The Words

Before, during and after this election. TALK LESS! PRAY MORE!

Under the initials TLPM I have expressed a few personal thoughts on revival. More often I have quoted others.

Revival is the great need of my life, my church, my nation, and the world. I encourage you to pray with me for the next Great Awakening.

• The Promise of Revival: Hope
“When we pray, we are helpless, but we are not hopeless.”
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“If there is any one single thing that encourages me, about revival, there is a growing corporate gathering of prayer like never before for revival.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“Live in the hope that God can bring Spiritual Awakening. If there is no hope you will not pray. Hope is such a powerful drive to our actions.”
Bob Bakke

“There are wide differences on the definition of revival, but at least we can agree on these two: (1) The nearness of God. “The nearness of God is my good.” Psalms 73:28 (2) There is always the rapid flow of the Word of God.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“Where there is something lacking in the American Church pray for God to supply what is lacking that would usher in revival. Introduce the Theology of Hope to your church and to your community.”
Bob Bakke

• The Patience of Revival: Waiting on God
“These are correcting seasons that reset the course of a church, and it will never be the same. It seems there is gasoline on the floor and we are waiting for a match. Even with unusual prayer, there is some reason God is delaying. It’s not normal, but don’t give up.”
Bill Elliff

“Revival can come in like a flood, but also like an incoming tide.”
Bob Bakke

• The Person of Revival: The Spirit
“There is no revival, personal or corporate, without the ministry of The Person of The Holy Spirit. There is no Spiritual Awakening without The Spirit.”
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“The whole work of the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ is the work of the Holy Spirit. “
Bob Bakke

• The Product of Revival: Cleansing
“Revival produces a cleansing, not just a cleaning. There is a difference between taking my suit to the cleaners and being cleansed. In revival, The Body of Christ is not an empty suit. It exhibits the character of Christ, The Fruit of The Spirit, to the honor and glory of God.”
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“The greatest regret in my life are the seasons when I lacked moral earnestness. Christ said Nathanael was a man who knew ‘no guile.’ He was a man with no fishhooks, or practiced deceit. When you fish with a hook, you disguise it. You want fish to think you are there to feed them, but you are there to feed yourself. Be the man who is genuine, morally earnest. You are what you are. You are not deceiving anyone. You live what you proclaim. You aren’t morally earnest if you are talking above your own practice.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“I don’t pray because I am holy. I pray because I am not.”
Doug Small

“God change us from teachers to preachers. Demolish, penetrate, and incinerate the sin that resists the power of Your Word. Touch my lips with the fire of your altar that is so hot and so holy that nothing stands in its way or stands in your presence.”
Richard Owen Roberts

• The Presence of Revival: The Saturation
“When Spiritual Awakening comes, there needs to be a full-orbed embracing of the manifest presence of God to step into their city.”
Bob Bakke

“Revival is God.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“Revival is a people saturated with the Presence of God.”
Duncan Campbell

• The Path of Revival: Forgiveness
“There must be a forgiving spirit. The number one issue is unforgiveness. God is merciful. He expects his children to express it to others. PLEASE FORGIVE US.”
Byron Paulus

• The People of Revival: Humble
“A new baptism of humility is needed. A Prayer Culture is a humble culture. All is at risk without it. Too often churches look like combines running over one another in the field.”
Doug Small

“A man becomes significant the moment he encounters God. His life takes on cosmic significance.”
A.W. Tozer

“History is transformed among friends. Spend your life making friends.”
Bob Bakke

“We need a creation of a relational construct, a prayer and renewal canal system. We must do it together.”
Doug Small

• The Process of Revival: Surrender
“Surrender to the cause of God. Never surrender to the darkness. The race is won by those who keep running in the darkness.”
Byron Paulus

“Pain is one of God’s best creations, an essential tool to remind us something is wrong. It can be ignored momentarily, but there reaches a point where pain must be addressed.“
Bill Elliff

“Revival is messy because it is war. Our blessing is not in our effort but in our obedience.”
Doug Small

“God’s judgment is crucial. It is a necessary part of the process of God. Pain happens when we walk Away from Him.”
Bill Elliff

“God’s remedial judgment leads to a remedy.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“There is a difference between commitment and surrender. When you sign a blank sheet of paper and God fills in the blanks, it is surrender. When you read the fine print before you sign, it is a commitment.”
Byron Paulus

• The Praying of Revival: Extraordinary
“Our tendency is to rush out and help God do this. God works in the climate of prayer. Prayer is behind closed doors, and God opens closed doors as a result of prayer.“
Michael Catt

“Prayer is not the side room of the church. It is the foundation.”
Bill Elliff

“Let a man ask in faith. Lay hold of the truth. God knows we are going to quit when we started. Praying is a costly, not cheap. You can’t pray for revival without it costing you. Having set our hearts, let us not cease until God answers our prayer. God does not pay attention when we know that quitting is in our heart.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“United prayer is important to God. There is an authority and a power of God that is not given to an individual.”
Bob Bakke

“Catalytic events are used by the Lord. The National Day of Prayer is one to gather around, but the little things feed the big things. Keep praying and keep joining together on a small scale and it will lead to a bigger scale.”
Bob Bakke

“There are differences between union, uniform and unity. United prayer is about unity.”
Brent Brooks

“Extraordinary prayer is more praying than I am doing right now.”
Ronnie Floyd, quoted by Bill Elliff

• The Preaching of Revival: Transformational
“Teaching informs people. Preaching moves people. It is transformational. Preach with fire, hammer and sword. Preaching does not leave people unchanged. It incinerates, pulverizes, and penetrates. It is foolishness to believe there is salvation without brokenness.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“Speak the Word of God with boldness. In Acts when they were filled with the Holy Spirit they had a Holy boldness.”
Richard Owen Roberts

“Repent and return is the message of revival. It is not possible to walk in two directions at the same time. Oh that American would repent and return. Fast Day Messages of the early pulpits of America dealt with repentance.”
Richard Owen Roberts

• The Purpose of Revival: The Glory of God
“Revival Realties: Its about Him. A Spiritual Awakening is an invasion of the King and His Kingdom. It takes one word to define revival – GOD. It starts here. National Awakening begins with personal reviving.”
Bill Elliff

“The great sin of America is the racial barriers, and the church has modeled what is sinful not what is biblical.”
Brent Brooks

• The Perpetuation of Revival: Persistence
“God is the author of revival and brings it to pass by the preaching of The Word of God. Preach the word and trust God to bring revival to His people.” Richard Owen Roberts.”

“Remain persistent. Remain persistent. Remain persistent.”
Brent Brooks

“As long as we living for the affirmation of men, we live in need of something we should only be receiving from God. Praying for deliverance from that is very crucial to revival.”
R. O. Roberts

“George Whitefield’s greatest contribution to The First Great Awakening was digging trenches between what God was already doing in other places.”
Bob Bakke

“We started well. Now we are much engaged but not very useful. With excellent minds, we have thought more of our ideas than your ideas, always proclaiming what we think is truth and not what you have given us as truth. We have all been in the flesh. In spite of all that is wrong, you have brought us together at this time. There is a great work to be done through us through your word and your spirit. We will be your men, preaching like we have never done. May they hear us expounding the very word of God not just informing, but preaching for an encounter with you that is transforming, “
R. O. Roberts, Final Prayer offered at The National Revival Symposium

TALK LESS! PRAY MORE!