Revival Journal

Our 6th Annual Pastors and Wives Conference in Kilgoris Kenya ended today with the tears flowing like a river. Many pastors and their wives were greatly ministered to by the Holy Spirit during the last three days. I am so thankful God has opened the door for us to partner with these precious people! As I stated on a Facebook post, when the pastor and his/her family can be encouraged, it’s always a good thing!

Each August since 1982, God has done something significant in my heart, life and ministry. The number eight in Scripture is the number of a new beginning. And this August God did not disappoint me!

While I have missed my family so much, I am also going to miss Kenya and the Maasai pastors and churches we have gotten deeper involved with. I am thankful for the over 500 people who have given their lives to Jesus over the past month. I am thankful for the hundreds who have been baptized in the Holy Spirit in the past month. I am thankful for the thousands, yes the thousands who have responded to the altar calls during the crusades and conventions we have been a part of in the last month. I am thankful for the forty-six pastors who completed the second series of training sessions we are a part of in Kilgoris. And am I thankful for the fresh anointing I feel has been deposited in my life during this month of new beginnings. And I am very thankful to God for the hunger and thirst I have seen demonstrated in people’s lives during the last month!

It really has been a month of new beginnings for me! While I am kind of sad to leave, I can leave knowing I’ll be back in three months. And we’ll do it all over again! Taking part in the 9th Annual Transmara Convention; and taking part in our third session of the Maasai Vocational Training Center.

I’m very excited to be able to spend the next few days with my wife and family! I am very thankful for their prayers, support and understanding of the call of God that is on our lives during this season.

And thank you for your prayers and support of Revival Now Ministries world wide outreach!

We have some dates available for ministry this Fall and in 2011. We would love the opportunity to come share revival, or simply tell about what God is doing in the Maasailand of Kenya. Send me an email to david at revivalnow.org.

Asante’ Sana from Kenya!

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It has truly been an incredible month for us in Kenya! The last couple of days we have had the opportunity to rest for the first time since we arrived here on July 28th. We have also had the opportunity to play soccer two days with the boys from the Maasai Christian Academy. I have realized I’m too old; plus the fact we are at 6,000 feet above sea level, I think I also need oxygen!

On Thursday of last week something very distinct happened in the Spirit realm. As I ministered at the IMU Nairobi Maasai Convention, I was thinking to myself, this is really not connecting… When I gave the altar call over 800 people came running to the altar; and the cry of intercession for the Glory of God to come down sounded like a freight train passing by!

Friday back at the Narok Conference it was the same. Saturday at the Nairobi Convention it happened again between 800-1,000 people came running to the altar crying out to Jesus! Sunday we completed the Narok convention as once again many hundreds of people came running to the altar to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. To God Be The Glory!!!!!

Since we have been in Kenya revival has broken out at Church of His Presence in Daphne. This church is led by Pastor John Kilpatrick who oversaw the Brownsville Revival. I have been saying for several years, God wanted Alabama to lead the way in the coming revival. And now it is happening!

But revival has also broken out in Austin Texas, Kansas City Missouri, Dayton Tennessee, and a couple of places in New England from what I can gather. But note: this move of God and the coming move of the Spirit will not be for one church or one city or one state or one denominational group! This move of the Spirit will be to help us in reaping the Harvest!

The time is now! No more crazy antics; no more manipulation! No more stupid preacher tricks! Give us the uncompromised Word of God and the genuine Power of the Holy Spirit will come!

And it shall come to pass in the last days says God I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh….

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By the time I post this it will be mid afternoon in the U.S. but late at night here in Narok Kenya where we are preparing to take part in two different huge Maasai Conventions that are going on simultaneously.

We completed our outreach in Lodwar, Turkanna Kenya on Sunday with literally a Holy Ghost Explosion!

We were invited to speak Sunday morning at a local radio station at 6:30am then two morning services at two different churches. Many responded to the altar calls in both churches, some for salvation, some for rededication.

The afternoon crusade closed outdoors in the center of town with over 3,000 in attendance and at least 80 people giving their lives to Jesus! Both Saturday and Sunday there were at least five different Turkanna women who could not speak any English or Swahili that came forward to receive Jesus. What makes this so powerful was the fact that the message was translated into Swahili only. They didn’t understand a word that was being spoken; but they understood the conviction of the Holy Spirit!

In the closing service of the Unity Revival meeting our Turkanna team tag team preached on the Power of the Holy Spirit. Over 100 people came forward and almost every one of the received the Holy Spirit Baptism. At one time there were about 40 people lying on the floor speaking in another language from heaven. No one pushing…no one screaming in their ears…no one trying to teach them how to speak in tongues; just a sovereign move of God.

