COLERAINE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
SERMON NOTES FROM SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2026 – Mr Stephen
Cargin
My opening text will be from Mark chapter 10 verse 27. A
familiar passage and a familiar verse. The
title of what I want to share with you this morning is everything is possible
with God. Everything is possible with
God. How do I know this? Let's just read our opening verse. Mark 10 verse 27. I'll read it from the
amplified version. It says,
"Looking at them, Jesus said, with people, as far as it depends on them,
it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God."
The Complete Jewish Bible brings it out like this. “Yeshua looked at them and
said, "Humanly it is impossible, but not with God. With God everything is
possible."
I think we're in a very serious mess as a society. We're in
a very serious position, probably like none of us have ever experienced before.
And as I was preparing for the message, I was just doing some prayer and some
study and I came across one of my father's old books in his library which I
have been privileged to inherit and I found this quotation from Canon Duncan in
a book that was printed in 1910 and it's on the story of Oh God Our Help and
Ages Past the old hymn. And Canon Duncan writes this “Moses is generally
regarded as the author of the 19th psalm of which this hymn is a paraphrase. Moses
in trustful confidence felt this experience worketh hope and the sure and
certain hope that the God of the past would be the God of the future. the same
yesterday, today and forever. And he was their God.” What a great reminder. And
the first verse of that great hymn by Isaac Watts says this, "Oh God, our
help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy
blast and our eternal home." And what a what a timeless reminder that is.
I'll read it again. “O God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast and our eternal home.” And as the writer expands on this, he says
this, listen carefully to what he's saying here. “One of the most ancient
hieroglyphics represents God as an eye upon a scepter to denote that God sees
and rules all. And the most wonderful thing in history is the way in which God
has looked after his people. And he had made all things work together for their
good.” Pagan Rome might use her imperial power to prescribe Christian worship
and scatter the Christians. But Rome herself became for centuries the centre of
Christian influence and her armies as missionaries to spread the gospel
throughout the world. England in the Middle Ages might become the stronghold of
Popery and the bonfire for consuming the scriptures and the saints of God. But
listen to what he says here. This is printed in 1910. “But England Reformed has
become the storehouse of Christian truth, the training school for God's
missionaries and the printing press for the Bible to evangelize the world and
bring millions of people home to God.” Is
that the case today, friends? Is that is that the England of the United Kingdom
of today? He goes on to say this. “As the city of refuge was a place of
security for the poor refugee, so has our God been for those who served and
trust him trusted him. The great Armada might set sail to destroy our freedom
and worship, but the breath of God would scatter it as matchwood along the
seashore.” Two things I was reminded of as I read that. I read that with
sorrow. That's not the UK and the England that we are part of today. But that
Armada that sailed around the west coast and up around the north of Ireland and
down the east coast going down, God destroyed that Armada on these very coasts.
Some of that shipwreck is right off the causeway reefs there Many don't realize
what happened in that Armada as it was destroyed. The Spanish Armada was rented
by the king of Spain from Jewish merchants who owned those ships, who crewed
those ships and the soldiers were put on board. Many people don't realize this.
When those ships floundered off the coast of Ireland, many of the crew members
survived and came ashore. Many historians have researched the history of the
Jews who came to Ireland are able to say that those crew people came ashore and
there's photographs that they call them the dark Irish Melungeon Jews dotted
around the coasts of Ireland. They were the survivors of the Spanish Armada.
They came ashore here and they brought their families to live in Ireland. It's
a Jewish history that most people don't realize that we enjoy. But what of this
this country that we're part of, friends? Should we be concerned? I think we
should. The census, the last census that I got the figures from in 2021. Those
who identified as Christians in England and Wales, only 46.2% Christian.
