Spiritual Power Through Prayer | C D Brooks

Summary

In a captivating sermon, CD Brooks delves into the profound power available through spiritual connection and prayer, urging believers to seek a deeper relationship with God to realize their true potential. He draws parallels between scientific advancements in energy harnessing and the spiritual power accessible to those who embrace humility, faith, and dedication. Brooks emphasizes the need for discipline in prayer, Bible study, and living a life free from sin to unlock this spiritual power. Highlighting the transformative effect of faith and the Holy Spirit, he calls on Christians to be a beacon of light in a world increasingly dependent on materialistic pursuits.

Highlights

• CD Brooks reveals the divine power accessible through prayer and a dedicated relationship with God. 🙏✨
• He likens spiritual power to atomic energy, equally transformative and potent. 💥
• Brooks urges believers to forsake sin and embrace discipline in prayer and Bible study. 📖
• He tells the story of a grandmother's prayers having the power to move the universe. 🌌
• The sermon emphasizes the need for Christians to be spiritually vibrant witnesses for Christ. 🕊️
• Brooks highlights the transformative potential of the Holy Spirit when truly embraced. 🔥
• Believers are called to be beacons of light, offering hope in a material-driven world. 🌏
• The power of God through prayer is a response to humility and faith, not human might. 🌻

Key Takeaways

• Spiritual power is as real as any form of energy and is essential in today's materialistic world. 🌟
• True spiritual power requires dedication, discipline, and a rejection of sin. 🙏
• Believers must actively seek a deep, personal connection with God through prayer to access divine energy. 🔗
• Embracing humility and faith can unleash a spiritual dynamite within us. 💥
• The Holy Spirit is the bearer of God's unlimited power, waiting to be invited into our lives. 🌿
• Prayer is a powerful tool that can move the universe when wielded with a sincere heart. 🚀
• Revival starts with individuals seeking genuine transformation through divine guidance. 🔄
• Spiritual discipline can lead to profound, positive changes in our lives and communities. 🌈

Overview

CD Brooks passionately delivers a sermon centered around the undeniable spiritual power available through prayer. He compares this divine energy to the harnessing of natural forces in the material world, emphasizing that true power comes from God. Brooks speaks to the necessity of humility, repentance, and a sincere faith in Jesus Christ as prerequisites to accessing this spiritual dynamite.

Brooks argues that as material knowledge grows, spiritual discernment often fades. He laments the lack of spiritual power among Christians and urges a return to disciplined prayer and sincere Bible study. By forsaking sin and committing to a godly life, believers can unleash the unimaginable potential that lies within them, echoing the same dedication required in scientific discoveries.

The sermon weaves historical context, personal anecdotes, and religious teachings to inspire believers to renew their commitment to God. Brooks challenges Christians to ignite a revival within themselves and their communities. By inviting the Holy Spirit into their lives, they can become powerful witnesses for Christ, bringing hope and light to a world consumed by materialistic pursuits.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction and Invocation The chapter references 2 Timothy 1:7, where Apostle Paul states that God has not given us a spirit of timidity but of power. The focus is on reflecting this message and understanding it in different translations, emphasizing waiting upon the empowerment promised in the scripture.
• 01:00 - 05:00: The Invention and Impact of Machines This chapter delves into the invention and impact of machines, focusing on the measurement of energy in terms of horsepower. It explains that one horsepower equates to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute, although the exact meaning of this measurement might be abstract for some.
• 05:00 - 08:30: The Discovery of Atomic Power The chapter opens with a reflection on humanity's innate drive to innovate and ease labor. From the beginning of time, humans have sought methods to reduce their workload and increase efficiency. The text recounts the early use of animals as one of humanity's first inventions to augment available power. Beasts of burden became essential in alleviating the physical responsibilities and workload on humans. This assessment illustrates the early ingenuity of humans in utilizing available resources to enhance productivity and set the stage for further discoveries.
• 08:30 - 13:00: Spiritual Power vs Material Power The chapter explores the historical development of mechanical power from primitive water wheels to wind-powered boats. It mentions the enduring nature of water wheels in the Middle East, suggesting they have remained unchanged for thousands of years. This reflects on the progression of man’s ability to harness natural forces for practical uses, marking a shift from mere spiritual reliance to leveraging material power for human advancement.
• 13:00 - 18:00: The Importance of Spiritual Power in the Church The chapter discusses the historical perspective of technological progress, exemplified by the steam engine's invention by James Watt in 1780. Watt observed the effect of steam causing the lid of a teapot to rise and fall, inspiring his development of the steam engine.
