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Our hope and prayer is that the promises, presence and prospects of the Lord have given your heart cheer and the spirit of revival in this week.  We often do not realize that being re-vived is a personal experience.  Let’s talk about that…

Psalm 85 verse 6 asks a very sobering question, “Wilt thou not revive us again…” The writer makes that statement with a matter of uncertainty but undergirded by a hope that He will.  Revival is not a set of dates on a calendar or a visiting preacher coming to a church to preach on ordinary week nights.  It is not about a tent, a theme or a time set aside.  Being revived is the spiritual CPR that brings our listless heart back to life from its’ lax condition.  So the question is, what would prevent us from revival?  Why wouldn’t God revive us?

There are things that can ignite our sense of being alive such as a glorious sight (Ps4:4, Is 6:1-5) but what might prevent that?  I fear we are NOT IN AWE OF THE SAVIOR.  The fear of the night can heighten our senses and make us realize our complete senses, but I fear we are NOT AWARE OF OUR DARKENED CONDITION (Eph 4:18, II Cor 3:14, I Jn 2:11).  When we find ourselves with a cause, or a need to fight (our flesh) our juices can begin to flow more than normal, but I fear that we are NOT ALARMED BY SIN (Ezra 9:5-6, Joel 2:1, Jer 6:15)!  Those moments that we must stand for right cause us to plant our feet and stand our ground but I fear we are NOT ABOUT OUR FATHER’S BUSINESS (Lu 2:49, Jn 9:4, Mk 16:15).  What could revive us?  What is preventing revival?

What is preventing you from having personal revival?  I do not know what it is for you but in these last days we cannot let anything prevent us from being spiritually alive to the fullest. Psalm 85 explains it; v1-6) When we turn our heart to the savior then revival can come.  How do we walk Re-Vived; v9) In His Salvation, v10) Remember our First Love, v11) Live Right, v12) Bear Fruit, v13) Walk With Him.

Wilt God Revive YOU again?  Is He able, yes.  Are you willing?

God Bless You,

BroAdamB

 

These are the final two services from our time of Revival at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Sardis AL. God bless, BroAdamB

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Hello friends, we wanted to share some videos of our revival services at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Sardis AL this week. We hope they can be a help to you.

BroAdamB

 

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Our hope and earnest prayer is that the Lord has answered your heartfelt sacrificial prayers.  You know, He keeps those tears you have shed in prayer in a bottle and a book of remembrance (Ps 56:8).  Let’s talk a little bit about that…

One of my favorite accounts of the Bible is Hannah’s prayer in I Samuel chapter 1.  She is trapped in a circumstance where it seems the wicked prevail and she has been left out in the cold.  So, she prays.  She weeps sorely, her soul is bitter… but, she lifts up a serious prayer.  It is a specific prayer for a son.  But, it is also a sacrificial prayer because she is determined to bring that boy child to the temple of God and give him unto the service of God.  Verse 19 tells us that The Lord Remembered her.

Do you realize that even though that The Lord might seem like he has left you alone, forgotten your prayers and left you with no hope of relief He has never forgotten anything or anyone.  He Remembers.  He remembers what He has promised in His Word. He remembers when you asked Him to save you.  He remembers every time you have cried out in the depths of night with a broken heart and a contrite spirit (Ps 38:14).  My Lord Remembers!

There is, however, one thing that the Lord does not remember; our confessed and forgiven sin.  Somebody ought to shout and wake the neighbors over that!  He Remembers our sin no more (Jer 31:34, Ps 103:12, Micah 7:19…)  All those sins, trespasses, transgressions and iniquities He puts into the sea of forgetfulness never to bring them up again.  Look into Hebrews 11 and see if there is any shred of the heinous sins that those heroes of the faith committed ever mentioned.  Grace covered it all and the Lord remembers them no more.

There is one other thing that the Lord will not remember; who He never knew.  Matthew 7:21-23 tells us of the Great White Throne Judgement (Rev 20:14) where the wicked dead will be judged for their sin and what they did with Jesus Christ.  Many will have lists of things they did in His name but if they never accepted the free gift of salvation then the Father will say, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”  Be someone that the Lord remembers. Pray prayers that the Lord will remember.  Trust that when you pass through the veil of death, you may not remember your child’s name but God will remember you.

