It's good to be in the house of the Lord. Amen. Amen. Listen, this has been an extraordinary week here in the life of Radiant. And we'll talk more about that a little bit. But this morning, I wanted to just come up as we start worship and just help focus our attention in the right place. Hebrews chapter 12 says in the NIV, it says, this is putting your eyes on Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. And I love that phrase, putting our eyes or fixing our eyes as some translations say. Because what oftentimes can happen in church and in worship is we can kind of come in and takes a song and a half or some moment or some lyric that triggers and touches our hearts for our focus to be put where it needs to be. But worship is about acknowledging and honoring the worth of Jesus above all other things. Above all other things. Revelation when the creatures before the throne gaze upon Jesus said he's the only one found worthy. And so this morning, I wanna just write from the get. I don't want us to wait three songs to put our eyes in the right place. I don't want us to have to consciously do a trade-off of this is worth more than that. I want us to right now just settle the issue right at the start that Jesus alone is worthy and put our eyes right on him. So right now, all over this room, even as you're coming in, let's just set our gaze.  No other name, there's no other thing. There's no other place, there's no other time, there's no other idea.  So Lord, today by the Holy Spirit, would you open the eyes of our heart to see you as you really are and to enter in in spirit and in truth and to worship you. Lord, if we don't worship you, the rocks are gonna cry out. Lord, if we don't worship you, the trees are gonna clap their hands. If we don't worship you, the stars are gonna leap for joy. But we are the ones that your ear is turned to. You love the sound of the song of the redeemed. Angels aren't redeemed. Creation is a redeemed. We have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.  Come on, lift up your hands, lift up your voices and tell Jesus right from the beginning. From your own heart, Jesus, you are worthy of it all. And come on, let's go there this morning, let's worship Him. All eyes on Jesus, sing that again. He named you and said, heal me. You said, look at me.   Or today we draw near to you and we stand on the promise that when we draw near to you, you have drawn near to us and we draw near. All eyes, all hearts, focused on you, Lord Jesus. Holy Spirit, we give you the room. Come and have your way to speak and to move. Lord, these are uncharted waters, uncharted territories. But we're grateful this morning that we're led by a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire, your presence that goes before us. And so we fix our eyes on you, the author and the completer, the finisher of our faith this morning. In Jesus' name. Isn't he worthy? Come on, isn't he worthy, church? He's so worthy, he's so worthy. Real quickly, if you would just turn around and greet somebody and tell them he's worthy and then you can grab your seat this morning. This morning we're gonna do things just a little bit different than we normally do on Sundays. And real quickly, we're just gonna shift gears and invite the ushers if they would to come into place at all of our locations. We're all joining in by live stream this morning and so we want a great portage in downtown and say good morning to our family that's spread out over this whole city. And we're all together this morning and this is really, I believe, a milestone morning for us. And I'm gonna share some more about that here in a moment. But as the ushers have come forward, we're just gonna release them, pray, and then we're gonna release them to receive the offering when the buckets go by here in a moment. And as always, we never wanna take that for granted. Just thank you all for your generosity and your faithfulness to honoring what God is doing in the house, what He's doing in the kingdom. Your giving makes a difference and we remind you of that week in and week out but we're grateful for that.  Wherever we are this morning and whatever location we're sitting in, we're one house, one family with many rooms. And we say, hallelujah for all that you've done, for your goodness, for your kindness, and your mercy. And the overflow of our heart is to give back to you. And so Lord, we ask that you would receive the offering this morning, that you would bless it and use it in Jesus' name. Amen. And ushers, you can go ahead and just pass that. Please forgive me if you're a first time guest and maybe you're like, well, what's different about this service?  And if you are a guest, we just welcome you. But this week has been an extraordinary week and I would even say this year has been an extraordinary year for us but even beyond us to a certain degree. What God is doing, I wanted to be able to grab as much time this morning as I can to be able to just speak into what God is doing here and what he's doing around our nation. You know, on the day of Pentecost when they were gathered together and by the way, Pastor Toby preached a phenomenal message last weekend out of Acts chapter two. We love Pastor Toby. And his message out of Acts 242 just on the lifestyle of the community and what fellowship really is. It's powerful but that was the reaction that was the response of the church after Acts chapter two, verse one, when God poured his spirit out on the church, filled the place where they were gathered together in the upper room with the Holy Spirit with wind and fire. And they all began to speak in tongues and prophesied and it drew attention. And so when people gathered around wanting an explanation, you know, are these people drunk? What's going on with them? It was Peter, excuse me, it was Peter's responsibility to stand up and say, this is what that is. This is that which was prophesied by Joel. This is what it is and this is what it means. And here is how we need to respond to it. And I feel like I'm in a very similar position this morning as a pastor of Radiant but also just as a leader and a voice in the body of Christ because I feel like we're in an Acts two type of a moment. And obviously I mean that here at Radiant and in our city but it's far bigger than that. It's far greater than that. You know, for many, many years, probably since the beginning of the times where I began to serve in ministry, one of the messages that God's called me to carry is a call to the church to pray and to contend for revival or for awakening in the church, especially in the American church. This is a message. I mean, this is a theme that I have, I can't tell you how many sermons I've preached if you've been around Radiant. You know, it comes up over and over and over again because it's one of the responsibilities that God has given to me to carry. And we are living right now in a prophetic moment where the things that we've prayed for for many, many years are in small measure beginning to break out in our nation and in the midst of this generation.   And you can see up ahead, the clouds getting heavier and ready to dump the rain and you know what's coming. And we're in that moment right now where there's spit on the windshield. Jane and I were on vacation in Mexico. We took a little vacation, went down there and did a whole bunch of nothing. And we got there on Monday night, Tuesday morning, we sat by the pool. Wednesday morning, my Twitter feed started blowing up with reports of something taking place at a college, a Christian college in Wilmore, Kentucky. A college called Asbury College that was founded by the holiness, Wesleyan tradition and a college that has a history of revivals. In the last 100 years, Asbury has hosted five significant revivals, the last one of them being in 1970. And why Asbury is significant, it's not a big college, but it's significant because if you go back over revival history in America in the last 100 years, every time that there has been a significant outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Asbury, it's been a bellwether signpost of what is about to happen across the rest of the nation. In fact, in 1970, when Asbury started a prayer service and it went for over a week solid, on the heels of that exploded, the Jesus people revival were hippies and people on the West Coast began to get saved and fled into the church and it made the cover of Time Magazine. But the bellwether of that was Asbury. If you go back during the evangelical student awakenings of the 40s and 50s, Asbury, 1905, Asbury. And so last Wednesday, almost two weeks now, a young man stood up in their chapel which is required three times a week to go to. And he ended his service basically calling the student body to a place of holiness. And as he walked off the stage, he thought it was over, but it still is going at this moment. A week and a half later, got a couple of pictures up here. I think if they can pop up here, just for those of you who are on this is, this is Hughes Auditorium. And this is one of the services in the middle of the day that is taking place and it's being completely led by Gen Z. A generation that this world has given up hope on this thought has moved on beyond Christianity, is more evolved, they've got all kinds of other interests. And every article that you've read about has the church seen its best days. Has Gen Z finally put an end to our need for spirituality? Gen Z has everything. Gen Z doesn't need anything. Gen Z is spiritually bankrupt. Gen Z is hungry for a move of God. And they're the ones leading this revival. It's going on. Listen, last night, last night, they had over 10,000 people on the campus of that college. They had four auditoriums filled with overflow and the line to get into one of them was three quarters of a mile long and people were worshiping while they're in line. People are coming from all over and you might think, well, why do we need to go to places where there's revival and there's outbreaking? I'll tell you why. It's the same reason why we go to Chick-fil-A. It's because we're hungry. Because yeah, you got food at home, but I want some of that. And we've heard about revivals. We've read about revivals and outpourings of the Holy Spirit that God moved sovereignly in generations and first and second grade awakenings and the Cane Ridge revivals and the Azusa Street revival of the early 1900s and the Latter Rain outpouring and Hebrides and Scotland and in Argentina. I've read all of these revivals, but how many of us have prayed to prayer, God, do it on our day? So the question is, what do you do when God comes? What do you do when God comes? When it's not just in a book, what do you do when God literally tears open the veil between His world and ours and He steps into ours and makes Himself known? What do you do when that happens? How do you respond to that? I'm gonna have you turn in your Bible in just a moment. You can turn there now if you want to Zachariah chapter 10. But before we get there, I want to read something to you and I'm gonna be very vulnerable with you as your pastor. I'm gonna put my glasses on because I can't read without them. But I wanna read to you a prophetic word that was given to our church in January 18th, 2006. We've held on to this word for years and it was given to us by a prophet, a man named Lance Wallnow. And Lance came to our church in 2006. It was a Wednesday night and this is what he prophesied over our church. He said, this is a house that has been set apart and designated to be a city on a hill so that others can see and observe the faithfulness of God through you. This is a house of miraculous provision where God says you will move beyond the limitations of the population and of the resources of your own congregation, that God will give you access to whatever you need to cause the dream that is in your heart to be made manifest. In order that dreamers could be inspired and come from the north, the south, the east and the west because there are young people whose minds are being shaped and contested for and intended for and even wrestled over in school, colleges and universities. And in this area you will have a covering that will cover the intellectual, emotional, spiritual cultivation of a whole generation of young people who will come here to experience a fresh move of God, a fresh visitation. Do not be afraid to stand in line and look foolish. Do not be afraid to hunger so much that you don't have a vehicle, but you're in line waiting nonetheless to try to get fed. The Lord says if you will hunger and thirst after that which doesn't exist, I will give you what everyone else wants but doesn't have, which is a place where a portal of heaven will be opened and God's power will be present. Conspicuously and consistently on the earth. This place is set apart to be a tabernacle of David.  