As we ended the service there was so much joy in the place I literally thought the roof was going to blow off. I was reminded of the Scripture in Acts 8:8 speaking of Philip‘s ministry in Samaria …and there was great joy in that city…

Thank you once again for your continued prayers and for your financial support!

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We are well over half way through our August Kenya Ministry trip. When it’s done it will be thirty-five days of intense ministry to pastors, leaders, local churches and towns with crusades seminars and revival meetings.

I have had limited Internet access and a full schedule so basically all I have had time and energy for is a quick update on Facebook. But the last three weeks have been amazing!

We ended our second session of the Maasai Vocational Training Center in Kilgoris with 46 pastors from many different denominations. I will know exactly how many groups were involved when I get back to Kilgoris on August 23rd.

Thursday August 12, we traveled to Lodwar, Turkanna Kenya a very arid area in northern Kenya. We went from the Garden of Eden to the desert. 103 degrees every day; very dry and very dusty. But the Presence of God has been falling like fire!

In our first service in the outdoor crusade on Thursday we saw over 20 people give their lives to Jesus and around 100 come for prayer for various ailments. On Friday at the crusade seven more came forward for salvation. Three of these were Turkanna women who do not speak English or Swahili. Since the message was not translated into Turkanna, the Holy Spirit gave them the translation and they came forward being convicted by the Holy Ghost who knows no language barrier!

While these are not Rheinhard Bonnke numbers, they are still 27 less people going to hell.

God is so cool.

Dozens more came forward for prayer and three different women testified of healing. One woman was having difficulty breathing and was about to go to the hospital when we called for the sick to be prayed for. Hands were laid on her and she began to weep and weep as Jesus touched her body and saved her a hospital bill.

Another young girl was very sick with fever and had gone to the drug store for some medicine but didn’t have the money to buy anything. She too testified she was about to go home she was trembling so bad from fever when she received prayer and God instantly touched her body and the fever left. She left the crusade grounds looking like any healthy young woman should look like.

There has been a bad problem in Kenya with evangelists and preachers faking healings in crusades. I have spoken out against this several times this trip while we have been in Kenya. This is another export from the United States that needs to be shot with a missile.

God help us get back to true Christianity and the true Power of the Holy Spirit. Not only in Kenya, but in the United States as well!

We end our time in Turkanna on Sunday night with prayerfully a Holy Ghost explosion. People are coming to the Lord. People are being healed. Pastors and leaders are being equipped and encouraged. And hopefully Jesus is receiving all the Glory.

The warfare has been intense, the heat has been oppressive (no air conditioning), but the Holy Spirit is moving showing the Glory of our Father.

Thank you for believing in us! And thank you for covering us in prayer!

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We are continuing to see the Spirit of God grace us in our third week of ministry and our second full week of the Maasai Pastors Training.

On Sunday each one of our team members ministered in different churches around Kilgoris. In the service I was in at Tabernacle Revival Ministry, at least ten people gave their lives to Jesus and then the altar filled with people who were being touched by God. The Day of Salvation and revival has definitely NOT passed away!

We also began our second full week of Pastors Training continuing the Authority of the Believer, New Testament 1 & 2 and Acts. The Holy Spirit is brooding over each meeting in a distinct and powerful way.

There is a continuing unity that is among the pastors and churches of this area across denominational lines that is more distinct than anywhere I have been in many years. That doesn’t mean there are not some struggles; but I see a willingness to work through conflict that is commendable.

Thursday Ken Haley and I travel to Lodwar, Turkanna where we will conduct a crusade and pastors seminar through Sunday. The following week we are taking part in two different Conventions that are expecting approximately 10,000 to be in attendance.

Thank you to all our friends and partners that have sown into this trip. I cannot thank you enough for helping us speak into the lives of these men and women of God who are also reaching into many unreached areas of Maasai in both Kenya and Tanzania. They want me to say thank you from Kilgoris Kenya!

Karibou Sana!

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The third day of classes at the Maasai Vocational Training Center were once again covered with a sweet Presence of the Lord. Over 40 pastors and some of their wives joined us as we continue to study the Authority of the Believer, The Book of Acts and New Testament 1 and 2.

During my study for the Book of Acts I came across this quote: One of the greatest sins of the Old Testament was that fathers were to love their sons and daughters and teach them the ways and the commands of God: and the did not!

This is all the more reason there needs to be a return to spiritual fatherhood…and not simply mentoring and coaching.