England is no longer a Christian country. 37.2% had no religion. Of Scotland,
39% identified as Christian. In Northern Ireland, we were privileged. 79.7%
identified as Christian. We have a heritage, friends, that we cannot afford to
squander. The Republic event of Ireland identified 69.1% Catholic and other
Christians. But the story is worse, friends. Abortion figures in the United
Kingdom. In the last 10 years, we have averaged in England, Scotland, and Wales
215 to 2130,000 abortions annually, equating to between two to 2.3 million
abortions, surpassing the population of Northern Ireland. How does God feel
about that? Should we be surprised that we're in the mess we're in when we
murder those unborn, those with the destiny that God has ordained? In Northern
Ireland since 2020, when abortion became legal, we've aborted just over 11,000
babies, many of whom are aborted in our own hospital. and the Republic of
Ireland since abortion became law in 2019. Between 2019 and 24, over 50,000
babies were aborted in the Republic of Ireland. Violent crime rates continue to
grow across the UK, a third higher than a decade ago with 1,200 violent crimes
for 100,000 people. Public order offenses have tripled since 19 or since 2012. Domestic
abuse, police incidents and crimes. In 2024, there were 1.35 million alone. Anti-semitism,
which to me demonstrates the heart of a nation when we decide to hate and
attack God's chosen people. 2020 where there were 600 incidents. In 2023 that
grew to 4,296 These are only official
statistics provided by the Jewish agency. What does that tell us about the
heart of our nation? Church closures across the United Kingdom in the last 10
years. How many churches have closed in the UK in the last 10 years? It's
estimated between 2 to 3,500 churches have closed. There's headline news about
one of those churches been bought over by the Islamic Centre, a reformed
Presbyterian church. Should we be alarmed? Should we be concerned by this? Is
there a reason for this? in Wales. In the last decade, about 25% of historical
churches and chapels have closed. I think we're in a serious mess. The church
isn't disrepute. It's a disgrace. It's weak. It's selfish. It lacks unity. We
lack the power of prayer. It's sinful. It's dying. It's an apostasy. We abuse
people in the churches in this own country of ours. It's hard to find a prayer
meeting these days. The power of prayer is gone. I realize this is a hard
message this morning. This is what God has put on my heart. And I believe that
we don't wake up, folks, before it's too late. Perhaps if we believe what Jesus
said as he looked at the disciples and he said intently. Imagine that look that
Jesus looked at them and this is the story of the young ruler. Humanly
speaking, it's impossible. But with God, all things, everything is possible.
Folks, it is if we would only believe. Revivals have broke out across the world
when small groups of people sought God. And I'm going to look at some of those
this morning. You know, the church has become satisfied with its slumber, its
sleep. We've lost sight of the lost, the broken, the hurting, and the hungry. We
are no longer concerned for what breaks God's heart. I ask you a question.
When's the last time you saw a preacher in a pulpit trembling at God's word?
When's the last time you or I trembled at God's word? When we realize what we
have been given, what this word means, and the power of this word, but the
awesome responsibility that we have as God's people to fulfil what he's called
us to do. Age is no matter in this. My dad used to remind me, you never retire
in God's work. You just refire. Bible doesn't talk about retirement. Where's
the fear of God in the church today? We've lost sight of God. I believe we've
turned our back on his word, his ways, his presence. We've compromised. He's
called us to be holy people, to be godly people, to be set apart. Are we? I
believe that we need a fresh acquaintance of God. A fresh conviction of our
sins. We need to seek God. Let us look at what the psalmist said in Psalm 139. This
is the prayer the psalmist prayed. And I believe this is a prayer that we
should seek to be praying. He says this in verse 23, "Search me, oh God, and
know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me
that offends you and lead me along the path of everlasting life." Again,
the Complete Jewish Bible says this, "Examine me, God, and know my heart.