God Bless You!

BroAdamB

The Bible tells us in Psalm 107:2 “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.”  Our hope and prayer is that you have told another generation about the mighty works of God this week.  Let’s talk about that…

Our family has just finished four straight weeks of camps. There were two weeks at the North Georgia School of Gospel Music (ngsgm.com) where they learned the rudiments and kids were redeemed. 178 campers came to sing but  around 7 also ended up saved.  Once we reached the month of July it was time for the Power of Two Junior camp and Teen camp back to back (powerof2youthcamp.net).  All told, with 700+ campers plus workers attending the two camps, there were 48 saved and around 5 young men called to preach.  That kind of saturation cannot help but affect your life.

On the final night of PO2 the Holy ghost directed things in a very serious somber direction.  The presence of God was heavy and challenging as one by one men gave directive testimony of how God can change a life from hopeless to Heavenly guided.  Those words came from men as young as 14 year old preacher boy Aaron Trask, who serves with his family as missionaries in the jungles of Honduras, to men like Brother Lee Davis, Dean McNeese, and Eric Brown, Stacy Pearcy on up to the legendary Brother Sammy Allen.

As I soaked it all in the Lord directed me to a Psalm that I had prayed through at the beginning of the service.  Chapter 145 verse 4 was coming to life before my eyes.  “One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.”  Our minds might want to read that it is an ‘older generation’ who tells a younger but that is not what it says.  The Lord impressed to me that it could just be a younger remnant who has to tell an older generation who has gone off the rails what God has done in their lives.  Could it be that the younger generation has to tell my generation that old time religion still works, it still reaches young people, it still saves and changes lives.  There have been times that a younger generation has taken up the standard when the older let it drop into liberalism, compromise and pacification.  Samuel had to tell Eli, Joseph had to tell his older brothers, David had to proclaim to his older brothers that there was still “A Cause.”    Young Timothy had to preach to an older generation in Ephesus, and a 12 year old Jesus spoke words that amazed all the aged men that listened in the synagogue.

As you go forth into the world I exhort you to tell another generation of His mighty acts and praise His works.  Tell that crowd you stand before today, tell your children, tell your parents, tell your teachers, tell your elderly loved ones, tell your co-workers, tell your Sunday school class, just Tell Another Generation while there is still time.

God Bless You!

BroAdamB

Our prayer is that you have lived out the purpose and plan that the Lord has laid before you this week.  How wondrous is the tapestry of our interwoven lives that He has stitched together.  We all have our own thread that He uses to bring the beauty of His handiwork together.  It is all our own.  Let’s talk about that…

I was drawn to  read this week in John 21 where we find that Jesus has shown Himself to the disciples after the resurrection.  The crucifixion has past, the burial of Jesus was performed, He arose as promised and now He has been seen very much alive and well.  How amazing it must have been for the disciples to witness all of this.  I can only imagine how they processed it all in their minds.  But, now what?  He has not given the great commission yet and they have not been filled with the Holy Ghost at Pentecost.  They are in an in-between time where things can get confusing.  Peter says something every country boy thinks about throughout these summer days, “I go a fishing.”  Remember, he and many of his cohorts were professional fishermen before Jesus said, Follow Me.  It seemed the only option for him I suppose.  I want to give you something to think about today and you tell me what you come up with.

When Peter launched out in verse 2 with nets in tow he also took at least 6 other men in the boat.  A bad day fishing is better than a good day working, except if fishing is your work.  They had not caught one single fish all night.  From the shore Jesus calls out inquiring of their progress.  Unknowing whose voice it was, they replied that they had come up with a goose egg, “0”!  This voice from the shore advises to cast the nets on the right side.  WHY NOT!  Well, they went from nothing to nets full in a matter of moments.  Now, notice this.  John the beloved, writer of this book of the Bible, realizes this is the voice of Jesus but Peter did not catch it.  Peter is, for some reason, fishing naked. So, he covers himself and heads to shore where Jesus is waiting with breakfast.

