to be doorkeepers of revival in our areas.
If you haven't heard this episode, I highly encourage you to pause and go back and listen to it before we continue today, Sean will finish this message, once again calling upon the church to be active in pursuing the revival of our areas.
You don't want to miss this message.
So join us as we seek to open prophetic wells in our lives, in our churches, and in the world. Today, enjoy.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Peter is sleeping. The night of his execution, it seems hopeless. James has been killed. Peter was arrested. I'm just reviewing it. Peter is about to be killed. He's chained. And I mentioned these two chains. And now here is the thing. I'm trying in this season to train my heart to recognize when a door is shut, it doesn't mean that it's the end.
I'm gonna say it again, because I got two sisters up here. Amen. And me.
I'm in a season where I'm trying to train my heart that just because the door is shut doesn't mean it's the end. It looked like it's over for Peter, but how many of you know this is about to be an incredible miracle? And what happens is, you got to understand, new doors don't open unless old doors get closed. It's part of the process of transition.
Now, these people, they're praying. Not a single person in this story expects Peter to be released. You know that, right? Not Herod, not the guards, not the people of the church. I don't even think Peter himself believed or expected him to be released until God answered the prayer. So he's out in the middle of the square, and the angel says, hey, man, you got to get out of the square. You need to go over there amongst your people. So he goes and he knocks on the door. Now this is the part I want to center in on. They're in a room, praying. These are the cream of the crop leaders.
These are the intercessors of the early church.
This isn't Just an open prayer meeting. You got people that are still going after God in the midst of martyrdom and persecution. And then there's a. A. A gal. I would fight for her to be second ballot, Faith hall of Fame. You know, in. In sports, you could be first ballot, second ballot, whatever. Like Hebrews 11, Canton, Ohio. Scripture. Rhoda's name should be in there someplace, because let me brag on Rhoda for a second, right? You might want to name your, you know, your child, your. Your granddaughter. Throw in Rhoda. Because Rhoda, I'm. I'm pushing for Rhoda.
All these sophisticated spiritual intercessors, prophetic crema. The crop. This is the cream of the crop of the church in terms of leadership. And yet there was a massive flaw that God put this story in the Bible. I think for us to learn. Here they are saying, oh, God, we just pray, Peter, let go. Oh, God, just please. We know what happened to James. Oh, don't happen to Peter. We know God, that you can do all things. We know God. And they're praying miracles.
Rhoda hears a knock. She goes to the door. She opens the door, and there's a gate. She sees Peter. She's so amazed, right, that she left the gate open, but the door closed, right? She runs back and she says, miss Mary, Miss Mary, you know the guy you guys are praying about, Peter, he's at the door. Now, what do you think should be the response if you're praying for a move of God? Peter represents a movement, right? The move is knocking at your door. Church.
You would think that if you're truly in prayer, you would be ready for the answer to that prayer.
What is Mary? The spiritual leadership on planet Earth looks at the girl and says, girl, you are crazy.
You're 5150. You are out of your mind. We need to get you on some. Some sort of medication right now, right?
Like what?
That doesn't make any sense at all. Y'.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: All.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: What y' all doing up there? You praying. You're praying, and yet you're not ready when revival's knocking at the door of your house.
I think there are some explanations on it. I'm gonna try to give you a couple. But I just say this, first of all, bragging on road. I think some. We need some kingdom crazy on us right now.