I know people think I’m against everything and for nothing, but I have observed a couple of interesting things about some coaches:

Coaches go where the money and the fame and the TV package and the perks are greatest; and they will coach you for at least a one time “offering” of $250.00 and you must buy all their books and tapes and CD’s (sorry, I forgot cassette tapes are gone). But of course, you get a 10% discount.

Fathers (real fathers) will be with you for free. Because they are your father.

And a real father will never go anywhere for very long that he can’t take his children with him. A real father says if my kids can’t come, I don’t need to be there.

A coach or mentor may teach you how to pray; a spiritual father will not only teach you but will take the time to pray with you and for you.

I’m convinced one of the goals of the Gospel is to re-establish God’s will for the family. God’s will is ONE MAN be married to ONE WOMAN. Now that another activist judge has overturned California’s Proposition 8 that the voters in California voted to ban gay marriage, the flood gate is opening for us as Christian people to be severely persecuted if we are against gay marriage. All the more reason for God to restore the spirit of Elijah that will turn the heart of the fathers to the children; so the heart of the children will turn to the fathers so the earth can have the current curse lifted form it.

And please don’t tell me I’m a bigot; I have ministered to hundred of homosexuals in my travels around the world. I love their souls; but I can not condone their sin. And friends, there are some things that are still sin. And that’s not hate speech.

I have been preaching since 1980 that there will come a day in America in which true Christian believers will be severely persecuted and in the minority for standing for truth. Many Christian people are afraid of being branded as divisive so they will vote for activist judges, they will vote politicians into office who support abortion, gay rights and will say nothing when Islam builds a mosque at Ground Zero.

All in the name of political…and religious correctness.

People laughed and made fun of me then; and they do now. But this is no longer a laughing matter. Does common sense ever exist anymore?

Call me out of touch.

Call me an old fogey.

Call me a right wing nut.

The first disciples were crucified, cut in two pieces, boiled in oil and left on islands to die, crucified upside down and counted it an honor for the Glory of God.

What makes us think that because we are Americans we deserve anything better?

You know why younger generations like the watered down version of church? Fathers have not given them anything to live for…aim for…or die for.

I know this won’t help my offerings this month. But I do not apologize.
God, give us a return of spiritual fathers and mothers that will teach us to persevere…even unto death.

Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to have eternal life. Not by good works. Not by blowing yourself up. But by recieving His Blood applied to your sins as payment in full.

Let the Fire Fall!!!!!

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The story of Esther is a powerful prophecy to women of every culture and every generation that God does not look at women as second-class people. Religion and certain countries may feel women and girls are inferior, but they are not inferior in the eyes of God.

God took a simple orphan Jewish girl who was a virtual unknown in both Jewish society and the Persian kingdom, gave her favor and promotion until she was selected from the parade of virgins to be the next queen of Persia.

After she was selected Queen, Haman came to power and secretly hatched a plan that would become a law that on a certain day all the Jewish people, both men and women boys and girls would be massacred in the 127 provinces. Modecai then confronted Esther with a reality check in these words: don’t think you will escape just because you are in the palace! Who knows? Maybe you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

While we celebrate Esther’s bravery, her purity, her perseverance; there is someone in this story we don’t hear much about: Modecai. I am convinced the man behind Esther’s success was not Hatch the chief of the parade of virgins. It was Modecai!

Esther would have forever remained Hadassah had there not been a Modecai to take her in after her parents death. Modecai raised her, instructed her in character and integrity and purity of heart and body. And while Esther is the only book in the Bible that doesn’t directly mention God’s name, you can see throughout the narrative Modecai poured the scriptures and faith in Jehovah into her life.

I believe there is a generation God is raising up with an Esther anointing. Both men and women of purity, holiness, righteousness, character and integrity who will not march to the voice of the spirit of the age nor the spirit of religion, but they have been tested and tried in the Word of God and bathed themselves in the power of the Holy Spirit that will lay down their lives for the completion of the Gospel to our generation!

But they cannot do it without the Modecai’s coming forth!

Are we doing ministry to simply be discovered? Or are we sincerely allowing God to develop us into the men and women HE wants us to be?

I am doing a lot of soul searching these days. I realize in order for me to complete my assignment to the Maasai people as well as the American people with revival I must be “discovered” by churches and people who will partner with us.

God has asked me to give up a lot of things in my life. I’m not saying that seeking for applause, nor am I trying to gain pity. I know there is a crown of life awaiting me that is far greater than any platform or applause or recognition I could ever gain in this life!

And please don’t think I am jealous or envious or attempting to be critical of bi ministries: everyone has their calling and their place in this life!

