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Entering the Secret Place: How to Worship in Spirit and Truth

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Entering the Secret Place  I remember standing in the back of a sanctuary once, watching the lights dim and the fog machine start to puff out little clouds of atmosphere. The band was tight—I mean, they had the professional "shimmer" down to a science. The chords were right, the lyrics were theological enough, and everybody was clapping along. But as I stood there, I felt this strange, heavy grieving in my spirit. It wasn't that the music was bad; it was that the Holy Spirit had actually showed up in the room, but He was being largely ignored. He was standing in the aisle, so to speak, ready to heal and deliver, but the program was so rigid that there was no room for Him to move. People thought they were at a concert, looking for entertainment, while the Treasure of Heaven was right there under their noses, untapped. Maybe you’ve felt that same void. You go through the motions, you sing the songs, but your heart feels like it’s banging against a brass ceiling. You’re thi...

FOUR WINDS: A Call to Revival and Obedience

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We sold most of our possessions from a four-bedroom home and squeezed into a twenty-nine-foot trailer named the FOUR WINDS. That sounds strange to some people, but there are moments when obedience to God does not fit neatly inside the plan we made for ourselves. Why We Moved Into the FOUR WINDS Trailer Why would we do something like that? Because I believe there is an urgent call for the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and for the church at large, to come out of lukewarmness and get on fire for Jesus. Not a fire of hype. Not a fire of religious activity. I am talking about revival fire: people returning to their first love, praying again, repenting again, walking in the Spirit again, and taking the gospel seriously. The Urgent Need for Revival Fire in the Church The church in the book of Acts was not built on convenience. The believers waited on God, received power from the Holy Spirit, prayed with boldness, preached Jesus, and loved one another with a holy fear of God. They expected Go...