book of Acts chapter 2 if you’ll go
there and message title that God’s given
me this evening is everything can change
in a heartbeat everything can change in
a heartbeat praise God father thank you
God for your word
oh Jesus Christ I love you I thank you
for your mercy I thank you for your
grace I thank you God for the covering
of your blood I thank you for the
empowerment of your Holy Spirit I thank
you God that you have taken us and
raised us from death unto life thank you
God that you’ve given us as your people
a reason to live something to speak a
song to sing oh God Vision before us in
our eyes and Hope For Eternity thank you
God for destroying the power and the
penalty of sin on the cross Lord Jesus
Christ we are forever and eternally
grateful to you we thank you Lord
tonight that your word clearly tells us
that your mercy is from Everlasting to
Everlasting no matter how far away we
might get from you yet you are still
willing to be God you’re still willing
to show us incredible Mercy that’s just
who you are that’s what the cross was
all about Lord tonight we ask God for an
anointing I ask you God for attention
heaven to speak these words and Lord we
need an anointing to be able to hear
them otherwise they just become an
accumulation of knowledge but our lives
become a denial of the power of God that
you are so willing to give to anyone who
calls out to you
tonight Lord Jesus Christ help me to
convey the truth it’s on your heart
Thank You Lord For A Spiritual Awakening
this coming year thank you for Mercy a
mercy moment coming to this nation God
something you’ve spoken to my heart
about for over 40 years now oh Jesus you
you sh you spoke the word Revival to me
before I even knew what it meant God
thank you God thank you God thank you
for what you’re starting to do and we
give you the praise and the glory for
this oh God in Jesus name amen
Acts chapter 2 familiar portion of
scripture beginning at verse 1 to verse
4 and when the Pentecost had fully come
they were all with one Accord
and in one place
and suddenly there came a sound from
Heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind and
it filled the whole house where they
were sitting
then there appeared to them divided
tongues as a fire and one sat upon each
of them they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak with
other tongues as the spirit gave them
utterance everything can change in a
heartbeat
let’s look at the scene
in this room are people
who had been raised under oppression
they have been raised in a nation that’s
been occupied by a foreign power called
Rome
the religion was marginalized and as we
shared during the Christmas season they
were herded like cattle just for the
sole purpose of counting them and taxing
them they were told when to stand up
when to sit down what to believe what
not to believe where they could meet
where they could not meet all the rules
for the people of God were being
dictated by this dominant Godless
sneering power called Rome that had come
in and conquered the Holy Land
you know the thought must have been in
people’s hearts is there anything that
can ever make a difference and if
difference ever does come will it take a
generation will it take five years will
it take ten years will it take 15 years
I’m sure that many many thoughts were in
many many hearts
but they were told by Jesus Christ after
he had been raised from the dead to go
and gather in a certain place and wait
there until they were given power from
God to be the full expression of what
God had determined their lives to be on
the earth the Bible says they were with
one Accord and in one place
I think every person in that room made
the decision I want my life to count for
God and I want my life to count for good
I know that I can’t do this in My Own
Strength everyone in that room knew they
had failed most had run when they were
most needed by Christ himself
they found that their hearts even though
their lips were boasting their hearts
were filled with cowardice and they knew
they couldn’t do this on their own but
they had a promise from God that
something was going to be given to them
that was going to make a difference in
the earth that they could not do in
their own strength and they came to that
one place and that one place was an
upper room and that one place
realistically was a prayer meeting like
tonight that’s where they were they were
no different than you and I are today
we’re living in a world that is being
dominated by Darkness we’re living in a
day when evil is being called good and
good is being called evil we’re living
in a day when religion is sneered at and
people who believe in God are somehow
seen as as fallible somehow seen as
deficient in society Losers of this
present enlightened age that doesn’t
even know if it’s male female up down or
what it is they have no idea but somehow
we have become the ones with the problem
but they came to one place a place of
prayer which we are tonight and if
you’ve come into this prayer meeting
online or you’ve come into it physically
you’ve made a good choice tonight
because this is where God is this is
where the power of God is this is where
the change of God Comes This is where
everything’s begin to change and as we
