This morning five adults and nine teenage students met for more than an hour in prayer. What took place is something indescribable… it was a Facing the Giants moment… it was the start of a revival… it was God showing up, and showing out. He spoke through the students who prayed; He spoke through the adults. Having the opportunity to pray over each one of my students was the most special moment that I have experienced in my life. I don’t know what I said – but I know God spoke through me over each of them.
Something happened this morning… something that has been brewing for a long, long time. For a long time, I’ve felt like there is a spirit of revival among the teenagers in this city. They cry out and pray for a change – and its starts with one kid, one pebble affecting change. Revival is coming; there are teenagers who are crying out to Jesus to save them, to strengthen them, to give them courage. It’s something that I’ve experienced only one other time – in the summer of 2001 at Evangel Temple with the Alpha Chi Youth Group. It’s their time, their generation. What is beyond cool is that I get to be a part of it. I absolutely believe that revival is coming; and it started at Trinity this morning with these nine kids and five adults. They are going to take back their city, their country, their world and bring the blessed name of Jesus to the ends of the Earth.
I went to see the Grace Card tonight – yet another powerful message from God, how He has orchestrated all of these things to come together today… The first was Emily Pettitt came to me and asked me to start reading The Prayer of Jabez, and to begin praying it… “God that you would bless me and increase my territory, so that no harm will come to me. And God gave him his request.” The second was that my students began to experience tremendous spiritual warfare. This tells me that we are moving in the right direction because there is NOTHING that makes Satan more angry than a Christian who is bringing MORE Christians to know Christ. Attack me, bring me down, use my insecurities – but stop messing with my students. And so I started praying protection over my students at night, in the morning… I thought, if they were being attacked, then we must be doing something right. But, to stop the spiritual warfare, we chose to combat it with prayer and so we gathered this morning in the conference room. The third thing was that Pam Smith read Acts 2 to Eliza and Ally, where Peter is preaching and the numbers were added to the kingdom in great numbers – 3,000 in fact. God spoke to Eliza and told her that our numbers would not increase until we began to pray with each other. So simple, and yet, so incredibly powerful. Fourth, happened this morning, when we gathered together and prayed. I can’t explain what happened – but something did. All I can do is describe it, and recognize what it was: God.
The Trinity School is a ministry. It’s a vessel to spread the message of Christ’s love. I believe that vessel was created and started back in the summer of 2001 when I received my message from God. The story goes like this – I had a dream, where God called me on my cell phone – literally, the caller ID read out “GOD”. He said to me, “Hello Brooke, It’s me, God. I just wanted to know if you had any questions for me.” Me: “well, I do, but I can’t think of any right now.” God: “Well, if you think of any, you know where to find Me.” Me: Okay. God: I just wanted to tell you that you will do great things in My name. And then He hung up. It was so surreal, but I remember it like it was yesterday – now going on ten years ago. Trinity began then, when God called me to do “great things for Him.”
Wow. Talk about amazing, right? Something happened this morning, with these students and the adults, who came together for one specific purpose.
I’m going to close –as best I can –with some lyrics…
“you gotta start somewhere why not here
If you gotta start sometime why not now
If we gotta start somewhere I say here
If we gotta start sometime I say now
Through the fog there is hope in the distance
From cathedrals to third world missions
Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave”
-TobyMac, “City on our Knees”
And this one, which has been on my heart all day…
“Revival fire, fall, Revival fire, fall;
Fall on us here with the power of Your Spirit,
Father, let revival fire fall.
Revival fire, fall, Revival fire, fall;
Let the flame consume us
With hearts ablaze for Jesus,
Father, let revival fire fall.
As we lift up Your name,
Let Your kingdom come.
Have Your way in this place,
Let Your will be done,
Pour out from Heaven
Your passion and presence,
Bring down Your burning desire.”
-Paul Baloche, “Revival Fire Fall”
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