Where are all the revivalists? LIVE VIDEO NOW… PLUS, a call for reformation in Colorado Springs & the nation

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Where are all the revivalists?  A reformation is coming, and the forerunners must lead the charge!

Discuss all things revival and reformation NOW online with me.

I’m on video, and you’ll be in the chat room.

As we’re praying about Colorado Springs and Detroit ministry launches, a key component is the discovery of likeminded revivalists who are willing to pay the price and go the distance.

This is such a key season, and we must be in position now.

I was talking with Miles Anderson at RHOP and he’s keeping his eyes out for people to join this ministry of fire.  Are you one of them?

I re-posted a call for reformation at www.20elements.com.  In fact, I’ll paste it again for you at the end of this email.  Let me know what you think!

Come on into the room now at http://www.praytherevolution.com/live.

Yes, right now… I’m waiting!!

Peace!

A few years ago, while directing Revolution House of Prayer in Manitou Springs, and shortly after a season of city-wide prayer in the Pikes Peak region had come to an end, God woke me in the night and burned a searing message for reformation. We must experience a complete reformation if we hope to sustain the coming force of revival from Heaven. This is that call for reformation in Colorado Springs and the nation.

A CALL FOR REFORMATION IN THE CHURCH OF COLORADO SPRINGS

God has given the Church of Colorado Springs every resource necessary to initiate a fire of revival that will burn our city, our nation and our planet. We can all agree this fire is not raging- and the current structure in our city can neither initiate nor sustain a move of God of this magnitude. It’s time for a radical and momentous change in the Church of Colorado Springs. It’s time for a reformation. As we embrace humility and crave the fear of the Lord, and as we as a city church pursue the burning presence of the Holy Spirit, our corporate agreement and power will result in an outpouring that sets the captives free here and in the nations of the world.

1. We must repent of prayerlessness
   A call is being made for every believer to be immersed in prayer. Spiritual leaders of this city must model such a lifestyle of prayer as our primary daily activity. Pastors and leaders- let’s agree to a minimum of one three hour prayer watch every day.
   ► Leonard Ravenhill said, “Pastors who don’t pray two hours a day aren’t worth a dime a dozen”
   ► Acts 6:4 “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
2. We must repent of competition
   It’s time to promote the City Church ahead of our local Church. Are we willing to lose people, money, our ministries and our reputations in order for God’s corporate dream of city-wide revival to explode?
   ► Phil 2:3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
3. We must repent for being mindful of man ahead of God
   We are to once again lead with a bold prophetic mantle. As a leader, the primary role is to hear God in prayer and to declare his Word to the people. The body must renounce consumerism in the Church by asking not what our Church can do for us but what we can do for our Church.
   ► Mat 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”
4. We must repent for forsaking the house of prayer
   There is a call for every church in the city to establish prayer as its primary ministry- and to be modeled and led by senior leadership. The primary purpose of the Church is undeniably night and day prayer for the nations. Fervent prayer should be taught and modeled as the dominant activity of every believer.
   ► Is 56:7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
   
5. We must repent of pride
   God resists the proud, and this city can’t afford for God to move away from us. We must repent, humble ourselves and cry for Jesus to come!
   ► James 4:6 “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
6. We must repent for quenching the Holy Spirit
   Our cry must be, “Come as you are and do what you want!” Sunday services should be marked by significant and earth-shaking supernatural moves of the Holy Spirit.
   ► 1 Thes 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit.
7. We must repent for resisting the prophetic
   Now, more than ever, we need to hear the Word of the Lord. We must teach every believer how to hear God, how to steward that Word and how to take responsibility in the fulfillment of that Word.
   ► 1 Thes 5:20 Do not despise prophecies.
8. We must embrace and teach on dreams, visions and the experiential reality of the presence of God
   If someone were to be on the moon, would he want to learn about air or experience air? Colorado Springs must experience the fresh flowing air of the Holy Spirit again.
   ► Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
9. We must repent for canceling services, closing the church doors and lowering the expected commitment
   We have submitted to a deadly and apathetic American culture, and it’s time to lead the way and bring reformation to that culture. The Church must dominate our calendars again.
   
10. We must cry out for the love of God to weigh on His church in the form of both mercy and judgment
    Pray for God’s judgment to rest on you, your church and this city so as to ensure wrong things are made right, holiness prevails and God reigns supreme.
    ► 1 Pet 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
11. We must admit there are demons and that they must be dealt with
    Not through programs and projects but through prophetic proclamation. A unified assault on the kingdom of darkness will result in mass deliverance in our city.
    ► James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
    
12. We must be available for repositioning
    Lets do away with the redundancy of a church on every corner. Many churches in our city should close. Those pastors would then assume more appropriate positions of service in other churches. The goal is one City Church, many departments, unified leadership and individualized roles.
    
13. We must again become Holy Spirit sensitive instead of seeker sensitive
    People aren’t looking for something worth living for, but rather for a cause worth dying for. Show them the cross. The normal New Testament Chu
    rch experience is one of extreme manifestations of God, death to self, prophetic preaching and an unapologetic invasion into the culture.
    ► Mark 8:34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
14. We must repent for presenting a watered down, socially acceptable gospel
    Salvation requires death, surrender and commitment to the plans of God.
    ► Mark 10:21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.” 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
    
15. We must repent for emphasizing what people can get instead of what they are to give
    To enter a church with the expectation of leaving with more than you entered with is to embrace the same spirit the money changers did. We must again, with fear and trembling, enter the House of Prayer prepared to make a sacrifice and give an offering.
    ► Mat 21:12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’
16. We must call for the fear of the Lord to return to our Churches and city
    ► Prov 23:17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day; 18 For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off.
17. We must repent for rebellion, self-government, lawlessness and an independent spirit
    This is evidenced through church hopping and by leaving a church without being sent out by the leaders. This results in compromised missions, a divisive spirit and a splintering of the body. Accountability and submission to authority must again return to the Church.
    ► Heb 13:17 Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
    
18. We must repent for embracing a religious spirit
    Religion is man’s attempt to use God to get what he wants. It’s time to cry out for God to remove our man made structures and advance his Kingdom in our city!
    
19. We must repent for deceiving the nation by misrepresenting Colorado Springs as a significant national Christian center of Holy Spirit activity
    It is not. We have wrongly stewarded this responsibility.
    
20. We must repent for not praying intently for our leaders
    Their failure is our failure.
    ► 1 Tim 2:1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. As we pray, unify, preach the cross, love God and the people of our city with passion and embrace the present Word of the Lord Colorado Springs will be a propellant for revival around the world.
    Written trembling in the fear of the Lord,
    John Burton
    Revolution House of Prayer