Pastor David continues in the series with a message on the key to every spiritual revival.

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David Shin

Back to Basics: Morning Manna

Back to Basics: The Breath of the Soul

Back to Basics: Fitness Witness

On the screen I have a picture of our two-month-old son, or when he was 2 months old, this picture took a lot of work and effort.

And he's laying on a book called Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, And I finished reading it last year and we just happened to name our son Hudson.

And it is the most inspiring book that I've read in 2017.

Hudson Taylor, great missionary to China.

And he started an organization, he founded in 1865 called China, the China Inland Mission, and it was a remarkable organization because he decided that the missionaries that he would enlist would not be guaranteed a salary nor could they solicit for any sort of donations.

They would just ask the Lord, and people thought that he was crazy to be starting this organization, because who would join?

And in 1876, 52 missionaries joined the China Inland Mission.

And in 1900, when Hudson Taylor retired, there were 750 missionaries that were part of the China Inland Mission.

And from 1865 to the time that he retired in 1900, he asked God alone for the funds and received a total of $4 million during that time.

And this is $4, 000, 800 in the late 1800s.

And thousands of souls were led to Christ as a result, remarkable story, and I read an account in that book, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, that just inspired me and warmed my heart.

This is from a third person account, an individual that was there at a prayer meeting, and Mr.

Taylor opened the meeting by leading out in a hymn, his appearance did not impress me.

He was slightly built and spoke in a quiet voice, but when he said, let us pray, and proceeded to lead the meeting in prayer, my ideas underwent a change.

There was a simplicity, a tenderness, a boldness, a power that hushed and subdued me and made it clear that God had admitted him to the inner circle of his friendship.

Such praying was evidently the outcome of long tarrying in the secret place and was as due from the Lord, to hear Mr.

Taylor plead for China was to know something of what it is meant by the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man.

That meeting lasted from 4 to 06:00, but it seemed 1 of the shortest meetings I had ever attended." Hudson Taylor, Missionary to China, phenomenal prayer life.

As we look at our scripture reading today, Mark 1, verse 35, now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, he went out and departed to a solitary place, and there he prayed.

The Bible tells us in Luke chapter 5, verse 16, but Jesus himself would often slip away to the wilderness to pray, and we know the impact of Jesus's life of all the armies that ever marched of all the navies that ever sailed and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned put together have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as that 1 solitary life.

Jesus' life made remarkable impact on our culture and our civilization.

And the impact of Jesus, 1 historian in his five-volume work on world history, historian, religious skeptic, H.G.

Wells, found himself devoting the most space to Jesus Christ.

And he wrote, a historian like myself cannot portray the life and the progress of humanity honestly without giving Jesus of Nazareth the foremost place.

And from the beginning I want to tell you my thesis just so that you know what I'm talking about.

Every spiritual Revival can be traced to a person of prayer.

Sacred history, modern history, when you look at every spiritual revolution or every spiritual revival, any time God is moving mightily upon his people, it can be traced to a person of prayer.

You see it in the life of Hudson Taylor, you see it in the life of Jesus Christ.

And here's a quote from Richard Ellsworth Day commenting on these great movements.

It would be of no surprise if a study of secret causes were undertaken to find that in every golden era in human history proceeds from the devotion and righteous passion of some single individual.

At the center of the column, there's always 1 man or 1 woman who knows God and knows where he is going.

Every spiritual revival can be traced to a person of prayer, a radical prayer life.

Martin Luther, we just celebrated last year the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, changed the world, changed history, And when you look at the prayer line of Martin Luther, this is from Great Controversy, from the secret place of prayer came the power that shook the world in the Great Reformation.

Luther did not fail to devote 3 hours each day to prayer, and these were taken from that portion of the day most favorable to study.

The place of prayer was the place from which the world was shaken by the Great Reformation.

And we think of Ahab and Jezebel and the apostasy in Israel.

And James chapter 5, verse 17 says, Elijah was a human being even as we are, and he prayed earnestly, and Israel was revived.

