Revival in My City

Believers are called to follow the model of Jesus who ministered outside of the building.

Pastor Denny is a spiritual leader in the city of Thomasville, GA. He is the lead pastor of Disciples of Jesus Ministries and a leader in many local organizations. Pastor Denny has a reputation for loving people and for spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

“Revival is a daily walk with Christ” – Pastor Denny Blake

Revival is a fire that is lit in the hearts of men and women.

Revival in a city… “I think it would look a lot like love.” – Pastor Denny Blake

Revival in a city would be like the day of Pentecost… “It happened in a room, but it didn’t stay in a room.”

When we can get in one setting, in one accord, and the Holy Spirit shows up, revival has just happened.

Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven.

Pastor Denny shares a remedy for discouragement: we should be encouraged by the one who responds to the Lord. Stay focused on the one whose life is changed.

Walking with the Lord will lead us into unity within the body of Christ.

Praying for leaders: “Lord, let your man or your woman who has your heart be in place.”

Community worship is an opportunity to draw the body of Christ into unity.

Fellowship with other spiritual leaders provides mutual spiritual encouragement.

“God chose the church to be a demonstration to the world… I encourage the church, let’s get it together to make sure the world sees a good model of Jesus.” – Pastor Denny Blake

You can connect with Pastor Denny Blake at dojm.org on Facebook at facebook.com/denny.blake.528 and on Instagram at pastoridblake. 

Revival Fire: An Interview with Jen Miskov. Jennifer Miskov is a revival historian, author, writing coach, and itinerant minister who loves to lead people into life-changing encounters with Jesus and help launch them into their destinies with God. She is also the founding director of School of Revival and Writing in the Glory. 

Key Points:

“Revival equals more of Jesus in every capacity and facet of our lives.” – Jen Miskov

Revival is a starting point. We must steward revival to sustain a move of God in our lives and in our community.

What does revival look like?

·      "Revival looks like the kingdom of God crashing in..." 

·      "Revival looks like the incoming presence in God invading our hearts and minds and relationships."

·      "Revival looks like Jesus walking around the city. "

“If we have eyes to see, we’ll recognize revival in the smallest details."

Spiritual disciplines are pathways to intimacy.

Silence is a powerful pathway to intimacy. “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10a).

Fasting is a way to increase your hunger for the Lord.

·      Fasting is feasting on the Lord. The key to every revival and revivalist is hunger.

·      One way to cultivate hunger is to fast.

·      "Fasting is something I can do to set myself apart just to love Jesus." – Jen Miskov

·      You can fast to seek something from God, but… "there is something powerful about fasting just because you are in love with Jesus." – Jen Miskov

·      From history we see that “most revivals were birthed on fasts.” – Jen Miskov

·      “Of course I love food, but the fact that there is something I can do to set myself apart for the Lord as an act of worship is special.” – Jen Miskov

Jesus wants our whole hearts.

Family is the fireplace of revival. Spiritual family, a close spiritual community, can help you sustain passion and love for the Lord.

Revival history is a well of inspiration, encouragement, and fire.

Carrie Judd Montgomery, who lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s, modeled walking in revival fire for decades.

“To steward revival, spend time with Jesus and do whatever it takes to surround yourself with other burning ones.” – Jen Miskov

Your one “Yes” to the Lord can birth revival. The story of Florrie Evans of the Welsh Revival shows the power of saying “Yes”.

God uses ordinary people, who say “Yes”, to ignite mighty moves of God.

You can connect with Jen and find resources for your walk with Jesus at jenmiskov.com.

For more information about Jen’s School of Revival: www.schoolofrevivalfire.com

E-Courses are available at jenmiskov.com

Here are a few of Jen Miskov’s books (you can find others on her website):

Walking on Water

Ignite Azusa

Writing in the Glory

Ken Malone is a prophetic and intercessory leader in the body of Christ. He carries the heart of God for his state and nation. Ken is the founder of Forerunner ministries. God is using Ken to mobilize the body of Christ in Florida and the nation. Ken's passion for revival is contagious.

The Awakening Revival: An Interview with Ken Malone.

Key Points from this podcast:

“I would say that hunger, prayer, and fasting are the key components that open the heavens over us, that lead to God pouring out His Spirit.” - Ken Malone

“We can cry out and say, ‘God give me a hunger for You. Give me a hunger for who You are and Your Presence.’” - Ken Malone

God wants you to be married to the land in which He has placed you.                                                                                                                                   

If you want to pursue revival, find people who are hungry for awakening revival, people who are praying … and connect with them. It encourages us to find people are hungry for the same thing.

Get together with others and pray and watch God respond to your prayers.       

Father David Trautman has God's heart for his city. As the Rector of Trinity Anglican church in Thomasville, GA, David works with his church to love their city through serving others, creating beauty, and building relationships.