• 18:00 - 25:00: Discipline and Devotion in Spiritual Life The chapter emphasizes the importance of discipline and devotion in spiritual life. Although the provided transcript seems to describe the impact of inventions like the steam engine and hydraulic turbine on industrial progress, it symbolizes how innovation, discipline, and dedication in spiritual practices can lead to significant transformations.
• 25:00 - 30:00: Living with Spiritual Power The chapter discusses the evolution of energy generation, starting with hydraulic turbines powered by rivers like the Colorado and Columbia. These turbines were capable of producing significant horsepower, demonstrating early advances in harnessing natural power. It then briefly mentions the development of gasoline and diesel engines, showcasing the progression in energy technology. The underlying theme is the utilization of natural elements such as coal, oil, wood, wind, fire, and water to generate power and fuel human innovation.
• 30:00 - 42:00: Faith and Effective Prayer The chapter titled 'Faith and Effective Prayer' highlights the advancements in energy production that have drastically reduced the cost compared to human labor. This has led to the development of various modern conveniences in areas such as heating, transportation, and communication, which are now readily available to ordinary people, things that were once luxuries even to kings. The underlying message may relate to the power of faith and prayer in achieving what once seemed impossible, akin to the revolutionary progress in technology.
• 42:00 - 53:00: Revival and Reformation "Revival and Reformation" explores the events of a few decades ago, focusing on groundbreaking discoveries that transformed the world. The chapter highlights the 1939 discovery by physicists that certain atoms could spontaneously split, releasing energy and triggering a chain reaction in other atoms. This scientific breakthrough, which occurred after 50 years of research, was one of the most significant advancements, fulfilling dreams that were once only the province of the wealthiest individuals on Earth.

Spiritual Power Through Prayer | C D Brooks Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 in 2 Timothy 1:7 the Apostle Paul says has not given us the spirit of timidity but of power I'm going to read that text to you again tonight from another version another translation but let's citate on this again for God has not given us the spirit of timidity but of power and as we wait upon the
• 00:30 - 01:00 Lord we are to be a people of power energy is measured in terms of horsepower one horsepower equals 33,000 footb of work per minute whatever that means one horsepower 33,000
• 01:00 - 01:30 foot pounds of work per minute soon after Man was created I would imagine he began to develop ways to save himself responsibility and work he used his Ingenuity to make work lighter animals were first used as a means of multiplying power available to man beasts of Burden relieved man
• 01:30 - 02:00 first later on the Primitive water wheel was invented and I am told that the water wheels of the Middle East are very much as they were thousands of years ago when man first developed that instrument later on the winds were harnessed as boats of wood
• 02:00 - 02:30 plow the Seas and the rivers following that perhaps the next significant thing was the steam engine around 1780 invented by James Watt James Watt had watched the lid of a teapot rise and fall as the steam built up inside the pot an idea formed in his mind and he
• 02:30 - 03:00 invented the steam engine and the steam engine revolutionized industry particularly in the United States and made possible the factory system that has made us the number one industrial nation of the world 45 years later a man invented the hydraulic turbine and through this invention we were able to harest Niagara
• 03:00 - 03:30 the P moded tide the Colorado and Columbia rivers and other fast moving bodies of water throughout the world one hydraulic turbine could produce 100,000 horsepower even in those days following this the gasoline engine that we all acquainted with and after that the diesel engine thus the elements of nature coal oil wood wind fire water were all
• 03:30 - 04:00 harnessed to produce energy at about 12500 the cost of Manpower the results today we enjoy marvelous conveniences such as heating Transportation communication and poor folk take for granted today things which were denied Kings
• 04:00 - 04:30 just a few score years ago things that the richest men on Earth only dreamed about perhaps the most revolutionary thing was the discovery in 1939 by physicists that certain atoms would split spontaneously giving off energy causing other atoms to split this discovery came after 50 years of scientific
• 04:30 - 05:00 research and when this chain reaction was harnessed we were on the eve of a brand new era in history known as the atomic age on August 6th 1945 Hiroshima in Japan was obliterated by the abom and when that happened the whole world took note and became afraid
• 05:00 - 05:30 for in one hour the world became aware of a new power available to man that was unspeakable in its destructive potential that one bomb dropped on Hiroshima did more destructive damage than 3,000 super fortresses which were the largest airplanes we had in our military at the time and produced more
• 05:30 - 06:00 casualties than were suffered by the American military forces in all of World War II the water molecule is composed of three atoms two of hydrogen and one of oxygen hydrogen is the lightest atom of all and is rated one on the atomic scale uranium is probably the heaviest and is rated at
• 06:00 - 06:30 92 each atom so tiny it cannot be seen with a naked eye or with many sophisticated lenses each atom has a certain mass and a certain energy Einstein's theory is that energy and mass are the same thing almost all atoms may be rendered radioactive when bombarded with
