hi it's Jennifer you know me from charisma magazine my website Jennifer
LeClaire.org have written a lot of books about a lot of things but today I want
to talk to you about revival revival and really why we don't see a viable or at
least sustained revival right because we see outpourings at times in our churches
and we see you know where you viable breakout for a week but what about a
sustained revival what's the deal I mean I hear people in denomination after
denomination after the nomination crying out to God for revival crying out to God
for an awakening I mean it seems like we all agree that we want revival so why
don't we see it what's really going on I mean God pour out your spirit Centuri by
oh I've prayed that prayer myself why don't we see it what's going on here I
mean you know it just seems like that fervent prayer is ineffective it just
seems like those prayers they just they just go unanswered so what gives I want
to know until I started digging and I started praying and I started worshiping
the Lord and and I started studying revival and you know is it that God
doesn't want to sin revival I mean doesn't want doesn't God want his church
to wake up and rise up I mean doesn't God want a flood of souls to come into
the kingdom I mean doesn't God want to see another awakening in this country
why will God answer our intercessory prayers I mean doesn't James 5:16 say
that the effective fervent prayers of a righteous person make tremendous power
available I mean are our prayers not heartfelt enough I mean the prayers for
revival that I hear are urgent repetitious and heartfelt I mean do we
lack persistence I thought that I can see do we lack righteousness not in
Christ and because God lacked the power to bring revival to this nation of
course not so what gives what's going on I mean I've been to prayer rallies I've
been to prayer rooms I've been you know involved in the prayer movement and they
were all praying for revival so why aren't we seeing revival that's the
million dollar question now that you can even put a price tag on it I mean my
goodness what's going on here I believe really and truly that this I'm going to
be talking a lot about this because God is burning this message on my heart I'm
not letting go because I want a Syria Bible and I know you do too that's why
you're watching this video I believe the culprit is division its
disunity it's this absence of harmony that we see in the body of Christ I mean
I can't even walk into a church without somebody boss have been about somebody
backstabbing somebody it's a sad state of affairs
you know I've long noticed a lack of unity in South Florida in particular I
went to an event not too long ago and I was I had a guy on one side of me who'd
been unbeknownst he didn't know that I knew we had been bad-mouthing me and I
had a guy on the other side of me whose wife whose wife had had been
bad-mouthing me and I'm like praying in-between saying god I you know I
forgive III you know because I want to make sure my heart was clean there's
people all over the place better backstabbing each other and gossiping
and hurting each other in the budget crisis all this bickering and infighting
especially in my region and self-will is long grieved me it's grieved me for a
long time it's very evident and you probably see it in your region too I'm
sure it's not particular to South Florida but recently the Holy Spirit
gave me a really keen awareness of the gravity of this disharmony it agrees me
so deeply in my spirit I mean it really really bothers me I I'm just ready to do
anything for the sake of unity other than compromised the gospel you know but
I wonder if it grieves me how much does it grieve the Holy Spirit you know back
in in 2002 the Lord gave me a word I wrote a read an article called why is
the body of Christ split into 38,000 parts and you know there's 38,000
roundabout denominations in the body of Christ and in it I guess maybe it was a
decade ago or so now that the Lord showed me that he told me this during a
meeting that denominations are a tool of the devil I was scared to say anything
about that because it sounded kind of like it might upset somebody and I
wasn't quite so bold then but denominations really are it's a tool of
division Jesus didn't come to bring an anomaly and I'm not bashing
denominations but what I'm saying is is that Jesus didn't come to start
thirty-eight thousand denominations I mean do we have that many differences
among as we came you can't we just settle on a hundred denominations or
even maybe a thousand we have to have thirty-eight thousand of them what we do
and that's just one sort of illustration of how much division there is in the
body of Christ and I'm not talking about 38,000 religious like Muslims and Hindus
and Buddhists and Mormon I'm talking about in the body of Christ people who
say they're Christians 38,000 I'm not going to go into all that right now I've
got an article on that you can read I want to get to the heart of the matter
and the heart of the matter is I am calling for unity I don't have time in
this short column well though I'm gonna write a book on this God willing
well if God does want me to write a book on and he told me a long time gonna do
it and I haven't done it yeah because I didn't have the revelation but it's
burning on my heart now you know I don't have time in this column we're in this
video the column I wrote on Christmas Eve the real reason we don't see revival
to give you all these scriptures on unity there's a lot of them I've been
reading them I've been meditating on them they're really stirring my spirit I
mean the anointing comes on me when I start digging into these things I know
it's something God wants me to pull out and I hope that it stirs you this next
scripture I'm going to read in Ephesians 4 you know as I read Ephesians 4 you
