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Hide & Seek!

by Osama Hamim

I remember playing hide and seek as a child. It was a fun and easy game. We would turn our faces against a tree or in a corner if we were in the house and count to a certain number. Everyone would scatter like rabbits looking for a place to hide. As the count got closer and closer to the end where you would start looking, many would panic and pick a not-so-good place to hide. It was so fun finding everyone or hiding and waiting. Sometimes I would just start laughing as I hid and waited for them to find me because I knew I would scare them and they would be startled.

There were also times when you played with people who could hide really well. Looking back, I bet they must have thought about “how they could hide when they played hide and seek” all the time and planned it out. They would probably have a YouTube channel today telling people “How to hide where they can never find you in Hide & Seek.” Everyone would get tired of looking for those that hid like this and would eventually just stop playing the game.

Did you know that God, in a similar way, likes to play hide and seek with us? He will conceal Himself or a matter just so we can search for Him. Solomon explains it really well in Song of Solomon how the bride desperately went out to find her Beloved Who had gone from her chambers. He was just there; the room smelled like the Bridegroom, but now he is gone. She did not say “Oh well”; no, she ran after Him. She was not going to give up. Guess what? She found Him! God does not hide from us in a way we cannot find Him; He hides in a way to see IF WE WILL GO LOOK FOR HIM!

When God shows up, most people do not even care. Others care, but they are not willing to stop their lives for Him. But there are those who rejoice and run after Him because their Beloved Bridegroom Jesus has shown Himself. Then He pulls back just to see, will we come after Him? Will we believe Him for more?

“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.” Proverbs 25:2

“I will get up and roam the city, searching in all its streets and squares. I will search for the One I love.” So, I searched everywhere but did not find Him. The watchmen stopped me as they made their rounds, and I asked, “Have you seen The One I love?” Then scarcely had I left them when I found My Love!” Song of Solomon 3:2-4. You see, it is not about hiding where we cannot find Him, but pulling away to see if we will come after Him, our Beloved.

“You are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession.” 1 Peter 2:9

Our Beloved has shown Himself at Asbury University just as He said He would to me and many others. He has shown His glory. He told me, “It will be the 70’s again!” In the 1970’s God’s glory covered the earth and shocked the nations and the “established church.” He was the One Who was and still is in charge.

Now it is for us to go after Him and seek Him while He might be found! Isaiah 55:6.

I want to encourage you to be the one who seeks the Lord, His presence, His glory. Many will show up after He has come, but few will seek Him with anticipation like the bride in the Song of Solomon, knowing that He will show up and pour out His glory upon us. You will have to fight against being caught up in distractions and the demands of others who want to distract you with nonsense. You may encounter abuse from others who are driven by darkness to keep you from finding Him, just as the bride did in the Song of Solomon. You will have to fight the spirit of this age oppression, depression, distraction, tunnel vision including the temptation to look back at Sodom and Gomorrah as it is being judged by God. You may look foolish in the eyes of those who do not believe in God, but it is only His eyes that matter. “I will not rest until I find my Beloved,” declared the bride in the Song of Solomon.

God is the only answer to today’s serious, global, and rebellious problems. He is getting ready to make that last trumpet call to bring His Son’s Bride home, where we will meet Him in the air. Get, get, get, get ready, get ready, get ready, Jesus is coming!

We had prayed for and believed in revival at Brownsville, but we had no idea that Father’s Day 1995 would be the moment God began to pour out His glory. If someone had asked us what revival was, we would not have been able to tell you. We would have said something, but the truth is, we were ignorant about how our God loves us and desired to pour out His glory presence. Steve Hill knew God would show up, we did not. Steve Hill wanted us to stay so he could pray, we wanted to leave at the time we always did. But Steve Prayed and God Came in like a flood of His glory sweeping us off our feet. Yes we still walked, talked and worked, but it was like we were floating and focused only on our Beloved as we did. When He showed up, then and only then, could we explain what revival is. Revival is God showing up, period! It is God!

“There is something about believing in God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to be with the one who believes in Him.” – Smith Wigglesworth.

Will you believe in Him? Will you believe in Him for more of His glory? Will you go after Him and seek Him while He may be found?