• 06:30 - 07:00 neutrons with machines like the cyclotron used to develop Atomic and nuclear bombs neutrons were made to bombard uranium at a very high speed in order to split there in 1940 it was discovered that the uranium atom would split in two equal parts simultaneously admitting an average of three high-speed neutrons of tremendous
• 07:00 - 07:30 energy and these would release 200 million electron volts this energy became the atomic bomb now this discovery was neither good nor bad it was up to man this discovery could heat our homes or incinerate Nations this discovery could do marvelous things for mankind or it could kill by the tens of
• 07:30 - 08:00 thousands as scientific control of energy has increased spiritual power has decreased the smarter man becomes the more foolish he becomes concerning his thoughts about God the wiser we become the more we tend to depend upon man and what he can
• 08:00 - 08:30 do and the less we depend upon God the more wisdom man has in material things the less he feels the need of the wisdom of God and so because of our inventions we've come to a time when we tend to deify man and humanize God one great church leader has said the
• 08:30 - 09:00 church today is spiritually bankrupt there is no power amongst Christians and because this is too often true there is a dangerous even tragic loss of confidence in the church in Christianity and sadly in Christ himself the problem is men and women and boys and girls tend to judge Christ by
• 09:00 - 09:30 so-called Christians and when they see us and find us weak impotent slaves to Habit then they judge Christ as being ineffectual and irrelevant to today's life as power is controlled in the material realm today there is need for Spiritual power
• 09:30 - 10:00 in the spiritual real and if the church does not ReDiscover this power through its relationship to Jesus Christ then the challenge of the church will be inconsequential and the whole world will be right to go materialistic and to forget about religion all together and so tonight the challenging question is do the scriptures and and do the lives of
• 10:00 - 10:30 church people do our lives offer any hope for modern man if the answer is no then why are we here and what is the church all about I ask again is there any power any spiritual power tonight which can answer the problems of delinquency crime dope addiction the terrible and
• 10:30 - 11:00 multiplying breaking up of the family social Revolution and all the other things that are plaguing the world tonight and making it a mad house in God's Universe I want to tell you that scientists devoted years of study and years of work to discover the physical energy and power we've talked about
• 11:00 - 11:30 already tonight night and day they studied in their Laboratories they studied without thought of food or fun hour by hour giving up sleep the Comforts of Home family relationships in their quest for material power I suggest tonight that the same kind of devotion is required in a spiritual sense
• 11:30 - 12:00 in order for us to realize what God is anxious to do with us and through Us in the finishing of his work some of us have got to give up sleep some of us need to give up pleasure some of us need to cut down on Recreation and spend more time in the laboratory of the prayer Closet in order to receive from God the power that he is anxious to give and willing to give and which she must give
• 12:00 - 12:30 if his work is going to be finished in a blaze of glory we need discipline in prayer discipline in Bible study discipline in all the regimen of Christianity so that we might become indeed what God would have us be and attract the attention of those men in women who are groping for something on which to fasten spiritually
• 12:30 - 13:00 what is the answer there must be a recru desence of character the standards have fallen down somebody has got to lift them up somebody has got to show the world what love is somebody has got to show the world what Jesus can do with lost men and women Church there is going to be a release of spiritual power the Bible
• 13:00 - 13:30 prophesies it's going to happen in Joel 2:28 the Lord said he's going to pour out his Spirit upon All Flesh the lot of rain is going to be poured out and the message which we believe the last warning message to a doomed world is going to swell into a loud cry it's going to happen the problem is will we qualify spiritually and by faith to receive this
• 13:30 - 14:00 power and to be a part of God's final things let's read our text again from another translation we have not received the spirit of timidity but of Dynamite from the Greek dunamis god is giving to those who qualify through humility through confession and repentance through faith in Jesus
• 14:00 - 14:30 Christ the spirit of dynamite a spirit which is explosive a spirit which moves things a spirit which can break down the madness and the foolishness that is a hindering War to so many Souls today Jesus declared ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and God has said
• 14:30 - 15:00 to us all it's not by might nor by power meaning your power in mine but by my spirit saith the Lord the unlimited power of God abides in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is supposed to abide in us if the Holy Ghost is in us then the power of God is supposed to be in us what then is the excuse for the church not exercising
• 15:00 - 15:30 power Jesus said Greater Works than you've seen Greater Works than these ye shall do after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and Jesus told his disciples to T until the Holy Ghost came until you are endued with power from on high the Bible says further that when the Holy Spirit comes he helpeth our
