Hungry for Revival
About this sermon
In “Hungry for Revival,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, revival, the condition of the church. Drawing especially from Proverbs 13, Proverbs 11, Luke 20, Romans 1, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people.
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Odle focuses on revival while working through Proverbs 13, Proverbs 11. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on revival. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on revival. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on revival while working through Luke 20. The message argues that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Romans 1. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the gospel while working through Acts 3. The message argues that the gospel announces Christ’s saving work and calls every hearer to repent, believe, and obey. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on prayer. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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your revelation i'd like the disciples on the road to omas lord they said then on our heart burns while he talked to us and opened to us the scriptures lord your presence is real your holy spirit of wisdom and revelation you give lord you reveal yourself to your people lord it's not it's not just intellectual it's not just academic lord it is a revelation of jesus christ spirit to spirit lord and we're thankful god that there can be a real relationship with you through the blood of jesus christ that there can be a real encounter a real presence a real infilling of the holy spirit a real refreshing and reviving and renewing of the holy ghost lord a born-again experience and then after that lord the baptism of the holy spirit then after that god anointing and revival can break out lord we're grateful to you that you are the living god you're the living god you move your spirit moves you do new things you pour out your spirit you bring in waves of revival and power and glory you show yourself strong to the people your people that are hungry and thirsty you promised lord those who were hungry and thirsty you would feel and so lord today we ask you make us more hungry more thirsty to see an outpouring of your holy spirit to see a revival that brings thousands of people to salvation and healing and deliverance and repentance lord we pray to see a harvest of souls in our day in our time lord in this place in this region as well as through our nation we pray for revival even though god we know judgment is coming lord you had the prophet habakkuk pray in the midst of your wrath in the midst of those days remember mercy and revive your work i believe you're going to do it lord i pray this in jesus name on the lord thy god i hear the voices of my people i hear your song i hear your praises i feel your love stay at my feet i will give you the desires of your heart i will bring in the harvest through you i will send you into the streets and you will bring those who are lost our word is try like seven times in the fire we will not fear you in this last days trust me i'm with you i will not leave you nor forsake you i'm the lord
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thy god and i call you to be here just trust me my people brian coming soon praise the lord praise your name father praise your name great god now we receive that lord we know god that you have called us for a purpose you've called this church for a purpose god you have called us to be a light a witness and a harvest a harvester rather in this last time lord we will fulfill that purpose in jesus name amen you may be seated this morning if you have your bibles i want you to turn to acts chapter 3. acts chapter three can you hear me i have preached on this passage before i've talked about it but i'm going to delve into this a little more because there are times and seasons of revival times of seasons of judgment when it comes to god times of season when it seems like god is withdrawn himself and then times when he draws near the times that he withdraws himself or he feels distant or not doing a lot of things is the testing time you know kevin shared this scripture he felt like the lord wanted him to share this scripture wednesday night when we were in prayer meeting but this is you can just write this one down proverbs 13 and verse 12. it says this it said hope deferred makes the heart sick but the desire when it comes is a tree of life now what's interesting about that is proverbs 11 30 says he that when it's souls is wise right and it talks about the tree of life again and there's so many things that the lord's been stirring in my heart this morning and this weekend but i know that it's easy when
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you know the spirit of god has spoken to you and that god has promised something and you're hungry to see a move of god and people get saved in miracles and things and when you're going through a period when very little that is happening it's easy to get discouraged because hope deferred or put off delayed extended it says makes the heart sick but the desire and the desire i'm talking about the desire for god to save people to be that tree of life that desire when it does come is wonderful now i want to share this because a lot of you a lot of you've never even seen revival you've never been in a revival a real one i'm not talking about three days that the church put on the church sign we're having revival for this three days or for this week that's not a revival special meetings people might get saved or healed that's great but that's not a revival you know this past week i went to visit a couple that i haven't seen since 19 94 i guess it was and i led them to the lord back in 1989 led them to the lord the baptism of the holy spirit but before i led this couple to the lord i had led their teenage son to the lord and even baptized him in water and it was a it was a powerful time and what reminded me of this because they they sat there and of course this woman had been healed she had been deaf and she was she's the one that had been healed back in that time period and we were talking about all they brought it up they were talking about how all the young people that just just were getting saved left and right in that time period um and and i and i was thinking back on that you know 1987 1988 1989 even 1990 was for in my life it was a period of experiencing revival i didn't really know it then until i look back on it now but i saw so many miracles i saw so many people get saved it was amazing it was like very little effort very little preaching witnessing teaching and people would just get saved they would start weeping and crying and give their hearts to jesus and then right after they get baptized the holy spirit speaking in other tongues or we we saw so many healings and miracles and and a lot of young people saved and then the then their parents would come and get saved and that's what happened
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in this in this family's life and it was it was powerful i mean the presence of god was powerful when you can be at village mall in auburn witnessing to a group of teenagers three boys and six girls and the power and presence of god fall on that witnessing time and i watched six teenage girls sitting on the sidewalk at the front door of village mall in auburn as i preached the gospel to them very simply i watched the presence of god and the holy spirit convict them and all of them were tears running down their faces and all of them prayed and received jesus right there on the front step as people were coming and going in and out the door and i just remember i look back on that and i look back on you know the short season that i took to be a youth pastor at a church and how it went from 20 or so to 60 in two months how i didn't even give altar calls and people were getting saved mandy came to some of those meetings mandy and a bunch of her friends would pile in my car that seated maybe five people and i think one time we had nine or ten people in that car sitting on top i mean it was great just to get them to use me and they wanted to go they used to come get me i mean these all these teenagers that got saved back then would come get me and say can we go out on a friday night can we go out to your prayer house and pray you don't see that happen anymore no we've got to entertain them but he used to get me said can we go out to pray and then after we prayed for a while they would say lay hands on us we know the holy spirit will come upon us and i'd lay hands on them and they'd all hit the floor in the power of god saw demons manifest and cast out i remember a young man who was played on these names todd also brook played on the beulah basketball team decided to come to a youth meeting one night he had just broken his ankle the doctors had said you're done for the season came to a youth meeting that night we got through with our youth meeting at the end of it i said do you believe jesus will heal you and they hadn't put a permanent cast on that he had just gone to the emergency room that day and he he said they just put a splint on it i said you believe jesus will heal you he said yeah i said well take that off take that splint off and i said i'm going to pray these
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