I know today is Monday, but I missed getting this posted yesterday and better late than never!
Especially when the message is this timely.
Our good friend Pastor Robb Goodman is back with a new Sunday Gospel message, and this one asks a question I think every believer needs to sit with:
How badly do we really want revival?
Pastor Robb is talking about real revival that changes hearts, homes, churches, neighborhoods and nations.
And he’s asking each of us to stop waiting for somebody else to start it.
Pastor Robb’s message is that prayer is one of the essential ingredients, but it also requires repentance, obedience to God’s Word, and believers who are willing to stop playing games and get serious with the Lord.
That’s a word we need right now.
From Pastor Robb:
Today’s Sunday message is titled, “Prayer Brings Forth the Recipe for Revival.”
Today we are to study what the Word of God speaks about revival. Prayer is one of the essential elements that will bring real revival in any nation or country.
Do you truly want to see people’s hearts and lives being changed by the power of the Gospel? If you do, please pay close attention.
Pastor Robb Goodman Sr. Pastor of Zion Freedom Fellowship USA
Please enjoy, and please share this message with someone who needs to hear it today:
FULL TRANSCRIPT IF YOU PREFER READING INSTEAD:
Pastor Robb Goodman:
Hey everybody, good morning.
My name is Pastor Robb Goodman and today is Sunday, September 20.
Wow, how the time flies.
I know I say that every week, but it’s the truth, isn’t it?
I think especially as we get closer and closer to the final day that Jesus will appear, that time is just racing onward.
It is just racing.
I mean, I cannot believe how quick the weeks go by.
I know I say that a lot in my recordings, but it’s a truth.
Anyway, I got a great message for you.
Let’s pray and we’ll get into it.
Heavenly Father, I praise you and I thank you today that you’ve placed your words in my mouth that I will speak accordingly.
ADVERTISEMENTLord, give me the power and anointing that I need today to bring forth the Word of God without error and without mistake.
Lord, I will only speak what you have desired me to speak.
Make my pen, my tongue, like the pen of a ready writer, giving honor and glory to your name.
Lord, we’re so grateful that you loved us.
You love us and you keep on loving us.
No matter what’s going on in our life, no matter our failures, no matter our mistakes, your grace is upon us and we are so grateful to you.
Lord, teach us how to walk in the maturity of the Spirit and Lord to deny the works of the flesh.
We pray all these mighty things in Jesus name.
Amen.
Praise be to God.
Well, let me share the title of today’s message with you.
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So the title of today’s message is prayer brings forth the recipe for revival.
Prayer brings forth the recipe for revival.
Well, that is so true.
Prayer is absolutely essential.
It is one of the most essential keys to bring revival.
And how committed are we as believers to pray for our neighborhoods, to pray for our churches, to pray that the Lord would deal with every house in the neighborhoods in which we live.
Some of us live in the country.
Some of us live in the wide open.
Some of us live in villages around the world.
Some of us live in other countries.
But no matter where you live, you can have a vital impact on the churches or I’m sorry on the people that do not know Jesus.
I don’t care where you’re from.
It does not matter.
But you can make a vital lifechanging impact on your community because you are a servant of the Most High God.
All right, let me take a sip of my coffee and we’ll get right into the right into the scripture.
You can turn to First Peter chapter 2 and we’re going to start with verse one.
The Lord is so good.
We all love him so very much, don’t we?
All right, here we go.
1 Peter chapter 2 verse one.
So get I’m reading out of the New Living Translation today.
So get rid of all evil behavior.
Be done with all deceit.
In other words, cast it off of you, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.
Like newborn babies, you must crave the pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into full experience of salvation.
Cry out for this nourishment.
Cry out for it.
Do you really want to be nourished by thy Lord?
You know, we often play games with ourselves.
I know I have.
You know, I’ve been guilty of that in my life by playing games with my own self and thinking that I’m doing this when when I’m actually doing the wrong thing.
That’s just not a good thing at all.
Cry out for this nourishment now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.
You are coming to Christ who is the living cornerstone of God’s temple.
He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor.
And you are living stones that God is building up into his spiritual temple or house.
What’s more, you are his holy priest.
Through medit meditation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifice that please God.
As the scripture says, I am placing a cornerstone in Jerusalem, chosen for great honor, and anyone who trust in him will never be disgraced.
What a fabulous promise from the Lord.
We all know what it feels like to be disgraced.
We got our heads hanging low.
We feel really awful about the bad things that we’ve done or maybe areas where we failed others or people in our family.
