The Awakening - Who Is It For? #14 Part 1

Summary:

This teaching on the Awakening is both practical and simple. It is bound to bring changes to what the church has been used to doing for so long, and none of us should miss it. Therefore, the church, especially its leaders, must wake up, or the churches they are pastoring and leading could very well miss what God wants to do in this hour.

 

Show Notes:

• The Lord has given Andy the ability to speak to a group where everyone in the group feels like he is talking directly to them.

• This podcast series starts out with just two people talking, and then is handed off to others who have different roles to help produce this, but if there is anything good about this podcast, it’s the Holy Spirit doing that.

• We all are gifted in different ways and it’s up to each of us to figure that out, so we can find our place and how we fit into the whole body.

• There are so many folks around who can throw a lot of stuff out there that is so deep spiritually that no one can understand, but the Lord spoke this recently, “I’m about to bring the prominence to simplicity that it has always deserved”.

• When asked if the church is ready, I have to say, “NO, not even close”. But it seems to be coming closer.

 

• Quotes:

• When I read the word, study the word, when I hear someone else teach or preach, it needs to be practical, something that people can sink their teeth into and then find an easy way to apply that to their lives.

• The Lord has given me a gift of simplicity, to take something pretty complex and break it down and make it simple.

• I want to be a good steward of what God has gifted me in, and allow the Lord to use that.

• In my time with the Lord, I’m just saying, “God, I don’t know anything”. I’ve learned a lot, but I don’t know how to get us to the next place, to the next level, to the next juncture. It’s got to be the Lord and we have to be desperate for that.

• Is the church ready for this Awakening that’s here? The Lord showed me that the church is asleep. I’ve spoken to groups outside of here about the Awakening, but it’s almost like it falls on deaf ears sometimes, because the church in America, and maybe around the world, is stuck in doing the same things that we’ve always done.

• I’m not criticizing, but now’s the time to change what we are doing.

• God always does it with unlikely people and unlikely groups. God loves to use the unqualified to do the impossible. We are just living proof.

 

Takeaways:

God wants to bring about new ways of thinking and new ways of doing things. A good portion of the church worldwide is not readily getting that, because they are too used to doing things the way they always have. God is using the message of the Awakening to literally wake up the worldwide church to what He wants to accomplish now, and not put it off for some future time.