If you have your Bible, let's go together to Isaiah chapter 59. I want to share a brief message today with you. Isaiah 59 verse 1 and verse 2. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, nor his ear dull that it cannot hear.  I want to speak today a message titled a recipe for revival. A recipe for revival. I do not claim to have a specific secret, but Prophet Isaiah has revealed a secret to us for a revival. And this message, I'm going to summarize it in one sentence. There are three secrets to revival. God's ear, God's hand, and the man's mouth. And in Isaiah 59, the Lord is saying to us, my hand is connected to my ear and my ear is connected to man's mouth. Means when man prays my name, when man confess my word, when man preach my word to other people, it goes to my ear and my ear influences my hand and my hand begins to do the mighty work that is supposed to do. Okay, and so I want us to know that God's hand is influenced by God's ear. Can somebody say amen? God's hand does not act on its own. God's hand does not act separately from God's ear. God's hand does not have a will of his own. God's hand does not save, heal and deliver just because it feels like saving, healing and delivering. God's hand acts in proportion to God's ear. That means whatever comes into God's ear affects God's hand. And God says that my hand is not shortened to save and then he goes in to connect that my ear is not doled to here. He's saying that my hand is connected to my ear. My hand moves because my ear hears. My hand acts because my ear gets influenced by the man's cry. God's hand does not act on accident. God's hand does not move just by chance. Revival is not mini, mini money. God going in heaven saying bless him, not her, bless him, not her. Revival is not God saying in heaven, just close his eyes and just goes in like many people choose revelation from God when they open the Bible just kind of whatever it falls. He just opened the Bible like this is from God and then you find the scripture where says Judas committed suicide. You're like never mind. That is not how God brings revival. That is not how God brings saves people.  Oops, it lends it in Toronto, Canada. It lends it in Reading, California. It lends it in Pasco. No, the Bible says God's hand moves proportionally where his ear hears. It's not an accident. It's a consequence. God's ear influences God's hand and God tells us my hand, nothing is wrong with it. So for those people who are saying revival is not happening because something is with God's hand, God is saying to us my hand is not broken. My hand is not crippled. My hand is not withered and my hand did not get weary or get tired and my hand did not get disconnected from my ear and he says I don't have an ear infection. My ears are not deaf. My ears are not slow in hearing. He says everything is good on my hand. Revival is God's hand being influenced by God's ear and God's ear being influenced by our mouth. There's nothing wrong with God's hand and there is nothing wrong with God's ear. God's hand is the factor of revival, not men's hand. Men's hand is short. We can preach to people, we can try to influence them, we can try to invite them to church and we have to do all of these things. But there's something happens. A real revival is not when we all stretch our hands, means when we all maximize our potential and maximize our gifts. Real revival is when God's hand is stretched and what is impossible becomes normal and what is supernatural becomes natural.  As some of you have seen the service that our group participated in Esco in Nigeria this time and you've seen where God supernaturally with his hand begin to move in people's lives. From a lady who had cancer was 29 years of age and she already found her lot in the burial and God's mighty hand goes where the doctors couldn't even go and reach and takes that cancer out and brings complete healing. God says my hand is not short. God says my hand is not withered. My hand, nothing wrong with my hand, it's ready for your use. It's ready to move. Or if you saw the testimony of the lady who looked like a pirate because she was blind in one eye and how God's hand moved and brought healing to that lady. Or you saw one testimony that really blessed me when one young man received the permanent visa or the working visa or the educational visa. Don't recall now in another country. And what happened is that everything was going well until that visa and his wallet was stolen by some people and they ran and he tried to chase them but he couldn't find them and so that's it.  You have to go back to your country because that's it. It's over and God in the dream shows him a place where they have his card. He wakes up in the morning, goes to that place and there is a grandma found that card and he says, hey I'm just waiting for you here and hands him over that card. I just tell us how God's hand is so much longer than your hand. Your connections might be limited by God's hand goes further and God says my hand is not short. My hand can reach beyond whatever you think you cannot reach.  