know my Bible almost falls open to there because I used to be in a very strong
apostolic church where it was all you know Ephesians 4:11 was like the mantra
I came I've got it memorized I can memorize it in more than one translation
but I want to read this to you and you see if what jumps out to me jumps out to
you Ephesians 4:11 through 13 and he himself that's Jesus gave some to be
apostles some prophets some evangelists some pastors and some teachers for the
equipping of the same for the work of the ministry for the
edifying of the body of Christ until we all come to the unity of the faith end
up a knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ until what
what is this equipping unto what is all this equipping that the Apostles the
prophets the evangelists the pastors and teachers what is all this equipping unto
passes unto the edifying of the body of Christ which first of all means it's not
for strike it's not for the division of the body of Christ it's for the building
up of the body of Christ but what do we need to really build up the body of
Christ how can we really accomplish the goal of building up the body of Christ
what we need to get in unity I mean they can build the Tower of Babel right that
wasn't even a godly thing because they were in unity and the Bible says it knew
nothing was gonna study could they can do an idiot for their minds too so how
what can we do and it says here for the edifying of the body of Christ till we
all come to the unity of the faith this is unto something's all this equipping
all this this is on unto something God wants us to be equipped and mature so
that will embrace unity instead of embracing our own kingdoms that we like
to build for ourselves in the name of Jesus are you with me you know we
usually stop after that after the equipping of the Saints for the work of
the ministry part but here's the deal we can equip the Saints for the work of the
ministry all day long and it won't necessarily bring revival you can't work
your way to revival the anointing will begin to flow and our churches will be
come to the unity of the faith and it does I'm not talking about we're all
gonna agree on everything okay I'm talking about the unity of the faith we
might not agree on the gifts of the Spirit we we might not agree on whether
women can preach we might not agree on any number of things
but we need to agree on that Apostles Creed if we want revival not just
powerful meetings you lay on the floor and vibrate have goosebumps but but
sustained revival and awakening that brings lost souls into the kingdom then
we need unity scenes I'm convinced that this
disunity and the but listen to me this this unity in the body of Christ is
causing more problems than III I mean I can feel it in my spirit it's causing
more problems in the body of Christ than we can even discern with our eye and you
might even say well well you know we all do believe in the Apostles Creed isn't
that unity enough well apparently not because we're stabbing each other in the
back we don't want to work together every Church is sort of isolated unto
itself and sure there's some exceptions and sometimes pastors even come together
and networks and pretend to be unified but they're not really when they hurt do
you hurt the Bible talks a lot about this I wish I could dig it all out but
I'm challenged you to study this you're going to see so many scriptures about
how important unity is to Jesus I'm convinced that people are dying and
going to hell because we're arguing over what we're going to serve at the next
church picnic who's gonna bring what and why it's so unfair that sister so-and-so
never brings anything I'm hitting somebody right right at home right now
listen I don't want any blood on my hands and I know you don't either
this is not a game we're here for a purpose and I'm challenging you I'm
challenging myself to be on one Accord look die to self walk in love strive
side-by-side for the faith contend for the faith with your brethren don't get
so hung up on some of these clothes hand the differences like is there we
pre-trib post-trib mid-trip yes those are important but it's not worth getting
onion a fight over ultimately you know come on that doesn't matter that's not
the core of the gospel the real reason we don't have revival is because there's
so much strife in the church that it's holding back to blessing this is going
to be far from the last time I talked about this but I want to leave you with
the scripture Psalm 133 and the Bible says behold look how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity it's like the precious
oil upon the head down the beard the beard of Aaron
running down on the edge of his garments it's like dew of Herman descending upon
the mountains of Zion for there the LORD commanded the blessing life forevermore
amen I'm gonna pray for you and I'm gonna get
out of here taping this video at night because I was traveling last week taping
TV shows in Atlanta and a little behind so I am doing my night thing here but
let me pray for you before I go Father in the name of Jesus I ask your Lord to
help us to be one with one another just as you are one with the Father and the
Holy Spirit just as we are one with you God let us be one with one another let
us stop all of these petty arguments and disputes over things that don't really
matter in the end help us Lord to unify under your banner of love
help us God to just make a decision in our hearts that they they're the
blessing will be then we can see revival help us God in the name of Jesus he
meant well thanks for listening really want to challenge you to press
into this unity thing it's really on my heart I really want to see revival and I
know that that is a big problem so press in with me and we will see it happen
bless you