see from the scripture in in a heartbeat
everything can change
they started to pray I don’t know what
their prayer was like but if I was there
I would have been praying like this God
I can’t do this without you
I I don’t know what to do I tried and I
failed I I tried to be different I can’t
I I tried to be brave and I’m a coward I
tried to speak truth and I ended up
lying I tried to confess your name and I
ended up cursing and saying I never knew
you I I just know what these people were
were feeling like because that’s what we
feel like many of us in this generation
we’re now living in but they came to one
place and that place was God you
promised to be our strength you promised
that we would be your people you
promised that through us your name would
be brought to glory and reputation one
more time in the earth so here we are
we’re not Mighty we’re not Noble we’re
not of any great report we don’t have 16
certificates on our wall we don’t have a
list of great feats that we’ve done in
your name
but nevertheless here we are
calling out to you to do what only you
can do through each of Our Lives
they decided to take a stand they
decided to pray even though resistance
against their Forward Motion was
significant it was a there was a blood
blast in society at this time they had
just crucified their Savior and their
lord and the people were in no mood for
their followers and they knew it there
was a significant resistance against any
Forward Motion in these people just as
there is for you and I today
they prayed knowing that Christ had
promised them power to turn the tide of
resistance against his offer of
salvation
we pray tonight believing that mountains
can still be moved
we pray believing that With God all
things are still possible
we pray to the one who can calm the
Storm still the waves in the wind who
could raise the Dead four days in the
Tomb we pray to The God Who has all
knowledge all power and through the
cross is clearly shown us he has all
Mercy for us even in our deficient
condition
they believed that even one Soul was
worth any cost that might come their way
don’t let’s not fool ourselves for a
second everyone in that Upper Room knew
that to fully come out this door and
profess Christ could be a death sentence
to them we today could lose our jobs we
today might be snickered at by a
sneering Society we today might be
canceled we today might find ourselves
on the the losing end of some social
system that wants to shut down the voice
of God
but when they knew that when they
stepped out of that upper room they
could be put to death
for following a savior
that the Society of their time was in no
mood to have resurrected in their midst
last Monday
we saw a type of this I suppose in our
generation of what this may have looked
like
10 million people
went to a football game and ended up in
a prayer meeting
Across the Nation
if you’re not aware of it there was a
football game on Monday and which
typically people from all over the
country they estimate 10 million people
were watching it on television when a 24
year old professional football player
called Demar Hamlin had a heart attack
and his heart stopped beating and he
fell and hit the the field
the Medics and people the medical people
that were there worked on him for nine
minutes before the ambulance could
arrive and take him off the field to a
local hospital and in those nine minutes
when they were trying to restart his
heart they were giving him CPR they were
shocking him with the the electric
paddle devices in those nine minutes
players suddenly formed a circle of both
teams arm and arm kneeled many of them
weeping and began to pray
in those nine minutes people poured out
of the stands by the hundreds if not the
thousands began to kneel in the field
and began to cry out to God for this one
man this one soul
in the subsequent minutes that followed
they began to gather outside the
hospitals in the parking lots they held
Candlelight vigils they prayed they
believed that God was able to raise this
young man back to life again
even an NFL team of three commentators
live on television seen by people all
over the country
they bowed and one of the commentators
the next pro football player himself
he said he just basically I don’t
remember his exact words but he said I’m
going to pray and if anybody here wants
to join me you’re welcome to do so and
the whole panel bowed their heads on
live television seen right across the
country and here are his words he said
God we come to you in these moments that
we don’t understand that are hard
because we believe that you’re God and
coming to you and prank you has impact
we’re sad we’re angry we want answers
but some things are unanswerable we just
want to pray truly come to you and pray
for strength for tomorrow for healing
for tomorrow for comfort for tomorrow to
be with his family and to give them
peace
we believe that prayer works if we
didn’t we wouldn’t ask this of you God I
believe in prayer we believe in prayer
we lift up Demar Hamlin’s name in your
name amen and for those who didn’t see
the clip it was amazing the the rest of
the team the same there was a young lady
in the center she she lifted her head
and said wow that was powerful
and the other Gentleman on the other