I encourage you to allow the song “Revival’s in The Air” to sink down into your spirit until you declare it, decree it, and expect it! He is looking back to see if we will not be satisfied without Him! I have attached two version of Revival’s in the Air: one with lyrics and one with a life

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1970’s Again? Did It Get That Bad Then? Is It That Bad Now? The Jesus Revolution: Part 13

by Osama Hamim

The Lord revealed prophetically that “It’s going to be the 1970’s again. Horrific tragedies were in the continual headlines during the 1970’s, and crime was rampant across cities in America. Many people were struggling to live and make ends meet. People were doing all that they could to survive each passing day. During that timeframe, New York City was experiencing the highest murder rate in the country. Was it really that bad? People were living in fear of their lives on a daily basis. When looking back at an interview to a group of a young woman in New York City, one woman described her life as, “If you’re just into the city and you don’t know what the city is about, you might as well forget it. Because, you know, in a couple of months you’re either going to be killing by somebody or somebody is going to be killing you.” That’s a tragedy. This is how people were living their lives when they got powerfully saved and radically transformed by the power of the Holy Spirt in the Jesus Movement of the 1970’s.   

Fast forward to today, and similar experiences are being witnessed on today’s streets. We can look at major metropolitan areas, such as San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and see the same things happening that took place 50 years ago. You may be experiencing difficult times of increasing pressure and a weight in your daily life that seems to be getting heavier and heavier. The answer is not moving to a different city, getting a new relationship, or getting a different job. The answer is crying out to Jesus to come into your life and become your Lord and Savior! These are the moments that cause people to cry out to God. What is deeply encouraging to remember is that these are the moments when God does His best work.  The Lord revealed to John Paul Jackson that things will continue to get darker and darker until we cry out to the Lord. When you hear people proclaiming that it can’t get any worse than it is right now, God is about to pour out His Spirit in a mighty and awesome way! God is not limited to the many plans of men scheming and planning to distract you with the onslaught of media. The Lord Jesus is going to invade all of this with His glory! Get Ready!

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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, Remembering the Jesus Revolution and the Explo 72’: The Jesus Revolution Part 11

by Osama Hamim

In the 1970’s, the Holy Spirit did a miraculous work as the Lord poured out His Spirit upon the entire nation and moved upon thousands of people so quickly, and mightily. This powerful move of God was chronicled and remembered in the 1971 Time Magazine and the 1972 Life Magazine with so many beautiful color images of what the Lord did. Thousands were gathered in Costa Del Mar, California in order to be baptized. A woman preached the Gospel in Texas in what was once a strip bar. People were enthusiastically gathered to worship the Lord, and a young woman was baptized in a pool in Washington, D.C..  

Two years later in 1972, thousands gathered in Dallas for the Explo 72’ Crusade as people boldly proclaimed Jesus Christ as the ‘One Way’ to Heaven, as hands were stretched high across the crowd with their index fingers pointing high. Billy Graham and Johnny Cash, as well as many others sang and shared the Gospel to everyone in attendance. Even people from Australia were in attendance, going after Jesus. If God did it then, He can do it again, and He is going to do it again! Be excited and hungry in expectancy for what the Lord is about to do across the entire nation in our generation. Also shared in this segment: Lonnie Frisbee, Jesus Movement, Jesus People, Chuck Smith, Former Governor Mike Huckaee, Woodlawn, The Cotton Bowl, Campus Crusade for Christ, Messianic Believer, Baptism of Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ Superstar, Draft Cards, Jesus Freaks, DC Talk, Jesus People, and communal living.  

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“GAZILLIONS” of Hippies on the Beaches Flock to Beach Preacher & Listen for Hours! The Jesus Revolution! Part 10

by Osama Hamim

During the 1970’s, horrific tragedies were taking place across the nation as the daily news cycle and media were declaring continual calamities and heartbreak. Interest rates were steadily climbing, ultimately peaking in 1981 at the highest they had every been in our nation. Gas lines would stretch for miles. The Vietnam War was taking place. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. It was as if increasing darkness was over an entire nation. BUT GOD! It was during these realities and events that the Lord poured out His Spirit sovereignly upon an entire generation that ultimately swept across the entire nation. This was the Jesus Movement! God did it then and He is about to do it AGAIN!

