Do It Again

 Do it again Lord. This was a prayer heard offered by one person who remained behind after the funeral of William Booth, who founded the Salvation Army. After the crowds left for the cemetery, one person remained behind on their knees at the altar pleading with God to raise up someone to take William Booth's place. The Salvation is still going proof that God answered that prayer.

I find myself praying the same thing again. Praying that God would do it again. Last night He saved two more students. He saved one on the previous night and two others on the night before that. Several others came to declare, though they were saved, they never followed through on baptism. This Sunday we are traveling to Lake Meredith after our morning worship service to baptize several. We set a goal for 50 earlier this summer. So far we are short of that goal, but there are multiple candidates to be baptized. I have lost count. I told the church I will just keep baptizing the next one until there are no more. Someone else can keep count. I ask God to save many in the Sunday morning worship service. I ask God to even save some at the lake who wonder what all the commotion is about.

Enthusiasm is high as we watch God work. Make no mistake about it. It is God doing the work. He is using students to reach their friends, our children minister to reach children, and adults to reach adults. I am humbled to witness it. It is a movement of God. I plead for Him to keep doing it again and again.

Yet, I have the audacity to ask the Lord to do it again. To keep saving people. To keep drawing people to the Lord Jesus Christ. I keep asking the Lord to do it again in sending revival that sweeps through every church in town and all across the town spreading to other communities. I ask God to do it again in similar fashion to what we saw Him do in FBC Seminole 15 years ago in a revival move where 37 people were saved and the meetings lasted three weeks. Do it again Lord. Do it again.

We ask for more. We ask for more churches to be set ablaze by the fire of the Holy Spirit. We ask for more repentance among the people of God unclogging the hose of His power. We ask for more dedication of fervent prayer. We ask for more people to be rescued from eternal damnation and transferred into the glorious kingdom of God. We ask for more than just a trickle of God's power poured out. We ask for a torrential downpour of His presence and power like some of the rain showers we have seen this summer. In summary, we just ask God to do it again.

How Do I Describe

 How do I describe what happened last night? I can tell you thirty students showed up when we had not seen over six all summer. I can tell you they were energized in recreation. I can inform you they were enthralled in worship. Several singing with lifted hands, others eyes closed lost in praise of the King of Kings. I can tell you two teenagers were gloriously saved and others rededicated their lives. I can report our adults served with every ounce of their being putting their souls into the labor of love. I can tell you Eric was anointed as I have often experienced in our working together for thirty years. It was like a night at youth camp.

What I cannot describe is the heaviness of the Spirit of God at work last night. I can't describe the multiple little acts of kindness unnoticed by most, but noticed by Brenda and I. This is a special place and a special group of people. We see evidence of God working. We ask and trust Him for more.

I can report the spiritual warfare is intensifying on multiple fronts. I can report that fervent prayers have been lifted with fasting. I can tell you that we are engaged in the war of winning as many student's souls as possible. I can write to you this has been building all summer toward this coming Sunday where we celebrate baptisms at Lake Meredith after our morning worship service. We have asked God for 50 .

I come into tonight with great expectations. Believing for more students to come and to meet Jesus as their Savior. What an honor and privilege to get to point them to the One who died to justify them our Lord Jesus. [Rom 5:8-9] Justification is not a doctrine most would preach to students. It is where God impressed me last night. God gripped their hearts. He captured their attention. He drew them to Himself. What might He do tonight?