side says I respect you man for doing
that
it’s a type in my heart of what
Spiritual Awakening is going to look
like
in a heartbeat everything changed people
went to a football game
there they’ve had the tailgate parties
they they’ve painted themselves various
colors they they brought their cheering
mechanisms into the stadium they’re
they’re anticipating this this great
game but one heartbeat stops one heart
stops and it changes everything in a
moment of time
suddenly the the the the value of one
life comes into view and that’s what
Spiritual Awakening looks like
couldn’t they just have said hey there’s
dozens of other players get him off the
field we want the game to go on but
that’s not what happens in Spiritual
Awakening that’s not what happens in the
church when God comes when God comes
every soul is valuable in the sight of
God every every one Jesus Christ
personally died for and it starts to
become a reality in every heart
when God comes every barrier and every
hesitation collapses that’s what
happened that day years and years and
years and decades and people saying you
can’t pray even in college players would
be suspended if they went into the end
zone and just pointed heavenward to give
glory to God they could suffer a
suspension for it years and years of all
the Godless theories being propagated on
this Society all the rules being put
into place you can do this you can do
that you can stand here you can’t stand
there you can pray here you can’t pray
there you can do this you can’t do that
suddenly you’re gone all the barriers
are gone and people stream out onto the
field go to their knees and begin to
call out to God suddenly the NFL players
don’t care anymore and every player is
on his knees people are crying openly
saying God have mercy on this young man
spare his life that’s what Spiritual
Awakening looks like and it all came in
a heartbeat and as they began to pray oh
thank God his heart started to beat
again his heart had stopped folks and as
they began to pray and as the Medics
worked on him the combination faith
without works is dead you understand his
heart began to beat again yes he’s still
in ICU and he still has a ways to go but
he’s got life ahead of him and tonight I
want to pray at the end of this message
God raised this young man up and give
him a voice for righteousness make him a
testimony of the power of Prayer in this
generation
people started calling out to God and
they didn’t care about the cost there’s
nobody thinking about what’s the
commissioner going to say what’s this
law going to say what’s this atheistic
group going to say nobody cared anymore
everybody came out in the field and
everybody started crying out to God oh
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God Hallelujah
to the Lamb of God
in a heartbeat
everything changed
and that’s what Spiritual Awakening is
going to look like in our generation
as suddenly says and suddenly
there came a sound from Heaven not
gradually
not over a period of six to 16 to 60
days but suddenly
suddenly God heard the cry suddenly this
rushing Mighty Wind which was God
himself coming in the form of the Holy
Spirit into that room suddenly God said
I’ve heard your prayer I’ve heard your
cry and I’ve come down to deliver you
I’ve come down to empower you I’ve come
down to take you out of your smallness
and bring you into a place that you
could never go in your own strength
and it filled the whole house where they
were sitting not half of the house not
part of the house not back of the house
not front of the house the whole house
well if you were in the back you got
filled with the Holy Ghost if you were
in the front you got filled with the
Holy Ghost and I believe if you’re in
the lobby you got filled with the Holy
Ghost as well
there appeared to them divided tongues
as a fire and sat upon each of them they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
began to speak with other tongues as the
spirit gave them utterance now these
other tongues were known languages it
was a festive season in Jerusalem and
people had come from all over the known
world and were worshiping God according
to whatever their understanding of God
was at that time
these 120 people empowered by the spirit
of God came out of seclusion and walked
into the marketplace as it is and in
languages that were understandable to
people of different parts of the world
at that time they began to speak about
the wondrous works of God
the things that God is able to do and
the crowd stopped and looked and say how
is it possible that that these people
are speaking our languages because
they’re galileans they they don’t know
they were never taught the languages
that we know but yet by the power of God
they’re communicating this great works
of God to us clearly in our own tongues
in our own languages
and then they said what must we do to
have a relationship
with God like that
may God grant us A Moment Like This in
our nation today may God give us this a
season like this where you and I as the
people of God and those that are
listening online no matter your
condition right now would just start
crying out to God and say Lord God
Almighty
I want to live for you I want my life to
count
