God Can Do More

God can do more in a few minutes than all our man made efforts with our modern technology can accomplish in decades or even centuries. We may say we believe this but we do not live like it. We are a defiled and polluted church age. Sin clogs the channels of God's blessings. We strive for success in kingdom ventures. We plan and promote programs that do not live up to the promises. We will try almost anything except prayer and repentance of sin. Those things are out of vogue. Experts tell us there are new methods that will usher in church growth. While attendance may grow in some of these churches I often wonder if we are not adopting a big business and small ministry mentality.

110 years ago one man received a deep burden from God to do more in his church, community, and country. This translated into many sleepless nights of prayer. After a lengthy season of waiting on the Lord God gave this young man a small platform to preach. He preached a very simple four point message to a small crowd of less than two dozen people. God took that message and that man and did more with him. In six months tens of thousands of people were saved across that country. We now know that movement as the 1904 Wales Revival where over 100,000 people were saved and the revival touched the whole world. We remember the preacher as Evan Roberts. GOD DID MORE!

80 plus years ago a group of discouraged pastors and missionaries gathered. They mourned the sad state of the churches they served. They felt like giving up. Several voiced the option of quitting and moving on to new fields of service. Dead churches filled with apathetic members littered the landscape. The saved became entangled in sin and lived in hypocrisy. Things looked dismal. Quitting seemed like the best option.

After hours of defeated thinking one man thought God could do more. He remembered [II Chron 7:14] He called the discouraged pastors and missionaries to pray and repent of sin. They did so for years and in 1932-1933 God broke out in revival all over China. Historically this move of God has been labeled the Shanghai Revival.

God can still do more in our day. [Eph 3:20] declares it so. Will we continue laboring in our own strength with our limited resources or will we repent and ask God to do more. He could do more in one week than our man made methods could accomplish in multiple decades.

I am convinced time is running short. God will not ignore the sin of this nation and the apathy mixed with hypocrisy in His church. I have long prayed and believed God would send one more great revival before the end of the age. Apart from that there is no hope for an impotent church and a sin sick nation.

I once read the story about William Booth's funeral. He founded the Salvation Army. After the burial a man was found in the church at the altar weeping in prayer. He kept repeating the same phrase over and over again. This is what he prayed, "Do it again Lord. Please do it again." He prayerfully pleaded for God to raise another mighty warrior in the faith to take the mantle of William Booth. He asked God to do more again.

In the same way I cry out to God this morning to send another revival like in Wales and in Shanghai. I ask the Lord to do it again. I believe He can do more than we are currently experiencing. He has done it in the past and I am pleading with Him to do it again in the days ahead. Amen and Amen.