Loving a City: An Interview with Fr. David Trautman

Key Points from the Podcast:

“God takes little things... and uses them to draw people into community and real relationship with Him and with each other.” – Fr. David Trautman

Investing in your community: A church can demonstrate love for a city by caring for the people and by creating a place of beauty within the city.

Revival is Resurrection: where dead things come alive.

The church exploded in revival on the day of Pentecost.

“Revival is when the Spirit of God makes His people fully alive.” - Fr. David Trautman.

Three Markers of Revival: Reconciliation, Justice, and Beauty

“So often social upheaval is followed by revival.” – Fr. David Trautman

“Revival starts in our own hearts.” – Fr. David Trautman

“If we are going to expect an outpouring of the Holy Spirit,… we actually need to be trained in how to share our faith.” - Fr. David Trautman

Be prepared to share your story of faith with others. Your story is powerful.

“Prayer is this key that aligns our hearts with God’s heart.” - Fr. David Trautman

You can connect with Fr. David Trautman through the website of Trinity Anglican Church at http://trinitythomasville.com/, through Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/trinitythomasville, or by email at [email protected].

Justin Allen carries the heart of God for individuals, cities, and regions. He is a former associate evangelist with Global Awakening. Justin is a prophetic voice who teaches and equips the body of Christ to hear God's voice and release the kingdom of God on earth.

Justin Allen's Testimony and Calling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooO14_w2PNU

Justin's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHq_YCb1QjiyETcclYXe5HQ

Justin's Ministry webpage - Perpetual Springs Ministries: https://www.perpetualsprings.com/

Justin's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/justin.allen.5895

Key points from the podcast:

People don’t need to see you. People are looking for God in you.

Get the heart of God for your city.

Go after what God tells you to go after.

Scripture memorization is important. There are spiritual disciplines and habits that move you forward.

“What you fill your life with will come out.” – Justin Allen

“If you don’t know the fellowship of His sufferings, I don’t think you can fully know God” – Justin Allen

Intimacy grows quicker in hard places.

“You haven’t known God until you’ve wept at His feet.” – Justin Allen

“If He is your portion in the dark night of the soul, then you know that the best that the world has to offer will never satisfy, because He has already satisfied.” – Justin Allen

“God is still God in the delay” – Justin Allen

“The prize was not the Promised Land. The prize was Him.” – Justin Allen

“The delay is qualifying you for the thing that you can’t yet steward.” – Justin Allen

Little things matter in the big scheme of what God is doing.

We can expect to see these things in revival: Focus on Jesus; Repentance; Healings; Miracles; Manifestations of the Presence of God; the Apostolic and the Prophetic working hand in hand.

Carrying Revival: An Interview with Kris Kildosher. Kris Kildosher is a close friend of Jesus. Kris ministers powerfully through God’s love. He has over 12 years of experience as a traveling missionary, preacher, church planter and ministry school founder. He trains, equips, and activates believers to demonstrate the love of God in practical ways.

Key Points:

Kris shares stories of revival and encounter with the love of Jesus.

Revival is returning back to the one who bring life, Jesus.

“When we get overwhelmed and fall madly in love with the One who’s been in love with us from the beginning, the one who died for us… Falling in love with that Savior is revival.” – Kris Kildosher

“Revival is centered around the revelation of Jesus Christ in our day.” – Kris Kildosher

“We are called to make disciples of individuals… and we are called to transform culture.” – Kris Kildosher

“Revival looks like reform in culture, like laws changing because people’s hearts’ desires have changed. It looks like an openness to the gospel. It looks like people coming out of drugs and addictions… and crimes diminishing.” – Kris Kildosher

“Everything that we do must be motivated by love.” – Kris Kildosher

Jesus call us to love. To love Jesus is to obey Him.

“Love is connected to obedience.” – Kris Kildosher

“We can only love to the degree that we know that we are loved.” – Kris Kildosher

“We miss out on something personally when we don’t partner with His love for people.” – Kris Kildosher

You can follow and connect with Kris at Kriskildosher.com or on Facebook.

Praying for a City: An Interview with Tara Wentworth. Tara Wentworth has been a bi-vocational minister and businesswoman for most of her life. She is also an author and missionary, having served in international missions for many years. She is a founding board member of Community Transformation Inc., a multi-racial, multi-denominational group of men and women who promote prayer, partnership, and unity within the body of Christ. Tara is community leader with a passion for missions, prayer, and revival.

KEY POINTS:

Tara encourages listeners concerning:

The significance of a life of prayer.

The sustaining personal impact of a revival experience.

Supernatural experiences of healing and deliverance in revival.

Her call to minister in her hometown.

Leading prayer in a city.

Journaling in prayer.

