Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week.

We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Bill Johnson.

For more information about this podcast and other resources,

visit Bethel.com.

We have this series that we're doing, the transformation series.

If there's anything that we have taught or done practice pursued through the years

that should cause a real burning conviction in the heart of this

church family, I would think it would be this subject. Because revival, when it has its full

effect, brings transformation. It was never intended that revival would be reduced to a week of

meetings or a month of meetings or two years of meetings.

It was always intended that that fire of the move of God

would work its way.

The illustration that was given to me years ago

was a fire always starts at the bottom.

So revival always begins with a poor.

And if it's not economically poor,

it's at least always the poor in spirit.

And it burns up that wall, if you can imagine,

just bricks in a wall, layer after layer of culture

in society until it reaches the upper echelons of society.

And the part that was incomplete in that illustration is when it touches the upper

parts of society, then it influences the mind molders, those who shape culture. And the move of God

...