Flags and Fire : Special service tonight at Revival Church
People couldn’t stop raving about Amy Smith’s flag ministry teaching and demonstration they took part in at a special event recently.
Well, I LOVE flags! I feel there is a significant breaker anointing on the ministry of flagging, and I want you to understand the purpose and strategy behind their use.
As I often say, we can beat the devil with fabric and a stick! 
Tonight, at 6pm sharp, we’ll begin the night with Amy’s teaching and demonstration, and then move into worship.
And, don’t forget, the most important hour of the week—prophetic prayer from 5-6pm!
That’s not a catchy phrase to convince more people to show up for prayer—I believe it’s an accurate statement. Throughout my ministry, from the days as a volunteer youth minister in Dayton to our youth events in San Diego to the church plant in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and now here in Detroit the pre-service prayer has ALWAYS been the most important time of the week. No comparison.
Without being fueled by God together in that place of zealous, contending and declarative prayer, it’s like showing up to race at the Indy 500 without filling up the tank with gas.
So, come tonight at 5pm if you can, and certainly at 6pm for a night of flags and fire!
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Right now- I’m broadcasting live from my new office
I’ve been praying most of the day—praying in the Spirit, hungering for more!
I thought I’d try out the video from my new office, so come on over to www.detroitrevivalchurch.com/live RIGHT NOW and let’s talk!
ALSO—remember, the MOST IMPORTANT HOUR OF THE WEEK is coming up Sunday at 5pm! Join us for an hour of prophetic prayer, declaration and decrees at Revival Church!
Then, we’ll go deep in prayer, worship, prophetic ministry and teaching at 6pm.
Spread the word!! I just talked with a gal at Starbucks who just moved here from Austin and she is looking for a church here.
People are hungry—let’s develop some great friendships and draw them into the love and presence of Jesus!
See you in the video room!
John
Tonight! Live Video Broadcast
We’re calling together zealous revivalists TONIGHT at 7pm EST to participate in a LIVE video broadcast.
Head on over to www.detroitrevivalchurch.com/live and participate in the chat room.
I’ll be praying and interacting with you tonight as we continue the journey into the fire of revival.
Also, if you haven’t seen it already, watch an important video that I recorded yesterday. You can see it by clicking here.
Partners in Revival : Special Video
First—a timely message from this past Sunday is available NOW. It’s titled “Extravagant Favor.” Go here: www.detroitrevivalchurch.com/teaching
Mega.
That word has been resting on me since we decided to launch Revival Church. Mega-church, mega-outpouring, mega-harvest. We are literally preparing for the big one—the massive eruption of the fire of God.
I’d like to encourage you, with urgency, to become a Partner in Revival.
What is a Partner in Revival?
A Partner in Revival is someone who is holding up our arms through prayer and financial infusion. As church planters with a regional focus we are operating as missionaries in a desperate city—a city marked for revival. There are hundreds of thousands of people waiting for the life of Jesus to find them in Detroit. THIS is why we are here!
It’s one thing to dream big, and it’s a whole other thing to respond big. This vision that Amy and I and many others in our ministry have had seared in our spirits is mega. It’s big, and it requires a huge response—in prayer and financially.
Through the years we have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars finance Kingdom work through our ministry—and every time it was given by friends and partners in revival. People who were hungry for a thriving movement of extreme Holy Spirit activity.
We’re asking you to step into that role in our new mission in Detroit.
As with any endeavor like this, there are a couple types of people that we are looking for:
- People with extreme resource and a burning passion to financially fund ministry. There are usually a few people like this that make a significant financial impact into the mission. One man, for example, donated a couple thousand dollars a month which went toward my salary. Another man donated $40,000 so we could hire staff at Revolution Church in Colorado.
- People with measured resource who desire to sow the amount God puts on their heart into the mission. This group is key. Most people will fit here—and we need the masses to partner with us at this level. It may be $50 a month or $500 a month, or more or less. The amount doesn’t matter as much as the partnership and the agreement that results.
The opportunities for extreme ministry exist here in Detroit. We simply need a massive influx of finances and prayer support.
I’d love to hear from you! Contact me at john@detroitrevivalchurch.com.
You can donate online (and even setup recurring monthly donations!) at www.detroitrevivalchurch.com/donate.
I pray that you receive a mega-return on your giving!
Thank you more than you know!
John and Amy Burton and the Revival Church Team
A life of extreme favor : Tonight’s Revival Church Agenda
Hi Revivalists!
I’m very excited about tonight’s meeting! Remember the MOST IMPORTANT HOUR OF THE WEEK—5pm-6pm prophetic prayer! Then, the service starts at 6pm.