Test me and know my thoughts. See if there's in me any hurtful way and lead me
along the eternal way. Do you know in Scandinavian countries that word “search”
means ransack. They interpret that word as ransack. “Ransack me, oh God, and
know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me
that offends you and lead me along the path.” When you read it with that, it'll
ransack me. Allow the Lord to ransack us. You know, when you go into a house to
search it for something you've lost, you ransack it. You'll not leave anything
uncovered. Would we allow God to ransack us and uncover our thoughts and our
sins and those things that we have hidden? Would we? There's an old negro
spiritual that says this, "My not my brother nor my sister, but it's me,
oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer." I came across this quotation
from Charles Finny, one of the great old preachers who experienced revivals
"A revival of religion may be expected when Christians begin to confess
their sins to one another. At other times, they confess it in a general manner
as if they are only half as earnest. They may do it in eloquent language, but
it does not mean anything. But when there is an ingenious breaking down and a
pouring out of the heart and a confession of sin, the floodgates will soon
burst open and salvation will flow over the place.” Isn't that a powerful
reminder, folks? Can we learn about revival? I believe we can. I've been doing
some research and I've always had an interest in the revival and I'm blessed
with many books and so forth on the subject. I came across this the other day. The
biblical foundation of revival, is found in 2 Chronicles 7 and 14. And it says
this, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and
pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven
and forgive their sins. I'll heal their land." There's a pattern of
biblical revival, of spiritual revival that we find. When you look and research
revivals across the world. People humbled themselves. There was prayer with fervency. They sought
God's face and they turned from their wicked ways. The Moravian revival in 1727
took place in a place called Herrnhut in Germany. The Moravians had been
persecuted for centuries and they moved to Germany to get refuge. They found a
guy by the name of Count Zinzendorf who was a man of God of his time at the
time. And he was actively wanting to use his wealth and his position to be a
blessing. And he gave these Moravians a safe place to build their homes. And
they set up a community in this part of Germany. And this man blessed them. He
was a man of God. But the town or the area they set up and they built their own
houses and so forth was called Herrnhut. But there was a lot of division
started in in Herrnhut and the churches and communities got into disunity and
they fell out with each other and there was gossip and there was the division
and the Moravians were really concerned by this. The pastor of the local church
was called Pastor Joan Andreas Roth put in place by this count. And the Moravians
called them both together and they called it the beast of the apocalypse, the
false prophet because of how the people were behaving. On the 12th of May 1727,
Zinzendorf addressed the congregation at Herrnhut and spoke for three hours on
the blessedness of Christian unity. Let's look at our own town for an example.
Coleraine's our hometown. Is there unity in the churches in this town? Is there
unity in the body in this town? No, there's not. Being honest about it. There
are so many fractions and broken churches and so forth. And we learn from this,
folks. Conviction took the town that summer and everyone began seeking God for
revival. As men, women, and children confessed their sin to one another, prayed
together, and found new strength and seeking God. Their hearts were knit
together, afresh, and the community experienced a golden summer. That wasn't
enough, however. Listen to this. The people of Herrnhut wanted power to take
the message of Christ to the ends of the earth. What a vision from one town to
take the message to the ends of the earth. This became a constant subject of
prayer to the point that on the 5th of August 1727, Zinzendorf and 14 other
Moravian brethren spent an entire night seeking and interceding for God's power
to fall on their community. On the 10th of August, Pastor Roth was so overcome
with the presence of the Holy Spirit in an afternoon service in Herrnhut that
he threw himself to the ground to repent before God. The meeting continued
through the night as others did likewise, crying out to God and weeping and
repentance until around midnight when the congregation burst forth in praise, worship,
and singing. Zinzendorf and Roth then felt they could have a joint meeting
between Benzondorf and Herrnhut that Wednesday night, a neighboring town on August
the 13th to share about what was God was doing in Herrnhut. The count visited
every home in the village urging the inhabitants to attend. Imagine the count
doing this. Could you imagine some of our royal family doing that? Once the
meeting began, the Holy Spirit took over the congregation again fell into the
repentance for their sins. And at one point, Count Zinzendorf took the podium to
voice a remorseful confession on behalf of the entire community for the
division that had they had seen in the previous years and to call for a
rededication to the principles upon which the town had been founded. Once that
had been voiced, the Holy Spirit fell on the congregation. Count Zinzendorf
later described it as a day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It was its
Pentecost. The congregation began praying for groups still under persecution, for
unity in their community and for the body of Christ the world over and to
increasingly intercede that the word of God would spread mightily around the
world. Listen to this. And just two weeks later, on the 27th of August, 24 men,
and 24 women covenanted together to begin praying around the clock. They agreed
that one man and one woman in different places would pray in 24 one-hour shifts
that would fill each hour of the day, every day of the week, and every day of
the prayer. Now, listen to this. They would pray for whatever God put on their
hearts, but all mostly for revival and the spreading of the gospel of Jesus
Christ to every corner of the earth. It was a prayer vigil that would last for
the next 100 years and would be the womb for which revival was born. Could you
imagine if we would do this? Could you imagine? There are other great examples
that I'll share with you some of those examples because we can learn from this.
The Welsh revival, Evan Roberts, the coal miner, consumed by prayer. Evan
Roberts at the age of 26, a coal miner became consumed by prayer. hunger for
God and his testimony revealed the intensity of spiritual pursuit. And he said
this, "I was led to pray for the Holy Spirit to descend. The spirit
answered and filled me." Roberts would awake at 1:00 a.m. each morning
praying for four hours until dawn, interceding for wheels and crying out for
revival. When revival came, Roberts preached a simple four-point message.