I'm looking at you crazy right now. I'm looking at you wild. Okay? We need some kingdom crazy on us. We need some people that are willing to look foolish for Jesus. We need some People that were willing to go on record as believing. I'm putting all my eggs in this basket. I believe there's about to be a move of God. I'm going to begin to raise up as the component of leadership. I want to raise up five fold ministry as a pastor in a house. I want to raise up servant leaders. I want to raise up soul winners. I want to raise up intercessors. I want to raise up proph prophetic people in the house. I want to raise up people that will influence marketplace posts and willing to be a light in the midst of I T and the medical and the governmental and other different places that Lord, we got to get ready. We got to get our nets ready because a massive harvest is coming in. We need people that are crazy because sane sanitized Christianity is killing us. We need some folks that got some crazy on it, like people that believe that the gospel of the book of Acts, that same God will show up today. Hey, hey, listen to me. Like what, what is revival? Revival is, let me put it like this. You know how sometimes we could use two words that are synonymous or sound the same, but it's not the same? Like the word cereal. One can, can describe the contents of Captain Crunch in a box. The other one could be a serious homicidal psychopath, right? Like some cereal. Cereal, it's spelled differently. But here, sometimes words are different, but they're used synonymous. But there's a mistake involved in not interpreting. Okay, let me just tell it to you. It's the word normal and typical.
For instance, if I, during that Covid time I'm coughing, I lost my sense of smell and I come in, the doctor, he or she checks me out and they go, Mr. Smith, what you have is normal. And what they're saying is, is that what you have is typical. To a person that's battling with COVID right now, it's not normal compared to a healthy person, right?
So much of what floats is North American Christianity we think is normal. It's not normal. It's just typical of North American Christianity. But if you compare that to Book of Acts, you find out we're not normal, we're abnormal, we're subnormal, and we need some kingdom crazy on us so we can get back to, to looking like it should look in the Book of Acts. But not only that, I'm not even, I'm not just a proponent of going back. I think we should have interest on what Christianity should look like. We should have grown from that. And I believe that that's what revival is. Revival is when God introduces us to what his normal looks like. His normal is Herod. You think you're in control, but let me tell you something. No, not, not. This is not meant to be a pun, but let me tell you what prophecy will trump policy. And every single day you understand that, right? There was a minor prophet that prophesied it, said basically, out of Bethlehem will come the Savior. And then all of a sudden you get, you know, Caesar and he's all of a sudden has this census that takes place. He thinks he could rule the entire world and move people around. And so Mary and Joseph, basically, they've got to go back to Bethlehem. And of course, our Savior, you know, in his earthly appearance is born out of Bethlehem. But how many of you know that wasn't policy, that was prophecy, right? Proph. Trump's policy every single time. And believers that get kingdom crazy on it, they know it. And now here is the funny thing. For Peter, it was easier to get out of prison than it was to get in Mary's house.
I think the thing that upholds revival, maybe that's not the right word I'm looking for upheld. It resists. Revival is not the behavior of non Christians out there in our communities.
Because it's never. Revival is not about them. It is ultimately, but initially it's second Chronicles 7:14. If my people are called by my name that the activities of the lgbqt, the activities of atheist activities of, you know, some would put the far liberal, whatever and all that kind of stuff. That's not what stops revival in your city.
You are the doorkeeper of revival in your city.
That if we will get some rota on us and begin to pray and open the door for the move of God and allow the move of God, then something can spill out into the community.
Because the real resistance to revival is not the rest. It's the lack of a remnant that will believe God for it.
Right? There are people that, okay, let me just keep preaching because I'll do too much talking here, right?
Let me give you three reasons as to why I believe an entire group could pray for revival, yet not be ready for when revival comes. Let me repeat that. Let me give you three reasons why. Here is the premise I'm trying to identify. This is.
I've been taught, this is what good preaching is based on, is identifying the tension in the text.
The tension is there's a group of people that are praying, but they won't open the door for what they're praying for.
So that makes you question the entire. So three reasons why that can happen. Number one, a lack of experience. Excuse me? A lack of expectation due to past bad experience.
A lack of expectation due to past bad experience.
Isn't it funny how we get surprised by things that should not surprise us?
Let me give you some examples. Gaining weight, right?
