<TITLE>28. Par 122-125</TITLE>L-122 May the church return in whole. May this be a time of searching in Phoenix. May the churches be stirred to holiness, Lord. And may there be a--such a moving to see that the great moves that You start up, and the power of God begins to flow among the people. And then worldly and indifference, and impersonations, and--and carnal comparisons, and--and worldliness creeps into the church, just exactly like it was our text tonight.
They did run well. They come out of Egypt under the circumcision, and in the blood of the lamb, and--and they were doing fine. But when they come up there to another part of Your Word, and then doubted it, right there they stood, and they lost the battle. And, Father, we pray that that'll never happen to Your church in this last days. God, don't let the battle--let us be defeated. Let us lay all the Achans out, and the--the wedges out of the camp, and--and come back to the Word, and come back to holiness, and come back to righteousness, and living for God in the power of the Holy Spirit. Grant it, Lord.

L-123 Through Jesus Christ I pray that You'll put a hunger in people's heart to see that church like it was back in the old days, when they didn't even have as much as a fixture in the church, didn't even put an altar in it because pagans would fall before the altar, and prostrate themselves before the pagan idols. And they was afraid to put an altar in the church because the people, the simple converts, might try to worship the altar instead of the--the living God.
And they'd fall on their knees right out in the open, and lay their hands right up to the unseen God because they loved that aftereffects of the flowing of the Spirit. Set on old cold slabs of--of rock, and--and on the ground, to listen to some godly man explain the Gospel. And the power of God and then the Holy Spirit fall in the meeting.

L-124 O God, see them go into lions' dens, and to the fire-pits, and--and everything, Father. And in the resurrection, where will we stand? They may not be required today to go to pits and to Lions' dens, but God, we are required to live decent and holy, and after the pattern of God; to live godly, searching and praying, and--and waiting, and watching at any moment He would come: not afraid for Him to come, but love His appearing. Grant it, Lord.
We'd love to see that great church called together. And this portion that rests and sojourning here in Phoenix... We believe that You've got literally hundreds of the members of Your church sojourning here in Phoenix, waiting for that time. Lord, they're not presuming. They're filled with the Spirit. Their lives tally out and show that they are. They're Your children.

L-125 And there's some would love to be that way, Father. They have just maybe presumed, and they look back on their lives and see that it just doesn't operate that way. There's something wrong. I pray, Father, that tonight will--if there's any here, that this will be the night that it'll be called up, that they'll not be ashamed, but will stand and say, "I'm wrong. God forgive me, and help me from this night on to really come to the Word, and believe it all, and be filled with the Spirit, and sanctified in such a way that my testimony will not be against me in the city." Grant it, Father.


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