Confess all the known sins. Remove anything doubtful in your life. Be utterly
obedient to the Holy Spirit and publicly confess Christ as Savior. This
straightforward call to holiness and obedience became the framework of one of
the most of history's most powerful revival with over a 100,000 conversions in
Wales. It's that powerful. The Korean revival demonstrates the power of
transparent repentance and confession before God. A church elder confessed to
stealing $100 before 1,500 people. His confession broke the ice and others
began confessing their sins. What followed was described as agonized private
prayer throughout the congregation. The intensity of conviction and repentance
created an atmosphere where God's presence was undeniable and the revival transformed
Korean Christianity and established prayer as a cornerstone in the Korean
church. The Hebrides revival that many of us will be familiar with. On the
island of Lewis, two sisters Peggy and Christine Smith prayed fervently in
their cottage for revival. They invited the Reverend Duncan Campbell to come. Widespread
conviction fell throughout that island. Duncan Campbell arrived on the dock to
be met by one of the church ministers and two of his elders. The
elders approached Duncan Campbell and said this,
"Reverend Campbell with all due respect, how well do you know your
God?" These people had been seeking God for repentance, for revival, but
in repentance, they had a such a fear of God. When they met Reverend Campbell, that's
the first question he was asked. And those of you who have heard this story
will know that during a prayer meeting in a barn, one young man who hadn't been
saved that long, but it says that he was a young man who was filled with the
spirit of God. And he reminded God of Isaiah 44 verse 3. And he said this,
"Oh God, you made a promise to pour water upon him that is thirsty and
floods upon the dry ground. And Lord, it's not happening. Lord, I know that I
am thirsty." Shortly after he prayed that prayer, the Holy Spirit fell and
the doors and the windows of that little barn and that that farmhouse, people
came knocking, seeking God. Because a group of Christians came together and
prayed and sought God and repented of their sins. The Presbytery at that time
had written to all the churches calling them to a time of repentance and the
Holy Spirit fell in revival in Lewis. As one of the stories that Duncan
Campbell told were hundreds in Lewis who were seeking God. Where did they go
to? They went to the police station. Why did they go to the police station? Because
it said that the constable was a man who feared God. He was a God-fearing man. They
went to the police station to find God in a constable who was said to be a God-fearing
man. Isn't that incredible folks? The Shandong revival in the 1930s in China. In
China's Shandong province, prayer groups had been seeking revival since 1925. Her
persistent intercession finally broke through. Chinese churches united under
the prayer. Listen to this. “Lord, revive the church, beginning with me.” Revival
meetings continued for four days and nights of prayer and confession. And the
spirit of repentance and brokenness was profound. An observer described the
prayer culture that emerged. The spirit of prayer was outstanding. People loved
to pray. Prayer was meetings lasted two to three hours. Fervent, sometimes
tearful, always as if talking to the Father with confidence that he was
listening. The revival stained the Chinese church through the coming decades of
persecution and demonstrated that prayer creates an unshakable foundation
across centuries of revival, continents, cultures, genuine revival of these
characteristics. Persistent fervent prayer often for months or years before breakthrough.
deep humility and brokenness before God. Public confession of sin and genuine
repentance, unity among believers across denominational lines, and complete
dependence on the Holy Spirit rather than human programs. That prayer from the
Shangdong revival challenged me. Lord, revive thy church beginning with me.
Would we dare to pray that? Lord revive thy church beginning with me?” Murray
that well-known speaker said this. Believers must be brought into conviction of
the shame and evil of their carnal state. God brings believers into what may be
called a second conviction. Conviction of a need of deliverance from the power
of sin.” Duncan Campbell himself speaking on the topic of why no revival said
this. “Sin in the church is a main and the only hindrance for revival and
comments. It's no good praying for revival unless we're rightly related to God.