You know, we’ve all been there before.
But Jesus says, the Word of God declares here, you will never be disgraced because of the blood that Jesus shed.
You will never be disgraced.
Yes, you who trust Him, recognize the honor God has given him.
But for those who reject him, the stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.
And he is the stone that makes people stumble.
The rock that makes them fall.
They stumble because they do not obey God’s word.
I’m going to say that again.
They stumble because they do not obey God’s word.
and they meet the fate that was planned for them.
You know, I’m going to say this right now.
God does not desire anyone to spend an eternity in hell.
He is not willing that anyone would perish but come to the full responsibility and accepting the truth of the gospel because Jesus said you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.
There’s no doubt about that that the truth of God will make you free.
Wow, what a blessing.
Woo!
I’m My toes are stomping and my feet are dancing.
You can’t see it under the table, but there are moving along. [laughter] Oh, the Lord is good, is he not?
He’s so good.
He’s so good.
But you are not like that.
For you are a chosen people.
Woo.
You’re a royal priest, a holy nation, God’s very own possession.
As a result, you can show others the goodness of God.
For he called you out of darkness into his wonderful or marvelous light.
Man, once you had no identity as a people.
Now you are God’s people.
Once you receive once you receive no mercy but now you receive God’s mercy.
Dear friends, I warn you.
I warn you as temporary residents and foreigners of this earth to keep away from worldly desires that war against your very soul.
Now remember, I’ve spoken many times about this on video.
You’re a spirit.
Okay?
you.
That’s the part of you that got born again.
You have a soul.
You’re a spirit.
You have a soul.
The soulish nature is the part of you that has not yet been fully changed.
It still has areas of corruptions in it.
It still has areas of disobedience.
That is where we choose to sin and stray away from God is in the area of our soul.
And I’ve often said this, we’ve got holes in our soul.
Holes in our souls.
That is not a good thing.
You know, Nebuch Nehemiah, Nehemiah, my brother-in-law always said that.
Neihaya.
He was ne, you know, Nehemiah was very short because the name was Nehemiah.
Anyway, I don’t know what made me think of that, but but I did.
Anyway, Nehemiah became the governor of Jerusalem when they came back from the Babylonian captivity of 70 years.
And the city that had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, 70 years had gone by.
And I believe it was King Darius that allowed Nehemiah to come back and rebuild Jerusalem.
And what an act that was.
He provided him with the necessary lumber, the means.
He gave him lumber from forest.
I mean they the grace of God was really on Nehemiah and the people that came back with him.
Now there were two tormentors.
I don’t know if you all remember their name.
Sanballat and Tobiah.
No, that’s not a cup of coffee.
Tobiah.
Oh, that’s a good brew, isn’t it?
Tobiah. [laughter] Anyway, they constantly threatened the Jews as they were rebuilding the walls and threatened to kill them that they were going to write letters back to King Darius and really tried to stop them.
But again, Darius put his stamp of approval.
He paid for everything.
Man, what a blessing, right?
What a blessing.
You know, some of you who are pastors out there and you’ve built buildings because there were people that didn’t know the Lord that put their faith and trust in you and what God had called you to do and gave you the means to do it.
That’s amazing.
I’m believing that’s going to happen with me one day.
You know, I’ve been in ministry for many years.
I’ve had a lot of ups and downs.
made a lot of mistakes, had a lot of faults.
I’m not afraid to admit that.
But no longer time to play games with God.
This is what I’m saying, people.
It is no longer time to play games with the Lord.
the Holy Spirit knows that time is short.
We must obey the Lord and be about our Father’s business.
Amen.
Just like Jesus said when he was 12 years old.
So dear friends, I warn you as temporary residents and foreigners, we are temporary residents on this earth to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors.
Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.
Wow, man.
That’s amazing.
That is absolutely absolutely amazing.
He will give honor.
They will give honor to God when he judges the world.
Powerful folks.
That is awesomely powerful and mighty.
So the Lord’s day of visitation is coming very soon.
I really believe that we’re all on the brink of a breakthrough.
Seems like it’s taken that breakthrough forever to come, but it will come as long as we remain faithful to the Lord.
stay on his course, deny our flesh, and be obedient to God.
Peter tells us that we are to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against our soul.
He also tells us that there will be a day of visitation where those who mocked us will one day give glory to God.
Don’t give up and do not ever quit.
All right, let’s go to Jeremiah chapter 10.
Jeremiah chapter 10.
