Revival is Hard Work

I have been in church work all of my life....

Mowing, garbage, sewage, painting, moving walls, praying, preaching........

The list could go forever...

But revival is hard work...

Example....

As of this afternoon we have baptized 120 the last few weeks....

And when I got home I lugged a big container of towels in to be washed and taken back to the church before Sunday....

This is the second time this week!!!

Work.....

Revival is hard work...

Revival is exiting....

Revival is fulfilling....

But never forget....

Revival is hard work......

Another example....

Wednesday night we had several seekers in the altar....

Due to classes being held around the campus I had no altar workers to help me....

I was running from one seeker to the next to the next....

Where are my helpers I asked myself.....

They were all in the harvest taking care of new babies.....

Adam wanted to be baptized so I sent them back to get him ready....

And after awhile realized they were waiting on me to baptize since the other ministers were all elsewhere...

I baptized in Jesus name....

Adam spoke with tongues in the water and was filled with the Holy Ghost....

I was worn out by the time we got home....

With more towels.....

But fulfilled because prayers and dreams are coming to pass.....

Revival is hard work......

There seems to be plenty of harvest....

Lord please send more laborers.....

While we labor we know that it is HE that gives the increase.....

Blessings...

rks

UPDATE: Just got off the phone with a police officer that pulled over a van full of questionable characters. They told him they were on the way to Bro Smith's church to get baptized. The officer wanted to make sure they were legitimate. I told him to let them go. He asked if I knew the history of all the guys in the van. Nope, but we are trying to rewrite the story. He let them go and they got baptized tonight.