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Full Program: The Jesus Revolution, Part 9

by Osama Hamim

HUMOR MOMENT: Marine Defeated by Box of Cereal

We are so incredibly grateful for our men and women servicemembers who lay down their lives to fight for and defend our nation. They selflessly stand in the gap against our nation’s enemies. But what about a box of cereal? In this humorous moment, Greg reminds Steve of the humbling moment of how he began one fateful morning, like every other morning, preparing breakfast and eating his breakfast at his kitchen table. As Steve recounts it, he recalls making his bowl of cereal and setting it on his high-top kitchen table, and attempting to sit in a high top barstool type chair. “I just went to sit down, and I twerked just the wrong way… and AHHH UHHHH…I like pulled a muscle or something in my lower back”, and that was it. He was down for the count. Who would have thought? Attempting to enjoy a bowl a cereal, and now he’s on the floor, in the fetal position, in excruciating pain. What has the training of our military forces come to? Is this really America’s finest fighting force! The good news though, he had eggs for breakfast this morning, and he got rid of the high-top barstool chairs.

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HUMOR MOMENT: The Dangers of Changing Your Eye Contact While Driving

Have you ever had the luxury of enjoying a casual cruise in a travel destination part of the world? Every part of the cruise, from the food to the sights and entertainment is top notch. The interesting part of the living quarters on the cruise is that every time you leave your room someone is there to tidy up your room and place another interestingly folded towel in the shape of some random animal. This random folded and contorted towel-animal is exactly what Greg felt like when he was driving down the road and one of his contacts suddenly decided to contort itself into a folded towel-animal while it was still IN HIS EYE. Not exactly the best of scenarios to find yourself in while driving. Even after pulling off on the side of the side of the road to adjust his contact, he kept having problems with his contact lens! What’s the point of contact lenses anyways? Greg decides to simply take it out of his eye and flick it to the floor. NOW HE CAN’T SEE OUT OF ONE EYE! The realization suddenly dawns on Greg, I NEED THAT TO SEE! Now he’s driving on the freeway with one eye squinted shut. All of this was taking place as he was headed towards a barbeque at the local sheriff’s office, as Greg was a former Escambia County Sherriff’s Deputy. Arriving at the barbeque, he is talking with the chief deputy exchanging a phone number. Suddenly Greg is reminded again of the importance of having BOTH contact lenses because he couldn’t even read his own phone to put the number in. He was so grateful that his nephew, Patrick McGlothren, was able to be there at this crucial hilarious moment!

IT WAS A SOVEREIGN MOVE OF GOD! The Jesus Movement Part 8

In the 1970’s, The Lord powerfully poured out His Spirit across the nation of America in such a mighty way that it was known as The Jesus Movement to many who witnessed it. This mighty move of God had such a tremendous impact that its effects are still being felt in America and across the nations of the world to this day. Charles Simpson was one of those who not only witnessed The Jesus Movement, but he was a part of it. Those who were in the world knew it was The Jesus Movement, but those who were in the Lord at that time, knew it as The Charismatic Renewal Movement. It’s one thing to have an opinion about something that happened, but it’s another reality to sit down and listen to those who actually experienced it. Greg was so incredibly grateful to be able to sit down with Charles Simpson and hear his perspective of what the Lord did during those unforgettable moments. As a spiritual father to Greg, Ken Sumrall talks about those moments when he was “compelled by the Lord” as when “God grabs you by the scruff of the neck and says, ‘you better do this thing’”. That’s exactly how Greg felt to have that meeting with Charles Simpson. It was so crucially important. After Greg was able have this incredibly interview with Charles Simpson, the Lord spoke to Greg in a dream and said, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. Initially he was very sad about that reality because many of the events that transpired in the 1970’s were horrific. But, amidst those moments, it was a powerful, sovereign move of God.

So what does it look like when a sovereign move of God begins to manifest in your nation? God begins to get a hold of people in all walks of life, even professional baseball players. When Albie Pearson was young, he went to Aimee Semple McPherson’s Four Square Church. As he got older, he was a professional baseball player for three different teams. During that time he was the short MLB player. While on an active MLB roster, the Lord speaks to Albie, “you can never play another game for another team, you’re on My Team”. When recalling the tremendous testimonies of the Jesus Movement, Bill Johnson and Lou Engle recount this incredible story. Albie didn’t realize just how significant that moment was as he still decided to play the next game. As Lou Engle shares, “he slides into third base and breaks his back.” You can imagine the excruciating pain that Albie Pearson is experiencing at this moment. The Lord speaks to Albie again, “they’re going to come to your door, sovereignly, to pray”. Hippies just started coming to Albie’s door to pray over and over. As Lou Engle describes it, “it was sovereign evangelism by God”. This is what a sovereign move of God looks at. All these years later Albie Pearson is still ministering for the Lord with the Father’s Heart Ranch. So many people are used to toting heavy water in their daily routine of drudgery. Sometimes you have to do that, but not when a sovereign move of God.

As the story goes, Bob Weiner was one of those young men who was sovereignly led by the Spirit of God to show up at Albie Pearson’s door to pray for him. Just as how the Lord moved in Albie Pearson’s life, the Lord did the same in Bob Weiner’s life as he is still ministering for the Lord today. Bob Weiner founded Maranatha Campus Ministries, with over 150 campuses, and has trained over 50,000 youth in Russia for ministry. He is known for a rapid church planting movement. When people were coming to the Lord so incredibly, he would point people to be water baptized in bathtubs! When God moves suddenly, and powerfully, like He did in the Jesus Movement, the “way church was done” just goes out the window. What God did and what God is about to do again isn’t going to fit into a building.

The stunning reality about this sovereign move of God is how easy it was to share the Gospel. This is not the time to write a book about one’s ministry’s efforts. Instead, you’re just trying to survive it. Bill Johnson and Lou Engle recount the testimonies of The Jesus Movement and describe it with these words; “The most stunning result, or manifestation in the Jesus People Movement was the conversions and how easy it was to get people saved. You could almost, you know, “Mary had a little lamb or something, and people would just want to know Jesus.” Bill Johnson continues to describe the tangible atmosphere of this move of the Lord. “It was in the air. It was people just had an awareness of their need for God.” It doesn’t matter how well intentional our efforts to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We always have to remember that it’s only by the Spirit of the Lord that God draws people to Himself. When God’s Spirit is poured out upon the entire land, people can easily get saved. This is so powerful!