This will become like, it will be like, what have you done to my church? They're wrecking my church, say la. But God says let the church be wrecked if it builds the kingdom. We're so addicted to our own expectations to what things are gonna look like. What if God shows up and has something bigger than what you've got planned? What happens if God's got plans that are bigger than the plans that you've got? What happens if God has a vision that's so much bigger than the vision that you've got? That it's like everything else he's ever done. You're aiming for one thing and God's got bigger plans. Build the house that will take the territory. Build the house that will touch the government. Build the house that will speak to professors and teachers. Build the house that will have musical excellence and entertainment and value. Build the house that will restore families and you'll be a pastor to the city and not just a congregation. And he'll give you businessmen and businesswomen who will say, this is a different kind of enterprise than I thought in Jesus' mighty name. So in light of what was going on in Asbury, I was stricken with a terrible case of FOMO. Sitting in a lawn chair, Jane will testify to it. I was, I read three books on the Asbury revival while I was sitting there because I couldn't get there. All my friends are like, we're driving down, we're going there, we're all night long, we're waiting in line and I'm getting pictures from Asbury and literally on my heart, I'm like, oh Lord, I prayed for this all my lifetime. And I'm not there. John Tyson's like, mate, it's amazing. When I hear them preach, it's how I feel in my heart. I'm like, jah. And then I don't know what day it was last week, early in the week, our RSM students loaded up the van, Pastor Toby and his team decided, you know what, we're gonna send a team down. We're just gonna drive all night long. They drove all night long and got to Asbury, got in, which is a miracle. And Gage, one of our young students actually got interviewed and Gage, I want you to come on up here, quick, come on up here. Everybody, come on, welcome Gage. And I want Gage to just share with you quickly his experience, how that all went down. How you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good, take that. I wrote it down, so good morning family. My name's Gage, as you just heard, it's good to meet you guys if I haven't met you. And I'm here today to testify of the faithfulness of our merciful God and on the prayers of the saints. This past week has been a week I'll remember and have burned in my heart for the rest of my life. And I hope this testimony gives you faith for just how good our God is. This week can be described simply in one word. Holy, this week has been set apart other than any other week in my life. And I believe it's a turning point in God's story and a tipping point in history. It began on Sunday night when me and my best friends decided to drive to Asbury College in Kentucky because we heard a revival broke out. Six hours later, we found ourself in that chapel. And if I could tell you what the experience was, it was the simplicity of his presence, the centrality and the purity of Jesus. And his presence brought old and young together. Olds running to the altar in desperation, the young crying out and giving up everything to behold him. Authentic and true repentance. Relationships and families restored, marriages restored as they got up and repented. The sick healed and true restoration for the saints as we sat in our king's presence. A prophetic picture my friend had to help frame what Jesus is doing. The man of war is tired of a church in our nation being stagnant, a dead stream, and God poured out his presence in Asbury to stir a whirlpool. And he brought colleges campuses from all over, saints young and old, from all over the world to be sent out to cause whirlpools of his divine, holy disruption to the hour we're in so no matter where you go, you can't help but be pulled into the center because his desire is to save a generation for the church to come alive and to save the nations. Do you believe he's here? Because Jesus is here and he's ready for our response. And I speak faith, life and hope to you today that what was possible there, and if you have simple faith and a desperation cry in your heart today, God is ready to do it here. God said he's gonna pour out his spirit in these last days. God said if we humble ourselves and seek him in prayer he would heal our land and I'm here as a living testimony to tell you here today his spirit is on the way. Revival is on the way. The restoration of the church is on the way. Healing for the land is on the way. A generation reached with salvation is on the way. As we have gathered for 70 hours in the prayer room we have seen souls saved, healings, people from all over flooding for the simplicity of God is with us. Church he has heard our prayers and he is ready to pour his spirit out. The question I have and leave with you today is are you ready when God comes? And will you be a part of it? My prayer for you today is to not let offense, apathy or pride keep you from the fullness of what God is doing in this hour. Church it's time to wake up. The King is coming. Are you ready? What does it mean when God comes? Jonathan Edwards who was a great revivalist during the first great awakening in America probably America's greatest theologian that had ever produced described revival or outpouring or whatever you wanna call it as an extraordinary and unusual season when God visits his people. And that is what I believe we're seeing the beginnings of and it's what we're beginning to experience even here on a local level. This is not a reaction to Asbury. I wanna say that that several people ask me is this, Pastor Lee, what do you think of this? And is this us saying, hey, it's happening there. Let's make it happen here. This has been happening in a radiant and in a progressive way over the last couple of years but even the beginning of this year as we started our season of seek, we sensed on January 8th the beginning of something shifting. We had standing room only overflow services, packed out prayer meetings, more people engaged in fasting and prayer, more people responding to altercalls in salvation and healing and repentance than we have ever experienced before. And it was like God dropped it on us and I joked as soon as seek was over, it's like now we're starting seek 344. But it's true because God is visiting his church and it's not just in Asbury. Since Asbury's begun it's spread to like 10 other campuses.  God will not share his glory with another. He will not share his glory with a human. He will not share his glory with the enemy. He will not allow a generation to be mocked. God is moving.  Now he's speaking to a generation that has experienced nothing but spiritual bankruptcy and he's like, I'm gonna pour out my reign of my presence on my church once again. I'm gonna awaken my people once again. This is what he's doing. So our prayer meeting that began 8 a.m. on Thursday morning just finished up a couple hours ago so that we could have church in our downtown location. But it burned for over 60 hours, all night, all day, led primarily by our School of Ministry and School of Worship students. Last night I went up into the prayer meeting thinking, oh, I'll have a little room maybe to get into the front row where I typically sit at nine or at eight and there was 200 people in the prayer room and a 13 year old girl leading worship and prophesying over the room. I walked outside to get a breath of fresh air. There was prayer meetings in front of the building, prayer meetings in the hallway. I went into a room that I thought was a green room at snacks, there was a prayer meeting there. There was even a prayer meeting in the bathroom. I don't know how that works. And it went all night long. It's like God just jumped something, expectation, holy zeal, holy expectation and lit the match and we want to respond to that. We want to respond to that. We just don't want to throw up our hands and go, oh, this is really cute. And we want to say, Lord, when you come, here's what it is. It's you visiting your people. This is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. On our church that we've prayed for for many years that God has spoken over. And we want to lean into that. And so a couple of the things just to do some family business. Tonight, we've canceled our Be Radiant class and other events that we have tonight. We are having a spontaneous, call it whatever you want, service at 6 p.m. So whatever location you're at, Richland at 6 p.m. Come, we don't have any script. We're gonna worship, we're gonna pray, we're gonna testify, we're gonna trust the Lord to move. And if you're hungry, come. At 6 p.m. I don't know what more you got to do. The chiefs won the Super Bowl. There's no other place that we need to be than together in the place of his presence, ministering to the Lord. The other thing that we're gonna do is over the, we're just kind of taking this day by day, but we're gonna, our prayer meetings are gonna start back up. And as long as there's life in it, we're just gonna let them burn. And so they're gonna be open. We had people from Ontario, Canada.  So I mean, we don't even know. We're just gonna pray. This is what God's called us to. It's that tabernacle of David calling. And so we're just gonna steward it. We're gonna do the best that we can to put our sail up and let God blow us in the direction that he wants to. And we're gonna listen to that. And our leadership is very tuned into that. I want you to know that.  