Revival is when God stretches his hand into the jail, when God stretches his hand to the drug addict, to the alcoholic, to the stubborn, to the atheist, agnostic or just the religious person. When God's hand is stretched, but God says my hand is stretched when my ear is bothered, when our mouth is open. So there's no problem with God's hand. There was this lady her name is Cheryl and at the age of 13 she was abused and because of that she started to bottle up a lot of sin and a lot of misbehavior which led to her sleeping around in high school which eventually led to after high school to dance in the clubs and she became a topless dancer in her local nightclub. She was making good money and she was doing that to support her child and eventually she got married her husband was cheating on her and so she divorced him and she lived a very sinful and a very very empty life. At one particular time she thought that the solution to her life is going to be to start to consult some spiritual help and all the Ouija boards and all the people who Ouija Palms and they predict your future they all presented not like witchcraft they presented as good angels and so she went in to get good angels to help her because she started to realize I cannot put my life together I have a daughter I don't have a husband I'm working at this job that I don't really like but I just need to survive I need to involve good angels to help me and so she got those good angels to help her but they were not very good to her because after she got involved with her little lady who helped her with the good angels spooky things started to happen in her house. You know in most of us we may say well I'm not afraid of dark but it's different when the dark is not the dark but it's demons. She said I wasn't afraid of dark she says I worked at this job I was not afraid of men I was not afraid of anything I was ruthless I was brutal but something started to happen in my house. She said for no reason at night you know the TVs will start turning on the doors will begin to open and begin to just weird presence begin to just come over the halls and I would start seeing really scary images right in my face and it's though like a horror movie he said she said except there was no a director there was no editor and there was no lighting effects and there was no music musical effects it was there in my house it got so severe that she started to contemplate suicide and she contemplated this for a lot for a long time but never really got into it until one night it went overboard just it spooked her so bad and she was reminded of how she was abused at 13 how her life means nothing and right there and then she took the razor and started to slice her wrist and she was about to do that she said to God if you are there you got to do something and you got to do something right now because in next minute and a half I'm gonna bleed to death and I'm going to die. The interesting part is in that very instant second her TV turns on and there was a guy on the TV who says you out there look at me that's all he said TV turns off and comes a voice says everything you want you will want no more I love you go up to the mountain and you will know my name and that's it in that very moment the razor falls off something comes upon her and she realizes because this is a different voice the first time in her life she's heard somebody says I love you she started to be overwhelmed with tears if she fell asleep the darkness was gone next morning she packs her kids and decides to go up to the mountain here there is a church on the top of the mountain and that church on the roof has word Jesus writing on it a woman at the end of her robe but not out of the reach of the hand of God a topless dancer in a local nightclub abused at 13 cannot put her life together nobody can influence her nobody can tell her of the way of salvation she will not be receptive yet God's hand is not out of reach I want to tell you something every person you and I are praying for every person we are believing for and any situation we can be in there is no pit God's hand cannot reach to there is no mountaintop God's hand cannot reach you like we watched the testimony of the stuntman from Hollywood who helped you know with Rambo movies and all those very very famous movies it seems like oh he's so on the top God's hand can also reach there and God says my hand is influenced by my ear he says I move with my hand because I hear with my ear but the second truth I want you to get out today is that God's ear is influenced by man's mouth God's ear is influenced by man's mouth when men pray God hears when God hears God acts when we pray God hears when God hears God acts these are very simple truths if we with a childlike faith perceive them into our heart and we will make an inner heart a statement of faith I believe my God will hear my prayer and when we he will hear my prayer he will act based on my prayer this is what is needed to see a revival and the revival when somebody gets saved a revival when somebody gets healed a revival when somebody gets freed from drugs or a revival when somebody's marriage gets restored a revival when somebody finds their way when they lost their way a revival for our home groups a revival for our church a revival for your personal life for your personal relationships this happens when your mouth is active God's ear is active and God's hand is active God's hand will do what his ear will tell him and God's ear will hear what you will let him know about Satan's goal is to shut your mouth he cannot stop God's ear from hearing you and he cannot stop God's hand from obeying its ear satan is not powerful enough to mess and disconnect God's hand from God's ear and he cannot stop God from hearing you the only thing that he could do is he could stop you from talking to God