In those days, people would stand on the side of the road, sticking out their thumbs looking for someone to pick them up and give them a ride to wherever they wanted to go. It was called hitchhiking. It was commonplace. Bill Johnson continues to talk about how hitchhikers would encounter the Gospel everywhere they went. “There was this presence where they knew they needed God.” After Bill Johnson shared the Gospel to one hitchhiker, he left and went an hour North only to hear someone else share the same encouraging message of Jesus to him. “Everywhere I go people want to tell me about Jesus. So, he got saved, you know, an hour North of here. It was just that era. It was just an amazing period of time.” This is incredibly powerful. Can you imagine an atmosphere that is so tangibly impregnated with the presence of the Lord, that any mention of Him causes people to immediately recognize their desperate eternal need to have Him in their hearts and lives? It’s important to remember that we also cannot fall to the religious lie that we’re the one doing it. It’s only by the Holy Spirit.

Founder of International House of Prayer-Kansas City, Mike Bickle, went through a time in his younger years while at University of Missouri, where he felt it was his duty to minister to 10 people every day. One particular night while laying in bed, he realized that he only witnessed to 9, so he stomped out his dorm room and told one more person before heading back to bed. It’s not like that. It’s God Himself that draws people to Himself. On the flip side, we can also see how a culture is affected when there is a lack of the Spirit of God moving upon an entire generation. Looking around today, where is the Presence of God? Where is the oil? When the Holy Spirit is not moving, we can clearly see the results of not having a Sovereign Move of God. Across all areas of culture, there is an increasingly noticeable presence of darkness in the land. There’s a demonic move of darkness moving over the globe. If you don’t think is effecting the Church, think again. In a recent Barna Group Study, nearly 50% of pastors said they would leave pastoring if they could find another vocation. Truth of the matter is, the ministry is not a vocation. These are God’s people. We cannot simply leave them when things get difficult and trying.

This is exactly how it was in the 1960’s and approaching the 1970’s. It was a real difficult environment. There was immense tragedy taking place in our nation. Suddenly, God began to pour out His presence and that was the only thing that people were looking for! During the days of The Jesus Movement, Kathryn Kuhlman was a woman who was anointed mightily by the Spirit of the Lord to share the Gospel. She was so committed to share the Gospel to as many as she could encounter, that she would sleep in chicken coups in order to do whatever it took to be where she needed to be. She recognized that she was witnessing and a part of a sovereign move of God.

During those days, Kathryn Kuhlman also had her own television show where she would share the Gospel and interview people. On one particular episode, she was talking with Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, and a spiritual father to many thousands of young people who were coming to Christ in the Jesus Movement. While many across the nation were witnessing this sudden presence of God was taking the nation of America by surprise, people thought it was a “fad”. It was this particular opinion that Kathryn Kulman asks Chuck Smith about, “and millions are wondering whether it’s just a fad, or whether they’re just on another kick.” As Chuck Smith replies, “If it is a fad, it began, like I said, 2,000 years ago you know.” Chuck Smith continues to talk about the indescribable testimony of what the Lord was doing in their midst.

“The beauty, the glory of the whole experience as the beaches just lined with thousands of people singing the choruses and praising the Lord, then walking out into the water and bearing the pass, and then when they realize that all of the past is gone; that it’s all been buried, that God has absolutely nothing against them. The slate is clean. It’s a brand-new life now with Jesus. Not only that, even as the Spirit descended upon Jesus after His baptism, their hearts are open and they just receive the power of God’s Spirit to live that new life that the Lord wants them to live. And it’s indescribable.”

If we have any question about the fruit of Chuck Smith’s life, all we have to do is look at the many who are still faithfully serving the Lord today. Chuck Smith was a man that loved people and he loved the Word of God. It was the Word of God that strictly taught from when sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with people. This was definitely not a fad! Isnt’ it amazing how quickly people can become critical of a precious move of God!

We cannot be caught up in being critical of such a mighty move of God. People who were hippies one day, burning their draft cards and throwing Molotov cocktails at police one day, were being radically saved by the power of the Holy Spirit and following Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God the next day. God is still the same, yesterday, today, and forever. “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. When we look at America, and the nations of the world, do we not see the same spirit of rebellion marching in the streets today burning down buildings? If God did it then, He is fully able to do the same thing again in our generation. Those in Antifa today, can be walking with Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God tomorrow! Can you see it! Do you believe God for it? God can do these miraculous things IN A DAY!

Chuck Smith was a spiritual father to so many in this generation. This is what Paul was writing about in 1 Corinthians 4:15-17, “Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. Therefore I urge you to imitate me. For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.” When Kathryn Kuhlman interview Chuck Smith on her show, she highlights how so many people waste their lives on insignificant things. But, for Chuck, he poured himself into an entire generation, “literally thousands and thousands of teenagers call you Daddy Chuck”. This is so beautiful! Chuck Smith was such a beautiful man to imitate. You want to live your life under someone that continually teaches the Word of God.

Kay Smith would insist on driving to the beach with Chuck so that they could reach these hippies. Upon arriving at the beach, Chuck would be grumbling, sitting in the car next to his wife. “I would be mumbling about, ‘why don’t they make something of their lives, dirty kids and all’, and I’d turn over, and she’d be weeping”. Their daughter was reminded of her mother’s desire to want to know why these hippies were living the way that they were. One instance, she headed to the Laguna Beach Hotel, to leave their children in the car, in order to share the Gospel with some hippies. “It was the Holy Spirit that put this on my mom’s heart. She began to pray and God began to answer her prayer, and started bringing these hippies into the Church”. Chuck Smith began to notice what the Lord was doing in their midst and he made up his mind to follow the Lord in whatever he was doing. As their daughter recalls Chuck’s words, “I didn’t want to direct the Holy Spirit. I just wanted to find out how the Holy Spirit was moving and get in the boat, and move with Him.” This is what it’s all about. There was such a brokenness for these young people to know the love of Jesus, and to reach them with the Gospel. Chuck Smith began to understand what these young people were looking for, and he had the answer. “Their search was for love and their search was for peace, and what better message than the message of Christ. It’s a message of love. It’s a message of peace. And so they just took to it, you know like ducks taking to water…” In order for the lost to come to Jesus, we have to go out and be amongst those who don’t know Him so that they can hear and know of the One who does love them. Maybe the Lord is going to move in such a sovereign, and powerful way, that is going to remove the veil of darkness that is over their eyes so that they can see and understand their need for Jesus!

Can you imagine how many souls would have been lost in that generation if Kay Smith had not cried out to the Lord for His burden for the young people in their own hometown? Because she cried out, thousands upon thousands of souls came to Christ, and are still walking with the Lord today. We have to have God’s heart for the lost in our generation. Imagine how many souls can be impacted in our generation if we cry out to God, and ask Him to break our hearts and give us His burden for today’s generation. If we have to lean in and push through the wounds that we may have experienced in this life.