Can you feel the same oppressive heaviness in the land today? Everybody is feeling it. You are not alone. It’s a demonic strategy of the adversary because he knows his time is running out and the Lord is about to do great and mighty things again in such a holy and powerful way that it will dwarf what took place in the Jesus Movement. Pastor Jeff Johnson of Calvary Chapel Downey shares how the Lord touched an entire generation. “The Lord just chose, for this time, to pour out His Spirit upon this troubled youth”. David Guzik, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara shares how the Lord moved upon Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chape, to be the catalyst that would reach these young people. “What Pastor Chuck did was he brought these lives that were being changed in this outpouring of God, that is often being called The Jesus Movement, and he really connected them to church.” It’s incredibly important to understand how many perceived what the “Church” was and how Chuck Smith helped people overcome mindsets. Pastor Guzik continues, “Many expressions of the Jesus Movement were ‘anti church’.  They were sort of ‘anti-establishment’, but Chuck brought these lives that were being changed and he really brought them into the Church, and he really brought them into ministry.  He brought all the fruit down to the place simple enough to where we could receive it.” Nobody had in mind what the Lord was about to do, or what He was doing. Not even the hippies who were being drawn to the Lord Jesus Christ knew what God was doing. Only the Lord did! No man or religion could have worked up a sovereign move of God like this. It was the power of the Holy Spirit!

When we truly begin to understand that God loves us and has a plan for each and every one of us, and that begins to impact our hearts, there’s no telling what the Lord will do in our lives. It’s not about religion. It’s not about working something up or living a life of works in hopes of being acceptable before God. That’s exhausting and that’s not what God has called us to. That’s why He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world. The Lord knew we couldn’t do it, so He sent His Son to live the perfect life FOR US! God never wanted you to live a life full of defeated mindsets. He called you to live full of liberation and freedom!

Pastor John Henry Corcoran, of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, was one of those hippies that was radically touched in the sovereign move of God during the Jesus Movement. As he remembers, “Gazillions of hippies crawled off the beaches of Southern California to come and listen to God’s Word being proclaimed by Pastor Chuck Smith.” There was such a hunger in the air to learn about Jesus Christ that people would listen attentively for hours. Pastor Corcoran continues, “the studies would go on for over two hours. He’d teach the Bible for hours.” These were the people that society deemed to be the least likely that could be brought to the Lord. But God had other plans. How could these people who were anti-establishment, anti-government, anti-God, be so hungry to learn and listen to the teachings of the Word of God for hours? IT’S GOD!

This is what it looks like when people are hungry for God! What is the number one sign of a healthy baby when they are born? They are hungry! You don’t have to remind them to eat! They are eating all day long! If this is true in the natural sense, would it be any different in the spiritual sense when someone is born again in Christ? Chuck Smith declared the simple truths of the Gospel: the Cross, the Blood, the Kingdom of God, repentance, sin and salvation. When people are hungry for God, just share the truth of the Good News of Jesus Christ and watch Holy Spirit convict hearts and draw people to Himself. When a sovereign move of God comes, it’s not going to be like it is now. Distractions and drudgery is everywhere in this present environment. When the Lord pours out His Spirit sovereignly, HE IS THE TOPIC. HE IS THE SUBJECT. ALWAYS. EVERYWHERE. When we begin to get a sense of what that looks like we suddenly realize the incredible urgency of preparing now so that we can be a part of what the Lord is doing. Are you preparing now?

A sovereign move of God will take everyone by surprise if you’re not ready for it. This is exactly what happened on Father’s Day 1995 at Brownsville Assembly of God, in Pensacola, FL. Evangelist Steve Hill was preaching that day on the Wonders of the Lord for Pastor John Kilpatrick. As Steve Hill was talking to everyone who was listening, every one is attendance was already referring to previous messages, thinking this was just another day. But everything changed when Steve Hill started praying. The presence started increasing, gradually, more and more, and there was sudden awareness God was here. Pastor John Kilpatrick declared, “GET IN! THIS IS GOD!” Imagine you knowing that God is coming and you can take this time now to prepare for this great sovereign coming move of God! This is that! GET READY! GET READY! GET READY! GOD IS ABOUT TO DO IT AGAIN!