One key element of Revival Church, and something that has kept me burning for almost two straight decades this very important and liberating principle:
Instead of waiting and hoping for God to move and for revival to launch—we initiate and release it. We start in the flow of revival immediately and contend for it continually instead of waiting for it to arrive! We’re not waiting for God to pour out… He’s ready! We can live in revival now!
With this approach, it is easy to stay on task, full of life and joy with a never-ending urgency resting on us.
Revival Church is a ministry of initiation and facilitation. We are calling together people who have had enough of a “wait and see” approach, and who refuse to allow one more week pass outside of the pursuit of revival.
As we do our “due diligence” and dive into the furnace of Holy Spirit activity as a unified team, we’ll initiate a very powerful lifestyle of encounter… and then we’ll facilitate it. We’ll impart it into others. We’ll strategically pray and declare and decree.
So, our agenda tonight? Contend! Be free! Rejoice!
I’ll be talking about living a life of extreme favor. We are in the “days of favor” right now, and we can expect to live a life of miracle after sign after wonder. As an end-time people we cannot settle for anything less—it’s just not normal! The norm for all of us is to know God and to experience divine favor! Very real, tangible, reportable favor!
See you tonight!
Special prayer for Detroit TONIGHT
FIRST: Let’s spread the word about the vision of Revival Church! Point your friends to our new welcome magazine! Send Facebook status updates, tweets, emails and whatever else you can to get the word out! I did the hard part (designed it!) 
and now I need your help! Point people to www.detroitrevivalchurch.com/welcome.
SECOND: In lieu of our Wednesday prayer meeting, join me online for a LIVE video broadcast! We’ll gather a larger group together for prayer, discussion and teaching at 7pm every Wednesday. Just head to www.detroitrevivalchurch.com/live!
I’ll be at a special prayer meeting tonight (Friday) from 11pm-1am, and would like to invite you to join me!
I’ll be at IHOPE as usual at 7pm, and will then head on over to the prayer meeting.
Here’s all the info that I received:
Dear Praying Friends,
Bishop James Williams has asked me to lead a prayer time called Midnight Cry at Spirit and Truth Ministries this Friday at 11:00 pm til about 1 am. You can read the details below. This is an important opportunity to seek God for the metro region.
I would love for you to come and join in this united calling out to God. This "city" church is enlarging its vision for the whole region. I SOO appreciate Bishop Williams larger than normal desire to see God affect the region and build bridges to the suburbs! Will you encourage him by standing with him and the sweet people of Spirit and Truth?
The details are below. Let me know if you can go. Feel free to extend this invitation to others.
Humbly,
Eric Moore
Greetings Eric and thank you for consenting to share with us this coming Friday in our Midnight Cry prayer service. The month of January is our Month of Outpouring. It is a time of consecration when we come together to worship and pray and to hear prophetic direction from the Lord for the course of the new year.
This year we are having special services every Sunday afternoon and the Midnight Cry services every Friday at 11:00 p.m. Scriptures tell us that Paul and Silas prayed at midnight from the Roman prison and God responded by opening the prison doors and loosing their bonds. We expect God to open doors and loose bondage over His people in this new season.
We really have no set agenda. Last week for example, each of our Intercessors, who have been given specific assignments to cover individual ministries of the church, were given opportunity to lead prayer in their specific areas of responsibility. Then, we heard from a visiting evangelist and a visiting Bishop. I gave some closing words of prophecy and prayer and we were done.
I’m looking for you to help us expand our prayer beyond our ministry and our people and help us pray strategically over this region. You and your guests are free to move as the Spirit leads you. I’ll begin and we’ll just move from there. We’re usually done about 1:00 a.m. but that’s not set in stone – a little before or a little after is fine.
Hope this helps. See you Friday.Blessed to Prosper in the Year of Harvest (Lev.25:22; Ps.126:1, 5)
Bishop James A. Williams, II.
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Schedule update : Revival Church
Hello revivalists!
Amy and I love running this race with you!
We are in such a precious time of building and development at Revival Church. I pray you are invigorated and hungry for a vibrant, joyful church. Let’s go for it!
We are going to push the pause button, just for a while, on our Wednesday prayer. I’m considering strategies to help ensure prayer is the foundational activity of the ministry, so stay tuned for future updates!
We do want to strongly emphasize our Sunday 5-6pm prayer time. I consider it to be the most important hour of the week for us, so it would be a huge benefit for everybody to be in the place of passionate prayer in the sanctuary at 5pm.
Also, starting next Wednesday, at the request of several people, I’m going to start a weekly video broadcast. Each Wednesday at 7pm, head on over to www.praytherevolution.com/live. We’ll be praying, discussing and I’ll do some teaching at times.
