Hello, thank you so much for joining me for today's Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is Raise the Standard.

In yesterday's post, I spoke of young prophetic revivalists being raised up in this season.

Young, by the way, is getting older as I mature.

I mentioned my friend Larry Sparks as being one of these voices.

In today's post, I want to share from Larry's great book on revival entitled Pentecostal

Fire.

This is truly one of the best books I've read on this subject.

I can't recommend it strongly enough.

In Chapter 2, Larry says,

Tell my ecclesia to raise the bar, and I'll raise the anointing.

Raise the bar, and I'll pour out a fresh new Pentecost greater than Acts 2.

This is a prophetic statement that the Holy Spirit communicated to Pastor Tim Sheets.

Pastor Bill Johnson emphatically states that Pentecost is the standard for church life. When we deviate from the standard, Larry says,

we rob believers of walking in their supernatural

Holy Spirit inheritance.

Scripture tells me that Jesus Christ is the same,

yesterday, today, and forever. It tells me that it is possible for

someone's shadow to heal the sick, for anointed pieces of clothing to deliver the demonized,

and for extraordinary miracles to be performed by the hands of ordinary people.

It tells me that it's possible for entire cities and regions to come to repentance.

Jesus himself provokes us to believe for greater works,

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