“Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD;
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jer 23:29)
It is one thing to talk about the Lord and all the things you believe; it is another to see Him move in power right before your eyes, and we saw God move tonight in His unmistakable power.
As we have moved through Rwanda and into Burundi, we have seen some wonderful things. Day after day, God has manifested Himself by showing how powerfully His Spirit can transform a whole church in just one service. It has happened time after time in Rwanda, it continued in Bujumbura, and now we are seeing it happen here in the rural up country of Burundi. We have preached to almost 10,000 people in the past few weeks and few, if any, have escaped being touched by the hand of God.
You can not only see the Spirit of God sweep through the congregation, you can feel the wind as it blows through it. Even the unsaved can see it, and that’s what brings them down to the altar. This is the real thing. It is what you read about in books and stories that happened a hundred years ago. God is really, really alive, and He is showing up here in these services.
We stopped to do a quick review of the past few weeks, and yes, God has electrified every place we have preached in. This is not the kind of services that these people are used to, neither is it what they have learned to expect from other Americans. This is something special.
Tonight was such a night. We are in Ruyigi, Burundi in a small rural church. The place has been packed for the last couple of days, but tonight it was overflowing because word had spread that something special was going on. You have to understand that these people have come from all over because they are starving for something to happen from God. They have been willing to listen to anyone who would promise revival, but have been disappointed every time. They no longer want to hear about how God is going to bless them and how beautiful Jesus is. Please just tell us the truth! How do we get revival? What are we missing? What do we need to do?
The services were exciting yesterday and this morning, but tonight it exploded! By the time I was done, the Spirit was blowing through the church like a hurricane, but when I turned it over to Pastor Noah, the storm let loose! I don’t know anyone who can pray down the Spirit over a church like Noah can. The church might have been running with their pedal to the metal when I handed it to him, but Noah kicked in the supercharger. When it had finally died down, over 70 people had crashed the altar for forgiveness – not for the type of regular sins that you would expect, but for settling for “church as usual”. “Oh God, please forgive us for being so filled with church that we have ignored the call that You have placed upon us to win the lost!”
And THEN we had the altar call and more souls came up to get saved!
How I wish I could do this in America! But I cannot bring this same message there because their hearts are like fallow ground which has not been broken up. As in the Parable of the Sower, fallow ground that is hard and packed cannot receive the seed and bring forth a harvest. The problem with America is that, like the Church of Laodicea, she does not realize how far she has fallen from where she once was, and therefore resists any message to bring her to repentance so that her heart may be broken up. America is not ready for revival.
Not yet. But it is coming. Maybe not the way we would like, but it is coming. God may have to bring America to a point of desperation to get her to cry out, but that is the mercy of God. He did that with the Children of Israel in Egypt because, after 400 years, they had gotten used to their slavery, so God rose up a Pharaoh who killed their children to get them to cry out to Him. Then He delivered them.
He may do the same to us.
Brother Dale
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