It wasn't a lot of laughs. But hey, you out there eating McDonald's all the time and you're not, you know, you're just doing all the animal fat. Everything else, it's like, all right, here's another one. Speeding tickets. How you're going 20 miles over the speed, that should not surprise you that you get a speeding ticket. Credit card statements. I'm shocked. No, you were out charging, charging, charging, Right. There's certain things surprise that shouldn't. But there are other things that should surprise us. Now. Here they are, they're in a room, and they have a lack of expectation due to past bad experience. The past bad experience was the last time we've seen this. This isn't a new series for us. Last time we saw it, James got apprehended by King Herod. He was beheaded. He died.
Sometimes we cannot be ready for revival because we are still hurt over how something else went down. As it relates to contending and believing for the move of God, the enemy wants to put a bad taste. Maybe all of a sudden there was a church split. Maybe someone did an absalom move on you. Maybe a Jezebel rose up. Maybe there was a level of warfare. Maybe something happened in your own family, which. That really becomes tough when you, you know, you're a leader and you're seeing your kids kind of get to get part of the brunt of the attack because of what you want are reaching for in God. There was a lack of expectation due to past bad experience. Like. Like James died. So we're going to pray, but obviously Peter's probably going to die too. And I'm thinking, here's the deal. You cannot sacrifice your Peter on the altar of your James.
Maybe that last move, something did happen. Maybe there was some stuff that came out, I think, of a particular move of God, and I'm not here to call out folks names, but it was an incredible healing revival that took place only to find out the guy that led it had left his wife and went with an intern and all kind of shenanigans that just were not God. And there was a bunch of people that wanted to back off healing. They wanted to back off moves of God. And what you're doing is you're sacrificing your Peter on the altar of James.
That man let you down, and flesh and blood will let you down. But I know one who will never let you down. And our eyes have to be on Jesus.
Now, the Bible says, provide all things right in the sight of God and man. We need to live with integrity. We need to be who we need to be. I love one of the greatest compliments my kids or my wife gives me is they go, like, the kids will say, my dad or my husband will say, sean. He's the same out of the pulpit as he is in the pulpit. That is one of my stated core values of my life. I don't want to be something up here that I'm out. Not when I'm in line at Costco Sam's Club in the, you know, DMV like I had to be to get my real ID or whatever. I want to be that same guy when they're telling me my flight is canceled, you are stuck. You got to stay the night at the bfw.
I want to still have that same Jesus glow on my face. I'm disappointed. I am human. I might underneath my breath be grumbling a little bit, but I'm going to ultimately thank the Lord and try to stay in that place. So, anyway, back to this thought. Here they are. And here's what I say. Sometimes the most difficult thing that hinders our forward movement is not the things in front of us, but the things behind us.
Sometimes the things that are really keeping us, us in particular, as individuals from a revived state is not the demonic resistance in front of us. It's dealing with the stuff that is behind us. And here you are. And here's what I'd say to him. Here's what the Lord say. You got to get over James. God had a purpose and a reason because he's God. That's not mine to question. That's way above my pay grade. But I'm telling you right now, I need to approach every healing we prayed for. Brother so and so he'd get healed of cancer. We fasted, we went on record, we believed. And all of a sudden, brother so and so passed. And that's tragic. And we got to deal with the heartache of that and help see people healed. But I can't stop believing that God can't heal cancer in the next person. Because if I'm too busy thinking about that last and how that went or when I really let the Holy Spirit move, man, all of this stuff came out. You will lose your Peter on the altar of your James if you can't raise your expectation and get over the past stuff. And I know it's easier said than done, but I believe that when we get alone before the Lord, there's a way of dealing with that. Can you just give me an amen on that?
The second reason why you could be praying for a move of God but not be ready when the move of God, because what it is, it's like Rhoda's trying to tell you guys, your miracle's at the door. Your move of God is knocking at the door. It's right there, right at the door. The second reason is what I call the dumbing down of prayer to mere religious activity.
Do you know prayer is heaven and earth moving stuff?
