The fundamental problem that individuals, families, churches, and cultures have is they don't know who they're dealing with.

Dr. Tony Evans says the real crisis is in our circumstances.

It's not recognizing God's power.

That is our problem. We don't understand who God is.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Does it ever feel like your prayers are going unanswered, like they're just bouncing off the ceiling?

Well, today Dr. Evans reveals how the breakthrough you're hoping for may depend on a change that needs to happen inside of you.

Let's join him as he explains.

We're quickly coming to the end of a great book, the book of Nehemiah.

They have accomplished a great feat because they have rebuilt the walls.

But anybody knows building a structure doesn't necessarily solve all your problems. People always have dedications of buildings and dedications of

businesses and all the like, but unless you fix the folk who will occupy them, you haven't resolved your problem.

And so Nehemiah, along with Ezra in the second half of the book, is trying to do the second part that has to be done,

and that is getting the people ready for revival.

But you cannot have a revival until people take God seriously.

Well here we have a revival in Jerusalem. The people are being prepared for it.

This is what we want to look at in chapter 9.

The sons of Israel assembled with fasting and sackcloth and with dirt upon them.

You don't see a lot of folk wearing white suits at funerals, you know.

It's just not normative dress for the occasion.

Well, this is an occasion of sorrow and it's an occasion of pain

because they had forgotten God for so long that they had destroyed their culture because of it.

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