• 15:30 - 16:00 infirmities that's our weaknesses and so we don't need to wait until we've overcome every weakness to receive the power the power comes that we might overcome our weaknesses ladies and gentlemen what I'm saying is there is a power available tonight to every one of us first to become what God would have us be first that we might overcome and secondly that
• 16:00 - 16:30 we may go out and win others through our witness that power is available right now all of us believe this now since we believe it why then are we living the same Lives why then are we always defeated by the same problems driven by the same habits and temptations impotent weak and
• 16:30 - 17:00 unrepresentative as Christian Witnesses for Christ the source of knowledge concerning the prerequisites of spiritual power is the word of God the power of God attends the truth the power of God does not attend error as a matter of fact the Bible tells us in Hebrews 4:12 that the word of God itself is with power it is quick
• 17:00 - 17:30 and Powerful said St Paul if we want power from God we must go to the Bible to find out how to get it to find out what we must do in order to have it if we want power from God we must believe his word I have already told you that power does not attend error to reject the truth is to reject power to say no to the known will of God is to
• 17:30 - 18:00 turn down the power of God it will not come when we spurn his word or hold it with contempt it if is if it is rejected we don't receive power and that is the basic problem in Christendom this very night turning away from the word of God means turning away from the power of God and whenever me turn away from the power of God there is
• 18:00 - 18:30 that natural tendency to try to compensate for that which they have lost and the church today is trying to compensate for their lack of power through emotionalism through Pentecostalism through glossolalia and many other things which are no substitute for the power of God the power of God is always associated with Christ your theme for
• 18:30 - 19:00 this camp meeting is most appropriate for when one gets to know Jesus Christ and becomes the friend of Christ and accepts Christ as his savior the power of Christ is associated with that individual when Christ is not Supreme the spirit of God is absent and when the spirit of God is absent the power of God is is not there power belongs to the
• 19:00 - 19:30 true Christian because the Holy Spirit abides in him because he is born of the spirit as John uh 3 tells us Born Again of the spirit of God he will experience this power and he will exercise this power the new birth means that the former rain has fallen on a life and the latter rain brings about the the sanctification of that soul and brings
• 19:30 - 20:00 the Harvest of the spirit to fruition we cannot have this power without approaching Christ for forgiveness of all sin we cannot have this power as long as we're clinging to some little precious evil in our lives I like the way Ellen White speaks of it she speaks of the darling sins that we've got to give up
• 20:00 - 20:30 now we don't usually associate a word like that with sin but if you stop and think about it we have them we've got these little old precious sins that we don't want to part with some of them we give up grudgingly some we even give up gladly we're glad to get rid of them but always there are some little old pet things that we cling to and we hide and we excuse Ellen White refers to these as darling sins the power of God will not come upon Our Lives until we are willing
• 20:30 - 21:00 to give up every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us and then we may run with patience the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus you know seventh day Adventists won't drink liquor won't kill won't steal are careful even about the Sabbath but some of these same people are
• 21:00 - 21:30 mean selfish quarrelsome contentious hard to get along with there is something wrong and I want you tonight as we talk about this not to think of people out there let's think of people in here something is wrong when we are careful about the great issues and yet we do not manifest
• 21:30 - 22:00 patience and love and cheerfulness and hope and joy and all the other things that indicate that we know the Lord Jesus Christ how may this power be released in our lives I want to suggest that the potential is with every one of us tonight because God sees us not as we are but as we might become through Christ the power is available it is not denied us then how may we indeed have
• 22:00 - 22:30 it Atomic power is present in all common things I'm standing before a desk made of wood the wood composed of molecules the molecules composed of atoms in other words right in this desk are atoms which could be set off in an exposure Ive Chain Reaction if these atoms were bombarded
• 22:30 - 23:00 by certain neutrons it makes me appreciate all the more the text that says by him all things consist and if you read the original it says by him all things hang together the reason this desk is hanging together is because of the Providence and grace of God not exploding right here in our midst but there is in everything you see the atoms with their potential for
• 23:00 - 23:30 splitting and exploding and setting off that dangerous Chain Reaction consider a speck of dust a speck of dust is composed of uncounted atoms with that same potential we're talking about now consider a dear old lady in the church that nobody thinks much about not the one you'd call on to sing a solo or even to teach a Sabbath School CL class you know the one you don't even care to shake hands with
• 23:30 - 24:00 the one you consider an insignificant church member I want you to think of her and this Speck of dust for a moment what about dust I don't know of anything for which we have more contempt than dust we spend a great deal of our lives trying to get rid of it we wipe it and we sweep it and we vacuum it and we spit on it and we trample on it we have no respect for dust and yet in every Speck of dust