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God Doesn’t Hide Our Dirty Laundry

by Osama Hamim

In the 1970’s, the Lord carried out a powerful and sovereign move of His presence that swept the entire nation, that eventually reached the nations of the world, and it is continuing to bear fruit to this day. This move of the Holy Spirit was know as the Jesus Movement. The Lord recently revealed to Greg Lancaster, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. God is going to do it again. In a recent conversation, Greg Lancaster was able to sit down and share some unforgettable moments with longtime friend, and brother in the Lord, Jack Hollis, and talk about what God is about do again in America and in the nations of the world. It’s important to recognize what God is NOT talking about by recalling the 1970’s. It’s not about the clothes, or how the worship was done, or bringing about the styles of the 1970’s. No. Jack highlights what he believes the Lord is saying. “I want the same mentality that was in the 70’s.” There was such a freedom to worship the Lord and go so hard after the Lord with a sold-out, devoted heart, people didn’t care what others thought about them.

Greg can fully empathize with that reality when he had to embrace the reality of putting his name on the ministry. This was the LAST thing he wanted to do. BUT after his spiritual father, Ken Sumrall, had instructed him to do it, he decided reluctantly, to do so. Greg was fully in touch with where he was when the Lord found him. “Cause my history is like [Jack’s] history. You know, God saved me in the middle of the night because nobody else believed I could be saved.” This is what God does. He doesn’t hide who we are. In Jack’s book, “Odyssey in Preparation”, he writes about the days when people used to hang their laundry out to dry in the warm sunshine to dry, after being freshly washed. Many may not be familiar with this practice, as it’s not done in our present generation as it once was generations ago. In those days, you could drive past your neighbors and know a lot about them by simply seeing their laundry. The important truth to gather from this, is that this applies to the Lord too. When we look at Scripture we can see that God doesn’t hide anything.

It’s important know this. If you think that you have to be this perfect, polished person, you’re exhausted. As Jack points out, “it’s sad that people put on a show, that’s what it is. It really is exhausting, and it makes Christianity a real burden to them. It’s a personal burden to try and live like a Christian if you’re not one. It’s just really difficult.” It’s crucial that we connect with the reality that God loves each and everyone us right now, just the way that we are. Jack recalls a memorable moment when a young woman felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit drawing her heart towards Jesus. With both of her hands deep in her pockets, she said to the Lord, “Lord I want to give you everything I’ve got God, all the way down to the bottom of my pockets.” While her fingernails were going into the dirt and dust of the pockets, she pulled her hands out and her fingernails were full of that dirt and dust. She looked at the dirt under her fingernail and said to the Lord, “look at that, that’s all I’ve got”. God spoke to her heart immediately. “That’s what I want. I can handle that. I can take care of that. I want the worst you are inside of you”. Just as quickly as the Lord responded to her, she responded back to him just as openly. “I’m here to give the worst I am back to Him.”

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When The Holy Spirit Comes HE TAKES OVER!

by Greg Lancaster

In the 1960’s and 1970’s God poured out His Spirit in a mighty and powerful way during a sovereign move of God that was known as the Jesus Movement. It seemed as if overnight, suddenly God moved. God spoke to Greg Lancaster, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. That next week after receiving that word from the Lord, America pulled out of Afghanistan just like what took place in the 1970’s when America pulled out from Vietnam. It was a confirmation of the word of the Lord. Despite the things that took place in the negative, God was doing some amazingly awesome things! Many people were overcome by the presence of the Lord as Jesus Christ was being revealed to thousands upon thousands. Jack Hollis was one of those men and he recently sat down with Greg to talk about his exciting journey of walking with the Lord.

God was moving so mightily, and so powerfully, that Jack would hold a weekend retreat and invite whoever would want to come. Nearly two hundred people would come and his wife, Shelly, would cook camp stew for everyone, which they all loved! During those moments of so many people gathering together, Jack would lead a few people to share testimonies of what the Lord was doing in their lives. One particular testimony involved two Methodist ministers that had been baptized in the Holy Spirit, but had never been water baptized. These two men brought other ministers down to see Jack. They had asked Jack to take them down to the nearby creek to be baptized in the water.