We must ask ourselves is my heart pure and my hands clean.” Leonard Ravenhill
wrote a number of great books on revival. One called Why revival tarries said
this. “We appease sin but not oppose it.” James 5 verse 16 says this. “Confess
to one another, therefore, your faults, your slips, your false steps, your
offenses, your sins, and pray also for one another that you may be healed and
restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart. Listen, the earnest, heartfelt,
continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available, dynamic
in its working. Confession and prayer of the earnest man makes tremendous power
available, dynamic in its working.” Jeremiah said this in Jeremiah 29:13, "Then
you will seek me, inquire for and require me as a vital necessity, and find me
when you search me with all your heart.” Would we be willing to seek and search
God in these days with all our heart for this town, for this province, for this
nation, for this island of ours? Would we folks? Matthew 5 verse 6 in the
complete Jewish Bible says this. “How blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness for they will be filled.” That's a promise folks. Would we
hunger and thirst for righteousness and achieve this promise and be filled? Another
old book that I found in my father's library written by J. Edwin Orr who quite
often Billy Graham would have quoted. He travelled around the world looking at
different revivals to gain a knowledge and he captured those in some of his
writings and this is what he said. “The Holy Spirit is the author of revival
both individual and collective. It is his ministry that brings a believer to a
sense of need. That brings a church to repentance. That brings a whole
community to hunger of heart. And yet the Holy Spirit is comparatively speaking
the unknown quantity and personality of the Godhead.” According to Christ
himself, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to convince the world of sin and
righteousness and of judgment. Many believers mistakenly rely upon their
conscience alone rather than upon the conscience enlightened by the word of God
and quickened by the spirit of God. The work of the Holy Spirit therefore is to
show the sinner how far he has fallen short to show him also the standard of righteousness
in Christ and to warn him of inevitable judgment. It is noteworthy that the
Holy Spirit performs a parallel work in the life of the Christian, convincing
him of carnality which is falling short, spurring him to practical
sanctification, which is approaching the righteousness of Christ for everyday
living and warning him of the judgment seat of Christ where he may lose his
rewards. Is that not sobering? We will come to the judgment seat of Christ. We
will give an account and we can lose our rewards. Don't believe me that read
what God's word says.
J Edwin Orr goes on to say this. “It is the Holy Spirit that
the Christian must look if he is ever to find the place of revival for his own
soul. Spiritual blessing for the believer is depending upon the confession of
sins and the restitution of wrongs. But confession in turn is dependent upon
conviction. And with conviction comes the searching of the heart by the Holy
Spirit. That book's titled Full Surrender. We need a move of the Holy Spirit. What
happened in Kells down the road in 1859? A group of believers prayed, sought
God on behalf of this province of ours and the Holy Spirit fell. People were
convicted of sin in the town hall here around the centre of Coleraine. Some of
you might know that in Ballyhome Road 2 to 3,000 people gathered a night for
weeks and an old evangelist was in holiday in Portrush and God used that man preached
for weeks to two to 3,000 people on the Ballyhome road. At the same time,
people were convicted of sin in this town center. Why? Because the Holy Spirit
came in response to men and women who were faithful to pray. John 7:38-39 says
this, "He who believes in me, who cleaves to and trusts and relies on me. As
the scriptures has said, from his innermost being shall flow continuously
springs of living water." Do you realize that? “He who believes in me, who
cleaves to and trusts and relies on me, as the scriptures said, from his innermost
being shall flow continuously springs of living water.” Is that our experience?
Is that what we experience? Those continuous springs of flow of living water
that we've been promised when people see us and meet us, they see the light of
Jesus, the light of the Lord in our lives. And Jesus said in verse 39,
"But he was speaking here of the Spirit whom those who believed, trusted,
had faith in him afterward to receive. For the Holy Spirit had not been given
because Christ Jesus was not yet glorified, raised to glory.” We need a move of
the Holy Spirit." I was challenged as I was reading about Pentecost, as I
was preparing this message. Acts 1 verses 4 and 5 says this “once when he was
eating with them he commanded them ‘do not leave Jerusalem until the Father
sends you the gift he promised. As I told you before, John baptized with water
but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” I hadn't
seen this before. You see, he told them to wait. They weren't to leave
Jerusalem. These were the believers that he was speaking to. Wait for the Holy
Spirit. Wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Complete Jewish Bible
brings it in a lovely translation here. It says “At one of those these
gatherings he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father
promised which you heard about from me for Yeshua. But in a few days you will
be immersed in the ruach hakadesh, the Holy Spirit.” Would we wait for the Holy
Spirit? Would we wait to be filled with the spirit, for the spirit to move?
Luke 24 verse 49 “Now, I'm sending forth upon you what my Father promised. So
stay here in the city until you've been equipped with power from above.”
