Today we welcome Doug Reed to Life Church...

... and we anticipate great teaching and the presence of Holy Spirit. Today is Pentecost Sunday and Doug will be preaching for the rally here at our church so be here and be praying for a Holy Spirit outpouring! Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (NKJV) “And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” We see the ‘what’ and the ‘why’. The ‘what’ that is needed is a demonstration of Holy Spirit and power and the ‘why’ is so men’s faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. If we will see a great sweeping revival with lives being totally transformed it will happen because we have sought God to the point that He begins to demonstrate Holy Spirit and power. We must hunger for such a move of Holy Spirit that we see the sick healed, the bound set free, and the lost being saved in mass. Amen! Right now there are people we love and people we call brothers and sisters in the Lord who need a miracle. They need a demonstration of God’s power not more empty words.

1. Unusual Miracles. Acts 19:11-12 (NKJV) “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.” Handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched Paul’s body brought healing. That’s unusual. People brought out sick people so that Peter’s shadow might fall on them. The implication was they were healed. Unusual. Are we ready for God to do some unusual things in His Church?

2. Evil spirits know. Acts 19:15 (NKJV) “And the evil spirit answered and said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?" Does hell know our name? You can say you want revival and you want unusual miracles to happen but are you going after God with all your heart, are you living in a constant state of repentance, and are you truly filled with Holy Spirit?

3. True repentance. We love what we consider revival. We love to be in exciting services where the worship has us dancing and people laying around like cord-wood. Modern day revivals seem to leave out what is, according to the Word of God, is a key ingredient. Unless there is a turning from our wicked ways, no lasting change will come. Psalm 85:6 (NKJV) ^“Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?”