It's not normal. Nothing wrong with shoes, but this is not normal. So we turn our eyes to what God is doing and we take our shoes off and we draw near because I believe God has even more for us. He has more for us. And that's what I wanna just take the next few moments. Draw your attention to Zechariah chapter 10. You guys are probably there waiting for me, but. Zechariah chapter 10 says, Ask for rain from the Lord in the season of the latter rain. From the Lord who makes the storm clouds and he will give them showers of rain to everyone, the vegetation in the field for the household gods, utter nonsense and the diviners see lies. They tell false dreams and they give empty consolation and therefore the people wander like sheep and they are afflicted for a lack of a shepherd. Zechariah exhorts the people of Israel to ask God for rain in the seasons of rain. And I will just say that what we are experiencing, we find ourselves, you are living in a time when God is beginning to pour his rain out. We have dear saints that are part of this church that have grown up and been apart and been impacted by revivals of the past. We have a 92-year-old woman, Christa Kennedy, my assistant, her grandmother, who's been a long-time member, her and her husband, before he went home to be with the Lord, were long-time members and she's at home watching, but she told Christa, remind Pastor Lee that he carries a mandate for revival. Our family was impacted by revivals in our younger years that have changed the trajectory of our families. Do you know how blessed we are to be living in a season of rain? You may not even know it. You might be like, I've never heard of any of this. No, there are times where God visits a generation in a profound way. He makes himself known. He's always present, yes, but there's times when God makes himself manifestly present. When he comes in, he walks with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day. When he reveals himself to a man named Abram and Ur the Caldees. When he fills the temple with his glory, when he showed up in the temple, when he filled the upper room with his fire and with his presence. Those are seasons of rain and the Bible tells us that in the season of rain, ask the Lord for rain. Rain is the refreshing of the Lord. Rain is what we long for when drought has scorched the earth and it's cracked the soil and it's packed it down and nothing grows and nothing lives. All you see is the remnant of what used to be, but it's amazing if you've ever seen the desert. When it rains in the desert, there's a bloom that happens immediately because the seeds are under the surface. They're just waiting for the seasons of rain. The Radiant Church, I believe that in our lives and in this city and in this generation, there are seeds that have been sown. There are seeds of destiny, calling, zeal, connection with the Lord, healing and marriages, prodigals coming home that don't even look obvious on the surface and we might have even forgotten about, but it just takes one moment in a season of rain for that water to activate those seeds and for there to be a massive bloom that takes place. And God says, ask me for rain. Ask me for rain. I'm the Lord who makes the storm clouds and I will give showers to everyone, the vegetation in the field and here's why we need it so desperately. We need it so desperately because as it says in verse number two, the household gods, the idols, utter nonsense. Why do we need revival? Because we are living in a generation where our culture's household idols have failed us. They've left a generation wandering like sheep without a shepherd, no leadership, no foundations. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among Gen Z. We've seen since 1960, divorce rates quadruple, the nuclear family decimated. We've seen the household idols of our generation speak nonsense, gaslighting an entire generation about their identity. A boy can be a girl, a girl can be a boy and there's 50 or 70 different genders, household idols speaking nonsense. We call what's wrong right and we call what's right wrong and dangerous. We've been divided by demonic principalities and powers in our culture, dividing the church along color lines and denominational lines. We've allowed war to go from something that happens over there to something that's happening in our own streets and we've submitted to a counterfeit Jesus, a Jesus who is more concerned with our own comfort than his holiness. A Jesus that looks like us, talks like us, thinks like us, agrees with us. A counterfeit religion, a counterfeit faith. A woke religion where the high priests are the public school educators and writers of our curriculum who have put teachers who love Jesus in a position where you either teach things that are contradictory to your faith or you lose your job. We've got our own kids ministry called drag shows where we prep our kids to become part of this woke religion and you either wave the flag or you're gonna be excluded and exiled. I'm saying some things that you might get upset about. I don't care, I stand before a holy God. We've sacrificed our children on the altars of convenience. We've erected altars and idols to things that are shameful. We've bowed our knee before the religion of screens instead of gazing on the face of the one who gave his life on the cross for our sins. We've laughed in the face of decimation of an entire generation and we've been comfortable about it. And in the midst of that, God says to the church, I wanna remove your dullness of hearing and even more than your dullness of hearing. I wanna circumcise your hearts and remove the dullness of caring. See, the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. We just don't care.  My pleasure, my truth, my choice, my body, my identity, my comfort, my dreams. These are our household idols. And it would be one thing if it's only out there, but it's seeped into the church of Jesus Christ. And Jesus is saying to the church, ask me for rain, because those things, they utter lies, they're telling false dreams and all they have to offer is empty consolation church. Empty consolation. They cannot comfort you. They cannot give you what you long for. They cannot satisfy you. They cannot tell you who they are. The only person in the universe who can tell you and answer the question of who you are is the one who made you. His name is Jesus. The only person who has the right to say my truth is Jesus. The only person who has a right to comfort but gave it up for the crucifixion on the cross is Jesus. Our bodies are not our own. They were bought with a price. We belong to Jesus. And listen, if we think we're gonna live our whole lives and just skate on into an eternity, shaped more like Hollywood than the Bible and just go on into our little heavenly realities and spend eternity in a good place because after all, all people are good, then we have been deceived by the spirit of this age because make no mistake about it. Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. But every one of us are gonna give an account before Jesus for our lives. Every single one of us lost or found is going to step into eternity and we're either gonna spend eternity in heaven not because of our good works but because we've submitted our lives to Jesus for real or we're gonna go into an eternity of separation from God and torment and hell where forever and ever and ever we will think back on the moments and this small little life like a vapor where we had an opportunity to submit our lives to Jesus but in our pride we said no. I want you to know I've cried so many tears over this generation who don't know the right hand from their left. I've never encountered Jesus like I did as a 12 year old kid. Spared my life, it was the mercy of God. And I look at what's going on in 65 million Gen Z Americans and millennial American kids who are being caught in the crossfire of a spiritual war at the end of the age. And we get upset about their questions and their responses. They're just looking for the one. They don't even know who it is. They're just looking for him. And they've not found a place in the father's house. You know, you read the story of the prodigal son and it says that he came to his senses and he said, I'll go back to my father's house for I had it better in my father's house than I do as a slave. What do you do with a generation though that wakes up in the pig pen and has never been in the father's house? It doesn't know where to go. We have a responsibility. We have a responsibility to be the church, to be the people of God. We have a responsibility. We owe the next generation an encounter with the Lord. And it starts with us who are a little bit older, not real old, just a little bit older to make room and to celebrate. And the greatest way that we can do that is by modeling it, being carriers, being intercessors, being mentors, being godly husbands and wives. And it starts with us asking the Lord for rain and putting away our household idols. So that as it says in verse four from the Lord, this is how he answers, from him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler and all of them together they shall be like mighty men in battle. God in this hour wants to raise up an army called the church whose eyes have been opened, whose hearts have been tenderized, who are fixated on Jesus, who are alive in Jesus, who have gotten rid of their own idols so that they can rise up with clean consciences and with spirit filled hearts and we can lean in and say, God for your glory. I'm telling you church, if there is not a move of God, our nation is done for. It is done for. But a man named Jim LaFoon who I trust had a vision the beginning of last year and he saw a vision of Jesus' feet walking across the parched America like a dry riverbed. And he says as I scan Jesus' feet from the bottom all the way up the hem of his garment and I began to look at him, Jesus' face was not looking at me, it was looking up in the heavens and he was asking the Father, Lord, one more time. One more time. And that is my prayer, God, move one more time. And if you wanna move in Kalamazoo, Michigan, then move here. If you wanna move in Wilmore, Kentucky, then move there. If you wanna move in North Carolina, move there. If you wanna move in Alaska, move there. In fact, Lord, why don't you just move everywhere? Why don't you just move in? Why don't you just take over? Why don't you just have your way? In Isaiah chapter six, Isaiah, who's the prophet, has a vision of the Lord. He says in verse number one in the King, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up in the train of his robe filled the temple. And above him stood the Seraphim, each having six wings with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet and with two he flew. And one called to another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.  And the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who calls in the house was filled with smoke. And I said, woe is me, for I am lost. I am a man of unclean lips. And I dwell in the midst of an unclean, a people of unclean lips. My eyes have seen the King. The Lord of hosts. Isaiah saw the Lord, his view of who God was was elevated. Isaiah always believed he was a prophet before Isaiah six. But when he saw the Lord, when his eyes were lifted up and he saw the Lord and the Lord visited him, he was undone. So a little bit of how I feel. God, I don't wanna miss a moment. God, I don't wanna just think I got it all together because I'm the pastor and the leader. Lord, I wanna see you high and lifted up. I wanna see you in the way that my heart becomes undone and I realize I'm a man of unclean lips. And the people and the nation and the culture were a people of unclean lips. And I want God to set the coal from the altar of heaven on my lips and on my life and on our lives, marking us with the searing reality of his presence so that we're never the same. So that we respond like Isaiah did. When the Lord touched his lips, he said, when God said, who will go for us? Who will go? Who will go and tell them? Isaiah's response was, here am I, send me. Here am I, send me. I think Jesus is looking at cities like Kalamazoo. And church is like radiant and hundreds of thousands of others in schools like Asbury and people like us. And he says, I'm gonna send a little rain just so you know I'm here. Now ask me, ask me for rain. Ask me for more. Ask me for more. It's real, I'm here, I can do it. And he's waiting to see how we'll respond. Well, we just, oh, this is beautiful, this is wonderful, great. Now let's get back to regularly scheduled programming. Or are we gonna say, I see the spots on the windshield. Father, send the rain. I believe, I'll drop everything. I'm expecting God to send the rain. And will we respond like Isaiah, who he says, Lord? He repented. He said, Lord, forgive me, touch me. His two responses were repentance and intercession. That's our two responses. So what does this mean? It means God's moving. What is this? It's an unusual and extraordinary season of God's visitation on this house and in the city and in this generation. How do we respond? Two ways. The second ways be willing to say God send rain and send me. But the first way precipitates the second, which is repentance, which is God. I've held you in too low of position in my life, forgive me. Father, I have idols. I have idols in my life. They've lied to me. They've given me a false sense of comfort, false dream I've been living for. And it's left me leaderless. I've made you too small in my eyes. Oh God, forgive me. And this morning, I came into this morning asking Lord, what do you want? And this morning, he just simply wants you. He wants us to turn our face to Jesus. I'm gonna invite the musicians if they would come. And I want all of us to stand to our feet.  