• 24:00 - 24:30 there is that explosive potential we were talking about now let's think about that old grandmother we were talking about the one that nobody pays any attention to and the one that everyone seems to have a deficient uh respect for that grandmother like that Speck of dust has at her grasp infinite
• 24:30 - 25:00 power she can get on her knees regardless of what men think of her she can get on her knees and through prayer move the entire universe she can get on her knees and stop accidents she can get on her knees and a hedge of protection will be thrown around her boy a heal a world away she can get on her knees and drive the storm
• 25:00 - 25:30 clouds from the sky she can get on her knees and stop the Rumble of Thunder such is the power available to the humblest person whose faith in Christ is complete yet we witness impotency amongst ourselves as Believers and we tend to try to overcome this with FEDS with movements and
• 25:30 - 26:00 fanaticism you know power is a dangerous thing when I was a boy my father was a landscaper and often used Dynamite to get stumps out of the ground my father knew how to do it but I'll tell you one thing he didn't send a small boy running around with sticks of dynamite you see Power is a dangerous thing unless it is handled
• 26:00 - 26:30 carefully it would be foolish on God's part to give just anybody power you've got to qualify for it you've got to be so humbled that you can handle it otherwise you will use it to soothe your own ego and to build up your own Glory when men were developing the atomic bomb they wore lead suits to protect themselves from harm power is
• 26:30 - 27:00 dangerous I tell you God's power has to be protected from fanaticism from selfishness and from self-serving in the spiritual realm there is Need for this protection for today all kinds of things are being done in the name of religion and Christ's power is being blamed for the work carried on by demons in the
• 27:00 - 27:30 scriptures the promise of the spirit is connected with prayer you read that in John 14 all of God's Great promises are connected with prayer when Jesus spoke of moving mountains he was talking about prayer he said all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive the releas of spiritual power is
• 27:30 - 28:00 connected with prayer if you want this power you got to learn how to pray and to pray prayers of faith and to pray without ceasing as electrical energy is harnessed to bombard the atom to release its power so prayer is the spiritual energy which releases the power of the Holy Spirit I remember several years ago
• 28:00 - 28:30 reading a book by Dr Chin I've heard questions about this book I don't know anything about it it's out of my realm Dr Chin was an instructor at AU and he wrote a book called a new look of at God and you look at God and in that book he told a story of a woman who was in a hospital dying and that woman began to pray and some scientists wanted to conduct an experiment they are attached some little wires to her brain and you know the
• 28:30 - 29:00 brain is electrical and it sends out impulses and while she was praying they had a little machine a meter set up in another room and the wires from her brain led to that meter as that woman began to pray the hand began to move on the plus side and it moved over so far it completely astonished those scientists the power of that woman's prayer was driving out electrical
• 29:00 - 29:30 impulses which had to go out Beyond this Earth beyond the sun moon and stars all the way to the very throne room of God such is the power of available to a praying and believing Christian the particles used to bombard the atom are charged to several hundred million votes and a Christian in prayer
• 29:30 - 30:00 believing with a clean heart is charged with a spiritual power of spiritual electricity far above his average fellows my friends we want Revival in our church we want this power of God in our midst so that we can go out with power and men and women who see us and hear us will know that we are closely related and close ly attached to God we
• 30:00 - 30:30 need this power there's not going to be any such power without a special indument of the Holy Spirit there's not going to be a Revival there's not going to be a season of refreshing and of blessing until there is first fervent effectual prayer to release Divine energy God's hands are tied because we don't pray God ready at any time to do
• 30:30 - 31:00 marvelous things for his people but he can't do it because we don't ask he said whatsoever you ask believing you're going to receive my friends I want to speak to you of the discipline of prayer we don't just naturally want to pray I didn't know until I arrived that Elder would be here with you I followed him from field to field in the Far East Division last year and wherever
• 31:00 - 31:30 I arrived the people were excited about what he was saying concerning prayer I hope that all of you are getting it here also I want to say it again to you there are great and precious promises which God cannot fulfill to us because we don't even ask and we don't ask because we don't feel like praying it is not natural to want to pray
• 31:30 - 32:00 therefore a kind of discipline is required the discipline of dedication the discipline of time the discipline of energy I've talked to church members about prayer meeting and they say well Pastor you know I'd like to be there but I'm so busy Ellen White says when you're that busy you are too busy to serve God we have to take time to be holy we've got to make time for prayer when Thomas Edison was seeking power to
• 32:00 - 32:30 light a room we read in his biographies that he lived on three or four hours of sleep per night some of us are such sleepy heads especially when something spiritual is going on now I'm not a prophet in in the candid sense of the word but I want to make a prophecy tonight the time is going to come and I believe it's going to come in our day real soon when you and I will be willing to sit in church all