People were lined up in the water, waiting to be baptized. As Jack shares, “when I baptized them, when they come up, they would come up speaking in tongues. The one behind him, the next one up is looking at me with eyes this big, and I’d grab him and baptize him, and he’d come up speaking in tongues. It happened with all of them.” This is what God did in the Book of Acts when the Lord was moving upon ALL people, even to the surprise of Peter as he was sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Peter was a Jew and thought only Jews could be saved. Even after receiving a vision of the Lord that he didn’t understand, he was led to a Gentiles house to share the Gospel. Suddenly, it was the Holy Spirit that showed up mightily. If any Gentile doesn’t believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that’s what brought us all in!

Jack recalls how the Holy Spirit was moving mightily upon so many of those that were hungry for Holy Spirit when he was invited to teach Charismatic Bible in a Catholic Church in Panama City, FL each of the Charismatic references in the Bible. People were so hungry for this truth that Jack was invited to come back every week. After so many moments together of learning the Word of God, a lady came up to Jack expressing how many ladies were having difficulty seeing Mary, the mother of Jesus as being a part of this. As Jack recalls, “you know this upper room experience they had, where they all spoke with tongues? All the women are nodding their heads in agreement as Jack is bringing their attention to this important moment. “Mary was up there. She was in the middle of that” he continued. “They all just grinned from ear to ear and took off!” It’s so important to remember that this is what the Lord does. As Greg points out, “when the Holy Spirit comes down, He breaks all the dividing walls that men create and all the division. And He says, ‘I love everybody, and I want everybody to filled with My Spirit’, and when He does that, He takes over”.

Recalling the powerful work of the Holy Spirit in his life, Jack recalls a time when he was gathering at an old TV shop for a few years. One fateful day, a particular lawyer in town came up to him. “I just wanted you to know that me and [two other lawyers], we have been trying to put you out of business, behind your back, for two years and we can not make one inch of headway. And we just want you to know that we’re leaving you alone.” Jack didn’t have a clue that they were even doing that at all! This is what God does. As Greg shares, “God definitely protects us from a lot of things.”

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Testimony of Jack Hollis Birthed in the Jesus Movement

by Greg Lancaster

In the 1960’s and 1970’s God poured out His Spirit in a mighty and powerful way during a sovereign move of God that was known as the Jesus Movement. It seemed as if overnight, suddenly God moved. God spoke to Greg Lancaster, “It’s going to be the 1970’s again”. That next week after receiving that word from the Lord, America pulled out all of their military forces from Afghanistan just like what took place in the 1970’s when America pulled out from Vietnam. It was a confirmation of the word of the Lord. Despite the things that took place in the negative, God was doing some amazingly awesome things! Many people were overcome by the presence of the Lord as Jesus Christ was being revealed to thousands upon thousands. Jack Hollis was one of those men and he recently sat down with Greg to talk about his exciting journey of walking with the Lord.

Jack Hollis vividly remembers that moment when the Spirit of God was moving through Marianna, Florida and he recognized it was the Lord. “This great powerful move of the Holy Ghost was going around. All of a sudden, in the late 60’s…and some of that great wave of the Holy Ghost came down to Marianna, Florida. And when that flood came through here, I looked at it and nobody was getting in. I went in and dove in, head first. We just told God then we’ll do whatever you want to do.” Jack doesn’t forget where he was when the Lord found him, as he highlights the importance of giving thanks the Lord. He was an alcoholic for 7 years, to which he almost lost his son and wife, he points out. “But when the Holy Ghost came to me in the middle of the night, and revealed Christ to me, I mean I got born again right there.” Jack recalls that fateful night lying in bed when he heard something in the bedroom. Not knowing what it was, he pulled his pistol that was under his pillow and drew the light on just as fast as he could. When he looked at where the sound came from, nothing was there. “You talk about weird, I felt weird.” Wanting to get away from whatever that was, he went and sat in the living room on the couch. It was at that moment that Jack realized what just happened. “I just honest to goodness realized that it was Him. It was a revelation.” It was the Lord Jesus Himself!