I don't wanna have to break it down. Here's how I will describe it.  You, I'm not talking about religion, I'm not talking about going to church, growing up in church. I'm talking about you're not right with God. Today's the day. This is it. If you can't do it today, I don't know what day you can do it. Your heart will be hardened. You may be here and you have never, ever had a moment where you said, Jesus, for real, save me. I am a man of unclean lips. I'm a man with a hard heart. I'm a man with sinful obsessions and idols of my own. God, it is wrong. I am sorry, forgive me, I want you. If you've never done that today, you do that.   Today, it's time for you to come home.  Say today, Jesus, save me. Today is the day of salvation. You're not right with God. You raise your hand right now. You just say, Jesus, save me. Keep your hands up. We're gonna wait, cause there's more. You know it. You're believing lies right now.  You say, today I need to get my life right with God. Once and for all, Jesus, save me. Save me, save me, save me. You can put your hands down. If you did not raise your hand, but you know you need to. And there's like this weight on your hands. It's like, I can't do this. You're considering the cost. Today I want to challenge you, break free from the chains of the enemy who's lying to you right now. If you know you should have just 30 seconds to go raise your hand, but there's like shame, and I don't know how I'm gonna do this. It's costing too much. It's gonna cost you everything, but you get Jesus. If you not raised your hand, you did not raise your hand, but you know you should have raised your hand. Right now, be free in Jesus' name to raise your hand.  Thank you. Come on, yes. Come on, who else? Who else would be so bold? Who else would be so bold to say yes? If you raised your hands for either one of those, I want you to get out of your seat and come. Come right now. You raised your hand for either one of those calls. You come. It's time to seek the Lord. It's time to seek the Lord. And listen, if you didn't raise your hand, but you know you need to, come right now. Come right now. Come. Come on. Yes, yes. Come on, if you know you need to, you come right now. Do kingdom business right now. Guys, look at these men. Men. I'm gonna wait 30 seconds because I know that in this room there are more. Right now there's wrestling matches happening all over this room. Win the battle. Jesus right now.  If you know you need to come, you come right now. Thank you, sir. Thank you, young lady. Come on, who else? Thank you, young man. Come on, come. It's time to seek the Lord. Thank you. There's more coming. I just want you to get down on your knees. If you came down here, I've never done this, but I'm gonna do it with you. Church, and let's all get down on our knees to the best of our ability. We're submitting to Jesus. If you can't, please do the best you can. I don't, but if you can, let's get on our knees. And those of you who came down, I just want you right now to ask Jesus to save you, your words. Just say, God, I have made you too small in my life. I have been obsessed with other things. I have sinned against you and you alone, but Jesus saved me. Save me, forgive me. Move, touch me, touch my lips with the coal of your presence. God, touch me. Deliver me. Right now, in the name of Jesus, I pray for every demonic stronghold that has gripped the hearts of these people. In the name of Jesus, we bind your authority. They no longer belong to you. They belong to Jesus. And I pray Holy Father right now for the presence of Jesus to overshadow right now and empower, strengthen, save, deliver, and heal. Father, sickness and disease. Touch, Father, in Jesus' name. I'm praying, Lord, that as they cry out to you, you would hear them. Those of you who came down, we love you, we're so proud of you. I want you to just say to the Lord, Lord Jesus, I believe in you. I repent of living for myself. I repent of my sin against you. I'm a man or a woman of unclean lips. Jesus, save me. Save me. Rescue me. You say that, you say it. And church, you pray for them right now in this moment. You pray for them. So one more piece of business. If you're down front, you just have a moment with Jesus. Don't pay attention to me if you're down in front. But if you're out in the congregation, I'm gonna ask one more thing.  And it's weighing on you. Maybe it's compromise. Maybe it's overt sin. Maybe it's just apathy and indifference. Maybe it's just, I don't even know what it is, but you know it. And you know God's calling you to repent of it. It's time to seek the Lord. I want you to stand to your feet all over this room and we're gonna pray. You've got known sin in your life. God's calling you to repent of it. And as you stand, cry out to God. Cry out to God. God's just asking, Lord, I surrender it. And you name it. And I surrender it. Put your cold to my lips and mark me, forgive me, heal me. Forgive me, set me free. Ask him to set you free from it right now. Come on, use your own vocal cords to say, God, set me free. Set me free, deliver me. I surrender it to you. I've made you too small in my life.  You come where you're wanted and we want you. We need you. Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Come on, do business with God right now. Don't worry about the clock. Don't worry about anything else. You do business with God. If you're down in the front, you do business with God. God, save me. You surrender what you have to surrender. You receive what you need to receive right now. God's moving across this room. Receive it. Come on, do business with God. Take the cold, cleanse my lips. Take the cold, cleanse my lips, oh God. Heal our land, God. Heal our land, heal our city, oh God. Heal this generation, oh God. Heal our land, God. Visit your church. Send the rains. Send the rains. Come on, everybody, let's take a moment. Let's invite the Lord. Send the rain. God, we welcome your rain. We welcome your rain. We need your rain. The rain of your presence. Mercy. And services here in a moment, but two things. Number one, I would love to have prayer partners and any of our RSM students who are ready would just kind of move into place. We just want to pray over those who responded and came forward this morning to receive Christ. We're gonna dismiss, but I want to invite you to come back tonight at six p.m. To give God our full attention. I just have an anticipation. God's starting something, but it's just the beginning.  This is the marked place.  And we're gonna go for it. Come on, we're gonna go for it. We're gonna ask the Lord for rain. We're gonna ask the Lord for rain. And then we're gonna lean in and we're gonna pray. And we're just gonna, we're gonna trust that God is gonna do what God wants to do. Father, send us, regather us, Lord, seal in our hearts what you're doing in this hour. Lord, give us ears to hear. We don't want to be dull of hearing. We want to be in sync and in tune with you in Jesus. It's in your name. Amen. All right, God bless you. You can go, you can stay if you'd like. We're just gonna continue to minister. And we'll be back at six tonight. We're ready at church. Let's all stand up to our feet if we can, all over the room. This morning, I want to just start off as we enter into worship. We just help bringing our focus in right away. This has been an extraordinary week in the life of our church. And first service was no exception to that. God's moving in a really, really powerful way. And I'll share more about that during the service. But what I want to remind us of this morning is what Hebrews chapter 12 says in the NIV, it says this. It says, putting our eyes on Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. And this morning, I want us to move beyond distraction, beyond just, sometimes you can take a couple songs or take a couple minutes from walking out there into here to get your heart aligned. I want us right from the start this morning to just put our gaze and our eyes on Jesus, all eyes on Jesus.  The word worship means to ascribe worth or honor. And there is no one and there is nothing that is worth our hearts cry, our vulnerable worship and our songs and our time and our full attention more than Jesus. Here's what I want you to know. God comes where he's wanted. God comes where he's wanted and we want him.  We want you. Jesus, we want you. Come in strength, come in power. Come and make yourself known, come and be worshiped. Come and be enthroned on the praises of Zion in this place today. Receive the glory, receive the honor that you alone are due, Jesus. Lord, captive at our hearts, that nothing else would have our attention, nothing that's waiting for us, nothing that we left behind, nothing that's more important to us than you right now, Lord, to meet with you, to be with you in this house, in this moment. Come Holy Spirit, we invite you. Now right now wherever you're at, you just tell him, Lord, I'm here to worship you and begin to just tell him how much you need him and how long, how you long for his presence. Even if you don't even feel it, tell your soul, command your soul to bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me. And let's begin to worship him this morning. Glory to the king of kings and Lord of lords. Yeah, did you feel the deal? What again, did you feel? Did you hear? I can sing better than that. When the verse again, did you feel right here? Come on, when saints join together their voices, the darkness actually shakes, the things shift spiritually when we lift our voice. And so whether we feel it or whether we don't this morning, what I want us to do is to lift our voice in unity, whether it sounds good or it doesn't, Goddard is the one that made it and it moves his heart. And so when we join together, we'll actually shake. So can we sing and can we lift our hands like we actually believe what we're singing this morning? Can we stand in faith as saints, like we actually believe the words of this song this morning that darkness will shake when the saints begin to sing? Yeah, did you feel the darkness tremble?  There was a man who got saved during the Jesus people movement of the late 60s and early 70s, a black gospel singer by the name of Andre Crouch. Andre Crouch wrote several songs that were gifts to the church. You may have even sang them and you don't even recognize the history of it, but he was saved out of drugs, alcohol, fame. Jesus radically encountered this man one of the songs that he sang was Jesus, just the mention of his name, master, savior, like the fragrance after the rain.  Kings and kingdoms will all pass away, but there's something about that name.  