Greg recalls being at a unity meeting where pastors were talking about coming together in unity. While the meeting was taking place, Greg asked the question, “wasn’t it your church that didn’t accept his church?” Interestingly enough, after asking that simple question, it shut down the entire conversation. The reality was, unity really wasn’t the topic. What was going on at that time was that people who professed to be Christians were saying ‘you can’t come in my church’. 1 John 4:20 clearly states, “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” Think about it. During World War II, people professing to be Christians were saying that about the Jews, and today people are saying that about African Americans. The exciting reality is that, when the Holy Spirit began to move in the Jesus Movement, He fixed all of that. When Charles Simpson was pastoring a Church in Mobile, Alabama, his congregation was primarily white people. But when the Lord began to pour out His Spirit, the Church began to be mostly African Americans, and he was totally okay with it. “This is what God wants to do”. God breaks down the color walls that we put up in our minds because He loves everybody! This was not God’s plan. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr once said that the most segregated hour in America is Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in the morning. There is segregation in America because there is segregation in the Church. The Church is supposed to be the ones letting everyone know that everyone can come to Jesus! Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated for standing up for truth! We cannot overlook the pain and brokenness that was taking place during these moments in history. But God! God moved amidst all this pain and brokenness, and poured out His Spirit, sweeping across the entire nation! It was a sovereign move of God!

When we look around at the events taking place in America, there is constant division and pain. This is the working of the adversary. This is the devil’s plan because he knows his days are coming to an end, and Jesus is coming back soon! We are in the last days. That is for certain! In past moves of God, they may have carried on for decades at a time. With the way things are looking today, this last move of God’s Spirit may be a suddenly! A rapid explosion of God’s Sovereign presence to bring in as many souls as possible before the Second Coming of Christ. If you feel so bogged and overtaken in your daily life, just looking for another opportunity to escape into the myriad of insignificant entertainment that is easily accessible at your fingertips. The engineers decide these technologies KNOW THIS! God is OUTSIDE of media. Think about it! In the Jesus Movement, people were all over the streets, on the beach, and God was moving! That’s where Chuck Smith would go. He would go to the beach and preach for hours, and people would listen, for hours.

You don’t have to be distracted or find escape in media. You can press through all the distractions and heaviness, and seek after the face of the Lord. God has clearly said, “it’s going to be the 1970’s again”, and He confirmed it. We can either focus on the devastating things that took place in the 1970’s, or we can focus on the miraculous movement of God, and decide in our hearts that we will be a part of this great coming move of God’s Spirit! As Tommy Tenney says in his book The God Chasers, “God has this idea that Church is about Him”. Think about that. Is your experience of church about, programs and organizations, or is about Him? The enemy is doing everything he can to cause people to walk away form God. This is a purging that is taking place. The same thing happened to Jesus when He simply preached the truth to all of those who were listening. As John 6:66 reveals, “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.” After the people turned and left, Jesus didn’t move. Instead He turned to His disciples and asked them the following question in John 6:67, “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.” They knew there was nowhere else to God. Jesus is the answer! This is not a religious experience. Understand the Creator of the Universe loves YOU and He wants a relationship with YOU! If God has called you to Himself, and called you to connect and relate to His body, don’t be surprised when the devil attacks with every imaginable attack to get you to leave your place. Hold on to God! You need to stay there! Yes, this is a very difficult season right now. Many people are leaving the Church right now. It may be smaller compared to previous days, but the Church is going to be stronger. Be encouraged today knowing that the Lord loves you. He has an awesome and mighty plan for your life. He wants YOU to be a part of this mighty coming move of His presence.

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IT WAS A SOVEREIGN MOVE OF GOD! The Jesus Movement Part 8

by Osama Hamim

In the 1970’s, The Lord powerfully poured out His Spirit across the nation of America in such a mighty way that it was known as The Jesus Movement to many who witnessed it. This mighty move of God had such a tremendous impact that its effects are still being felt in America and across the nations of the world to this day. Charles Simpson was one of those who not only witnessed The Jesus Movement, but he was a part of it. Those who were in the world knew it was The Jesus Movement, but those who were in the Lord at that time, knew it as The Charismatic Renewal Movement. It’s one thing to have an opinion about something that happened, but it’s another reality to sit down and listen to those who actually experienced it. Greg was so incredibly grateful to be able to sit down with Charles Simpson and hear his perspective of what the Lord did during those unforgettable moments. As a spiritual father to Greg, Ken Sumrall talks about those moments when he was “compelled by the Lord” as when “God grabs you by the scruff of the neck and says, ‘you better do this thing’”. That’s exactly how Greg felt to have that meeting with Charles Simpson. It was so crucially important. After Greg was able have this incredibly interview with Charles Simpson, the Lord spoke to Greg in a dream and said, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. Initially he was very sad about that reality because many of the events that transpired in the 1970’s was horrific. But, amidst those moments, it was a powerful, sovereign move of God.

So, what does it look like when a sovereign move of God begins to manifest in your nation? God begins to get a hold of people in all walks of life, even professional baseball players. When Albie Pearson was young, he went to Aimee Semple McPherson’s Four Square Church. As he got older, he was a professional baseball player for three different teams. During that time, he was the short MLB player. While on an active MLB roster, the Lord speaks to Albie, “you can never play another game for another team, you’re on My Team”. When recalling the tremendous testimonies of the Jesus Movement, Bill Johnson and Lou Engle recount this incredible story. Albie didn’t realize just how significant that moment was as he still decided to play the next game. As Lou Engle shares, “he slides into third base and breaks his back.” You can imagine the excruciating pain that Albie Pearson is experiencing at this moment. The Lord speaks to Albie again, “they’re going to come to your door, sovereignly, to pray”. Hippies just started coming to Albie’s door to pray over and over. As Lou Engle describes it, “it was sovereign evangelism by God”. This is what a sovereign move of God looks at. All these years later Albie Pearson is still ministering for the Lord with the Father’s Heart Ranch. So many people are used to toting heavy water in their daily routine of drudgery. Sometimes you have to do that, but not when a sovereign move of God.

