Post by Charlie Shamp
There is a price for glory.
Not money. Not talent. Not charisma.
But the raw currency of hunger; the kind that drives men to lock themselves away until heaven responds.
In the dead of night, an angel met a desperate man. John G. Lake, once aflame with the Azusa Street revival’s fire, now wandered streets haunted by the absence of God’s glory. The divine messenger from heaven manifested and spoke to Lake,
“The glory has left. But it will return to ANY man who pays the price of Acts 1-2.”
For nine months, Lake vanished. No sermons. No crowds. Only a bedroom, a Bible, and a broken heart. When he emerged, hell itself recoiled:
- Lepers grew new fingers as he prayed.
- Bubonic plague (then called “Black Death”) withered under his microscope.
- 625 churches erupted across South Africa in five years.
- Spokane, Washington, became America’s healthiest city after 100,000 certified healings.
How?
Nine months. Nine months. Nine months with God!
Tommy Hicks watched peers like A.A. Allen and Oral Roberts move in miracles; while he remained ordinary. Until he snapped.
First 40 days: Fasting. Screaming. “GOD, WHERE ARE YOU?”
Silence.
Second 40 days: Emaciated. Defiant. “SHOW ME YOUR GLORY OR KILL ME.”
Silence.
Third 40 days: A skeletal man bargaining with eternity.
Then:
An angel named Healing Rain crashed into his room and spoke,
“Your prayers stormed heaven’s throne. I’m assigned to you until death.”
Argentina’s dictator, Juan Perón; a skin-cancer-ridden tyrant mocked Hicks:
“Heal ME first.”
Power exploded. Perón’s face healed. Stadiums overflowed. 3 million souls saved. Cabinet members wept as they kneeled
Heaven’s waiting. Hell’s trembling.
Who will pay the price to birth REAL REVIVAL?!
________
This is Insufficient for this reason.
My reply.
________
No no no no no no no
This is why this is all one flask of oil . Matthew25
This is precisely why Masons could prevail against Lake's work so easily.
This is exactly why Elijah could be sent into a dizzy spin by Jezebel after the fire.
If this is your idea of life in God read your Bible again. This isn't Kingdom . This is but human petulance. Give me power or I die .
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the 30 years of Jesus and His 42 months with the disciples.....nothing whatsoever. Its just screaming for power and temporary supernatural moves of God .
God is obliged to answer humans . He gave us the earth . But who will actually do the will of the Lord? The calling of the importunate widow at an unearthly hour is in the storyline somewhere , but so are all the other chapters in the gospel .
John wanted to call down fire upon a village . James and John were called sons of thunder.
The Mark quartile holler and holler for mercy and helps. I know from experience thaf it would have been all Jesus could do to shut John Mark up for 42 months while the real apostolic foundation was being laid .
These guys holler in a different way but when they get their own way " helping other people " we see 150 years of Salvation Army and absolutely nothing changes. .....they go round with an ambulance picking up the fallout of the next of Evils policies but stopping absolutely nothing .
None of this emaciated yelling out for Jesus power does anything other than fill Argentinian stadiums . Jesus honours human will . He has to . He gave the earth to us but nobody is any nearer the Son of Man or ladder vision of a complete Body under One Head with angels ascending and descending with any of the consistency of Jesus life on earth . And this is the zöe we have received from heaven to build City on a Hill, a functioning Light on a Hill with lots of outstanding miracles and in less than 400 years the whole of Pagan Rome has shrivelled to nothing, yet it bestrode the then known world like one impenetrable fortress a bit like the later Iron Curtain .
Pentecost is so Insufficient as a statement. It was only ever the middle Feast. It tries its hardest to be something but Tabernacles is the Feast that has the pouring out of water and I gathering built within it structurally as well as Community and something for believers to come into .
Otherwise we get 5 week or 5 months blips of power then a few years later after Smith Wigglesworth's little tin tabernacle ex boxing hut work shrivels up the last lady hands me the key . Im talking real life here . This happened.
Our gospel is better than this nonsense .
Read the Bible .