The Book of Acts began in a prayer meeting, in a prayer vigil, a prayer session, where men and women were gathering together in fellowship and community to pray, and the rest is history.

Here's a quote that I quoted earlier in our series on the Book of Acts.

3 crucial decades in world history, that's all it took.

In the years between 8033 and 8064, a new movement was born.

In those 30 years, it got sufficient growth and credibility to become the largest religion the world has ever seen and to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

It has spread into every corner of the globe and has more than 2 billion putative adherents.

It has left an indelible impact on civilization, on culture, on education, on medicine, on freedom, and of course on the lives of countless people worldwide.

And the seedbed for all this, the time when it took decisive root, was in those 3 decades it all began with a dozen men and a handful of women, and then the Spirit came.

Book of Acts was born in a prayer meeting.

Bounds on prayer, and he says this, God shapes the world by prayer.

Prayer is God's singular condition to move ahead in his son's kingdom.

Therefore, the believer who's the most highly skilled in prayer will do the most for God, and the secret of success in Christ's kingdom is the ability to pray.

Now, have you ever asked, why ask God when he already knows what we need and he wants to give it to us.

Well, evidently, there is this dynamic in the great controversy where There are rules, evidently, where God will not move above and beyond a certain point without your consent.

Your consent in The great controversy is the most powerful thing that you can give God permission to intervene you remember in the book of Jude where Jesus is going to resurrect Moses from the dead who was standing there to contest the body of Moses?

Evidently, there was this disputing over the body of Moses, which indicates when God is about to move and act, such as raising Moses from the dead, that Satan is contesting that intervention.

And when you ask God for intervention in your own life, God then has permission to move above and beyond that which he would naturally be able because he's not going to barge his way into our lives.

There's a power also in intercessory prayer.

The Bible tells us when that story of that paralytic that was brought by 4 friends to Jesus and they tore down that roof to bring that friend to Jesus.

By the way, there are people that can only come to Jesus if you bring them.

They are not physically incapacitated, but they are morally incapacitated.

And so these 4 friends bring this man to Jesus.

They lay him before Jesus, and the Bible indicates when Jesus saw their faith, It was not his faith alone, but the Bible says when Jesus saw their faith.

Did you know that you can have faith for somebody else?

You can pray for someone else and say, Lord, please intervene in my son's life.

Intervene in my daughter's life who is apart from you.

And God is able to move beyond what he normally would.

And when the devil's like, hey, what are you doing?

Jesus says, the Lord rebuked you because he may not have asked for it, but his parents asked for it, and God is able to move.

I don't understand all the dynamics of how it works, but when you pray for your son and daughter, heaven's resources are able to be marshaled above and beyond because of your consent on behalf of somebody else.

Now, it's not the same as them asking for themselves, But there is power that God has entrusted us in, in this wonderful thing that we call intercessory prayer.

God wants to save them more than we do, but it's giving God permission and consent to intervene in someone else's life.

We're told by your fervent prayers of faith, you can move the arm that moves the world.

We're also told in another place that prayer is the breath of the soul, the secret of spiritual power.

Prayer is the key in the hand of faith that unlocks heaven's storehouse.

There's something about prayer and it is mystical in a sense.

We don't understand all the Dynamics of it and it's very experiential we live in an age that is high on experience the Millennials are looking for experience and prayer is highly Experiential I can't explain all the formulas I don't know if there is but it is something that you have to experience in order to know that it is real and that it works.

When Knox prayed, Scotland was refreshed.

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1h 9m

Born Again - Part 1

1h 9m

Revival Now!

3. What’s to Confess

55m

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3. How the First Angel’s Message Prepares for the Second Advent

54m

Finding the Book of the Law

54m

Together- Part 1

57m

Medical Missionary Workshop

03 Prayer, Revival & Evangelism

32m

GYC 2012 Seminar: The Holy Spirit Promise

False Manifestations of the Holy Spirit and How You Can be Protected, Part I

59m

Revival Now!

5. Repentance is More Than Feeling Sorry

44m

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior - Part 5: Sanctuary Under Siege

1h 12m

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God’s Triumph is Unstoppable!

38m

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