Founder of International House of Prayer-Kansas City, Mike Bickle, went through a time in his younger years while at University of Missouri, where he felt it was his duty to minister to 10 people every day. One particular night while laying in bed, he realized that he only witnessed to 9, or less than his 10, so he stomped out his dorm room and told one more person before heading back to bed. It’s not like that. It’s God Himself that draws people to Himself. On the flip side, we can also see how a culture is affected when there is a lack of the Spirit of God moving upon an entire generation. Looking around today, where is the Presence of God? Where is the oil? When the Holy Spirit is not moving, we can clearly see the results of not having a Sovereign Move of God. Across all areas of culture, there is an increasingly noticeable presence of darkness in the land. There’s a demonic move of darkness moving over the globe. If you don’t think is affecting the Church, think again. In a recent Barna Group Study, nearly 50% of pastors said they would leave pastoring if they could find another vocation. One third of those who used to attend church have disengaged since 2020 and two out of every five pastors are seriously planning on leaving the ministry. Truth of the matter is that the ministry is not a vocation. It is a call from God, an assignment giving by Jesus for His Church, unless the Lord didn’t call them. These are God’s people. We cannot simply leave them when things get difficult and trying. Jesus says that a shepherd (Pastor) that leaves his flock, members, when danger comes is a hireling and not a true shepherd. When they abandoned God’s people, God’s people (the shepherd’s sheep) are attacked, scattered and many destroyed.

During those days, Kathryn Kuhlman also had her own television show where she would share the Gospel and interview people. On one particular episode, she was talking with Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, and a spiritual father to many thousands of young people who were coming to Christ in the Jesus Movement who called him “Daddy Chuck”. While many across the nation were witnessing this sudden presence of God was taking the nation of America by surprise, people thought it was a “fad”. It was this particular opinion that Kathryn Kulman asks Chuck Smith about, “and millions are wondering whether it’s just a fad, or whether they’re just on another kick.” As Chuck Smith replies, “If it is a fad, it began, like I said, 2,000 years ago you know.” Chuck Smith continues to talk about the indescribable testimony of what the Lord was doing in their midst.

We cannot be caught up in being critical of such a mighty move of God. People who were hippies one day, burning their draft cards and throwing Molotov cocktails at police one day, were being radically saved by the power of the Holy Spirit and following Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God the next day. God is still the same, yesterday, today, and forever. “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. When we look at America, and the nations of the world, do we not see the same spirit of rebellion marching in the streets today burning down buildings, hating authority and rejecting God and America? If God, did it then, He is fully able to do the same thing again in our generation. Those in Antifa today, can be walking with Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God tomorrow! Can you see it! Do you believe God for it? God can do these miraculous things IN A DAY!

Chuck Smith talks about his journey in The Jesus Movement by recalling the days when they had to move to a new building due to the increasing size of the crowds, and while preaching the Gospel hippies just started to come in and sit on the floor, listening to his message. “I was there teaching and suddenly things got real quiet and I looked up, and here were all of these young hippies coming in and sitting on the floor”. What was so beautiful about these moments is how these new incoming hippies started showing up to help with whatever building project was taking place under Chuck Smith’s leadership. At first, he didn’t have the best perspective of these hippies. As he describes it, “my attitude was, dirty hippies, why don’t you get a bath, go out and get a job and make something of their lives… you’d see them stoned, on drugs, and so forth and I had a very negative reaction towards all of that”. Interestingly enough, it was his wife, Kay Smith, whose heart was soft and broken towards these hippies. It was her brokenness towards these hippies that started to soften Chuck Smith’s heart towards them as well. You see, Chuck and Kay had their own kids who were the same ages as these hippies in their community. If they didn’t reach them for Christ, their kids could easily end up in the crowds of hippies that they were seeing in their streets. Kay Smith would insist on driving to the beach with Chuck so that they could reach these hippies. Upon arriving at the beach, Chuck would be grumbling, sitting in the car next to his wife. “I would be mumbling about, ‘why don’t they make something of their lives, dirty kids and all’, and I’d turn over, and she’d be weeping”. Their daughter was reminded of her mother’s desire to want to know why these hippies were living the way that they were. One instance, she headed to the Laguna Beach Hotel, to leave their children in the car, in order to share the Gospel with some hippies. “It was the Holy Spirit that put this on my mom’s heart. She began to pray and God began to answer her prayer, and started bringing these hippies into the Church”. Chuck Smith began to notice what the Lord was doing in their midst and he made up his mind to follow the Lord in whatever he was doing. As their daughter recalls Chuck’s words, “I didn’t want to direct the Holy Spirit. I just wanted to find out how the Holy Spirit was moving and get in the boat, and move with Him.” This is what it’s all about. There was such a brokenness for these young people to know the love of Jesus, and to reach them with the Gospel. Chuck Smith began to understand what these young people were looking for, and he had the answer. “Their search was for love and their search was for peace, and what better message than the message of Christ. It’s a message of love. It’s a message of peace. And so they just took to it, you know like ducks taking to water…” In order for the lost to come to Jesus, we have to go out and be amongst those who don’t know Him so that they can hear and know of the One who does love them. Maybe the Lord is going to move in such a sovereign, and powerful way, that is going to remove the veil of darkness that is over their eyes so that they can see and understand their need for Jesus!

Can you imagine how many souls would have been lost in that generation if Kay Smith had not cried out to the Lord for His burden for the young people in their own hometown? Because she cried out, thousands upon thousands of souls came to Christ, and are still walking with the Lord today. This is a God think as God will place on someone’s heart to begin to intercede for a people and that is what He did with Kay Smith. We have to have God’s heart for the lost in our generation. Imagine how many souls can be impacted in our generation if we cry out to God and ask Him to break our hearts and give us His burden for today’s generation even if we have to lean in and push through the wounds that we may have experienced in this life. By the way, that is the only way to push in because we’ve all been wounded.

Greg recalls being at a unity meeting where pastors were talking about coming together in unity. While the meeting was taking place, Greg asked the question in regards to this historical racism that was present in certain denominations in the 1960’s, “wasn’t it your denomination that didn’t accept his theirs” because of their race? Interestingly enough, after asking that simple question, it shut down the entire conversation. The reality was, unity really wasn’t the topic. What was going on at that time was that people who professed to be Christians back in the 1960’s and before, were saying, ‘you can’t come in my church because their race’. 1 John 4:20 clearly states, “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” Think about it. During World War II, in Adolf Hitler’s Germany, people professing to be Christians, German state church, were rejecting Jews from being able to attend their churches in the same way, that historically the “church” was doing to African Americans, black Christians. The exciting reality is that, when the Holy Spirit began to move in the Jesus Movement, He began to deal with this sin of hating your brother and sister in the church. When Charles Simpson was pastoring a Church in Mobile, Alabama, his congregation was primarily white. But when the Lord began to pour out His Spirit, the Church began to be mostly African Americans, and he was totally okay with it. “This is what God wants to do”. God breaks down the color walls that we put up in our minds because He loves everybody! This was not God’s plan. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr once said that the most segregated hour in America is Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in the morning. There is segregation in America because there is segregation in the Church. The Church is supposed to be the ones letting everyone know that everyone can come to Jesus! Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated for standing up for truth! We cannot overlook the pain and brokenness that was taking place during these moments in history. But God! God moved amidst all this pain and brokenness, and poured out His Spirit, sweeping across the entire nation! It was a sovereign move of God!

