![]() "Something that occurred to me as we were baptizing all those people is that if you want to see a revival, do revival-like things," Laurie told The Christian Post last week. Last week, Laurie led a public baptism at Pirates Cove Beach in Huntington Beach in which over 500 people were Baptized. "His response to me was, 'I don't know if we are desperate enough.' Maybe when we get desperate enough to pray, maybe we'll see another one." "I once asked Pastor Chuck Smith, who is often called the father of the Jesus Movement, 'Do you think we'll ever see another Jesus Movement, Chuck?'" Laurie said in his sermon. Laurie told his congregation that America needs another spiritual awakening. Laurie quoted 2 Chronicles 7:14, which reads: "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."įollowing the reading of the Scripture, Laurie led the room in prayer. I mentioned that not only are we founded with revival, we need to have another revival." I don't think we could have done it without it. "We were able to sow the seeds of this new nation in that receptive soil of morality based on a faith in God. ![]() "One of our founding fathers named George - not Washington but Whitefield, an evangelist from England - preached the Gospel and thousands of colonists came to faith in Christ and it brought about moral change in a culture as a revival always does," Laurie said. was "founded in a time of spiritual revival." Laurie reminded those in attendance for the dinner that the U.S. I am just going to look over your heads and sort of say what I believe the Lord is putting on my heart at this moment to say." "I just, 'I am not going to look at any of you. It was very distracting," Laurie explained. "I have to be honest with you, I couldn't look at the faces of people. Laurie implied that he may have been a bit overwhelmed by the fact that he was speaking to a room that included President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, and the countless prominent Christian leaders. Laurie told the crowd that he finally went ahead and spoke after the first lady again insisted that he speak. ' She gestured back Then, I gestured back, 'Oh please ," he added. "I saw her and a I went and gestured her and said 'Oh, please. At the same moment, the first lady had gotten up out of her chair and she was walking to the podium as well." "So, I am waiting for my queue and Franklin was done, so I got up and walked to the podium. ![]() "Franklin Graham spoke right before me and I was told to go up right after Franklin and say what you are going to say and lead the prayer because the president is tired and wants to go to bed," Laurie detailed. Laurie continued by recalling a "funny moment" that occurred as he was about to take the podium to close the event in prayer. "I think when God puts people in power that we want to do what we can to influence them with what the word of God says," Laurie said. ![]() Since his sermon was based on Daniel 12, Laurie stressed that Daniel would also "try to help any king that was in power" whether that was Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar or Darius.
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