• 32:30 - 33:00 day and all it takes is trouble did you hear what I said you folks say Amen out there you know I'm not used to preaching the dead folks I want to say it again the time will come when we will be glad to sit in church all day and every day if it were our privilege when you go over into those Eastern
• 33:00 - 33:30 European countries you find the folk come to church early Sabbath morning they sing and pray to Sabbath School time and then they go right into the 11:00 hour after that they go outside and eat a sandwich come right back in and study the Bible together until another sermon in the afternoon they will preach you almost to death in those places I was preaching in one place and I had to speak through an interpreter you know and I finished preaching and sat down and wondered what they were talking about the speaker kept looking
• 33:30 - 34:00 back at me and finally I said to The Interpreter what's he talking about The Interpreter said well he's just telling the people that you didn't preach long enough so he'd like they'd like to hear another sermon and I had to get right up and preach again I'd love to see that day in America where we are fluent and comfortable and have everything and can hardly wait to get home to our air conditioned houses and our stereos I we're going to get over it you know we've got a nervous jerk of the
• 34:00 - 34:30 left arm whenever a preacher stands up we're going to get over that I don't want to go too far with this point but I'm saying we've become big fat sleepy heads when it comes to spiritual things and yet people seeking this physical power got along on two or three hours of sleep a night some of us don't even wait to get home to sleep go to sleep in
• 34:30 - 35:00 church I remember a fell came to me once he said pastor I'm so sorry I went to sleep on you I said why are you apologizing to me you've got a problem I don't take it personal the Apostle Paul was preaching once and the fell went to sleep fell out the window and died and Paul was a pretty fair preacher it wasn't Paul's fault we better wake up the time will come when we'll be glad had to spend our hours day and night in
• 35:00 - 35:30 prayer we ought to start now we ought to start now to discipline ourselves Ellen White says Jesus spent the whole night in prayer and was refreshed after a hot day he went off into the mountains and prayed all night and the next day he didn't feel tired and sluggish and sleepy he was refreshed by whole nights of prayer the atomic scientists in our country worked Fe ver night and day to perfect that terrible instrument of
• 35:30 - 36:00 Destruction and it almost sounds paradoxical for me to say it's a good thing they did because the Nazis in Germany were just 6 months behind us and if they hadn't spent some sleepless nights it might have been New York instead of Hiroshima John Wesley arose every morning at 4: and spent a solid hour in prayer ELD HMS Richard told me when I was going to Wesley's house he said there is a place in his study where he's worn out the floor in
• 36:00 - 36:30 prayer we don't pray like that Martin Luther spent two hours every morning in prayer he was afraid to face the day without this kind of dedication and without receiving an infilling for that particular day the pioneers of this message that we love spent whole nights in prayer Mrs White says when there was a theological question and they couldn't get together they would study and pray all night long and wherever there has
• 36:30 - 37:00 been this kind of prayer there have been explosions now the practice of prayer demands faithfulness God wants people who are Dependable when it comes to prayer there's a text in the Bible that says God forbid that I should sin and not praying for you if you come to me on this campus and say Pastor pray for me and I don't do it it's a sin and you you don't know how I search my heart day after day and night after night saying
• 37:00 - 37:30 Lord Bess some of them I can't even remember the names but I have a faculty for remembering faces and the Lord knows who I'm thinking about and I pray for that person I'm thinking about because if I don't do it it's a sin God wants us to be Dependable here is the very sick person pray for me you go home and pray once and didn't forget him that man needs prayer until he gets well so God places a burden on our hearts whether it's for the sick of the the loss of the Church of the missions
• 37:30 - 38:00 he places that burden on our hearts and he wants us to see it through to be faithful in prayer to keep on praying and when you pray for others you're twice blessed that first blessing comes to you you can't pray for others without being lifted and and made more spiritual yourselves the third thing I want to mention is that prayer demands an orderliness of
• 38:00 - 38:30 Mind an applied intelligence you've got to know something about God in order to know how to pray you've got to know what the Bible says in order to know how to pray otherwise as the Bible says we ask a Miss there's too much wistful thinking in our prayers our prayers are like glorified shopping lists we're always asking God give me this give me that give me the other without consideration of whether it's best for us or not that's why I say we've got to pray with
• 38:30 - 39:00 intelligence we've got to know what the Bible says and you know once you know you can hold God responsible some of you know that I do public evangelism and if ever there's a time when you're in hand to hand come back with the devil it's when you're running a public meeting and there are many evangelists around here who know what I'm talking about and the devil will try anything and everything to block the success of God's program and so I want to know what God his promise and once I know I get on my knees and I