You don’t have to be distracted or find escape in media. You can press through all the distractions and heaviness, and seek after the face of the Lord. God has clearly said, “it’s going to be the 1970’s again”, and He confirmed it. We can either focus on the devastating things that took place in the 1970’s, or we can focus on the miraculous movement of God and decide in our hearts that we will be a part of this great coming move of God’s Spirit! As Tommy Tenney says in his book The God Chasers, “God has this idea that Church is about Him”. Think about that. Is your experience of church about, programs and organizations, or is about Him? The enemy is doing everything he can to cause people to walk away form God. This is a purging that is taking place. The same thing happened to Jesus when He simply preached the truth to all of those who were listening. As John 6:66 reveals, “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.” After the people turned and left, Jesus didn’t move. Instead He turned to His disciples and asked them the following question in John 6:67, “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.” They knew there was nowhere else to go and it was Jesus who had the keys to their future, to eternal life. Jesus is the answer! This is not a religious experience. Understand the Creator of the Universe loves YOU and He wants a relationship with YOU! If God has called you to Himself, and called you to connect and relate to His body, don’t be surprised when the devil attacks with every imaginable attack to get you to leave your place. Hold on to God! You need to stay there! Yes, this is a very difficult season right now. Many people are leaving the Church right now. It may be smaller compared to previous days, but the Church is going to be stronger. Be encouraged today knowing that the Lord loves you. He has an awesome and mighty plan for your life. He wants YOU to be a part of this mighty coming move of His presence.

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Those Saved in the Last 100 Years Can Be Traced Back to Azusa Street Revival! The Spiritual Heritage that Birthed the Jesus Movement

by Greg Lancaster

There was a mighty move of God’s Spirit that took the entire nation by surprise. It was as sovereign move of God that drew millions of hearts and souls to the Lord. It was so sudden, and so mighty, that even Time Magazine dedicated on their front page magazines to recognizing the “Jesus Revolution”. There was such a mighty presence of Lord’s Spirit, that people were simply aware of God and turning their hearts to Him overnight. This understanding brings us so much encouragement and hope when we realize the recent words the Lord recently made known to Greg Lancaster, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again!” What is incredibly impactful to realize, is the spiritual heritage of what took place BEFORE the Jesus Movement occurred.

When people share about the exciting miracles that took place in the Jesus Movement, it’s not long before someone brings up the name, Lonnie Frisbee, the hippie who was radically touched by God, who played a significant role during this move of God. Well, it was also Chuck and Kay Smith that were ministering the California area, who welcomed Lonnie Frisbee into their home to share the Gospel with him. Chuck and Kay Smith, the founders of Calvary Chapel, was impacted mightily by the ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson’s Four Square Church, which was birthed out of the Azusa Street Revival. This is so significant to note. When Bill Johnson and Lou Engle were recently talking about the miracles of the Jesus Movement, Bill Johnson shares this notable reality, “every move of God that we read of, around the world, since 1906, is somehow an offshoot of Azusa Street, if you track the people involved, if you track the manifestations, the display of power of the Jesus People Movement”. Bill Johnson continues to highlight the hallmark characteristics of what took place in the Azusa Street Revival, “the faith that was released, the gifts, the church growth, the conviction for sin, the manifestation of God’s presence”. Johnson culminates his point by stating, “missy-ologists trace the amount of people that have been saved in the last 100 years, so much of it is traced back to what was released in Azusa Street”. Think about the significance of this reality! To know this history, to know what God did, and to know that God has said that He is going to do it AGAIN, you can prepare now for this coming move of God’s presence. Can you imagine seeing an entire stadium filled with men who are on fire for the Lord.

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IT WAS LIKE AN EXPLOSION! The Jesus Revolution! Part 7

by Greg Lancaster

There was a mighty move of God’s Spirit that took the entire nation by surprise. It was as sovereign move of God that drew millions of heart and souls to the Lord. It was so sudden, and so mighty, that even Time Magazine dedicated on their front page magazines to recognizing the “Jesus Revolution”. There was such a mighty presence of Lord’s Spirit, that people were simply aware of God and turning their hearts to Him overnight. This understanding brings us so much encouragement and hope when we realize the recent words the Lord recently made known to Greg Lancaster, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again!”

When we look around at the things happening in the nation today, crazy decisions being made in leadership, while people rioting in the streets of America, this happened the same in the 1970s. Today it’s ANTIFA, but in the 1970’s it was the hippies filling the streets. When you remember the moments of what the Lord did, as chronicled in the Time Magazine article, young people proudly wore the words, “Jesus is my Lord”. Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, is seen carrying a paralyzed man to be water baptized. Lonnie Frisbee, who was mightily touched by the Lord, can be seen going after the Lord. Lonnie Frisbee was the hippie that was welcomed into Chuck and Kay Smith’s house, was like a match head that sparked what the Lord did in the Jesus Movement. It was during the Jesus Movement that people witness a Charismatic move of God that was sweeping over Catholics as one image captures a Catholic being baptized in the Holy Spirit. Messianic Jews were coming to Christ. Athletes were gathered in the middle of a 50-yard line, on the field, to come together in prayer. People are demonstrating repentance, clothing themselves with sackcloth and ashes. One woman can be seen in a building that was previously a strip club. How powerful is that! These were the days when Jesus Christ Superstar was being released. In the same Time Magazine Article, the question is asked, “Would Jesus Carry a Draft Card?” Would you be surprised to know that the military draft is coming back again? Jim Bakker prophesied that he saw the draft coming back and many young people crying, not wanting to be drafted. Imagine this powerful moving of the Lord happening AGAIN! Imagine a sovereign move of God that just TAKES OVER with no barriers and no boundaries! When a flood comes, there’s no stopping the water. Wherever it can move, that’s what happens.