So far, Peter has walked away, taken others with him, not recognized the voice of God, and is naked.  Not a good score card so far.  Then after breakfast Jesus asks Peter the same question three times and gives an direct instruction on what He wants him to do.  Many times I wish I could hear the voice of God that clearly.  Then, Jesus gives Peter a direct prophecy about his future and what he will face in his later years.  Again, if I could know something like that directly from the lips of Jesus I’d do an Irish jig!  Jesus then makes this statement in verse 19, “Follow Me”, and Peter looks over at John and asks Jesus, “and what shall this man do?”  Jesus’ answer, “what is that to thee?”  In plain southern English that means, Mind Your Own Business and Get Your Own.  Jesus had a work for Peter and He had a work for John, but Peter was more interested in what Jesus would do with John.

Here is my message today.  Hey, Get Your Own.  Church member, don’t worry about what God is doing with someone else, Get Your Own.  Preacher, don’t worry about what God is doing with another preacher, Get Your Own.  Hey singer, don’t worry about how successful someone else is, Get Your Own.  Hey Sunday School teacher, don’t worry about what other classes are doing, Get Your Own.  Laymen and little ones, don’t worry about how God is using someone else, Get Your Own.  Now, you say, Preacher, what are you talking about?  Two things; Peter was not thankful that God had given him direct instruction, direction and prediction, and then, I believe we can spot a bit of jealousy in Peter toward John.

I will leave you with this.  Peter walked away from ministry for a moment and led others with him.  He could not discern the voice of God because he was always talking himself.  He ended up going back to something Jesus had called him away from and ended up naked.  Peter became frustrated at the probing self analyzing questions from Jesus and totally missed what God was revealing to him personally.  Finally, his focus was not on what Jesus said to him but what He was going to say to another disciple.  We have prayer and a Bible.  We can know what God says to us and can accomplish what God does through us.  Don’t worry about what God is saying or doing with someone else.  Get Your Own!  I will leave it right there for you to digest.

God Bless You!

BroAdamB

 

Our hope and prayer for you today is that the Lord is continually making and molding you into who He needs you to be.  Let’s talk about that…

A couple of weeks ago we were at Teay’s Valley Baptist in Hurricane, WV for their Camp Meeting.  Brother Randy Hobbs from New Hope Baptist in Burlington, NC preached the paint off the walls for 20 minutes at the Saturday morning prayer breakfast.  In a passing comment, he mentioned a very intriguing fact about the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15.  He pointed out that the son told his father in verse 12 “give me” when he was leaving home with all his stuff, but, when that same son returned in verse 19 he approached his father with a different statement.  He said, “make me as one of thy hired servants.“  THAT IS POWERFUL.

I shared this thought in a devotional for some of the young ladies at the North GA School of Gospel Music this past Monday night.  They are the fruit of a generation who have gotten more than their parents, who got more than their parents, and so forth.  Due to societal expectations and the entitlement agenda they have as a whole become the “give me” generation.  This is not entirely their fault.  Parents go into credit card debt up to their eyeballs in order to appease their kids and meet up to the quota’s of all their peer groups.  We cannot embarrass them by not giving them everything.  I posed a question to the young ladies.  How would their parents react if this year when their parents asked what they wanted for Christmas their reply was, “Nothing, I have more than enough.”  Their response was shock, gasps, giggles and outright angered offence.  The point is not the stuff.  This translates to how we approach God with prayer and the life He has given us.

“The Lord will give us the desires of our heart” is one of the most misused partial verses in the whole of scripture (Ps 37:4).  I fear more often than not, we have portrayed the Lord as a heavenly barber.  “Lord, A little off the top, close on the sides, short sideburns, and cover up my bald spot, Thanks.”  Then we sit there and expect it to all turn out perfect just the way we requested it.  Give Me my stuff when I want it, how I want it, where I want it, and as much as I want it.  I have been that give me child of God.  But what we discover is that stuff and all that stuff we think we cannot live without ends up coming up short, losing its value or showing itself just to be unsatisfying.  We think we can Make our life better than The Creator.