• 39:00 - 39:30 keep reminding him I said Lord you say it Lord you say it I tell you right now if I were hungry and had no money to buy food I'd get on my knees and say Lord you said if I paid my tithe and gave offerings to your cause you'd open the windows of Heaven I would remind him of what he said and that's not impertinence that's faith God likes for you to talk talk to him like that I'd say Lord you promised me now do
• 39:30 - 40:00 what you're saying I would say it respectfully but I'd say it applied intelligence in prayer if we don't learn to do that we won't know what to pray for God never promised you that you wouldn't suffer but he did say he'd never leave you alone let's say Amen to that out there God never said that you had to be loved by everybody some people are hurt all the time because folks don't love them
• 40:00 - 40:30 God never promised you you'd be loved he told you to love everybody else including your enemies you got to know what God Said or you'll misunderstand God you'll become discouraged God never said that you wouldn't be tempted but he did say he knows how to sucker them that are tempted and he's able to keep you from falling God never said that you wouldn't have to cry sometimes but he did say that he's going to wipe away all tears
• 40:30 - 41:00 from your eyes God never said that you wouldn't live in a poor home but he did say he goes to prepare mansions for you and he's coming to receive you unto himself God never said that you wouldn't get hungry sometime but he did say your bread and your water shall be sure God never said that you wouldn't have to die but he did say he's going to descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of the archangel in the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall
• 41:00 - 41:30 rise so we have to know what God said in order to know how to pray effective prayer demands that those who pray be converted that their sins be all turned over to Jesus that they be forgiven regenerated and accepted in the Beloved for the Bible declares the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man AV veiling much now finally a praying man must be a
• 41:30 - 42:00 believing man faith has a large place in worship and in prayer faith is taking God at his word believing God and expecting him to do what he said when these things are combined God releases power to anybody who qualifies and accepts these promises and when this power is released there is a name for it
• 42:00 - 42:30 that name is Revival if you want to be revived and if you want a Revival in your church you cannot you must not expect things to be business as usual when God releases his power changes take place a Revival is a religious explosion it shatters complacency it tears down tradition it makes you different you're not the same
• 42:30 - 43:00 as you used to be we cannot have this power thinking that we'll go to work and come home and watch television and that's all God requires if you want this power you got to do something uh further you've got to go and tell the good news you've got to share your faith you've got to relieve the afflictions of the fatherless and the widows you've got to do the work of the Lord Jesus Christ you can't go home and relax you cannot be the same as you were when you came to this meeting if you are the power will
• 43:00 - 43:30 be taken away now whenever there is an explosion it compels attention when that bomb fell on Hiroshima the next day the whole world was standing trembling the whole world it was the headline item across the entire universe the attention of the whole world focused on two explosions when we receive this power we will
• 43:30 - 44:00 attract attention you know I think God doesn't want some of us to attract too much attention now for if we did folks would see our lukewarmness but when we are brought into line through his grace and when he receives us as his own and washes Us in his blood and then gives us the power to walk around representatively then the attention of men wom will be called to us not by what we say but by what we do and by what we
• 44:00 - 44:30 are some of our husbands don't pay us any attention some of our wives don't pay us any attention some of our children have no respect for what we say nobody's listening but when this power comes and this revivalistic explosion takes place in our own personal lives folk right in our homes will know the difference I went to a man's house once and the dog
• 44:30 - 45:00 saw him coming and tucked his tail and took off and I said there must be something wrong with this man when a Christian goes home the dog comes running to him everybody knows everything knows when this has happened in a man's life we need this kind of explosion in our church in this conference at this camp meeting it is needed now as we wait on Jesus the Earth is going to be lightened with the glory of God
• 45:00 - 45:30 when how much longer will we put God off in the 13th century St Francis of aissi was laughed at ridiculed but he stuck to his guns one man he brought about a change in the materialistic church at least the church went back in search of Purity in the 16th century Martin Luther caused such an exposion that it rocked European civilization to its foundations
• 45:30 - 46:00 this one man a simple mock nailed his 95 thesis to the church door at whittenberg and the explosion followed called for councils and assemblies and armies and bloodshed and divisions that last to this very day that's what you call impact John Wesley created an explosion in England and in Europe and finally in America Amica and Ley and mcau say that he saved
• 46:00 - 46:30 England from the revolution the French experienced in 1789 saved them from the ravages of intoxication and immorality and they declare that out of this work done by Wesley and those before him the Liberties of the United States emerged Bor out of Revival in Europe men sat on councils in America and talked about God and men being created equal and endowed by God with