When you say the name Jesus, angels bow low. When you say the name of Jesus, all the nations will one day bow before him. Isn't he worthy? Yes he is, yes he is. Lord Jesus, you are worthy, master, savior, Jesus. We say you are worthy and it doesn't make it so because we say it, it just is. But we wanted to sink into our hearts in a greater measure this morning, that there is nothing and there is no one and there is no other name that stands next to you, that can compare to you, that can rival you or compete with you. Jesus, it's your name, it's your name, it's your name that heals sickness, it's your name that saves the lost, it's your name that rolls stones away, it's your name that moves mountains, it's your names, it's your name, Jesus, that is worshiped above all other names of Lord. We want that to be so in us and in this place this morning. Come on, hands up all over the room. Isn't he working Jesus in this place? This is an extraordinary and unusual season that we are in and I'll explain that in a moment, but what I'd like you to do right now, we're gonna, the service is gonna look a little bit different this morning. But I want you a few words right now, not in just a hi, how you doing, but like in an on-wonder type of way, turn around and just greet somebody and just tell them he's worthy and I'm glad you're here. And then you can take your seat this morning. We wanna say good morning to downtown who's joining us right off the bat as well as our portage locations. And it's good to be with everybody in the house of the Lord. And there's a lot that's going on and we wanna share and talk about that. If you kind of came in, you're just like, what in the world's going on? We'll talk a little bit more about that here in a moment, but what I wanna do right off the bat at all of our locations is call the ushers, if they would, to just move into place quickly because we're gonna go ahead and receive the offering and we don't wanna ever do this as like a secondary thing. Giving to the Lord is a part, it's an expression of our worship and it's not just paying our bills or getting it out of the way, it actually is an overflow of what we've just been doing, which is singing and worshiping, this is a part of that. And we do want to just remind you and thank you for your generosity and your faithfulness in giving and honoring the Lord. Those of you are part of the Radiant Family and as you know, you can always give online. Most of us probably give online, but there are several and a lot of people that actually love to give when they come to church. And so we do pass buckets for that. So we're gonna pray over it and receive the offering and then we're gonna jump right in at all of our locations so they're joining us right through this moment. So all of us together, wherever you're at, whether it's Portage Downtown or here, Radiant is one family in three rooms. And so I want us to pray in unity together this morning as we give to the Lord. This is not secondary, this is important. This is the overflow of God's generosity and his faithfulness to us. So Lord, we do bow our hearts and our heads in your presence this morning. And we say, Jesus, you are Lord of all and you are faithful and it is our joy to give back to you. It's our joy to honor you with the first fruits of our increase and to see our finances used to extend your fame and gifts in every giver in Jesus' name, amen. Well, this morning we find ourselves in a beautiful and a very sovereign special season as a church and I will say also a sovereign and a very special moment generationally and culturally. And what I wanna do this morning is I want to bring us as a church into alignment around what I believe God is doing in this particular hour where there are moments in history that you can look at where God broke into history and changed the trajectory in the course of an entire generation. That has happened many, many times and it's happened many times, not just here but in other places as well. I believe that we are in one of those seasons. I don't believe that it's something that just started this week. I believe it's something that has begun over the last several months and probably we will look back and say that on the other side of the COVID global pandemic, those things that could be shaken have been shaken like Hebrews chapter 12 talks about so that those things that remain which is the kingdom of God remain. And we're just now seeing the dust settle and God beginning to answer the prayers of a generation of, oh God, we've heard of your great fame and what you have done in other periods of time. Do it again in our day. And I believe we're just beginning to see that and so I have entitled what I wanna share this morning when God comes, when God comes. And if you brought your Bible, it's gonna take me a minute to get there but just to preempt it. Eventually I'm gonna make my way to Zechariah chapter 10 and in Zechariah chapter 10, which we'll get to in just a moment, I believe that God has given us a master key of how to respond in the hour in which we're in right now. So how do you respond when God comes? In Acts chapter two, and by the way last weekend, Pastor Toby Kavanaugh brought an incredible message on Koinonia and fellowship from Acts chapter two. It was so timely, it was so good. Jane and I were on vacation in Cancun, Mexico. I know you're all feeling sorry for me for us but we actually watched it live and just so it was really just beautiful. But Acts chapter two, verse 42, where he preached from is on the heels of the church responding to what God did in Acts chapter two, verse one. When it said that after an extended period of time, Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, then being with him for 40 days and then 10 days of prayer in the upper room waiting for God to move, God ultimately did move. He poured his spirit out on the church. There was an overflow that splashed out into the streets and into the community and people were asking, what does this mean? And Peter stood up and answered the question. He said, this is that, which was spoken by the prophet Joel. These that you're seeing are not drunk with wine, that's not what's happening. But this is what God promised he would do. He's done it and so most of Acts chapter two is Peter getting up and saying, this is what it is. This is how God is calling us to respond to it and here's what the ramifications of it are. And the rest of the book of Acts spins off of that. I find myself in a very similar moment to Peter in some ways, trying to give definition to what God is doing. And let me explain to you why. So there is a school in Wilmore, Kentucky called Asbury College. It's now called Asbury University. It's a small holiness college that was founded by a circuit riding evangelist. It's in the holiness Nazarene Methodist tradition. But yet it is a very unique spiritual location, I believe, because in its 100 years of history, it has been a bellwether for what God is about to do in the rest of the culture. Five times in 100 years, Asbury College has experienced an outpouring or a move of God or what you might call a revival. Five times. Significant outpouring of the Holy Spirit where services just went on for days and weeks and months where there was massive salvations, massive repentance, massive worship, but then also teams and missionaries and students that would go out and carry that into the nations and into the generation. And here's what's unique about it. All of five times, 1905, several different times throughout history, the most recent, 1970. Every time you see an outpouring that took place at Asbury College, there was within months a greater ripple effect that would jump up in multiple different places across North America and lead to generation shaking and nation defining revivals. In 1970, they had a student chapel that didn't end for eight days. It started, it never stopped students in repentance, students confessing sin, students worshiping God, then what began, they just couldn't shut it down. It went 24 hours, seven days a week for like a week, a week and a half. And then other schools came and sent their students to Asbury and then took it back and then it began to pop up in colleges. At about the same time, there were hippies on the west coast of California and Oregon that were radically encountering the Lord. And Asbury became like a match head into the powder keg of the G and it became the Jesus revolution or the Jesus people movement. And by the way, this next weekend, there's a movie that serendipitously is being released telling that story. It is no accident that that movie is coming out right now. Kelsey Grammer from Frasier is playing the role of Pastor Chuck Smith. And you'll see the story of how the Jesus revival swept across America. Much of what you and I know today about church is the result of that revival. Well, five different times in Asbury's history, when there was an outbreak that took place in the school, there would become a national revival. So a week and a half ago, a young man stood up in Asbury Hughes Auditorium, gave a message, called people to holiness, walked off the stage, and that service is still going on. A week and a half later. Last night, there were 10,000 people on that campus. They filled four, maybe five auditoriums in a local church. And they had a line that was three quarters of a mile long of people waiting to get into an overflow room. People from nations. Here's what I love that's beautiful about it. All these famous preachers and famous worship leaders all reached out when this began to happen and say, hey, we'll come lead, we'll come preach. And they said, no, the students got this. If you want to come, you can come. If you want to come, you can come, but you're not taking the platform. This is a nameless, faceless move of God. And what's now happening is it's spreading again, according to the pattern. It's actually surpassed what took place in 1970. It is now spreading to other colleges, Christian colleges and universities. It's happening in churches. And I believe that what we are experiencing right now, listen to me, I do not say this lightly. This is a holy moment. I feel like I'm standing before the burning bush and I want to take my shoes off and I want to give my full attention to what God is doing right now because I feel like the moment you and I are in is we are seeing the sprinkling of rain starting to hit the windshield of the church and up ahead I can see dark clouds and I know that the abundance of rain is about to be poured out on our generation. I don't say that lightly. I think we're seeing the beginnings of it. And I know that because coming into 2023, what year is it, 2023? This year's been the longest decade of my life. The beginning of 2023, we began to step into a season called Seek here as a church that we do every year. And on January 8th at Sunday morning, many of you were here. It takes a lot to shock me. I've seen just about everything. Jane and I have pastored and been in ministry for almost 30 years full time. And I've seen, I could probably take up a week long of services to tell you the things we've seen.  I was shocked on January 8th when we came into our Sunday morning service and the level of spiritual hunger that was present in this room. And in Portage as well as downtown that was then exemplified by Sunday night. Our services, the Lord had instructed us to do things differently this year. Instead of midweek services to do Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night services, we did those. And we had overflow standing only space of spiritually hungry people in this room and at Portage and altars full and altar calls responded to and kids impacted. I mean, I came into the sugar, I don't know what God is doing, but I'm grateful for it. And when Seek 21 was done, I kind of jokingly said two weeks ago, I said, Seek is over, welcome now to Seek 344. And I have joked about it, but I feel like that's kind of what we stepped into because some of our RSM students, our Radiant School of Ministry students, when Asbury broke out, by the way, when Asbury broke out, Jane and I had just gotten to Mexico and I was sitting in a lawn chair and my phone and my Twitter feed was blowing up with all of my friends around the country who are revivalist with me. We prayed for decades for God to move like this. I mean, we've invested our lives into this and so my feed is blowing up of all my friends going, did you hear about Asbury? Do you see them? Pictures and stories and testimonies. I had the worst case of spiritual FOMO that you can have. And my friends are like, we're going there right now. I'm like, I'm on vacation. I'm suffering for Jesus. But so I read several books on the Asbury revivals of the past, changed my message. I was supposed to preach a different series this morning. Jane and I were gonna do a marriage series for the next couple of weeks. I said, all bets are off. God is moving. And we got back earlier this week and the students that went down to Asbury who oftentimes lead our prayer services and our prayer sets went into our Thursday morning 8 a.m. prayer set this week. Just a flame and a fuel. We kind of sensed something might be happening that was not just because of Asbury, but it was the, when you take dry wood that's been seasoned and ready and then you add some fuel to that.  