In Genesis 1, The Lord spoke the words “Let there be” nine times and everything that is created was created from nothing. It takes us nine swings just to hit one good golf drive, nine attempts to make a good pound cake, nine arrangements to make the furniture in our living room just so.  It takes nine tries to get some ladies in an outfit to go to church Sunday morning.  The question I posed to those young ladies Monday night is the same one I pose to you.  Who is better at making things?  God made the human brain.  He made the optic miracle of an eye.  Who is better at making things? Us or Him?

If God can make anything out of nothing, then can’t we trust Him to Make Us much better than we can make ourselves.  We have heard the phrase, “self-made man or woman.”  The effort is admirable but the truth is we have the creative power of bacteria in comparison to the creator of all.  But, we say, “If I could just have… then I’d be happy.”  Is it a thing, a career, a position, a person?  Let us Give up on Give Me and Make up our minds that we need God to Make Us who he wants us to be.  If we do that then we will find that His ways are above our ways and His thoughts are above our thoughts (Is 55:9).  He has better plans, better methods, better results.  Let us let Him Make Us and we can trust Him to Give Us more than we can imagine or ask for (Eph 3:20).

God Bless You,

BroAdamB

I love that we can be friends.  We all know there are friends on different levels but it special when we get to spend time with one another all the same.  Let’s talk about that…

Last night was one of the most fun times I have had in years.  The Gold City Gadsden Homecoming  put on by Heritage of Gold Concerts was a smashing success in so many ways.  When I got a call from Jonathon Wilburn almost three months ago about this night I started getting excited.  Sure enough, all my expectations were met and more.  I have not played that many songs for that many hours in years.  We got to introduce our girls to people who used to feed me and keep clothes on my back 20+ years ago.  My family was there and all of my Gold City brothers minus just a few and one in particular.  I miss Doug. Always will.  Jordan LeFevre was the perfect stand-in.  Killed it!  At the end of the night we sat around my Folks kitchen table till the wee hours of the morning.  What a night.  What great friends.

What it re-affirmed in me was how important friendship is.  Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”  Over the years we have gone through so much together.  You name it, we have faced it.  So, to be able to stand together and help give a crowd of people a reason to smile, rejoice, laugh, worship and reconnect was absolutely wonderful.  The music was just like longtime friendship.  Once we remembered the right key and got the first words out, all the harmony and rhythm came back just like we never stopped.

In a little on stage conversation, Jay and I agreed that those years together were a good season, but, seasons come and go.  I have to admit, I took my Bible on-stage and set it on my amp, just in case.  In every song I anticipated an opportunity to preach.  I was dying to jump in when we sang He Said! and tell them what THIS old time preacher would say.  I tell you it was just like a fire shut up in my bones!   I am forever thankful for that the Lord allowed me those years and blessed me with those friends but playing bass for me is now just something that I enjoy from time to time.  See, my best friend, whom I do talk to every day, He has asked me to do something far more important.  Today I am not a bass player who preaches, I am a Preacher who occasionally plays bass and I love it that way.

I know this is not a fire ball sermon but allow me the opportunity to be a bit sappy, my friends.  That’s what real friends do, right?  We allow each other to be ourselves.  Our hope and prayer for you is that God would give you a great assembly of friendly acquaintances, a room full of really good friends, and handful of close friends you might consider brothers and sisters.  But, most of all our prayer is that we would all appreciate our friend that sticketh closer than a brother (Prov 18:24 KJV), our best friend, Jesus Christ.  Take some time to reach out to your friends (not your fakebook followers) and tell them how much you appreciate your friendship.  Pick up a phone and call them, don’t text or put it on your timeline.  Be personal, be real, be there for each other.  Be a friend, for Christ has been a friend to us.

God Bless You, my friend!

BroAdamB

It’s Father’s Day and many of you, like myself, are away from your Dad.  Those of us who are just a phone call away understand how fortunate we are in that regard.  As we get older we slowly realize how right many of our Father’s were about life and living.  Though no earthly Daddy is perfect in every way they just do What Father’s Do.  Let’s talk about that…

In John 5 Jesus told the crowds, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.”  Jesus gave us the example of following God the Father’s words, deeds and will.  In chapter 6 Jesus went on to say, “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”   He knew the value of The Father.  These truths also lay a heavy burden on the next generation to get it right for our children.

