“This (speaking of these supernatural things they were witnessing)

is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

‘In the last days, God says,

I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions,

your old men will dream dreams.

Even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

and they will prophesy. “

“And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb.  Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.”

1.) do something He already did through Christ

2.) do something He told us to do

3.) not do something He won’t do (like send judgment on a nation for sin) because of the new covenant through Christ’s blood

“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,

BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.

HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,

AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,

TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,

TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.” – Luke 4:18-19

“And as you go, preach THIS MESSAGE, saying, ‘Repent, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons.  Freely you received, freely give.”

There is absolutely nothing anywhere in the Gospels where Jesus instructed His followers that they must fast and pray and ‘cry out’ and ‘fill the bowls of intercession’ before they could see a city transformed.
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The Gospels say absolutely nothing about needing to fast and pray and ‘cry out’ to ‘pierce the heavens’ or ‘push back the spiritual darkness over the region’ before ‘revival’ could break out.

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The Gospels say absolutely nothing about needing to cast down principalities over cities before we go into them to bring the Good News.

Here’s a newsflash:  light pushes back darkness.

Every time.

Darkness can’t even argue when you turn a light on.

The trouble is, we’ve got millions of people who have been taught to beg God to turn the light on when He already told you that you were the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).

Seems a lot of folks are putting their lamp that God already lit under a bowl (Matthew 5:15).

Pun intended?  Maybe.

Joel chapter 2 and the outpouring of God’s Spirit has been fulfilled (Acts 2:16, 2:33) and now it is 100% the responsibility of the CHRISTIAN to do as Jesus instructed His disciples upon His resurrection and go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation with signs and wonders following (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15-20, John 20:21).

If this is contrary to what you have been taught, I’d highly encourage you to look into this for yourself.

If you’re someone who has been taught you must ‘cry out’ and do a whole lot of fasting and prayer (for an unspecified period of time) and especially those of you who have been doing it for years—I ask you this–how’s that working out for you?

Are you seeing the results that Jesus and the apostles saw?  And more importantly, why are you doing things that have absolutely no Biblical backing in the life and ministry of Christ?

Ask hard questions of your leaders and those around you.  Look into these things for yourself.  You will see them to be true.

Be free.

It is Christ-in-you, the hope of glory (Col. 1:27, Gal. 2:20, 1 Cor. 6:17).

He is not holding out on you.  He has answered.

If He indeed does live inside of you, you have everything you need to be the answer to the prayers of the world around you.

It is finished.

I used to do all of this, folks.

I used to be the one crying out in the prayer rooms.  I used to be the one repenting over and over for the sins of my nation pleading with God to pour out His Spirit.  I used to call myself an ‘intercessory missionary’.   I used to pray to ‘fill the bowls of intercession’.  I know all the lingo, I’ve gone to all the meetings, I’ve rocked back and forth, I’ve travailed, I’ve cried, I’ve moaned, I’ve wept, I’ve prophesied a ‘future revival’…I’ve done it all.

Then I read the New Testament and found out that there is no such thing as a ‘coming revival’.  I found out that God has already poured out His Spirit and that Christ has accomplished an amazing task by fulfilling God’s end of the ‘revival’ deal.

I found out that the Gospel really is good news and that God is no longer counting man’s sins against them (2 Cor. 5:19) and that He has forgiven the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).

I found out that Jesus never even once mentioned 95% of the stuff you hear in popular charismatic churches today and it all made sense why I wasn’t seeing things happen in my life or in my city. And now we are seeing things happen worldwide that would blow your mind to hear about.

The sick are healed, the dead are raised, demons are cast out, the Gospel is preached and souls are saved—and it is entirely dependent not on millions of people fasting and praying for God to “move” (He is not stuck)—it is dependent on the reality of the finished work of the New Covenant through Christ and the loving obedience of people just like you and me who are no more or less ‘anointed’ than anyone else (1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:27).

The deficiency was on my end—by not understanding what Christ had really accomplished on the cross.

So you get to decide.

Are you going to get offended because I ask the questions that everyone has but is too afraid to ask for fear of “dishonoring leaders” who aren’t really leading anybody anywhere except into more religious bondage?

Or are you going to actually look into this stuff for yourself and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you into all Truth and a revelation of the finished work of the cross and the New Covenant?

The choice is yours.

I only offer you the Truth–nothing more.

Are you ready to wake up?

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