Considering this mighty move of the Lord’s Spirit, would you be surprised to know that much of the “church” actually rejected what the Lord was doing? There was so much going on that people didn’t what to make of it. God was doing such a radical new thing, many weren’t sure how to approach it. As Greg recalls, Jack Hayford commented to “the Church itself was losing its place in general”. You have to understand the unprecedent events that were unfolding during these days. As Greg explains, “people that were in the Church were called ‘The Charismatic Renewal Movement’, and people that were in the world called it “The Jesus Movement”, because of the hippie movement. But the reality is, it was just a sovereign move of God that was going on”. So many people were getting saved in these moments, the traditional church rejected them. This is why we are coming to you this very moment, because we want to prepare our hearts and not reject this coming move of God’s Spirit. It easy to look over someone that has beat you, bruised you, and burned down that which is important to you. Do they hate the country? Do they hate what America stands for? Sounds familiar. But, these are the people that Jesus loves. It’s incredibly crucial that we have the Lord’s heart for the lost. As Greg underscores this important truth, “you can be hurt and you can miss the call because you don’t believe that God can actually save those people that hurt you.” Be encouraged not to let your heart be hardened. Ask God now the soften your heart to that which the Lord’s heart burns and years for. Take the time now to prepare for this coming awesome sovereign move of God!

John Ruttke was another one of those men who personally witness and lived through the Jesus Movement. He was one of those hearts that was mightily and powerfully transformed by the love of Jesus Christ. As a man who has experience and wisdom in his voice, he cries out to those who want to be a part of this next coming move of God, how to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that his generation suffered and witnessed. “We’ve learned enough to go, ‘DON’T GO THAT WAY! GO OVER THERE! THAT TOOK TWO YEARS OF OUR LIVES!’” Ruttke continues to express what it was like when thousands upon thousands of people were coming to Christ. “In the Jesus Movement, if you read both the New Testament and the Old Testament, you were now the leader.” As people chuckle in response, he continues to recall the types of exchanges that people would seriously have; “Did you actually read the Book of Revelation? Okay, well then you’re an elder”. When Holy Spirit is fully present, things happen to simply work themselves out.

So many people have a deep heart cry to be a part of what God is doing. Imagine only have one gallon of gas in your car. How far would you go? Now imagine having ten gallons in your car. Imagine how much further you would go. If you know the Lord, you can hear His voice, and have given your life to learn about Jesus His commandments in His Word, you’re like the one with ten gallons of gas in his car! When we are the ones that have a history with walking with the Lord, we can help those don’t know Him yet. There are those who have to endure the pain of growing in their character. That’s a normal part of growing in maturity.

Think about this national sweeping, consuming, sovereign move of God happening AGAIN and you already know the Lord! How incredibly encouraging is this considering that one of Jesus’ last words to His disciples was to make disciples. As Matthew 28:19-20 reveals, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” So many people are going to be consumed with a hunger to know who Jesus is. If you are on who is walking with Jesus Christ today, you have answer within you right now and can be one of those leading people to Jesus and raising them up as disciples, just as Jesus commanded us all to do.

Helping to recall what it was like to find yourself in the middle of the Charismatic Renewal Movement, as Charles Simpson shares in his interview with Greg Lancaster, “it was like an explosion”. It’s so easy to have an opinion about something that we have never experienced. But, when we consider the words of those who have gone before us, and experienced such a sweet, sudden, outpouring of God’s presence, it helps us to shift outside of our limited mindsets of today. You don’t have to be caught by surprise when this coming move of God is here. Good surfers are always looking with expectancy that waves are coming, and when they see the wave coming, they start immediately paddling! Jesus said in John 8:31, “To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.” If you find yourself in the middle of an explosion, all of your sensory perception goes out the window, and you simply rely on what you’ve been trained to do. Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples. For those who found themselves in the middle of Charismatic Renewal Movement, like Charles Simpson, Ken Sumrall, and so many other, that’s what they began to do.

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‘You Could Almost Say, Mary Had a Little Lamb & People Would Get Saved’ Bill Johnson| The Jesus Movement Part 5

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A sovereign move of God! It is so exciting to be in the moment as we are on the precipice of what God is about to do. “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”, is what the Lord told Greg Lancaster. THINK ABOUT THAT! When you think about the 1970’s. One of the things that might come to mind about the 1970’s might be the tall orange shag carpeting that was so long you had to actually use a carpet rake on it, in your home! But more importantly is, GOD DID SOME AMAZING THINGS! A sovereign move of God referred to as The Jesus Revolution swept the nation of America mightily. Amidst the backdrop of tragic things taking place in America at that time, and around the world, God moved mightily upon thousands of souls. The Lord wrecked the Church as it was. I mean wrecked it in a good way! It was as if the Church was stuck where it was. BUT GOD! As Bill Johnson, of Bethel, Redding California, speaking about The Jesus Movement, the presence of God was so known in the nation, “you could say Mary had a little lamb”, (which is taken from a children’s poem) and people were getting saved! That is what it’s like to have a divine move of God! This move of God was so powerful that even Time Magazine dedicated their front cover to acknowledging God is real with an article titled “The Jesus Revolution”. That is so powerful! God is going to bring about a sovereign move of His presence AGAIN!

During those days, it was as if the spirit of death was upon the people, with no hope to live, and Jesus Christ saved them and healed them. Greg was shown, by the Lord in a dream, that people are feeling the same way today, that death is upon them and they need a miracle from God to live. God’s glory is coming. The Hand of God can touch you RIGHT NOW and deliver you from that and encounter you with His Life! Greg was shown in this dream from the Lord, that the harvest of souls (people) is going to come so fast that we have to be prepared. If not, we are going to miss it. Many missed it in the 1970’s. How do we get ready? Get out of your head and focus on the Kingdom of God. God’s plan is totally outside the confines of the limitations of one nation. Greg said, he doesn’t mean not be a good citizen in your nation. We as Christians should be a bright light to our nation, but there is more. This is so incredibly exciting. We can’t just simply do the daily things today then, and not be shocked if we miss God. Prepare yourself for this awesome move of God.