From that moment, Jack knew he had to make a decision, and he responded to the Lord. Burying his face in a nearby chair, he started talking to the Lord right then and there. “I’ve failed everything I’ve tried to do. And if I’m gonna fail at this, don’t take me. Don’t even, just leave me alone. If you’re gonna walk through it with me, I’ll do anything you tell me to do.” It was only a matter of time before Jack started hearing and learning about the Holy Spirit and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Jack wanted that in his life. He took his tongue in his fingers and said to the Lord, “this is yours and you do whatever you want to do”. There was such a hunger for the Holy Spirit in his life and he was baptized in the Holy Spirit. In those days there was such an overwhelming hunger for the presence of God. As Jack shares, this is what God is doing our present day. What the Lord did in the 1970’s, He is doing again. “The 70’s was years of hunger.” What’s important to remember is that just as the Lord was moving mightily, so was the devil. Jack talks about how the enemy was doing all he could to fill the void anywhere God’s presence was not. “Satan was filling this void of hunger. Witchcraft and everything. You could go anywhere and get into a seance, or whatever else. It was everywhere.” Jack continues to talk about the importance of choosing what you decide to fill a void that presents itself. “When you have a void, somebody, something is going to fill it and God has made the offer. God doesn’t push Himself on anybody. You just open your mouth and I’ll fill it. You just open your mouth and I’ll fill em’. Open your heart and I’ll fill it. Open your hunger up and fill a table before you.” As he talks about Psalm 23, Jack talks about the importance of recognizing how the Lord prepares a table before us. “I do the Psalms a little bit different, He prepares a table before me. Period…then He says, ‘in the presence of my enemies He anoints my head with oil and my cup runs over’”. As Jack points out, the Lord puts us in front of our enemies to fight AFTER He prepares a table for us.

Jack recalls how people were coming to the Lord and the revelation of the Lord was coming instantly to people that were being saved. While he was in a Bible school, he couldn’t help but share the exciting testimonies with others of what the Lord was doing. Surprisingly, not everyone wanted to hear about the Lord. Even at a Bible school. He was shocked to hear the ultimatum that he was given by a handful of religious leaders. “If you want to keep your ordination with us, you have got to quit preaching in Pentecostal churches; quit talking about Pentecost; you’re gonna have to renounce speaking in tongues.” It was a simple response for Jack. “In order for me to be what you’re saying for me to be, I’ve got to quit being what I am.” He even asked to clarify if that is what they were asking of him. He knew he couldn’t, nor would he do that. “I don’t want to be identified with something that rejects the thing that actually gave me more love for Christ, and more understanding of the Bible, more boldness to preach the truth. Why would I throw that away in order to learn three points and a poem?” Jack’s son laughingly recalls that moment as the day he was “de-ordained”.

Jack talks about his decision to choose another pastor, Tyler Ford, to take his place of head pastor. With his iconic hilarious sense of humor, Jack points out that Tyler is 6’ 4”, while he is 5.3”. “I wanted a man that I could look up to.” He highlights that Tyler originally was a Baptist and understands there are differences between Baptists and Charismatics. “It’s quite a change to go from that to a Charismatic Pastor.” Jack knew that the Lord was doing something, and he was following however the Lord was leading. “We’re changing leaders here because God wants to change something in the ministry. You need to get out of the box. You need to get out of the box.” Tyler didn’t exactly understand what Jack was sharing with him as he quickly responded, “how did you get out of the box so easy?” Jack said, “Tyler, they dumped me out of the box”. Jack continues to share about the memorable moment when he appointed Tyler to take over leadership. Tyler was instantly shocked and reminded Jack of all the reasons why he’s not the best suited for that responsibility. “You realize, first of all, that I’m a Baptist, second of all that I’ve got an artificial valve in my heart; I’m a diabetic, and I just had a defibrillator put under my arm…” Jack stopped him and reminded him what mattered most. “I don’t need to know all that. The One that created and re-created all that, knows all that. And that’s all that matters. And He’s the one that put you on my heart.” Jack continued to encourage Tyler with these words. “You’re in for a ride now, so go ahead a get a good grip.” Interestingly enough, those words are indicative to the sticker Jack used to have on the dash of his old truck, “Shut Up. Sit Down. Hold On.”