Have a great night! I can’t wait to see you on Sunday!
John
Newspaper article : Are we ready for some wonders?
NOTE: Watch the video at the end of this message and forward it on to as many people as you can. We are in urgent times.
Here’s the latest article that I just submitted for the paper in Grosse Pointe:
Are we ready for some wonders?
When we consider the Bible to be only a history book, or a collection of wisdom and inspiring stories, it quickly loses its luster. However, when we understand that the Word of God is alive, everything changes!
I’m probably like most of you—I have no desire to waste time in religious activities that have the smell of death of them. I don’t want to pray, study or go to church if I can’t tap into the very real, tangible experience of the living God.
When we can open that ancient Book and the words start dancing on the page, everything changes! Knowing God in deep intimacy through prayer, impartation of the Word of God and continual interaction with the Lover of our souls makes live amazing!
Check out this verse:
Joshua 3:5 (ESV) Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”
Wonders. I want that. Can you imagine what the one who created everything seen and unseen in a moment might consider a wonder?
If we looked at the Bible as only a story book, this verse would mean nothing! It would only have value within its own story there at the edge of the Jordan River a long time ago in a far away place. But when we realize that God still works wonders, and he is quite ready to trump what he did even in that dramatic story as the Israelites were finally about to enter the Promised Land, it launches us into a life of passionate pursuit!
Check out this related passage:
Exodus 19:9-11 (ESV) 9 And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord, 10 the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments 11 and be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
God loves to move dramatically in our lives! I don’t know about you, but I continually crave encounter after encounter. I want to live a consecrated life, a zealous and holy life. Drawing close to God and agreeing with his plans to pour out His Spirit will result in a life that is beyond description.
Let’s do it. Let’s sanctify ourselves, fall deeply in love with Jesus and experience the wonders of God!
Rescues in Haiti : Prayer simply works
Prayer works. If it didn’t, it would be foolish to spend time and energy praying.
Last night at Revival Church, and I’m confident at churches all around the world, prayers were released for the people of Haiti.
At Revival Church we specifically prayed for rescue. We cried out for trapped people to be miraculously found and set free.
I’m so blessed by this CNN report of several rescues since Sunday, six days since the Earthquake.
Check it out:
After 6 days in university’s rubble, student’s prayers answered
By Arthur Brice, CNN
January 18, 2010 10:42 p.m. EST
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Writhing in pain in the fetal position, Maxine Fallon prayed fiercely for someone to find her beneath the ruins of what was once her university. She forced herself to stay conscious. Her sister visited the leveled site each day in hope of hearing her voice.
"I had hoped I would be rescued," Fallon said.
The 23-year-old, first-year student was finally found and rescued on Monday, nearly a week after a massive earthquake flattened much of Haiti. She said she didn’t believe anyone else was alive in the wreckage of the university.
She cried when asked about the smell of death surrounding her as she waited for help.
A CNN crew in the Haitian capital Monday was flagged to the scene at Universite G.O.C. as a Peruvian search-and-rescue team pulled Fallon out of the remains of the flattened school. Rescuers rushed to the scene after hearing reports that text messages had been sent from beneath the rubble, said paramedic Clever Sobrino, who added that rescuers would continue to look for survivors at the site.
Fallon was treated by a Peruvian doctor and taken to a U.N. treatment center on the back of a CNN truck. She was drifting in and out of consciousness, according to reporters at the scene. She was later transported to a field hospital in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville for further treatment.
Latest updates | Full coverage
Despite going days without food or water, victims have clung to life awaiting rescue, and successful recoveries from the rubble of Port-au-Prince have not abated.
Earlier, 6-year-old Jessica Hartelin was pulled from the rubble by local residents and rushed to a field hospital set up by Israelis at a Port-au-Prince soccer field.
On Sunday, five people were rescued from the rubble of a grocery store, officials told CNN, 24 hours after the effort to reach them began.
Three of the people trapped in the ruins of the Caribbean Supermarket — a man, a 13-year-old girl and a 50-year-old American woman — were rescued during the day by a joint New York fire and police department search-and-rescue team.
High-resolution photos of damage | Google map
Late Sunday night, a Creole-speaking man and woman were rescued from the store’s ruins by teams from Miami, Florida, and Turkey. The man came out first, picking his head up off the stretcher carried by his rescuers and giving the thumbs-up sign. He said he had been eating peanut butter and jelly from the store to survive.
As of Sunday, more than 60 people had been found alive by rescue teams from the United States and other nations, Tim Callaghan of the U.S. Agency for International Development told reporters. American teams have rescued about 30 of those, he said.