that's why we read in Isaiah 59 verse 1 verse 2 and if you read verse 3 and down you will see at the people of God God says that my hand is not shortened to save my ear is not heavy to hear but he says your sins have disconnected you from me and you're like okay I heard about that but if you read lower you will find out what kind of sins you see that these people started to lie so their mouth is filled with perverse things their mouth is filled with gossip their mouth is filled with cursing their mouth is filled with lying their mouth is filled with so many things their mouth is not filled with prayer their mouth is not filled with praise and their mouth is not filled with proclaiming and their mouth is not filled with preaching and so there is a disconnect between man's mouth and God's ear and therefore there is a disconnect between God's ear and God's hand. Satan wants to zip your lip. He wants to muzzle your mouth. He wants to mute your tongue.  God's ear has no other thing but to hear you and when God hears you God begins to act on your behalf. He cannot stop God's hand. He cannot stop God's ear but there is something he has an access to and that is to your mouth. And if Satan will use sin, if he will use distraction, he will use tiredness, he will use business for one simple thing just to cause you not to pray. And I want you to know this, that a sinning man will stop praying and a praying man will stop sinning. Amen? A sinning man will stop praying.  You will stop praising. You will stop preaching. But if he cannot stop you from praying, if he cannot stop you from praising, something is going to happen. You are going to stop sinning. You are going to stop doing that thing that you were doing before that caused you to stop away from God. That is the Satan's trick. His goal in actuality.   And these four things are simple. You know them. They all start with four P's so they will easily remember. It's prayer, it's praise, it's proclaiming and it's preaching. Praying means talking to God. Praising means worshiping God.  Means you declare God's truth over your situation.  Proclaiming means instead of complaining you proclaim. And preaching means you open your mouth not just to talk about people, not just to gossip, but to share the good news of salvation to people's lives so their lives would be changed for the glory of God. Can somebody say amen? We see Peter with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and the Bible says that Jesus is about to go to be crucified. Jesus understands the complexity of the situation. He understands the greatest temptation is about to happen with Jesus, with Peter, and all of the rest of the eleven disciples. And Jesus tells the rest of the eleven disciples let's go together and we are going to take time to pray. We're going to get time to pray to really see God's face, to get on our face before God. And Jesus is praying. I want you to notice that Jesus is tired. I want you to notice it's night. And all the disciples they fall asleep. And Jesus was awake praying. He was not awake praying because he was a Superman. He was not awake praying because he was more spiritual. He was awake praying because prayer was a priority to him unlike to the disciples. Most people do not open their mouth in prayer for this reason. Tired. I know how many times I have said no to prayer for this reason. I don't feel like today. I will do it tomorrow. And somehow I feel like people who can pray and pray constantly, fervently, in faith, passionately, and consistently, they are somehow super humans. Jesus wasn't super human. Jesus felt tiredness just like Peter. The difference between Peter and Jesus is Jesus also knew that just about three hours from now that I'm going to be facing the greatest temptation and for me to get through that, I need some power from God. He knew that it was important and it was a priority. People who brush their teeth are not super human. People who brush their teeth on consistent basis are not super powerful. They feel the same thing every person feels. I don't want to brush my teeth. Why do they do it? Because they're convinced in their mind it's a priority. You know that half of the world don't brush their teeth? You know that a lot of the world don't even have a toothbrush and they don't even know what to do with the toothpaste? And they live and they think it's fine. You may say, how can you live? It's fine. When you open your mouth and it's going to smell so bad, they don't think that. That's exactly how Jesus looks at us and me and says, how can you live your life without prayer? You may say, well, that's fine. I'm just too tired. I don't have time. I don't even know that's for me.  It's better to live without breathing and to be a Christian without praying. Prayer must be a priority. You must make a decision. Push away the tiredness and make it a priority. Anything you have priority for, you always find time for and always find energy for. Period. Anything that's not a priority and anything that's not important to you, you will always find excuses for and you will always have no energy for. The interesting part is Jesus is there praying. Open his mouth. Oh, Father, let you will be done. Let you will be done. Peter over there sleeping, sleeping.  In the moment of temptation, they bug him.   You did this.    