• 46:30 - 47:00 certain inalienable rights men sat down and wrote these things who were not necessarily Christians themselves affected by the explosions of Revival in Europe Mrs White says that Revival and Reformation always go hand in hand Revival is a changed heart Reformation a change of ways that's what we need and that's what we must look for how's it going to start at
• 47:00 - 47:30 a c meeting well I don't think it's going to start in this main Auditorium necessarily I think it's going to start when one man seeks Jesus in a personal private way and really means business now that can be done here and that can be done right out there in that Auditorium or in your tent or trailer or motor home tonight or wherever you are it can happen and that one man is going
• 47:30 - 48:00 to have to clear the Avenues of his soul with God and by faith receive what God is anxious to give and when it happens he's going to have to come out and take his wife by the hand and in some cases apologize to her for all the devilment he's done against her all the unkind things he said and he's going to have to show her that something has happened to him then it will happen to her it's like catching the measles and after the wife
• 48:00 - 48:30 begins to experience this wonderful thing the children will be brought into the circle and then as that family goes to church Revival will spread with a contagion of a Divine disease from Pew to Pew and from hot to hot but it's going to begin with one person that person ought to be you that person may be you when this happened on the day of Pentecost it made such a difference in
• 48:30 - 49:00 the disciples that men thought the disciples were drunk and Peter stood up in their midst and said Brethren haven't you read where God would pour out his Spirit upon All Flesh they admitted they had read it Peter said well this is that spoken of by the prophets we are a living demonstration of that which was spoken
• 49:00 - 49:30 by Joel this is that the world today needs that kind of witness you go out talking about Sabbath keeping they ought to be able to look at you and see that this is that when you talk about loving everybody they ought to be able to look at you and see that this is that which the Bible requires when they talk about modesty and dress when they talk about Holiness of character they ought to look at at us and say this is that I've been looking for somebody who lived that
• 49:30 - 50:00 which is spoken in the Bible this is that that's got to happen amongst us and when it does God will pour out his Spirit and the work will be finished and if you're tired of this old world we can say goodbye to it and go home Dwight Moody heard Henry vley preach in England and he said the world has yet to see what God can do with a man who is
• 50:00 - 50:30 fully and wholly consecrated to him Moody rehearsed those words he said to himself he didn't say a great man he didn't say a rich man he didn't say the world is yet to see what God can do with a very wise man he just said God can do with a man any man who is wholly consecrated to him him then said Moody I'm going to try my best
• 50:30 - 51:00 to be that man I want you to think about that as we close tonight with prayer a man a woman any man any woman the world has yet to see what God can do with that person who is Holy consecrated to him and the worst life you've lived in the past the more dramatic the demonstration for when God changes a real bad one that one becomes the greatest witness of
• 51:00 - 51:30 all up in Massachusetts a man took his children to the circus and while they were there a tragic fire broke out the man got up as quickly as he could and HED his children and carried them outside only to discover that his youngest boy was missing he rushed back into that burning Inferno and by this time the smoke was so black and dense he could not see he just felt around looking for his boy
• 51:30 - 52:00 finally as he would feel a child or two he' dragged them out only to discover he'd saved some more lives but not his boy finally he was forbidden to go back in with a heavy heart he gathered his other children and started to his car can you imagine the great unspeakable joy when he looked in that car and saw his little boy sitting there behind the wheel the father ran to him with tears streaming down his face and he said Son how did you get here I was looking
• 52:00 - 52:30 everywhere for you the boy said Daddy you all always told me when there was danger to run for the car run for the car Christian friends as we wait on Jesus we've come to that time Paul calls a perilous time it's dangerous everywhere you look it is time to run to Jesus run to a safe place and be sheltered by him for protected by him and kept by him I want to pray for
• 52:30 - 53:00 everybody who feels a need of prayer and who wants to run to Jesus you really mean it tonight in a brand new experience if you want that prayer if you want this to happen in your life I want you to stand now and bar your heads with me and let us pray dear Lord we are so grateful for the promise of divine power we're so grateful that we're not felt helpless we're so grateful that even
• 53:00 - 53:30 though we are plagued by weakness and day after day we keep on doing things we we don't want to do that there is help and hope we can overcome through Jesus Christ as we stand tonight we're simply indicating a new our desperate need we are not even what we want to be me if we don't please ourselves how can we please a holy and
• 53:30 - 54:00 pure God who is revolted by every trace and form of sin so we stand at thy mercy and ask for Grace ask for cleansing ask for new Hearts new determination new strength and then an infilling of the Holy Spirit bless everyone who stands because we ask it earnestly in Jesus holy name
• 54:00 - 54:30 amen