Another call to the church to stay and wait for the spirit. “Now I am sending
forth upon you my what my Father promised. So stay here in the city until
you've been equipped with the power from above. I look around the churches in
this land of ours. Where is the Holy Spirit? Where is the power of the Holy
Spirit that we have seen and I've shared with you from these revivals and moves
of God throughout centuries. There's no power of the Holy Spirit. Why? Because we
have tried to control the Holy Spirit. The old song, “we've done it our way.” We
think we know better than the Holy Spirit. You know, when you look at churches
in Africa there are moves of the Holy Spirit, they don't come to church for an
hour. They come to church and they spend all day in church. Why? Because the
Holy Spirit moves. Listen to what was happening in those revivals. They were
praying for hours and days and weeks. That church, that prayer meet went on for
a hundred years. They say that of St. Patrick. St. Patrick raised up disciples
and it went on for centuries where they prayed. Friends, are we challenged by
this message today? I ask you, what has the Holy Spirit been saying to us
today? What action do we need to take as a body of believers? If the Holy
Spirit's been speaking to us, should we
neglect that call? Should we neglect that challenge? We will meet him face to
face. I've been really challenged recently about my period of time in life. My
parents have both passed on. My cousin and myself are the same age and we were
chatting in our house a couple of weeks ago and he said, "You know, we are
our parents' generation now." We will meet the Lord face to face. I
believe sooner than most people probably realize, but there is a window of opportunity
for the believers, God's people. We have a such an inheritance, a heritage in
Northern Ireland. What a privilege. 79% of people say they're Christians. What
that means is another story. But we have a great heritage here. And if we would
realize who we are in Christ, that out of our innermost being will flow streams
of living water. And he wants, the Holy Spirit, I believe, wants to move. And
those who are available and those who are passionate and will see and hunger
for the lost and to see God move in this land, he will. He has. History has
shown it. His word, his promises are the same yesterday and today. I remind us
of that opening verse that I said at the beginning - Mark 10 verse 27. Jesus
looked at them intently. Look at that. Imagine that. Jesus looked at them
intently. He looked at them intently. This is one of those moments where the
Holy Spirit is looking at us this morning intently. And he says this, “humanly
speaking, it's impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God. Everything
is possible with God. What do we want to see God doing in this nation? I know I
want to see God moving in in in my family, saving my family and my
grandchildren. But I want my life to count. the days that God has left that I
have left. I don't want to miss the opportunity. I want to make meet him face
to face and I want him to hear him said, "Stephen, you've been a good and
faithful servant." Can we say that? Will he say that to us? Or will he
take all our rewards away from us because we've neglected what we could have
done? Age is no barrier. You might say to me, "I'm too old." No, none
of us are too old. We can pray. The greatest weapon that we have is prayer. Would
we be prepared as I finish like the Shandong revival in China to pray that
prayer, “Lord, revive thy church beginning with me?” Revival in Northern
Ireland and Coleraine starts with us, with you and me. Why? Because we're
called for such a time as this. We were purposed to live and dwell for such a
time as this. And the Holy Spirit lives and dwells within us, folks. and he
wants to move and reign and have his way. Revival starts with us. When we would
search ourselves, confess our sins, seek God, turn from our wicked ways, humble
ourselves, and pray. What's he saying? I'll heal your land. I believe God wants
to heal this land. A land that's saturated in blood and hatred for centuries. But
he wants to heal this land. I believe that this land could be a beacon
throughout the world. This church, I believe, can be a beacon in this n in this
town and in this province. Why? Because we would seek God as he calls us to do.
Things can happen. Why? Humanly speaking, it's impossible. Not with God,
everything is possible. Would we come to the God of impossibilities today? Can
I challenge you? Would you be like those believers in China in 1930 and their
prayer was, "Lord, revive thy church beginning with me. Revive thy church
beginning with me." I will close with that young man that stood in Lewis and
reminded God of his promise. God is a promise keeping God. If he didn't, what
hope are we for our salvation? But he is. He doesn't change. And this was the
promise that he prayed. “For I will pour out water on him who is thirsty. And
streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your offspring and my
blessings on your descendants. And they will spring up among the grass like
willows by the streams of water. This is a promise of God. This is a promise,
an eternal promise for us. “I will pour my out water on him who is thirsty.”
Who's thirsty?