And so that prayer meeting on Thursday morning that started at 8 a.m. that was supposed to go till 9 a.m. Only ended this morning. And it only ended because we had to have church downtown. And for your information, it's gonna start back up again and we're gonna let it burn. We're just gonna let it go. I went up to, Jane and I went two nights ago just up, we hadn't been here so we came up to the prayer meeting because here's what's happening. Gen Z, all of our young adults and our students and kids all of a sudden are getting encountered by the Lord and they're leading the prayer room. So all of us old people and semi-old people are just standing back and we're not having to do anything. They've just been leading it. And we went up a couple of nights ago, stood in the back, it was beautiful. Just watching a packed room, 200 plus at 10 o'clock at night, 200 plus people praying and worshiping and prayer meetings. I went up last night thinking, I need to prepare for this morning. And I went up thinking the prayer room would be a little lightly, maybe a little lighter at night. So I went up at around 8 p.m. And it was standing room only in the prayer room and a 13 year old girl, Rosie Dorlag was leading for about an hour and a half worship and prophesying over the room. It was the most incredible thing I've ever experienced. There were prayer meetings going on in the front, prayer meetings within prayer meetings. In the hallway there was prayer meetings. I tried to go to the bathroom. There was a prayer meeting in the bathroom, which is a little awkward. There was a prayer meeting in a room that I thought was a green room. I went outside to go to my car. There was a prayer room meeting in the lobby. People praying for one another, people getting saved, people getting delivered. And I'm like, God, what are you doing? I mean, it's incredible. And we had to make an audible word. It's like, how are we gonna respond to this? And so just so you know, here's, I came back and I think a lot of people were like, what does Pastor Lee say about this? This is a move of God. And it's not localized here. We are just one of the geysers that have been boiling subterraneanally across this generation. And it's gonna happen in hundreds and thousands of places. And it's only, this isn't our brand. This isn't our name. This isn't even our way. This is all eyes on Jesus. And when he shows up, we don't wanna get in the way. And so people have asked me, what do you think? It's, this is what Jonathan Edwards, who is the great first awakening revivalist pastor and probably the greatest theologian of the American church. This is what he said, revival is an extraordinary and unusual season of God visiting his people. And that's what we are in. That's what Asbury's in on a much greater capacity. It's now broken out in 10 other colleges. Lee University, it's a Baptist university. I can't remember the name of it, North Central University. But last I heard there's 10 major universities that this has impacted right now. And scores of churches. And I guarantee you this Sunday morning, this is happening in churches all across America. And it's just the beginning. It's just the beginning. So it is God. Here's how we respond to, I want to do what Peter did, which is this is that, here's how we respond and what's God requiring of us. So this is that, how do we respond? Well, real practically, here's two things that we're going to do. Number one is when I got home and I prayed and I asked the Lord, Lord, how do we respond to this? I don't want to miss it, but I don't want to manufacture it. The Lord said, I gave you the template during seek. And so I went back and the Lord spoke to me about coming in to seek this year to do prayer meetings and to do Sunday night move of the spirit services, revival night services we called them. And I said, that's it. So here's what we're going to do. We don't know how long this is going to go. Could be a couple of days, a week, two weeks. We don't know, but as long as God is pouring His rain out here, we're going to host it. And so that means tonight at 6 p.m., we're having a revival night service. Come if you're hungry. We don't have a structure for it. We're going to worship. We're going to pray. We're going to prophesy. I'm going to exhort a little bit and probably pull some testimonies up, but most importantly, He is going to be here.  So you're going to want to be here. We're going to do it this Sunday night and we're going to gauge it. It's like, well, do we do it next Sunday night? We don't know. We're just saying yes and amen to what God's doing. So tonight, the first thing that we're going to do is built off of this morning. My goal for this morning is to define what's going on, share with us how we're going to respond. And then in a moment, I'm going to tell you how personally, I believe God wants each of us to respond. So this morning is clearing out some junk and giving parameters so that we can go strong tonight. Listen, you have nothing else that matters more than being right in the smack eye of a storm of God's visitation. So be here and bring people, it's going to be packed, but that's okay. We like that or some of us like that. Second thing that we're going to do is when our prayer meetings start back up, we're just going to let them go 24-7 until. Now, God never called us to start 24-7 days a week, 24 hours a day, house of prayer. That's IHOP. God told us morning, noon, and night. But when he's here, we got to maximize it. And God's moving and so we're just going to host it and we're just going to welcome it. That might go, we don't know, might go a couple of days, might go this week, might go on into the next week. We just don't know. We're just going to respond to it, what's God doing? And we're going to respond to that. Our promise to you is we're going to be gauging what the Lord is doing. We want nothing more and nothing less than God wants. Because God, whenever he comes, he comes with an agenda. And we want to say yes and amen to his agenda. But before, in just a moment, I'm going to call a young lady who is one of our RSM students and also went to Asbury. I want her to share her experience with you real quick. But before that, I want to read to you something that is very precious to me. In 2006, before we were in this room, when we were in the Richland campus down at the other end of this particular building, before we had multiple locations, when we were just a couple of hundred people, we had a man come to our church and he's pretty well known now. His name is Lance Wall now. He's a prophet. But he came here on a Wednesday night and he gave us a prophetic word and a promise over this church that we and I in particular have held onto as a North Star prophetic promise that this is something that we are building towards and contending for. And we were talking about it this morning and Jane told me, she says, Lee, you need to read that whole word. I pulled bits and pieces of it out at different times. But she's like, you need to read this whole word. I want to read this whole word to you because I believe we, a radiant listen to me, I believe we're in this. This was delivered in January 18th, 2006. And this is the first time that I would publicly say, I believe we have just stepped into this. So let me read it to you. This is a house that has been set apart and designated to be a city on a hill so that others can see and observe the faithfulness of God through you. This is a house of miraculous provision where God says that you will move beyond the limitations of the population of the resources of your own congregation that God will give you access to whatever you need to cause the dream that is in your heart to be manifest in order that dreamers could be inspired and come from the North, the South, the East and the West because there are young people whose minds are being shaped and contested for and intended for and even wrestled over in schools, colleges and universities. And in this area, you will have a covering that will cover the intellectual, emotional and spiritual cultivation of a whole generation and of young people who will come here to experience a fresh move of God, a fresh visitation. Do not be afraid to stand in line and look foolish. Don't be afraid to hunger so much that you don't have a vehicle, but you're in line and waiting and nonetheless to try to get fed. The Lord says, if you hunger and thirst after that which does not exist, I will give you what everyone else wants but doesn't have, which is a place where a portal of heaven will be opening and God's power will be present, conspicuously and consistently on the earth. This place is set apart to be a tabernacle of David, a place that where day and night, day and night youth will come in and go out, youth will come in and go out. This will become like it will be, what have you done to my church? They're wrecking my church. But God says, let the church be wrecked if it builds my kingdom. We're so addicted to our own expectations to what things are gonna look like. What if God shows up and has something bigger than what you've got? What happens if God has plans that are bigger than the plans you've got? What happens if God has a vision that is so much bigger than the vision that you've got? That it's like everything else he's ever done. You're aiming for one thing and God's got bigger plans. Build a house that will take the territory. Build a house that will touch the government. Build a house that will speak to professors and teachers. Build a house that will have musical excellence and entertainment and value. Build a house that will restore families so that you will be a pastor to the city and not just a congregation. And he will give you businessmen and businesswomen who will say, this is a different kind of enterprise than I thought in Jesus' mighty name. And over the last couple of days, going into the prayer room and seeing Gen Z and millennials filling a prayer room in the center of our city, pressing into the presence of God. It was like, that's what Jesus saw. That's what he saw. That's what he intended. And if you would have told me in 2006 that what actually happened, it was hard to even believe how that would happen. But God's the God who's able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can ever ask or imagine. Amen. I wanna invite Claire Joffrey. Claire, where are you at? Is she here? Where are you at? Come on up here, Claire. Everybody say hi to Claire. Jane and I know this young lady. She's a friend of our family. She came down here and has gone to the schools for her second year, but she went to Asbury. I want you to share your experience. Okay, Claire? My picture of revival looks different today than it did a week ago. Flashback to this past Monday night, our class pulled out of Radiance Parking Lot and drove down to Asbury University where revival's breaking out. I had absolutely no idea what to expect. We walked through the doors of the chapel and I was mesmerized with how simple it was. There was no special speaker. There was no crazy worship production. There was nothing seemingly out of the ordinary. That is, except at 5.30 in the morning, on a random Tuesday, worship was rising up out of this building. Some were kneeling at the altar in repentance. Some were passionately praising at the fray. Some were quietly reading their Bibles. And some were bundled up with blankets sleeping on the floor. Regardless of the expression, every eye was fixed on the worthiness of Jesus. As the sun began to shine through the stained glass windows, the chapel quickly filled to max capacity. Worship, prayer, and repentance steadily continued. Again, nothing that you would assume a crowd would gather for. I couldn't believe my eyes at the hunger I was witnessing. I was packed into my rows surrounded by families, men and women, the young and the old, and every race and demographic. I truly felt like I was seeing the faintest glimpse of heaven. Nothing was manufactured, nothing was forced. Yet there was this undeniable heart cry rising from this little campus for less of me and more of Jesus. We came home and I felt a rustlessness in my spirit. I couldn't put language to it, but I knew there was a new depth of hunger growing in my heart that wasn't there simply two days earlier. I was driving to class Thursday morning when I saw a message from Pastor Toby in our school group chat that said, we may not even get to class this morning.  