How Revival Comes  - Paul Washer
Channel: Graceful Joyride
Date: 2023-02-20

Speaker: Paul Washer 

If we have to get perfect before Revival comes,

we don't need Revival. That that's one things.

I think it's very important

and if you think that you've got all your ducks in

the row.

So revival can now come,

I can assure you Revival will never come.

Also. There has never been

nor, will there ever be a great man of God?

There has only been weak sinful broken frail,

unbelieving, men of a great and merciful god.

I would like to appeal to Calvary Road.

I have in my life over 25 years,

I have I am not lying to say that. I have

seen a bit of victory.

I have seen changes in my life and Conformity to Christ.

But even as I sit here right now,

The only thing I can claim to be

as a recipient of Grace,

I have seen

God, do many, many things. And after he has done them,

it is almost put me in a fetal position.

Back in the hotel room

where I've cried out, Lord depart from me.

I am a sinful, man. Almost as though Lord

you should not have allowed

that work could have gone on through me.

And I think one thing we have to be very careful

here is Getting all your ducks in the row.

In order to bring Revival, is almost it.

Just almost contradicts itself.

I know the pastor kept saying

and I noticed something very interesting

more, the older men speak more

of this than the younger man

Brokenness.

Brokenness Brokenness.

The the most, the most comforting thing to me as a weak

frail man

and that is the grace of repentance.

The fact that a broken heart, God will not despise.

And I think

the one thing that keeps occurring in this is humility

Brokenness. And trusting that the Lord is the god.

He says he is the most difficult thing you're

ever going to have to do

as a Christian is to look in the mirror of

God's word and see all your moral flaws

and then believe that he loves you as

much as God says he does.

And in this is something that I want you to.

I wish sometimes that you could come home with me,

especially you young, man,

that you could come home with me for a week.

Most of you would be so disappointed.

I hope that you would not see a hypocrite.

I hope that you would not see a man

who pretends to be one thing

in front of man and another with his family.

But what you would see is just A needy person of Grace.

And so, don't be looking so much at all

these things that we're going to get, right?

And God's going to come,

but just look at the absolute helplessness.

One of the thing

is this, and I learned this from Charles lighters

many years ago

as I was praying

and then Bill MacLeod. When I met him a

year-and-a-half ago,

two years ago,

I saw the same thing in his life

and it's this

I heard a preacher say

one time that the Holy Spirit fell at Pentecost,

is those men were in the upper room.

I'm not so sure they were agonizing.

Why did they need to agonize Christ had promised them? The Holy Spirit.

Could it be?

They were joyfully

waiting on

a promise that they knew their Master would bring

because it had little to do with their personal piety

and everything to do with his faithfulness.

Brokeness does not mean that we

we fall into some form of self-mutilation

in order to bring about the work of God's Spirit,

God has given us Great and Mighty promises

if we would

just joyfully, pull herself away from the world

and joyfully wait upon Him,

trusting not in the fact that we got all our ducks in

a row.

But trusting in the fact, he is a merciful God

and he does not despise the broken hearted.

If it was not for Grace.

My best day would put me in Hell,

the best moment of my best day.

It's the power of God in breaching

depended upon piety.

I would never be able to mutter a word In a Pulpit.

It is all of Grace as Spergeon says, all of Grace.