A dude in the Bible prayed and the Son stopped till he defeated his enemies. Do you understand that? That Elijah called down fire, and yet James says that essentially that the same anointing and the same ability to pray and see the power of God move. I'm adding my own words. That was on Elijah, is on you. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Do you understand that? Prayer is heaven moving activity. Because believing and expecting God to act, crying out and petitioning, that's Christianity. Basics.
That's the basics. But so often in the heat of the battle, in the midst of adversity, in the midst of an onslaught, in the midst of naysayers and others, we can get to the point where we begin to diminish in this, for this, for all intents and purposes, our prayer life. Now, again, I'm not picking on it because my father in law is one of the most awesome charismatic Catholics. Loves the Lord. Praise in tongues. Amazing. So this is not what I'm talking about, but I remember my kids were coming up playing basketball. My son ended up getting a D1 scholarship, played at Cal Berkeley in what was then the PAC 12. But now they're doing all this stuff in, you know, image and likeness, and teams are going way different places.
But I remember when they were young and my daughter played hoop, too, and she played in college that we would play CYO Catholic Youth Organization. And so we would all. I coached them. We would get together and all the little kids would get in a circle, and then one of the guys would lead us in the Our Father. And it was amazing how quick these dudes could do the Our Father. They would do it. They would say, okay, Bob, grab your hands, everybody, you ready? And it would be Our Father who's in heaven. How be thy name? The kingdom come and will be done on earth. Give us the daily bread. Give us our trespass against us. Trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but lives in me follows the kingdom of the power and the glory. Amen. Come on, let's have a good game. Yeah, let's go.
And I thought. I remember thinking one time, does he realize what he just prayed? Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, O on earth as it is in heaven. Do you realize how powerful that prayer is?
Sometimes I wonder if we realize the prayers that come out of our mouth or the prayers that could come out of our mouth and the power behind it. Understand this. You'll miss the story unless you understand. While they were praying, angel was released.
The enemy wants to cause there to be a distance between or disconnect between what you do in your quiet place and what's being released in your community. He wants to work. So there's a disconnect to where we wouldn't say it because it's not in our heart of hearts what we believe. It's just subtly we bought a lie that our prayers aren't as effective, that we pray. But yeah. Is it really happening, God? Are you really answering this prayer? Feels like I've been praying this forever. And I'm telling you, when you begin to pray, Daniel began to pray. He said, for the moment you begin to pray. There was an angel Release. It took 21 days, but there was an angel release. You have that same ability. And now we have the Holy Spirit living in us.
Somebody say, prayer is powerful.
I believe it's easy to drift away from God and settle for an average, like, normal way of living. And this is exactly why revival comes. They needed revival in that room. They needed Peter to come back and do something to them so they could go out and be Book of Acts type of believer. They this is a real impasse moment. But I believe it speaks to us as leaders. This group was praying for Peter. It's the evening before his execution. Time is running out. Scripture tells us that on the subject of their prayers, an angel came. But what happens is people fail to realize that God is moving in their midst based on prayers. He prompted them to pray.
You guys are with me. All right. I'm going to go to the last one because I want to make sure we. Yep, I'll make sure we're doing good time. Right.
I will say this.
God shows up when people stretch out.
If I were to summarize my book on revival and the studies this in depth dive I did on revivals. The biggest. One of the biggest things I would say is God shows up when people stretch out. And sometimes I think maybe it's the best way I can say it. I grew up inner city Oakland. We didn't have a lot of money. I made majority of my toys. Like, we were abject poverty poor. I mean, there was a point in time. One time we didn't have a Christmas tree in our apartment. Like, it was a tough Christmas, tough time for my mom and my grandmas and my grandma and my mom and myself. And it was one present underneath the tree. My mom and my grandmother, they did everything they could to make sure Little Shawn would have one present. That was all we had that Christmas. There were times we were on government aid, we got government food, and so what subtly can begin to happen. And my grandma would do this to me. She'd go, baby, I had a buddy named Ray. We were calling Ray Ray Ray Jones. And she said, baby, you're gonna go over to Ms. Jones house, and if you're over there, dinner. You need to come home. And if you do happen to be there and she's gonna ask you, hey, do you want something to eat? Baby, you need to say no. She gonna ask you a second time, you need to say no. If she asks you a third time, make sure you do not eat what's being cooked on the stove. Tell them you'll have some peanut butter and jelly or whatever else. Back in the day, we would eat sardines and crackers. It was nasty, but it was food. You'd eat it. And what she was saying is that they were poor as well. And if I ate the food on their stove, that meant Ray Ray or one of his five brothers and sisters. And when his dad would come through, sometimes his dad wouldn't come through. All of them couldn't eat. So if you eat food on the stove, you've taken food out of someone else's mouth. But what my grandma didn't understand, she was doing. It was subtle. Over a period of time, I develop a poverty mentality.