As Time Magazine recalls what was happening in the 1970’s, “There is a revival of religion everywhere—except in the church.” History tells us that old moves of God often reject the new moves of God; behold the Lord is doing a new thing. If religion would actually embrace what the Spirit of God is doing, mighty things would take place. Unfortunately, many rejected this sovereign move of God. Why is it that you are doing what you are doing in your life right now? Do you have room for God? For His Harvest? Can God interrupt your schedule and your life with His plans? The Jesus Movement was messy, and what God is about to do is going to be messy, “it’s going to be in the streets” Paster John Kilpatrick says, as he was shown by the Lord. Think about it, speaking about the 1970’s Jesus movement, people were coming off of drugs. People were facing court hearings for the consequences of how they had been living their lives. They have suffered from the aftermath of what they once celebrated sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. Many rejected these people referred to as the hippies. They were lost. They were coming out of the world. People were literally coming out of insane asylums when the Power of God encountered them. We must set in our minds and hearts that we are going to embrace the presence of God right now. Just because it’s messy doesn’t mean it’s God though. We must know the thoughts, the voice and the heart of God. Greg reminds us of a series he taught on God’s Secret Wisdom. Discerning the Thoughts of God to help you better know which is the God Thing that is taking place. Ask God to break your heart for what breaks His heart. God loves every human being on the face of the Earth and He gave His life for them. How can we not ask God for His heart for them; the lost? This is the moment that we can decide in our hearts to be in the epicenter of what God is doing. As Dr. Michael Brown has said, “if you want to be a part of what God is doing, find out what He is doing and dive in”.

In the 1970’s, a powerful and mighty move of God swept America, and the nations of the world. It is now known as The Jesus Movement. What is so important to remember is that this powerful move of God was mainly made up of youth in their twenties, and teenagers! John Wimber, of the Vineyard Churches , was another one of those that God used to lead many to Christ, including many of those referred to as hippies.

The Barna Group did a study of the State of the Church, involving every generation, those who were born before 1946, and every generation up to the Gen Z generation, born between 1999 and 2015. When you look at this study, there is an undeniable shift in the decline of the Church in the year of 2012. What was taking place in the year 2012? The Obama Presidency.

Looking at this graph is an undeniable visualization of how the Church has been impacted during these years. 2012 was a bad year for the Church in America. It was then, starting in 2012, many in every age demographic in America began to walk away from church; away from God. One of the alarming findings that Barna Group reveals in this study is that “…Many young people’s faith…appears to fade as people move further away from their parents.” WOW! If your parents love God, serve God, and worship God together, moving away from them is not a wise decision. Many people make a decision to move based on a job opportunity. For the idea of making more money, they will move to a new city, to be around people they’ve never met, places they’ve never been, not even know if God has a church family for them there, FOR A JOB! Putting a job ahead of God is never a good decision. If you want to keep your faith, do everything in your ability to keep your faith. If you decide to move somewhere, is there a pastor who hears from the Lord that you can put your family under? The most important thing you can do for yourself and your family is to find a Bible believing God fearing,pastor that can hear from the Lord and to raise your family under them. Those who put their jobs, i.e., money first, above God and their family, end up not having either.

God is about to do something mighty. When God is on the verge of doing something mighty, some people start doing really weird things, that is out of the norm for them, and end up making rash decisions which leads them away from what God is about to do. Moments before the Brownsville Revival started, some people, those who you thought were leaders and serious about God, suddenly left, and missed God. Pastor John Kilpatrick says, “Satan doesn’t attack your past, he always attacks your future.” Pastor Kilpatrick speaks on this in a message he titled Satan’s Crowbar. What these people who left Brownsville, prior to Revival, didn’t understand, satan was attacking their future which was to be in, and a part of the Glory move of God, a Revival that would shake America and the world. You want to hold on in these crucial moments. Especially in times of crisis, what you don’t want to do is to make a decision that will take you away from God. Truth of the matter is, deciding to move from where you are, based only on a job, can take you away from where God wants you to be.

We need to be mindful of every generation, knowing that the youth and teenagers were touched mightily in the Jesus Movement we need to be mindful that God is going to do it again and not miss what He is going to do! During this movement in the 1970’s, John Bisagno recalls the concerns he had about rigid religion missing the young people that were hungry for the Lord. “All I know is that kids are turning on to Jesus. My concern is that the stale, traditional churches will reject these kids and miss the most genuine revival of our lifetime.” This coming move of God is going to come so quickly, we believe, that you may find yourself in a place of leadership because you’ve already spent time with the Lord, and have actually READ the Bible. As John Ruttkay shares, “So many people were getting saved in the Jesus movement, if you read the Old Testament and the New Testament, you were now the leader.” Well, what about the elders? They had those covered too. John Ruttkay explains, ‘So many people were getting saved in the Jesus movement, someone would say they actually read the Book of Revelation? You did? Someone would ask. Then you are an elder.” Let that sink in for a moment. Are you ready? That is powerful! That is what God did and we’re going to see what they saw in the 70’s again! So many people weren’t ready for what God did. Don’t let this coming move of God take you by surprise. Amidst God doing mighty things, even the people who were approaching this move of God with apprehension couldn’t deny the reality of its impact. Ronald Knox was converted, from his reported disdain for the enthusiasm of those in The Jesus Movement, to one who embraced their enthusiasm, on his journey interviewing these people that were consumed with a love and hunger for God. Knox said, “Enthusiasm may not be the only virtue but, God knows, apathy is none at all.”

Lonnie Frisbee was one of those people that got powerfully touched by God. People thought he was unreachable since he was another one of those hippies, amongst many others in the 1970s that were also hippies. What they didn’t know is that, in a matter of moments, God would touch Frisbee so powerfully that he would be sharing the Gospel to people who don’t know the Lord, and leading them to Christ with powerful, anointed messages! In an unforgettable moment, from actual footage in the 1970’s, Frisbee recounts the story of the fall of man, bringing to light how Adam and Eve’s feeble attempts to cover up their nakedness applies to all of us today, in our lives. “God had to give them two animals to cover their nakedness. And if you think that you’re going to cover your own sin, by your works, you’re sadly mistaken. You can sew those leaves together as much as you want, but they still won’t cover enough. And you’ll still be ashamed.” As Frisbee continues to share the Good News of the Gospel, with every heart and ear listening attentively, he describes the reality of why Jesus Christ came to the Earth. “So, the Bible says, without the shedding of blood, is there no remission of sin. Jesus Christ willingly went to the Cross, and He died. He gave His life. He says, ‘no man takes my life from me. I lay it down.’ And at that time, Jesus Christ became a sin sacrifice for you, and you, and all of us here tonight.” This is so incredibly powerful as this is always the now word for each of us, to know that Jesus Christ laid down His life, for your life, and for all of our lives. As Frisbee continues to share the love of God, he reminds everyone present, and everyone listening to his words, not to miss the voice of God in this moment. “Though your sin is the blackest sin in the whole world, though you even killed somebody, or broke up a family, you did anything, all that has been accounted for by His Son Jesus Christ. So, don’t reject Him now as He speaks to your heart.” As Frisbee highlights the reality that the love of Jesus Christ is knocking on every one of our hearts, asking to know if we will invite Him in, He invites people to say yes to Jesus. “I want you to confess Him. I want you to receive Him. It’s hard. But, it’s gonna get harder because darkness is coming, more, and more, and more.” When Frisbee asks those who want to receive Christ into their hearts, to stand and come up to the front, people can be seen instantly getting up out of their seats, responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. What an awesome and powerful moment!