I entered the prayer room and once again it seemed oddly ordinary. Nothing crazy was breaking out, yet the hunger was palpable. You could feel it in the air and so we kept pressing in. Minutes over, the 8 a.m. prayer meeting ending time turned into hours and hours have turned into days. I pulled into my driveway from the prayer room last night and was struggling with what I was gonna say today that would give justice to what's happening both here and across the nation. As I was sitting there, I felt Holy Spirit gently say, what if I'm worth more than the motions in your emotions? If you're like me, pressing into this might be a wrestle. Hunger doesn't always come naturally, but what if Jesus is worth more than your business as usual? What if he's worth more than only pressing in deeper when you feel like it? Consider this an invitation. Do you believe he's worth it? So what do you do when God comes? Zechariah chapter 10 is a scripture that highlights how God instructed Israel to respond. And I think it's a master key for us. It says it's very simple. God says, ask rain from the Lord in the season of the latter rain. From the Lord who makes to storm clouds and he will give them showers of rain to everyone, the vegetation in the field.  Therefore the people wander like sheep. They are afflicted for the lack of a shepherd. God's commandment, God's exhortation to his people is ask the Lord for rain when you find yourself in a season of rain. If you've ever seen a parched riverbed that has the evidence that at one time water flowed down that river and in those banks and there's dead things kind of laying on the bottom of the riverbed and in the desert there will be seasons where it's dry for months on end and then there are just these quick seasons where rain comes and once again water begins to fill up these dry riverbeds and seeds that have lied dormant under the surface that nobody can see that have been considered dead, forgotten, all of a sudden begin to immediately bloom. That's what happens when rain comes in the season of rain. When it's evident, it's like this is the time of year that rain comes, God says when you find yourself in a spiritual season of rain, ask me for more. It's like when that rain hits that windshield and you're just like, I know it's coming. That's evidence. It's like, okay, this is a rainy season. This is spring. He says, when you begin to see spit on the windshield and what church, what we're seeing and what we're experiencing in the prayer room this year during seek on a generational scale what we're seeing is literally it's just spit on the windshield. But he says, when you see that you can either sit back and observe it, wipe it away and hope that it doesn't rain or you could say, God, send more rain. God, send more rain. Why would we ask God for more rain? Because rain in the Bible is a picture of times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. And when God's presence moves in a very manifest, present way in a life of the church it always has an overflow into culture and into the community and it has a transformative effect but it always starts within the church. When God can find a church, when God can find a people, when God can find a person who says, Lord, give me the rain of your presence. That reviving, that renewing, that outpouring of the Holy Spirit in us begins to activate the things that we thought were dead. It begins to cause a bloom and a vegetation and a shift and a change in the environment both of our lives and in the lives of people around us. That's why I'm passionate about revival. It's not about the emotionalism. If you talk to some of our key staff, it's like I'm probably the least emotional like worshipper when it comes. It's like a lot of people jump around. If you ever see me jump in church which there's been a few times, it's cause God is there. It's not because I'm not like, ooh, let's dance. I'm like, eh, how about I just raise my hands? And when God moves, I wanna be right in the middle of that. It's not about the emotionalism. It's not about the hype. It's because I believe that Jesus wants to reinvigorate. He wants to revive. He wants to awaken the hearts of the American church that has fallen asleep into a spiritual coma under the demonic spirit of this age and under the influence of the American dream which is nothing more than a spiritual nightmare of complacency. The devil wants to do nothing more than to turn the American church into a holy hospice where Christians go to die and are anesthetized a little bit at a time and never awaken to what they're missing.  Jesus isn't a pipe dream. He's not an archetype and he's not a historical figure. He's not a hippie and he's not a dashboard bobblehead. Jesus is the resurrected son of the living God with nail scars in his hands, seated on the throne, soon to return and he's worthy of our praise. He's worthy of our attention and he wants his church back. So he said, ask for rain. I'm the Lord who makes the storm clouds. I'm the one who can send the showers. Ask me for rain and that's what we're doing. We're asking them for rain. And the reason why we need rain so desperately is because we find ourselves in a spiritual famine. I love that God's marking generation Z. It's called Z because it's the end of the alphabet.  But what they don't recognize as suicide is that an all-time high is one of the leading causes of death among Gen Z. Anxiety and depression is skyrocketing. Gender confusion and sexual sin and immorality and experimentation with the demonic in the name of spirituality is at an all-time high and it's not necessarily their fault. It's because 40 years of seeing no fault divorce has destroyed the family in the church and leaders in the body of Christ with no backbone to take a stand on truth in the name of crowds has dominated the church and we've made it palatable. And we vaccinated a generation with a weakened form of the gospel so that if they ever come into contact with the real gospel, they will be immune to it. And God is like, I'm gonna sovereignly touch a generation. I'm gonna put my hand on them, I'm gonna heal them, I'm gonna deliver them, I'm gonna raise up evangelist, pastors, teachers, prophets. And I think we have just seen the sprinkling on the windshield. You watch, what's happening on Christian colleges is about to spill over onto secular colleges. What's happening in churches is gonna happen in streets. What started in prayer rooms is gonna migrate to living rooms. God's about to provoke moms and dads and grandparents back to first love devotion to Jesus and it's gonna be because of their kids.  And what it's created is people who wander around like sheep because they have no leaders. I'm gonna translate this for you. And as I translate it, here's what I absolutely know. I'm about to offend a lot of you. And I want you to just know I don't care. I care for you, but I stand before an audience of one, one judge, one Lord, and I am a shepherd and I will not allow a generation to wander like sheep with no leadership. Some things just have to be said. And so I'm gonna say some things about the household idols of our culture that have uttered absolute lies. We have household idols and the number one is self. We've learned to worship self, my pleasure at all costs. My truth, my body, my choice, my identity, my comfort, self. Our scene is that of pride. We've told God, God, I want you to be my savior, but I'm gonna be my Lord. And I want Jesus to be my fire insurance when I die, but I wanna live my life while I'm here.  Church, we are living in a day in an age where God has to break through in supernatural strength because there is such a spirit of delusion that has been poured out on this generation. If I imported somebody from 30 years ago, time warped them into America and I showed them the things that people are saying, believing and doing, they would think that this has to be science fiction. But it's because when there's an absence of the presence of God, and when we turn our back on Him as the foundation, be not shocked when we find other things to worship. Our self-sufficiency and our pride, all in the name of, I wanna experiment with sexual freedom. You know what the Bible calls that? Sexual immorality, it will keep you out of heaven. You're living with somebody that you're not married to and you're engaged in sex. The Bible says that you will not inherit the kingdom of God.  I don't care how many services you've sat in church. I don't care how many membership classes you are going to. You will not inherit the kingdom of God. Sexual immorality in the name of hooking up, call it homosexual behavior is right in that list.  And then when you challenge it, they say, well, it's my body, I can do what I want. Who are you to tell me you bigot? And we wave a flag and we celebrate the diversity of our sin. And then we hold companies and churches and individuals accountable who will not bow their knee before Nebuchadnezzar's statue. We've got cultural diviners who are confusing a generation about their identity, telling them you can be anything that you wanna do. You can call yourself anything that you wanna do. You can change your pronouns. You can change your name. You can change your sex. And we're now taking it into the most innocent of innocent children. And we're not just doing it from a distance. We're actually now activists are invading our teachers unions to groom our children. And teachers who love Jesus are being bounced out of the education system.  And we're a generation that worships Satan at the Grammys.  And we offer our children on the altar of convenience. We spend our time and our money staring at their altar, where we hear the voice of the diviners and the prophets and the soothsayers who are uttering nonsense. And then we're looking for what do I do with my life? And we've got the same diviners giving false dreams called the American dream. Live your life, be quiet, don't cause any problems. Just go with the flow. Get all the money, experience all the pleasure, have all the joy, be successful, be famous, get followers, take your selfie, live for yourself. And at the end of your life, you know what they're promising you? Joy, but you know what you end up with at the end of your life? Spiritual bankruptcy and a hardened heart because you've sold your birthright for a bowl of soup. And we have denominations who are splitting over what the Bible for us clearly said for 2000 years. And then when you challenge them on that, they say we're not even sure we believe the Bible anymore. How can we expect a generation to figure out what's truth when our spiritual leaders can't even figure out what's truth? How do we expect the next generation to understand faithfulness, love, commitment, chastity, when our parents don't even do it? Take our kids to drag shows and the devils laugh in the whole time because he's divided the church. He's divided us as a nation. He's got us fighting wars against each other in streets over the color of our skin and over the political party brand that we pin on our jerseys. And he's got us so fueled up with hatred towards one another.  