Fathers teach things like work.  Jesus was about the work of His Father (John 6:28-29).  Dads also help us understand the importance of obedience (5:30).  Did you ever hear your Daddy say, “Cause I said so!”  Well, without question, Jesus did what the Father said because He said so!  Fathers give things to their children like provision (Mt 7:9-11), food (Jn 5:32) physical & (v35) spiritual, strength (Ps 29:11), The Word (Ps 68:11), treasure (Mt 6:19-21), and things that no one can take away (Jn 6:39).

The greatest thing a Father can ever do is to instill faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in the life of their children (Jn 6:30).  The greatest thing that an earthly father can give his children is a heritage of faith.  I am overwhelmingly blessed in this regard.  I do, however, have close friends who are the first Father in their family tree to do so.  I think about my preacher friend, Dr. Brad Bailey in Brandon, FL who had a very disjointed relationship with his dad (Ps 68:5) but God put men in his life to point him toward Christ and today his children are being raised by one of the godliest men I know.  I think about some great dads who are waiting over on the other side.  Men like brother Curtis Hutson, brother Bobby Butler, Jackie Wilburn, and Rex Nelon, my Pawpaw Hugh New, and my Papa Neal Borden.  Toughest most loving men in history.

I’ll share one story that has been passed down to us about papa Borden. When my dad was a boy, Papa worked in a brass foundry in Piedmont, Alabama.  Somehow he broke his back and had to wear a full torso back brace.  In the midst of that he plowed their garden with a mule because it was the only way his family would have food to eat.  That is the kind of stock I am from, and I am thankful for it.  Pawpaw worked 42 years at Goodyear in Gadsden.  He would come in from 3rd shift and work their farm like a man of iron.  You cannot find men like that holding video games 3 hours a day or posting selfies. They were selfless. Both of those men help mold my Daddy into who he is; a dedicated Christian, an incredible husband and selfless father who always did without so we could have the best he could possibly provide.  On this Father’s Day, I wish to say in front of the whole world, I love you and I thank you for showing me what it means to be the right kind of Father.  Happy Father’s Day!

Thank you Lord for good Godly Father’s!

BroAdamB

Our hope and prayer is that today that you have enjoyed the Lord this week and have allowed Him to fill you up with everything that He desires you to have.  Let’s talk about that…

The Psalmist in chapter 81 relates a bit of historical perspective on the children of Israel and their deliverance from the bondage of their Egyptian taskmasters.  Tucked away in verse 10 is an absolutely incredible statement from God Almighty.  They had been empty of hope for hundreds of years.  Dreams were futile because all they had prospects of doing were making bricks and feeling the despair of slavery.  BUT GOD brought them out by His powerful hand and the demonstration of His might.  So, in verse 10 He says, “I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.”  How does that statement align with our view of the Father?

Now, let us put that statement in perspective with our Americanized version of Christianity.  He is NOT telling us to pray for selfish stuff.  In the whole context of scripture, a person who is seeking God, serving God, seeing (recognizing and acknowledging) God move and work, and searching the scripture for daily instruction is a person who gets from God what God knows what that person needs and they recognize it as such.  When we want what God wants we appreciate what He gives.

It is like the person who finally makes the decision to become healthy in their physical being.  Wow, I cannot believe how bad I felt when I ate all that junk and laid around sedentary.  Now I love foods I would have never eaten (i.e. humus) and I am filled and satisfied.  I have more energy than ever and I sleep so much better, etc.  God tells us, if you allow me to guide your appetite I will fill you.  If you love what I love and hate what I hate I will fill you.  If you will believe what I have said I will fill you.  If you will trust my guidance when you do not understand I will fill your way.  If you will take the medicine I give to heal you inside out I will fill you with spiritual health.  If you will empty yourself of self I will fill you.  If you ask for what my Spirit urges you to ask for I will fill you.  OPEN WIDE!  Sounds perfect, unless we tighten our lips and turn our head…  OR, if we only open our mouths wide enough for God to give us a baby dropper of provision or blessing.

Let us not have a baby guppy mouth when it comes to what God wants us to have.  Lets have a lunker bass open mouth.  It is about asking in His will, expecting He will, and appreciating when He fills.  Open Wide.

God Bless You!

BroAdamB