Jack points out that’s what we all need, for Holy Spirit to just get a good grip on each of us. This is the truth that we need to be teaching our children, to our churches, that most are not hearing about. This is so vitally important to remember, because it was this very topic of the Holy Spirit that many were saying needs to be stopped, which was part of the Time Magazine article written in 1968, “Is God Dead?” Little did they know, three years later, the same Magazine would be dedicating their front cover to Jesus Christ and The Jesus Revolution.

As Jack Hollis is sharing these exciting stories of the Lord, behind him, In the background, is an aged photo of dozens upon dozens of people gathered together in front of a small building. Jack describes how he was sharing the Gospel at Troy University that resulted in some of the people coming to the Lord. Two weeks later, Jack was invited to come again to this small little abandoned school house, and thirty people came to the Lord. Through all the faithful obedience to the Lord, his wife Shelly has faithfully been married for 58 ½ years and been by his side through all these years. He was once a man that drove 100+ mph anywhere he went, now his heart has been so softened by the Lord that he’s unable to even take the life of an animal in the sport of hunting.

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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.

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.

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.

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. Greg shared how he had read about Kathryn Kuhlman’s journey and ministry in God’s Generals by Robert Liardon.

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.

“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, 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 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.

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!

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 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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CHANGED IN A DAY! One Man’s Miraculous Story of Being Touched by God in the Jesus Movement!

by Osama Hamim

It is incredibly encouraging to hear the testimonies of others, and how the Lord moved upon their lives. When we hear these testimonies, it points us to the goodness of the Lord, and it stirs our faith to believe God to do the same in our lives. Imagine someone causing destruction to their local community while walking the streets in rebellion. Though that may sound like today, this is what was happening in the 1970’s. Imagine someone tearing down your city today, being in the Kingdom of God tomorrow. This is what the Lord was doing in the Jesus Movement. During the 1970’s and the Jesus Movement, people were being mightily touched all across the nation.

John Ruttke was one of these men. When speaking to a local crowd, he talks about how a sovereign move of God changed his life in one single day. As one who has been walking with the Lord since the 1970’s, he sees that God is doing something mightily, and shares his priceless wisdom of what he experienced in order to help the next generation. “There’s a new day coming! Spirit of God is about ready to drop! Shift is coming. Better be on the right side of that shift! Because He’s coming. Whether you’re on it or not, He’s coming!” Ruttke continues to emphasize the importance and urgency of the present hour by responding to the Lord. “So, It’s wake up time and the Lord is about ready to WAKE HIS PEOPLE UP AGAIN.” This isn’t just going to be another revival. No. “IT HAS TO BE A GREAT AWAKENING. HAS TO BE! It can’t just be another nice movement. No. That won’t do it for where we’re at. It’s got to be an awakening. HAS TO BE AN AWAKENING! GOD’S GOT TO BEGIN TO GRAB A HOLD OF HIS PEOPLE!” As John Ruttke continues, he points out the raw reality of where he was when the Lord found him, and what the Lord did. “Listen, we were left-wing radical, Molotov cocktail throwing, hippies as far out as you can get and in ONE DAY I was changed. Devout Buddhist, into eastern mysticism. ONE DAY! ONE DAY! CHANGED! ONE DAY!”

How can someone be powerfully changed like that in a single day? GOD! This is so very exciting! This is what God does. God did the same thing to Saul, who was persecuting the Church, and SUDDENLY, a bright blinding light from heaven shined upon him. Jesus revealed Himself to Saul so powerfully that he became blind for three days. Saul had a sudden realization that he wasn’t serving God, but he found out the truth that day. Jesus spoke clearly to him, as shown in Acts 9:5a-6, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” God did this IN A MOMENT!

You might not have known that God can do such a miraculous miracle in someone’s life, IN A DAY. You are no different. If you know the Lord, but you don’t think the Lord can touch the one rioting in the streets today, we can miss God. If you don’t know the Lord, you can. You can simply talk to Jesus this very moment and ask Him to come into your life and change your life. No one is outside the powerful arm of Jesus Christ, or too far for His blood to wash clean. Don’t let this moment pass you by. Let God miraculously turn your life around TODAY! If you’d like to Know God, you can. Select Know God and you’ll be taken to so much great information about this very thing; Know God

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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

by Osama Hamim

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!

Greg Lancaster, VFNtv · 110221HL – 2The Jesus Movement Part 5

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