I'm gonna tell you right now, listen, there's a place for politics and we need more Christians to get involved. And more Christians who run for school boards and more Christians to be mayors and city councilpersons and senators and state representatives. We need more Christians to get involved in teaching and choosing curriculum. We need all that, but none of that's gonna help if we don't have a move of God. If we don't have the spirit of God poured out on this nation, then what's gonna happen is we will be dominated by the spirit of this age. That's why God says, ask me for rain. Ask me for rain. Stop trying to figure it out. Stop trying to argue yourself out of it. Stop trying to duck. Stop trying to avoid. Ask me for rain. We've been dull of hearing, but more than just dull of hearing, we've been dull of caring. And I think God's looking at this mess. And it is a mess. God says, now. Now's the time. Ask me for rain. If you'll ask me, I'm gonna pour out a deluge on this generation. It's almost like God's waited. It's like let hell fashion its best attack against a generation. Is that it? Now watch me answer by fire.  Oh, that's the best you got. Oh, you've perverted. You've corrupted and you've caused the church go to sleep. I've always got a remnant. You watch what I do. I'm gonna pour my spirit out on a generation in one moment.  God's gonna answer with fire of His presence. And He's saying to the church, ask me for rain. Ask me for rain. Isaiah was a prophet during a difficult time. And if you're worried about clocks, I told him just turn it off today. So in Isaiah, Isaiah was a man who was called to be a prophet to Israel during one of the most prosperous times financially but one of the most spiritually bankrupted seasons. And in Isaiah chapter six, he's in Jerusalem and he's in the temple. He's in church. He's a prophet.  It says, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. And the train of his robe filled the temple. And above him stood the Seraphim, each having six wings and two he covered his face and with two he covered his feet and with two he flew. And one called to the other saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. And it says in the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who called. And the house was filled with smoke. And Isaiah said, woe is me. For I am lost. One translation says I'm undone. I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. My eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. And then one of the Seraphim flew to me having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs off of the altar.  And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And Isaiah's answer was, here am I, send me. Here am I, we receive that Lord. How do we respond when God comes? Like Isaiah, when our eyes get a higher view, a more elevated view of who God is, everything changes. He said he was high and lifted up. Isaiah knew the Lord. He'd seen the Lord. He'd experienced the Lord. But he said he's high, he's exalted. He's higher than I thought. He's more exalted than I thought. He's more glorious than I thought. He's more powerful than I thought. And his immediate reaction was, God, I am undone. I'm lost. And it took God, marking him, purifying him with the coal off of the altar. Isaiah responded in two ways with repentance and intercession. He said, forgive me and send me. Isaiah chapter 10 says, break up the fellow ground for it's time to seek the Lord. That he may come and reign righteousness upon you. You've plowed iniquity and you've reaped injustice and you've eaten the fruit of lies because you have trusted in your own words. You've trusted in yourself. He says break up the fellow ground. Repentance is our response to an elevated view of who God is. And I will tell you church right now, what I feel is an elevated view. I've never, I've never seen him this exalted. I've never seen him this beautiful, this real.  I'm not saying this like I've got it all together and look at you. No, I'm compelling you. You've been playing with God, God's been useful.  We've got household idols in our lives and it's time to seek the Lord. It's time to break up the fellow ground. So I'm not playing games anymore. I'm not playing games anymore. Musicians, would you guys come please? I'm not playing games. Our pet sins. I'm thankful for the grace of God, the grace of God that brings forgiveness in our lives. He said, your sins will be atoned for. Listen, I love that. That promise in Isaiah is so powerful. When he touches our lips, he says, your sins are atoned for and they're forgiven. But it comes on the other side of us acknowledging. Some of us have hidden stuff in our lives. We think we're getting away with. We think we can manage, but it's actually managing us. Some of it is like things that we wouldn't want anybody else to know about our lives because we'd be embarrassing others, other ways that that sin manifests in our life. It's just pride. It's just like, I don't need God. I've got this handled a little bit on Sunday and that's good enough. Listen, it's time to seek the Lord. This is a moment. Some of us who right now think, I'm good to go.  And he's gonna say, I never knew you. I never knew you. But God, we went to church. We paid our tithes. We said our prayers over days. He's like, I never knew you. And all of this that seems so real and all of that that seems so far away, it's gonna invert and this is gonna feel like the fairy tale and he's gonna be real. And there's not gonna be any arguing. There's not gonna be any bartering. There's not gonna be any justifying. It's gonna be like Isaiah. I'm an unclean man, unclean lips and I come from an unclean people. The answer for the degradation and the brokenness in this world is gonna be in a revived, bold, courageous Jesus elevating church. And it starts with us. You wanna see change happen in your family, it starts in you. You wanna see change happen in this city, it starts in us. We wanna hand off our kids in the next generation to move of God, then we gotta be the move of God. And it starts with us getting right with God. This morning I want everybody to stand with me all across this room. Please, I know sometimes people walk out at this time of the service, I don't want anybody moving. This is a holy moment with every head up and every eye open and everybody looking around. I'm not gonna spend 10 minutes giving definition to what I mean by when I say not right with God because the heart knows. But if you're here and you know you're not right with God, you know you're not right, you know, you know.   It's time for you to come to your senses and come back. Some of us have never, ever heard the gospel.  You've never heard that, but it's true.  He alone can do it, but you have to abandon everything else and say yes to him and say Jesus saved me.   This is the moment you're not right with God. You're saying God, I need you to save me, forgive me. Jesus come into my heart, save me, rescue me. If you not raise your hand yet, raise it right now. Some of you are wrestling in your rose right now. You know that you're not right with God.  No, you need to do it right now. This is the day of salvation.  Don't you do it.  Do that later. You'll never do it later. Your heart will be so hard. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now. Give it to Jesus. If you've not raised your hand right now, I just bind the lying spirit of this age in the name of Jesus. Holy spirit, get him. If you need to get right with Jesus, your hand is raised.  Come and make your way down to the front this morning. You come. You come and make an altar. You just come. And if you did not raise your hand and you know you need to, come. Come now. He will meet you. He will save you. He's beautiful. He's gracious. He's merciful. Come now. Come and find a place. Get right down on your knees. This is how we humble ourselves in the presence of the Lord. There are some that right now, there's a wrestle, I just get this picture. There's a wrestling match where you're counting the cost. I'm gonna tell you, listen, today is the turning point you've been asking God for. But you have to respond. You've got a hold of a pet thing. I'm gonna say this and it's gonna take immense courage, but I know it's the Lord. And there's more coming. There's at least one person you're involved in an extramarital affair. And you know it's wrong.   The choice is yours. If that's you, praise God. I don't, we don't know if you're coming for something else or you're coming for that. But if it's you, you need to come.  Those of you who came down this, Jesus, I want you to just reach out to him right now. Come on, everybody, join with these who are down here in the front. If you're down here in the front, just cry out to Jesus. Just say, Jesus, I'm lost. Save me. Forgive me. I believe in you, Jesus. And I repent of my sins. You tell him. I'm just telling you what to say. But you cry out to God, God, save me. Rescue me. I need you, God. I need you, God. I can't do it on my own. I surrender. You surrender to Jesus. I want you to vocalize that. I want you to verbalize that.  Jesus, I'm praying right now for those who responded that this is a defining moment, Lord, where you're saving, you're delivering. Lord, break every spiritual bondage right now in the name of Jesus, off of these people. Lord, awaken their hearts. Fill them with your spirit. Their bodies heal their hearts right now. Awake, awake, awake, awake. Jesus says they cry out to you and say, save me. Lord, save them. Let this be a defining moment in their lives, God.  This is not a condemnation at all. My heart is, I want us to be ready. It doesn't matter what it is, but I'm assuming you're a believer if you're out there, but you know you've got a pet sin, a household idol that you're holding on to and Jesus is calling you to repent and to surrender that. I want you to raise your hand right now.  It might, you might have a rebellious attitude. You might be apathetic spiritually. It might be pride. It might be pornography. It might be alcoholism. It might be an immoral relationship. It might be anything, but you know it's sin and you love God, but that thing's got a grip on you and maybe you don't even know how to get free from it, but I'm telling you, if you will reach out and surrender it today, he's going to set you free. There's going to be freedom. So if that's you, I want you to raise your hand and then we're going to pray.  God, right now in the name of Jesus, you said, reach out your hand and you healed. And so now, Father, I'm praying for those who are surrendering, surrendering our sins. God, would you purify us, set us free? You said you came to set the captives free. God, would you do that this morning? All across this room, all across Portage, all across downtown, Lord, set those who are responding to you, set them free, set them free, God. Center Isle, three quarters of the way back at Portage. God wants to set you free, respond to him in Jesus' name. Lord, I'm praying for freedom. And God, would you give us a revelation of you, go high and lift it up, high and lift it up. Come on, Jesus, we want to see you high and lift it up. Jesus, high and lift it up. We say yes, and we together say, send the rain. You said to ask you for rain in the season of rain, in the latter rain, and we're saying, God, send the rain, send the rain to this city. Send the rain to Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jesus. Send the rain to Michigan, send the rain to this nation. Wash away our sins, let the river of God flow through the heart of this nation one more time.  Lord, send the rain. We're asking you for rain. We're not gonna ask for a little. We're asking for a deluge. God, we're asking you for a downpour. Send the rain of your presence. God, we know you come where you're wanted. That we say we want you, Jesus. Just tell him, say we want you. We're gonna dismiss and we're gonna allow ministry. If you're a prayer partner, a RSM student, those who are down here in the front, we're just gonna invite you to come and pray for them. You're welcome to stay if you'd like, but we're gonna dismiss. Please pick up your kids and then reminder, tonight at six, we're gonna be back. Come back. Pardon? Here at Richland.  This is where we're gonna be at six o'clock. And let's come with holy expectation and bring your umbrella.