And you see Peter cursing. You see people. I mean, cursing people out. You see people say, no, I have never been with Jesus. You say, why couldn't Peter be tired during temptation to shut his mouth? It's amazing how he was tired to pray, but he wasn't tired to cuss. And it's amazing when Peter closed his mouth during prayer. He couldn't keep it closed during temptation. This is the secret you must understand. When you live your life, opening your mouth in prayer, you will have the power to close it when you get tempted and when you get attacked by the devil. When you end up in the traffic, when somebody is blackmail you, when somebody is trying to push on your buttons, when you're just really, really tough, when your spouse didn't do what they were supposed to do, when your kids did not do their chores, and you feel like you wanted to open up the mouth and put everybody square and share a piece of your mind. And then you will do what Jesus said. You will say nothing. Where does the power come from when you open your mouth in prayer?   You will have the power to keep it shut during temptation.   And some people, so many blessings can happen in your life if you just zip your lip, but you cannot zip your lip if you zip it during prayer. You cannot keep both of the worlds open. And Peter learned it very hard way. If I want to be quiet during temptation, I have to be loud during prayer. If I want to be loud during prayer, then I can be be quiet during the temptation. So the first thing the Lord wants us to do is when we pray, something begins to happen. Not only we are helped that we have the power not to commit sin with our mouth, but we also, we see people's lives change, we see people's lives transform. But also I wanted to know that when we praise God, something begins to happen. We influence the ear of God to act on our behalf. When we praise God, we influence the ear of God to act on our behalf. Praise, you know, we, I grew up in a very traditional, more traditional church where praising God was all about the style and the style. And as you saw in the video, and this is not the way I grew up. This is a little bit more contemporary to compare to the way I grew up in the most, how most people grew up. But for many people worship is about style. Worship is about either music. It's either about clapping or not clapping. It's about jumping or not jumping. It's about shouting or not shouting. It's about how many instruments you're allowed to have on the stage. And worship is about style. But it's not about God. Satan will make you focused on the style of worship as long so it will cause you to miss the object of worship. David one day was dancing before God, so crazy. And his wife, she was sitting on the side of the window. And the Bible says that she was looking at him. And she's like, I worship God, but not like this. And she was so offended with his style. When he came in, instead of giving him a hug and says, you know, congratulations, we made it. This is awesome.  And he says, look, look, look what you're doing. You're dancing wrong. You're not, you shouldn't be moving over there.  You should be more dignified. Carry about your image or your reputation.  He says, the problem with you.  He says, I don't think about how I think about who and how with the care of itself. And the Bible says because she cared about the style. She never praised God. God never heard the praise and God's hand was never moved to open her womb to she will conceive a child. If we become a church that worships God for God, not for the style and worship divinity, not dignity, something is going to happen. God is going to hear that. And the Bible says God's hand is going to be moved. Can somebody say amen? And God's hand is going to be moved when we come to worship here. And you realize that it's not about the style, it's about the object of our worship. God's hand is going to be moved. And God is going to bless us. And God is going to use us. And God is going to touch us. It's not about the style. It's about the object of our worship. Sometimes people come and say, I didn't feel anything during this worship. I did not like this worship. Since when was this worship about you? I thought we were worshiping him. So if you didn't like it, great. That wasn't for you in the first place. The question is, did he like it? And if he liked it, we're all happy. And if you did not like it, do not worry, because it was not about you in the first place. When you come and it's not your favorite song and not your favorite musician and not your favorite leader and not your favorite this and then the words are not there. Remember, this is about the object, not the style. And when you are in love with the style, you cannot get the hand of God moving. Why? Because you're not worshiping the object, you're worshiping the style. And that's why most of us, the songs that you like on your iTunes are mainly about the style, not necessarily about object. And it's good to like the style. Don't get me wrong. It's good to sing professionally. It's good so when you have all the instruments, you have the flute, you have the drums, it's good when the worship leader really pumps you up. It's good when the song makes you move, makes you jump. But at the end of the day, rejoicing in worship and liking the style does not move the hand of God. It's when I keep in front of my mind, it's not about the song. It's about the God. It's not about the music. It's about the creator. And only then his ear hears that I make him the object of my worship. His hand will begin to move. Can somebody say amen? So do not