“Informed praying is good, but you can go a step further and get into a place of intimacy, which is just incredible.” – Tara Wentworth

The way you develop your prayer life to become more effective is through intimacy and through abiding in Him.” – Tara Wentworth

Effective prayer involves “communing with God in such a way that you are feeling his heart”. – Tara Wentworth

“Awakening is when the church begins to realize who they are.” – Tara Wentworth

Tara has authored:

Love Never Fails: The More Excellent Way – available on Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com/Love-Never-Fails-More-Excellent-dp-B08B39QPDV/dp/B08B39QPDV/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1594880296

The LORD of ANGEL ARMIES – available through Tara at [email protected].

Vision for Revival: An Interview with Pastor Jamie Nunnally. Pastor Jamie is a musician, songwriter, speaker, writer, and spiritual leader in Thomasville, GA. He is the visionary lead pastor of Victory Fellowship Church, where they are experiencing revival with evidence of healings, salvations, and rededications. Pastor Jamie pursues revival and awakening by pursuing Jesus. He has a love for his city and insight for all who are willing to make revival a way of life. 

KEY POINTS:

Revival is a person. His name is Jesus.

“Revival is Jesus Christ working in and through His church” – Jamie Nunnally

We experience revival in personal relationship with Jesus.

You can listen to Jamie’s song Revival here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCEO6XjbuM

To bring revival in your sphere of influence, you should get in an environment of revival. Travel if you need to; it is worth the effort.

“So much of the kingdom of God is caught, not taught” – Jamie Nunnally

Ask God to give you love for your city.

Unity pleases God. We can experience joy in the Holy Spirit as we pursue unity in the body of Christ.

True unity requires a personal commitment.

Ways you can connect with Jamie:

https://www.facebook.com/jamienunnally/

https://jamienunnally.com/

http://www.vfcthomasville.org/

Moving Forward in Unity: an interview with Pastor Ricky Monroe. Pastor Ricky is a spiritual leader in the city of Thomasville GA. He is District Elder and pastor of Mount Sinai Apostolic Church of Thomasville GA. Pastor Ricky has a passion for unity in the body of Christ. He is a leader in worship, ministry of the Word, and the love of God for the city.

Key points:

“Unity is the great power that moves the church, that moves a city, and moves a nation.” – Pastor Ricky Monroe

“We supply the unity and [the Lord] supplies the Spirit and the Power to go forward.” - Pastor Ricky Monroe

It is particularly important “to see the leaders [of diverse church congregations] connecting in relationship, in unity as friends,” because it shows that all of us are a part of the body of Christ. This unity is a testimony to the community and the world.

Unity begins in small groups.

“Even in these times, revival is still ready to break out. Even in these difficult times, in these changing times that we’re in, God is still wanting to do something magnificent. And He is going to do something magnificent through everything that we’re going through.” - Pastor Ricky Monroe

“The thing that puts us on the cusp of revival is repentance… Repentance keeps you in the presence of God” - Pastor Ricky Monroe

“In repentance, … I get rid of everything that is keeping me out of the presence of God, that’s keeping me out of fellowship with my brothers and my sisters. So, I’ve let the devil know that I’ll not allow him to cause superficial things or carnal things to keep me from the greater spiritual thing: which is revival for me, which is revival for my church, which is revival for my city, which is revival for my community, which is revival for the nation; so then, the Lord can see that He has a people who can re-remember who He is and [He can] come in a do a great thing.” - Pastor Ricky Monroe

Seeking Community Transformation through United Prayer: an interview with Doug Silvis. Doug is the founder and chairman of the board of Community Transformation Inc, an association of pastors and ministry leaders who have been facilitating prayer in Thomasville, GA since 2000. Doug is a respected Christian attorney with a calling from God. He has a heart to pursue revival and awakening.

Doug recognized that he was called by God at a young age, but God shifted the focus of that calling through the years.

As a non-clergy leader, Doug has been effective in bringing pastors and marketplace leaders together for prayer. Along with his board of directors, Doug has led the National Day of Prayer event in his city for 29 years. Cultivating unity across races and denominations, Community Transformation Inc. has been a significant force to help the city through several potential crises. Quarterly prayer summits, monthly pastor lunches, and weekly prayer have forged unity in their diverse group of community leaders.

Key points:

·       We should expect revival and awakening to affect every sector of a community.

·       Do not to despise the day of small beginnings (from Zechariah 4:10) A guiding word from the Lord for Doug has been “Be faithful in small things and I will make you ruler over much” (from Matthew 25:23).

·       True unity begins with one-on-one relationships.

·       “It’s great to say that I’m in unity with you; but if I don’t eat with you and don’t do things with you, are we really in unity?” – Doug Silvis

·       Jesus speaks of the importance of unity in John 17:21, when he prays that we all may be one “so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

·       Every believer needs a prayer partner.