And I think sometimes when it comes to prayer, we're praying like paupers, when we should be praying like children of the most high God. All right, let me go to the third thing, and I think this is important here. It is, the mistake. Okay, I told you, number one. You guys remember number one, a lack of expectation due to past bad experience. Number two, what was it? The dumbing down of prayer to mere religious activity. And now number three is long, but the mistake of mastering your plan over implementing the master's plan. The mistake of mastering your plan over implementing the master's plan.
I believe that the love affair with human effort can strangle out the move of God of what he wants to do in our lives. Let me explain this better.
I am surmising this my thought.
I think that in that room there were subtle little things that could have built their faith and they would have believed. Like while they were praying, I think they thought in order for Peter to really be let go, Herod has to die.
Herod dies, then all of a sudden, there's a chance for Peter. But that's the way, like I'm thinking in their mind, their plan was this dude has to die. And if this dude has to die, then we can have revival. Now let me bring it home, right? What they're saying is there has to be an administration change in order for we to have revival.
Now, I voted like you voted. For the most part, I'm pretty sure. Majority. I'm going to always, all day, every day, I'm a vote to protect the womb. But I'm telling you what the Bible doesn't say. If my person is in the White House, who calls my name? Humble themselves, pray. I'd rather have a person that fears God than a person that doesn't. Don't get me wrong. But let me tell you what our answer is. Not left of the aisle or right of the aisle. Let me see. That's left. That's right.
Come on. I'm not seated in the left left. I'm seeing. I'm sitting in heavenly places.
Some of the greatest revivals that hit the planet have come under tyrants, that have come under dictators, that have come under godless folks. And I'm telling you, I think we think that laws have to change in our city. This mayor's got to leave. That person, got to get put out this person. I'm not saying we're wishing death on people, but we're saying they've got to transition out in order for this to happen. And God says, really, really? Have you walked with me that long to think my only course of action to bring revival is I got to take folks out. Herod would die. He would get filled of pride, get struck. Worms would come out. You don't want to see that YouTube replay. That's bad right there.
But that's not how Peter got let go.
Because they made the mistake of wanting to master their plan over implementing the master's plan. And the master's Plan was to pray and trust here is a move of God. It's one thing. Follow me. It's one thing for heaven to let a move loose. It's another thing for you to let them move in.
All right, let me tell you something I believe about revival. I don't believe now. This is now where I'll contrast. Peter. I don't believe that revival is chained up in a prison in heaven someplace. And the more we fast and pray. I mean, you gotta fast, fast. You gotta fast so much, your belly button touches your spine. You gotta fast so much, you half an ocean twin skinny. Come on, somebody. I mean, you know, y'. All. Don't y' all remember Mary Kate and Ash? All right, so you. You, you. You know, and I'm telling you, I. I don't think like. I think God wants revival more than we want revival.