be offended and do not get stuck with the style. We're going to be praying for our people. We're going to be praying for souls, worshiping God, proclaiming God's word. And if we don't proclaim God's word, we end up complaining about our situation. Amen. I'm going to finish on this story. There was this lady. Shelly is her name. She is a daughter of a missionary family and they were in the other country. Her parents were missionaries. They were of Catholic descent and at a very early age, from the age of six to ten, she was sexually abused by somebody in the Catholic church. And she could never tell anybody and she was very, very emotionally hurt. The family moved from missionary field and at the age of ten, she finally got free from that because her family relocated. They came to the United States. The pain that she suffered and the abuse that she has experienced, she never told anybody and never confessed to anybody and was very ashamed to talk about it to God. And in the middle of school and in the high school, she decided to throw herself in studies and extracurricular courses, get involved in music, get involved in sports just so that she can keep herself busy. She was a top honorary student. Everything was going well until she graduated from high school and her family sent her to a Christian university and something just happened. All that junk she carried inside just went off the roof and she became in the university known as a cussing atheist. No longer the daughter of a missionary family, no longer an excellent, you know, athlete, an excellent student, but a cussing atheist. If somebody would even bring the name of God, the name of the fact that she came from a missionary family, she would just vomit all the cussing words. She was just very vicious about it. But on the inside, she struggled. Though she had doubts, she struggled deeply. And like in the other story, she started to take that out by spending a lot of time alone and then she slowly started to, she was afraid of using drugs, she was afraid of drinking, but she wasn't afraid of cutting veins. So she started to do that just to relieve her pain. Here's a student, you know, finishing her PhD, missionary parents, professing to be a cussing atheist. But during the night, during home, she's there literally bleeding just so she can feel a relief. And she decided to end her life a very surprising way. On her birthday, she decided her university was very tall building. She decided on her birthday during the day when there was most students over there on the campus to cut her wrists and throw herself off of the building. Now here's American University. These are our students. These are our colleagues. These are not people somewhere 200 years ago. These are people in 21st century who have a phone, who have a car, and who have a scholarship, but who don't have God. So what she did is on her birthday, exactly like her plan, she cut her wrists and made her way to the top floor. As she's making her way to the top floor, the blood is dripping from her hands, it so happens that a student begins to walk across the hall and notices blood. And so this student, she was a Christian and they had a little Bible study in that little college. She begins to follow her and she sees a girl walking outside to the top floor. She stops her. She says, where are you going? She said, you're bleeding. She's like, no, never mind. I just need to get some fresh air. He said, you're not getting no fresh air. You're going to the bathroom with me. We're going to wash those hands. And because the Christian girl was not like, well, I don't want to offend her. She was a little bit bolder. She actually took her, ruined her plan, took her to the bathroom. This girl fainted in the bathroom. She calls police. They put her in a suicide watch and they put her in a mental institution. She wakes up in a mental institution and it shocks her. Now here she is, educated, cussing atheist and they removed shoe laces from her shoes in the fear that she'll kill herself. And in that moment she started to say to God, if you are there, you got to do something. But what she does not know is this girl who catches her, organizes in her Bible study for 10 days straight, every day, every one of them is praying for a few minutes for this Shelley. And they're interceding to God that while she's in mental institution, that God's hand is going to reach for her there and do something in her life. 10 days pass by and Shelley gets released from mental institution. The suicide watch is taken off of her record and the first person she meets is the same girl who stopped her from suicide. And she said, could you come to our Bible study? And well, what does Shelley say? Shelley says in her mind, no, but her lips says, yes, I will. Why? Because for 10 days there has been a hand that's working on her behalf that somebody's been praying for. She comes to the Bible study and she says, I grew up in a Catholic background. You know, I'm used to the different style of worship. She comes there and these are charismatic young people.  