Daily devotion – The Jesus Revolution
Psalm 127: 1 Unless the LORD builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the LORD guards the city,
The watchman stays awake in vain.
Monday night we attended the screening of the movie, “The Jesus Revolution”. The story of the ‘Jesus Movement’ that came about as an act of God impacting thousands of young lost people to turn to Jesus Christ in a very powerful move of God.
From this outpouring of the Holy Spirit a little Church pastored by Chuck and Kay Smith exploded massively in numbers from a mere 25 people to over 20,000 plus attending numerous Sunday and weekday services at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa California. From this move of God, thousands of Calvary Chapel Churches now populate the world teaching the full counsel of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, teaching expositional through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse – ‘simply teaching the Word simply’
Helen and I have been privileged over time to attend many Calvary Chapel Pastors Conferences and to to listen firsthand from Chuck and Kay on the move of God they graciously experienced in this outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit in revival.
Pastor Chuck would often tell us of numerous of people coming to his offices during the height of the revival seeking from him the ‘special programs’ the ‘secrets of ministry success’ so that they might emulate them.
Each time when asked he would give them the same reply. “It was an act of God’s sovereignty; it was all God in His grace’ and man had nothing whatsoever to do with it. That there was no special program or thing that created this move but God.
He would say his response was often received with confused looks as people struggled to acknowledge it was God alone who did all this!
Here at Calvary Chapel Secret Harbour, a Church that sprung up as a result of God’s outpouring in the ‘Jesus Movement’, we continue to look to the Lord for His grace and pray that should God pour out His Spirit on the nation of Australia that we graciously be part of what God intends to do once again.
We pray and wait in eager anticipation hoping that in these Last Days, God will once more cast a giant net, and bring thousands of more lost souls into His kingdom!
To God be the glory!