I don't think revival's locked up in a room and having chain. And we press and pray enough. It. Let me tell you what I do believe the picture is. And the Lord spoke to me one time, I was flying back into San Francisco. And San Francisco is known for having fog planes. My understanding, planes can. At least in San Francisco, I've seen it. They'll take off in fog, but they can't land in fog. And they'll slow down how often the plane takes on fog, but planes will take off, but there's a stalling of them landing. And so I've been on a plane where I'm coming in kind of early in the morning for some of the fog of San Francisco burns off and they send you in a holding pattern. And one time I was in this. And the Lord says, do you know, son, this is exactly revival right now. And I began what. And the Lord just began to show me that we're thinking revival's chained up in heaven, waiting for it to get released if. And the closet is cracked every so often. And we begin to see. No, no, no. Revival is in a holding pattern over your region and is waiting for a landing strip to clear up.
Because the initial place of revival, you know this, right? The initial place the. The real estate God needs in order to operate is the left center cavity of your chest. During the great Welsh Revival, a a a editor came from Britain to kind of report on the great revival of Wales. And he saw this policeman, and he walked up to him, he says, hey, where's the great revival of Wales? Fully expecting this officer to say, hey, Mariah. Chapel's right down there. Go down there three blocks, move over to right on the corner, you can't miss, et cetera. And the guy was very stoic, as sometimes some of the UK police officers could be. And he did like this.
And the guy said, excuse me, sir, maybe you didn't hear me. Hey, I'm asking you, where is the great revival of Wales, the Welsh revival? I'm coming to do a story on it. And the guy goes, and he asked him a third time, and then the officer spoke up. He says, the great revival of Wales is right here in my heart.
Revivals need real estate in order to operate. The first piece of real estate God looks for is the left center cavity of your chest.
That before we pray for revival, we have to become revival, and before we become revival, we have to receive revival.
And this is the thing that we're at right now. Now let me close with this.
You are called to be a doorkeeper of revival because what do doorkeepers do? This is Rhoda.
Rhoda allowed access, and that's what doorkeepers do. They allow access and entry. Doorkeepers have keys. Perfect timing, bro. Doorkeeper is a watch person. Like, the idea for Rhoda is that she had to be sensitive to the door. She had to be a person that was aware of what's going on at the door. A doorkeeper is a person who is a watch person. They're a guardian of an entry point that when things happen into my area, I go, no, not on my watch. God put me here and I'm going to come against that thing in Jesus name and someone else go, oh, man, you know you're running into hell with a water pistol. Yeah, but if enough people come with a water pistol, we're going to extinguish some fire. Right?
But not only that, the Bible is very clear that the gates of hell should not prevail.
Hell is supposed to be defensive structures, not offensive structures. I've never seen a horror movie where gates are start. Ah, it's a gate. No, the gates are coming to get us. No, no, no. Gates are an attempt to hold back what is trying to penetrate that. And the Bible says the gates of hell should not prevail against you. And obviously there's also a reference understanding gates was a place of where authority and government took place as well. That's. That's understood, but I'm saying for the most part, it's defensive. You guys are with me. A doorkeeper occupies a position and an assignment at all costs and will not allow the door to go unattended. So hear me in the. And I'm closing right now. As I tell one last thing. In the assignment of Revival, a doorkeeper guards the door, making certain that revival has an entry point.
Your mission, should you accept it, is Mission Impossible is coming out right? Your mission, should you accept this, Ethan Hunt is it. You have to. Your job is to make sure revival is an entry point in your house, revival as an entry point in your church, revival as an entry point in your community, in your city, revival as an entry point in this nation.
And here is a group of people that are praying.
You're at the door. And this is the final scene. I'm telling you because this is where I'm trying to recruit you to be a rota group.
The Bible says right after she says you're crazy, right? The enemy will try to tell you, you crazy. You weren't a fanatical. You crazy. Hey, America is going to be saved because we got some crazy on our kingdom. Crazy, awesome Christians. But the Bible we read says that Rhoda kept insisting that it was so.
So here is Mary. This is your employer. This is a person you work for. She pays your bill. She can fire you.