I want my words to have power when these
people stepped out of that room their
words had power they weren’t just an
argument about God they were actually
God was speaking through them
to the people all around
as the people cried out
on Monday afternoon
this young man’s heart started beating
again
I’m thinking of all the people in
America tonight who feel dead
all the people around the world that
maybe you’re listening online tonight
you just you feel dead you’ve lost heart
and I put it that way
we have so many prayer requests like we
heard tonight I I can’t take another
step forward
but as the people began to cry out his
heart started
to beat again
and this is our cry for you tonight
those that are online those that have
come in with your prayer requests those
that will be listening in a few days and
or tomorrow in the future
we cry out for you tonight
that God would raise you
God would give you hope again
that your heart would start to beat with
an understanding of God’s willingness to
forgive you
if you can just admit that you need
forgiveness
that in your heart there would be this
infusion of life to believe that
you could be forgiven that you could
have a new life that
you could be given a purpose on the
earth and an assurance that when you die
that heaven will be your home
we cry out for you tonight that
God would begin to give you a voice as
we ask for this young man that God would
give him a voice as well
thank you
Lord we ask for Demar tonight God that
you would raise him up out of intensive
care Lord and you would give him a voice
God for that people will listen actually
because he’d be known as the player who
died in the field was brought back to
life
God Almighty we ask Lord he’s already
got a heart for children he’s already
got a heart for good works Lord we we do
pray God that you would spare him and
raise him Lord and use him for your
glory and God if football is or isn’t
part of his future Lord it doesn’t
matter God you are you’re with him oh
God give him strength give him courage
give his family courage oh God we thank
you Lord for those who have poured into
his life and we pray my God that you
give them comfort as well at this time
Jesus Christ we ask Lord that
you would just take these words that
have been shared tonight and cause
others to say I’m going to get up too I
hear you crying out for me I’m going to
get up and I’m going to let my heart
begin to beat for God tonight I’m going
to I’m going to go with Christ I’m going
to trust him for the power I’m going to
step out of seclusion I’m going to go
into the public Marketplace and begin to
speak about what he has done for me
oh Jesus Christ Jesus Christ may this be
a season Lord we’re we see you in
Revival power like we never have even
believed we could In Our Lifetime
oh God all the years of repression in
Israel all the years Lord of somebody
else setting the rules came to an end on
the day of Pentecost
and even mighty Rome eventually Bend its
need to the lordship of Christ God we
thank you Lord
God we thank you here we are one more
time this is our Upper Room This is Our
Moment
this is the prayer meeting or one of the
many prayer meetings that you’re
establishing throughout the world where
seeds of God are just coming together we
we know what we are and we know who you
are and we’re crying out for you for
your mercy and for your power not for
ourselves lord it’s not about us lord
it’s about others it’s about people
laying dead heartless oh God in this
world that don’t have a hope without you
lord oh God we ask for mercy and Lord we
ask for the courage to leave the
bleachers and come out on the field
ourselves we ask for courage Lord to get
on our knees in the public and pray
unashamedly Lord we live on the sight of
Truth we have nothing to be ashamed of
God almighty God almighty God almighty
be God Almighty to us again
Jesus Christ Son of God Son of God Son
of God Son of God Empower your church
Empower your people o God
Empower each one of us so God to be more
than we could ever hope to be in
ourselves oh Jesus I want to thank you
God for just the picture Lord of all
these professional athletes all the
trainers all the sideline people all the
people who just carry the water buckets
everybody on their knees crying out to
you and you started this young man’s
heart beating again oh God we give you
glory we give you glory god do it a
million times a million over God in the
nation Lord as we begin to pray oh God
let people’s hearts beat for you again
Lord Jesus Christ bring healing into
families marriages homes our teenagers
of God oh Lord destroy the powers of
Darkness destroy the addictions and the
hopelessness of this generation God
prays up a people that will bring glory
to your name we ask God one more time
one more time in this nation of many of
others Lord to be a song of Glory Raised
To You O God a song of Glory before you
come and take us all home
oh Jesus Son of God we want to sing to
you like we never have before we want to
glorify you in a way we never could
without your Holy Spirit
Jesus we’re not ashamed to call you Lord
and you’re not ashamed to call us your
people
so come Holy Spirit Come Holy Spirit and
do the work now that only you can do
and we ask it in your precious name
amen