Is Revival Coming?

Main message: The church should respond to the nation's spiritual hunger by following Joseph's example—preparing storehouses through prayer, sacrificial service, honest proclamation, and patient, unglamorous work—so it can meet the coming famine and steward revival.

Key points:

• The preacher draws a pattern across American history: roughly every 50 years a spiritual famine was followed by revival (examples: Edwards, Cane Ridge, Lanphier, Azusa Street, the Jesus Movement).
• Joseph (Genesis 41) is the model: he received God's revelation, acted ahead of crisis, and stored grain during seven years of plenty to save many during famine.
• Four ways the church should celebrate America's 250th: (1) pray desperately and persistently, (2) reach those others write off (especially the next generation), (3) tell the truth about spiritual hunger, (4) do the invisible, faithful work of filling storehouses.
• The church's mission—not political solutions—is where lasting hope is found; the speaker anticipates an approaching season of spiritual significance leading toward 2033 (2,000 years since Christ).

Scriptures mentioned: Genesis 41:29-30, Matthew