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| Dutch Sheets is an internationally known conference speaker, senior pastor of Springs Harvest Fellowship in Colorado Springs, and author of several books, including the bestselling Intercessory Prayer and How to Pray for Lost Loved Ones. Dutch and his wife, Ceci, and their two teenage daughters make their home in Colorado. |
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Dutch Sheets Sees Revival Coming to America
By
The 700 Club
CBN.com
– Renowned pastor,
author, and intercessor Dutch Sheets spoke with Pat Robertson about the
need for a revival in America, and especially in the region of New England.
Sheets said the Holy Spirit has shown him that a coming revival will first
sweep through America’s youth.
Pat Robertson: The Bible says, "In the latter days, I will pour out
my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy."
And it looks like God is sending a great revival among the young. Enthusiasm
and the zeal for God is just overwhelming, and we're thrilled to see
it. Dutch Sheets is here with us. You recall, he was here before the
election. He had a message, the Holy Spirit came upon him at his church.
He issued two stirring calls to us to fast and pray before the election.
Remember that?
Dutch Sheets: I sure do. I've been on a rocket ever since.
Robertson: I think we heard from the Lord, you heard from the Lord.
People responded and I think the American people are very grateful.
But were it not for that intercessory prayer, a few hundred votes one
way or the other would have been a totally different situation here
facing this terror.
Sheets: That's exactly right. We have people now in our leadership
calling on God. People that unashamedly are saying let's humble ourselves
and pray, and I don't think we would have had that.
Robertson: Dutch, you are focused on New England. The Great Awakening
of the 18th Century took place in New England and yet, it's been so
cold and dead spiritually. It's almost like those fires of revival have
gone out. But you were kindling something. Why did you pick Boston [to
host this youth prayer event, The Call]?
Sheets: New England has been on my heart for several years. Probably
three or four years ago the Lord began to speak to me, if we don't get
the "northeast gate" open, if we don't get things changed there, we
will not see the move of the Holy Spirit. We will not see it in the
rest of the nation. And on the recent prayer tour we did, which just
ended three weeks before this event — talk about the timing of
the Lord — God had focused us on that region of the country. And
I began to call it the womb of the nation. And I believe that. I believe
it's where we were born as a nation. But there's more to it than just
a natural birth [of the nation], in the purposes of God we were born
there. And the Lord began to say to me, if we don't get those roots
alive again, we're not going see revival in the nation. So I didn't
know all of this, obviously, but I've known for several years now that
this is really the war zone of the nation spiritually. Satan wants this
turf and God wants it. So I’ve been calling on people for three
or four years now, pray for New England. Pray for New England. Pray
for New England.
Robertson: You know, this is, again I repeat: Jonathan Edwards, the
Great Awakening took place there; Timothy Dwight at Yale, a great man
of God; the early missionary work at Dartmouth College; all of those
colleges were dedicated to the Lord, trained people to serve him. I
mean, it was a place of great holiness and godliness, the Puritans were
there. But you think God is telling you that New England is going to
come back to its very strong spiritual roots?
Sheets: Absolutely. We visited every one of those places you just mentioned
on this "kettle tour" that we did a few weeks ago for prayer. I was
at Yale, I was at Dartmouth, I was at Williams where the Haystack Revival
took place, and Harvard. And I know in my heart we're about to see a
major visitation from the Lord, a great awakening. I was in Boise just
a week before last, right after this horrible event took place. And
Pat if I've ever heard the Lord and ever seen something in the Spirit
that I know is accurate, I saw what I believe is coming to the young
people of America, to America. And I believe with Cindy Jacobs who on
the clip just said there is coming a movement on the colleges, the universities,
that will dwarf the Jesus Movement. I saw it. In fact, I stopped my
message. I rarely have ever been so overcome by the Spirit of God that
I couldn't speak. I stopped my message in this conference and I began
to weep and I looked at the people and I said, he's coming. He is coming
to this nation. And I began to pray and I was sort of emphasizing the
youth and probably 150 to 200 young people ran to the front of this
auditorium, fell on their faces and this sound erupted of crying out
to God for their nation. We were all just overcome by the presence of
the Lord. You know, I'm telling you, it's coming.
Robertson: I'm absolutely convinced of it. I think this is going to
eclipse those great revivals, the 1857 Revival, the Revival of the Frontier
we had around the turn of the 19th Century, the Great Awakening. It's
going to be bigger than any of them.
Sheets: It is. It's going to be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands…
Robertson: Maybe millions. Let's make it millions.
Sheets: That's right. It's coming. I saw by the Spirit, classes canceled,
not in Christian universities because they were praying. Instead, I
saw secular universities where the kids just didn't want to go to class.
They wanted to go have a prayer meeting or a service. I predict it's
coming.
Robertson: Praise God. You have stressed humility. Is that sort of
God's priorities, it’s what he's been showing you and showing
us?
Sheets: He is, absolutely. That shouldn't surprise us. He said, "If
my people will humble themselves and pray." I think what God wants to
hear from us in this nation is a knowledge and understanding that there
is no other hope, that there is no other hope for this nation but revival
and that will be sparked by prayer. And so we've got to get on our faces
and say, Lord, you're the only hope. We can't do it. We've tried. The
governments have tried to turn things around. The people have. The church
has. We have lots of new carts trying to figure out a way to get the
glory back. There's no other way. We just have to say, Lord, we need
you with all of our hearts, we're desperate for you.
Robertson: It's not something that some political movement is going
to give us. It's got to be bottom up. It's coming up from the people.
Sheets: God needs someone that is at least righteous because righteousness
exalts a nation. Not power, not all the wealth, all those things. He
needs someone at the top who will not hold him back.
Robertson: Yeah. It's coming. To think that our attorney general who
is in the forefront is a man who is a spirit-filled Christian, he's
known as such and the fight over his confirmation was bitter, but now
the American people are so thrilled that a man of his stature and integrity
is leading this fight. It really is encouraging and, of course, the
president and his advisors. It's a wonderful thing.
Sheets: It's a new day, isn’t it?
Robertson: It is, brother. But it's a new day in time of crisis. I
appreciate what you're doing and I am absolutely thrilled at your discussion
of revival, especially among the young people because, the Lord said
he's going to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children before
he comes back. And this is it.
Sheets: That will help break the curse, he said.
Robertson: Yes it will. Dutch, bless you.
Sheets: Thank you.
Robertson: Come back and tell us some more. You always inspire us.
Thank you, my brother.
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