But I don’t know how to say this and get people to hear me: it’s not about us having the biggest church, or the largest ministry or the shiniest airplane or the biggest house or the nicest car: IT’S ABOUT BUILDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND RESCUING SOULS FROM HELL, NOT TRADING AND TRANSPLANTING EACH OTHERS CHURCH MEMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s about the Mordecai’s and the Aaron’s and the Hur’s taking their places around the Moses’ and the Esther’s to rescue a generation that has been orphaned by society, orphaned by religion and denominations and even some churches; pouring into them the Word and the Power of the Holy Ghost till they can stand and say as Esther said, if I perish, I perish!

Who knows? Maybe we have come to the Kingdom for such a time as this?

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Our second full day of the Maasai Vocational Training School was powerful! Over 35 pastors from across the Transmara region have come together to the Maasai Christian Academic Center for two weeks of Leadership and Bible Training in Kilgoris Kenya.

There will be no classes tomorrow (Wednesday) as Kenya is voting on a referendum for a new constitution for the country. Please pray that God will intervene in the hearts and minds of Christians and non believers alike that peace will prevail. There are some extreme elements from religion (guess who) that are trying to change the constitution to fit their religion. And if that passes it will send the country down a slippery slope and will begin an increase in persecution against the church in Kenya.

And if America doesn’t wake up, it’s coming to America too.

Continue to pray for us that God will continue to pour out His Spirit through us!

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Dear Friends and Intercessors!

We began our first full day of ministry today in the Kilgoris area of Kenya. We have a team of four ministers (pastors and evangelists) from both Texas and Alabama who will spend all or a portion of the next four weeks ministering in different conventions as well as for the next two weeks in our New Maasai Vocational Training Center.

Many were saved and at least eleven were filled with the Holy Spirit on this first full day of ministry. Others received words of knowledge and encouragement that is strengthening their walk with the Lord.

We are expecting over 50 pastors and wives from across Kenya to participate in these sessions over the next two weeks. There is an excitement brewing in the Transmara region that is also strengthening the unity among the churches and the pastors.

Thanks again to everyone who sowed a special seed offering for these meetings. Our plane ticket was once again paid for by one of our wonderful partners, so every penny that was designated to Kenya comes here to feed and house these men and women of God who literally are covert ops, ministering on the front lines for the Kingdom of God in regions many people wouldn’t go to even if they had the chance. I’m not saying that in a derogatory way…I’m simply stating the truth!

Today I had the honor of ministering in a mud church in a village named Keshewick. This is only the second time I have been there; and it’s far off the main road about 5 kilometers from the Tanzania border and two hours drive down the worst pulpwood road you would ever travel on in America. But the Holy Ghost knows where Keshewick is! And He showed up big time!

We will be here in Kenya for the entire month of August. We are scheduled to conduct a Crusade and pastors seminar in the Turkana area in Northern Kenya next weekend; then we will take part in two giant Maasai Conventions beginning the week of August 16th.

If God speaks to you to sow a special seed for this Kenya outreach, you can still do it by visiting http://revivalnow.org/give. Pam can get the money to us to sow into these people’s lives the next day.

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Again, thanks for the prayers and your giving to Revival Now Ministries.

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Life and ministry continues to be spinning sometimes violently into the future; thinking I’m going to have more time to blog and podcast and write and record. But it’s all good! People are being saved, believers are being edified and I believe the church is being strengthened in many places we go.

This past weekend we had another explosion of the Spirit in Pattison Texas at New Life Beginnings Church. Pam and I are grateful for God placing Pastors Brad and Ann Marie Morgan in our lives; and God placed that church in a strategic location in Rural Texas to effect change in an area that most people have abandoned. And because of their willingness to obey and go, God is providing a Well of Living Water in a parched area.

Sunday morning the Holy Spirit once again hovered over the service with healing and encouragement. To God be all the Glory that He has NOT forsaken His people!

Today I travel back to Houston to meet our team that is traveling to Kenya for a month packed with ministry opportunities for the Lord Jesus. Next week we conduct our second Maasai Vocational Leadership Training School; the second weekend we will travel to Lodwar for a crusade and Pastor’s Seminars. We are honored to be taking part in two giant Maasai Conventions in which they are expecting upwards of 15,000 in attendance between the two; and the last week of August we will once again take part in the Annual Pastors and Wives Conference in Kilgoris.

Thank you to all the partners and churches who sowed a special seed for these outreaches. Finances are tight for many, but I’m glad the Kingdom of God is not broke! God STILL has an ample supply to finance what He is directing. I’m grateful He is allowing us a to be a part of the action!

Pray for us! God continues to prepare us for the next Great Awakening! Get ready! I hear the sound of an abundance of rain!

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