Jeremiah chapter 10.
And let’s see.
One second, guys.
All right.
I am going to start in verse 14.
The whole human race is foolish and has no knowledge.
The craftsmen are disgraced by the idols they make for they they’re carefully shaped with works of fraud.
The idols have no breath or power.
Idols are worthless.
They are ridiculous lies.
On the day of reckoning, they will all be destroyed.
But the God of Israel is no idol.
That is so true.
He is not an idol.
He is a living God.
Every man and woman, boy, girl, whoever will stand one day before God and give account of their lives.
Now, we as believers will give a different account because our sins are forgiven and we’re welcomed into the kingdom of God.
That is called the Bema Seat of judgment where only believers will be judged by their works.
But the great white throne judgment is the judgment for those that never receive Christ.
The sea will give up instead.
Hell, every everything where people have died.
I mean, you’re talking about massive amounts of human beings.
Well, they’re dead, but you know what I mean by that.
Lord, help me.
Help me say this the right way.
But they will be eternally judged because they rejected Jesus and will give account of their life.
Telling you folks that is something something else.
He is the creator of everything that exists, including Israel, his own special possession.
Isn’t that great?
And we are his craftsmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.
He created us for his glory.
Even us Christians that are not Jewish by nature, human nature, we are grafted into the vine of Abraham.
Praise be to God.
He is the creation of everything that exists, including Israel.
His own special possession.
The Lord of heaven’s armies is his name.
Adonai Sabaoth in Hebrew.
Adonai Sabaoth.
The God of angels armies.
Oh, I love that word.
Just imagine the amount of angels that there are.
My wife was asking for angels to come into our town and just move on every household.
Yes.
And I put my agreement with that because there is an innumerable company of angels.
The scripture tells us that.
I’ve never looked up the Greek word for that word innumerable, but that’s a good thought.
Pack your bags and prepare to leave.
The siege is about to begin.
For this is what the Lord says.
Suddenly, I will fling out all who live in this land.
I will pour great troubles upon you and la and last you will feel my anger.
My wound is severe and my grief is great.
My sickness is incurable, but I must bear it.
My home is gone.
No one is left to help me rebuild it.
My children have been taken away, and I will never see them again.
The shepherds of my people have lost their senses.
They no longer seek wisdom from the Lord.
Therefore, they fail completely and their flocks are scattered.
Listen.
Hear the testifying roar of great armies.
I’m sorry.
Listen.
Hear the terrifying roar of great armies as they roll down from the north.
The towns of Judah will be destroyed, become a haunt for jackals.
Man, I’m telling you, Lord, this is something else.
I know the Lord that our lives are not our own.
And and the Apostle Paul teaches that our lives are not our o our own.
Therefore, we’ve been bought with a price.
Therefore, glorify God in your spirit and in your soul and in your body, which belongs to the Lord.
We’re not our own anymore.
We belong to him.
So correct me Lord, but please be gentle.
Do not correct me in anger, for I will die.
I’m telling you folks.
Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you, on the peoples that do not call upon your name.
For they have devoured your people Israel, and they have devoured and consumed them, making the land a desolate wilderness.
Wow, man.
That is something else, guys.
That is something something else.
This is a dangerous place for shepherds to be like this.
How can a shepherd lead his sheep if he is blind?
Many will soon leave these shepherds and go to shepherds who will feed them and guide them.
And I’m telling you guys, there are and again I’m not putting anybody down.
I’ve got no right to judge any other servant of God.
That is God’s job, not mine.
But this is what the Lord spoke to me.
He said that many will be leaving secret churches.
Churches that don’t really preach the gospel.
They will not stand up and say that abortion is murder.
All those things they will not do it.
And the Lord spoke to me and told me that many will leave those churches and Holy Spirit will direct those who are hungry into churches where there are real and true shepherds.
That is so important, man.
I’m telling you folks, that is so very important.
We must obey the Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
All right, let’s go to Luke 24.
Luke 24.
Let’s go to verse 10.
It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened about Jesus resurrection.
But the story sounded like nonsense to the men.
Wow.
It’s it’s sad sometimes us men, you know, it’s just just a sad sad thought.
But anyway, but the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it.
However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look for himself.
Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings.
Then he went home again, wondering what had happened.
That same day, two of Jesus’ followers were walking to the village of Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem.
And as they walked along, they were talking about everything that had happened.
And as they talked and discussed these things, Jesus himself suddenly came and began walking with them.
But God kept them from recognizing him.
Who kept them?