And Rhoda said, Ms. Mary, Ms. Mary, you know the guy Peter, y' all praying for? He's knocking the door right now. And. And this insisting is so man. Mary goes, no, he's not. It's his angel. You. You would believe it's his angel rather than believe God could actually release Peter. Go figure. Like you. Okay? And so she says, no, it's not. So keep insisting. So Rhoda said, no, no, no, it's Peter at the door. No, no, it's his angel. No, you're out of your mind. You're crazy. No, no, no. Peter's at the door. She kept insisting. So here's the thing. When the religious spirit tells you revival isn't coming, when the religious spirit tries to tell you this emerging generation doesn't want God, when the religious spirit tries to say a man. Once you go into that bender, transgender stuff, there's no comeback from that. These spirits of hell will whisper.
You have to be a people that kept insisting that it's so. This is why I say she should be in the Faith hall of Fame. In that environment, she was the least likely person that should have been the one that let Peter in. And yet she kept insisting. We have to have a group of people that say we won't settle for anything less than a visitation to God. We won't settle for anything else than medically verifiable miracles. Taking place in our hearts. We won't settle for people that aren't equipped to deal with the demonic. Cast out devils, lay hands on the sick, speak in tongues, all of it. We want it all. If they did in the book of Acts, Jesus did it, we want to do it. Because the works he did will do and greater works in these.
And here's what Rhoda did. I love this. Here's what I would have done.
And I'm closing because I'm in my final 45 seconds. I would have run to the door, I would have let Peter in. I'd hit my chest and I'd say, see, Y' all doubted me. There he is right there.
Did you know that's not what happened in the story? And I close. You ready?
The Bible says while Rhoda was insisting, it says they heard the knock and they opened the door. She kept insisting, follow me until they heard the knock.
Our job is to keep insisting until everybody hears the knock that revival is at the door. That's my job. You think I'm crazy, but I'm gonna keep insisting to you here to knock. That's my mission. My mission is to make you more of a flaming revivalist out of your mind believer with kingdom crazy on you, loving Jesus fanatical. My job is to keep insisting, although you're berating me, although you're doubting me. And I may be a bit of an exaggeration, but if you call somebody crazy, that's not a compliment.
But can you keep insisting? Here is where I close. Right here. Close your eyes, Jesus. I mean it this time. I'm allowed three closes.
You guys are going to go to lunch and it is great time because it's 11:59, heads about an eyes closed.
I'm convinced that there's some people here. You guys are great, phenomenal people.
But I strongly feel like for some there's been an attack of discouragement and the Lord wants to encourage you. And I think it is really believing that God will show up in the way that you've believed in your heart. Sometimes some of the most haunting things to me are hearing stories of Smith Wigglesworth because I go, God, why did that happen for him? But for all intents and purposes, why does us as average rank and file believers, which I'm convinced he would say he was one as well, why aren't we pulling people out of coffins and ending funerals like that? Because Jesus did it. And I believe that there's answers to that. And I believe part of it is today is that we've got to begin to open the door for that. We got to begin to make room. I love to tell people that we say, holy Spirit, I give you room. And I want to submit something to you. I want to challenge you to change your prayer from Holy Spirit, I give you room to Holy Spirit, I give you the room.
Some people give Holy Spirit rooms means at the end of the service will take a little moment, but I believe I want to give Holy Spirit the room. The final thing. The Lord wants your heart to begin to burn for revival.
He wants your like CT stud. He said you want revival. Take out a piece of chalk. And it was also attributed to another revival giant. Make a circle. Get in the middle of the circle and say, God, revive everything in a circle. And they say you have the beginnings of revival.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: Thank you for listening to today's episode of the well, An Elam Fellowship Leadership Podcast. I pray that you were blessed and encouraged by this time. If you would like to hear more content just like this, be sure to give this podcast a like and a follow. We're actually you get your podcast and share this podcast with your friends. We have more exciting content from Oasis and beyond dropping very soon and you don't want to miss it. We are excited about what God is doing here at Elam and we would love for you and your friends to come along on this ride. So until next time, my name is Thomas and from all of us here at Elam, God bless.