And she says, these are weird people. She says, I'm not coming here again. These are weirdos. This is crazy people. And right before it's about to get over, the group leader says, Shelley, do you mind if you come in the middle and we pray for you? And Shelley says, of course, pray for me. Big deal. She comes in there on that chair and she sits down. And as she closes her eyes, she tells this to God in a thought, if nothing happens, I am never, ever coming back to these crazy fanatics again. The moment she finished the thought, Holy Spirit's presence begins to just come upon her. And at first she's felt, she said, like ice cubes in the boiling water, part by part of her personality started to melt. And for all those years, everything she carries, she started to release it through her Jesus. She started to weep, weep and weep and this lasted for minutes. When all of it was done, she said, I felt tons of bricks removed out of me.  They lead her to Jesus Christ. Today she's a Bible teacher and she's a worship leader at International House of Prayer. But it all started because God's ear was bothered by a group of Bible study students and moved God's hand to touch a girl named Shelly who was on Suicide Watch. I want to challenge us right now that every single home group to have people that we are praying for specifically every home group, every one of us that we have people that we pray for daily, every single day, because revival is about the hand of God being influenced by the ear of God and the ear of God being influenced by the mouth of believers. If we open up our mouth and we begin to say, God, I want you to move.  If we open up our mouth and begin to say that my brother and my sister will serve the Lord. If we open up our mouth and begin to share with people the good gospel of Jesus Christ, something is gonna happen. It's gonna influence the hand of God and the hand of God is gonna move mightily and save people's lives. I have a friend who lives in Salem and well, he's a friend on Facebook and he wrote to me last week a very interesting story. He said that he applied for this job and he was dropping off the application as he's coming to drop off the application. Something happens as the office is closed and he's so upset. He's like, man, why did this happen? The next day he goes in to return the application. As he returns the application, he drives by and they have a bridge there in Salem where people sometimes would jump off the bridge for two reasons.  So there's a young man that's standing on the edge of the bridge and he's driving by the next day.  He pulls over and the Holy Spirit puts it in his heart. He says, go talk to him. Well, how do I want to go talk to him? I mean, he's, I don't know what he wants to do and he overcomes the doubt. He comes to him and he says, hey, I see having fun, huh? He said, pray for me. And this friend on Facebook, he says, pray for what?   Pray for me. He says, yeah, I'll pray for you. And this Christian guy begins to converse with him, begins to tell him about the love of God, begins to tell him about the love of Jesus. It so happens that this guy who stands on a bridge, after hearing it enough, God begins to move on him, jumps off and starts running away from the bridge and God saves his life. Instead of jumping over the bridge, he runs from the bridge and God saves him. God's hand was moved when one man's mouth was opened. I want to tell you something, God's hand is going to move in our lives. God's hand is going to save people and change people, but something has to happen today.   And let's open our mouth to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, to share our testimony, because the miracle of God in their life will depend on that. Like we saw in the school on this Sunday when one lady, I think from Texas, who was a little bit blind, and she was healed, that one service she testifies. As she's testifying, there's another lady sitting there who is blind also. And as she hears her testimony, her faith sprouts and she says, if God did it for her, God can do it for me. As the anointing water was being sprayed for her, this second lady receives her healing. And she says, when I was sitting there, my faith was challenged and encouraged because I heard a testimony of this lady who was healed. And I was listening to this testimony and I'm thinking, what would happen if this American lady who was healed said, well, praise God, I'm shy, nervous, and I cannot speak. The other person would have not had the faith to receive their own healing. What would happen if my cousin David in Asana, you know, seen another young man who sits there, who's very quiet and reservative and said, you know what, I don't want to bug him and bother him and talk to him about anything. But David didn't do that. What David did is he opened his mouth and he shared his testimony and little did he know the hand of God started to move and touch Brother Lewis. And today Lewis is a follower of Jesus Christ. That's exactly what the Lord wants to do with people that we are praying for and people that we are sharing the faith with.  We cannot sit here and think God's revival is gonna come because Jesus died, Holy Spirit came, we're gonna zip our lips, not invite nobody, not pray for souls, not praise God like we got it and not proclaim. And if God wants it, God will give it.  Revival is not gonna ever, ever happen like that. Look at the churches that keep their mouth shut. God keeps his hand closed. Look at those that keep their mouth open and God's hand is open. Let's be the church that keep our mouth open. And when we pray, we pray loud. When we pray, we pray in faith. And when we pray, we pray in all kinds of fire. We proclaim, we praise and something's gonna happen. God's ear is gonna hear and God's hand is gonna move for the glory of God. Here's somebody saying, man.