In the 1970’s, it was a hippie that was powerfully touched by God. Imagine that someone who was leading an ANTIFA rally today, can be preaching the Gospel tomorrow! Why? Because Jesus loves them and can save them too and use them just like He used Lonnie. Would you see Jesus in that moment, or would your own limitations keep you from jumping into what God was doing right in front of you? There were no mighty coliseums required in order to reach souls for Jesus. There was no internet, social media, or even e-mails, it was just a heart on fire for God talking directly to people. This is what the Gospel is all about. It’s not about our fancy, polished words, it’s about the power of the Gospel. As Hebrews 4:12 reveals, “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” We can’t add to the Word of God. Just share what Jesus said, and let the power of His Word impact hearts. Just like Lonnie Frisbee was baptizing people in the California coastal, Pacific Ocean waters in the 1970’s, it is these same waters that Pastor Jack Hibbs, of Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, California, recently led many to follow Jesus Christ in water baptisms in 2021. This is immensely powerful. What God did in the 1970’s, it is still happening today!

It is these moments and realities that stir our faith for expectation of God to do something in our generation. It’s so important that we don’t get focused on the negative news of the world and its own 24-hour news cycle. Instead, focus on believing God doing something so mighty that it can’t help but get onto and into the lives of others that will glorify Jesus! If you want to be a part of what God is about to do, prepare yourself NOW! Get your mind set on His Kingdom, His voice, and His heart. Be willing to stop whatever is on your schedule in order to love those that God is drawing to Himself! THIS IS THAT! GET, GET, GET, GET READY!

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THE JESUS REVOLUTION! DO IT AGAIN GOD!

by Greg Lancaster

There are so many interesting things taking place in the world today. As the Lord just said to Greg Lancaster, “What is about to happen is going to be like the 1970s.” Amos 3:7 reveals, “Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.” Some of the most tragic events in America’s history took place during this decade. You can look back at what took place during that time and see some of the things that are on the horizon coming to America. Isn’t interesting how we just witnessed American military planes suddenly departing the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan? With no warning whatsoever, American military forces are suddenly pulling out. This is exactly what took place when American forces left Vietnam in 1975. This is just one of the things that took place.

In the 1970’s, America was experiencing the worst recession, oil prices were going through the roof as gas lines were filling news headlines. Are you noticing the price of gas reaching unprecedented levels today? The price of food and cars doubled in the 1970’s. When America left Vietnam, it created a horrific vacuum of a lack of American military presence that allowed Pol-Pot to come in and bring mass devastation of the killing fields through Cambodia. In the 1970’s, America saw the minimum age for voting decrease from 21 to 18. The Watergate Scandal rocked the integrity of the nation. The Supreme Court Case of Roe v Wade shocked many when it became law in America to murder life within the womb. President Nixon was the very one that opened the door to America working closely with China. It’s all about money and the insatiable focus on greed and power. All of these things that took place in the 1970’s, what the Lord is saying, is going to be again.

Amidst all these horrific atrocities taking place, God poured out His Spirit mightily in America that changed the understanding of how the young generation sought Jesus. Remember Woodstock and the hippie generation? Those that seemed lost and forgotten by their parents, and elders, began to be mightily touched by the Power of God. This was the birthing of the Charismatic Renewal Movement that shook the nation of America. Five years before this, Time Magazine, titled their 1966 edition “Is God Dead”. Five Years Later, June 21, 1971, Time Magazine covered the front page of their magazine with the face of Jesus Christ and “The Jesus Revolution”. THIS IS AMAZING!

Charles Simpson was one of the men that found themselves amidst the amazing wave of God’s glory during the Charismatic Renewal Movement. What people found out was that religious people didn’t want anything to do with the presence of God. Simpson was shocked when he suddenly realized the people that he once assumed was for him, were not, and those he thought was his enemy, were his best friends. “I had people that I loved, who didn’t love me; and people that I didn’t love, they loved me”. What is sad to witness is to see the religious people turn their backs on God.

As Time Magazine recounts it, “Jesus is alive and well and living in the radical spiritual fervor of a growing number of young Americans who have proclaimed an extraordinary religious revolution in his name. Their message: the Bible is true, miracles happen, God really did so love the world that he gave it his only begotten son. In 1966 Beatle John Lennon casually remarked that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ; now the Beatles are shattered, and George Harrison is singing My Sweet Lord.” This is such a mental shift! Think about how powerful this is that Time Magazine is sharing the Gospel of the Good News of Jesus Christ! “It is a startling development for a generation that has been constantly accused of tripping out or copping out with sex, drugs and violence. Now, embracing the most persistent symbol of purity, selflessness and brotherly love in the history of Western man, they are afire with a Pentecostal passion for sharing their new vision with others.” The people that were main-lining, drugs and rock and roll, the drug addicts roaming the streets, are now the people that Jesus is reaching for His glory, to show His love to America! This is what a move of God does!

Over night, culture and cities were changed by the power of God. “Christian coffeehouses have opened in many cities, signaling their faith even in their names: The Way Word in Greenwich Village, the Catacombs in Seattle, I Am in Spokane. A strip joint has been converted to a “Christian nightclub” in San Antonio. Communal “Christian houses” are multiplying like loaves and fishes for youngsters hungry for homes, many reaching out to the troubled with round-the-clock telephone hot lines.” In this mighty move of God, people saw the Gospel of Jesus Christ covering the nation and the world. “Says Founder Bill Bright of the Campus Crusade for Christ: “Our target date for saturating the U.S. with the gospel of Jesus Christ is 1976—and the world by 1980. Of course, if the Lord wants to work a bit slower, that’s O.K.”

Be encouraged when you see the landscape of America being a dry unloving land. It looked the same in the 1970’s, and look at what the Lord did then! He is about to do the same thing again! What do you do when Holy Spirit invades your church? This mighty move of God saved many denominations that were absent of Holy Spirit. What is exciting to realize is how so many different churches were birthed from this Move of God’s Spirit. Be hopeful and lifted up in your spirit remembering the wonders of the Lord imaging what God is about to do again in our generation, in our midst.

Greg Lancaster, VFNtv · 83121HL – 3 THE JESUS REVOLUTION! DO IT AGAIN GOD!