Awaken

Tom Elliff, president, International Mission Board

The following article originally appeared on Baptist Press and was a report of International Mission Board President Tom Elliff’s  address to trustees. The article originally appeared Sept. 15, 2011 and used here by permission.

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) — Either beg God for spiritual awakening or sink into irrelevance — that was the plea IMB President Tom Elliff voiced to trustees at their Sept. 13-14 meeting in Orlando, Fla.

“I see this as the critical issue facing us as Southern Baptists,” Elliff said. “The truth of the matter is that if we don’t experience spiritual awakening we will forfeit our capacity to effectively partner with others in carrying out the Great Commission.

“In this world of absolute tumult and chaos, God is giving us opportunities around the globe to share the wonderful message of the Gospel of Christ that are unparalleled in the history of this world.”

The call for stateside spiritual awakening was unusual for the International Mission Board’s president, who would normally focus his report on issues facing Southern Baptist missionaries overseas. But Elliff said God had instead placed a huge burden on my heart that couldn’t be ignored.

“[Spiritual] awakening is a missions issue, because if we don’t have an awakening in the hearts of Southern Baptists, then the pool out of which we fish for missionaries … gets smaller and smaller,” he explained. “We’ll just become another denomination that had its day and has now slipped off into irrelevancy, and when people say ‘Southern Baptist Convention,’ they will probably say it with a yawn.”

Elliff pointed out that spiritual awakening is distinctly different from spiritual revival.

“Revival presupposes pre-existing life,” he explained. “I’m not so sure we need to be saying the things we say about the size of our convention and the number of our churches because I’ll be quite honest with you — I’m not so sure all those people we claim as members of our churches know Christ. They may know about Him, but if knowing Christ makes a difference in your lifestyle and a difference in your community, if knowing Christ drives you to periodically come for the family reunion which we call a worship service, over half of those people that we say are Southern Baptists never come to the table.

“But if we had awakening — that’s a revival of those who know Christ but it’s also a stirring and deep conviction of the Holy Spirit among those who are out there on the fringes, the kind of stirring that calls them to repent and receive Christ as their Savior. If we had an awakening in our nation, then think what Southern Baptists could do in terms of global missions, not to mention right here in this nation.”

Such an awakening, Elliff cautioned, will require a “totally different” kind of prayer, one that rests on God’s character rather than our own.

“I’m afraid that so much of our praying is a shot at getting something done by God with the thought that if He doesn’t come through we’ve got another plan. Folks, if God doesn’t come through we don’t have a plan.

“[We need to pray] like someone crying out from beneath the rubble of a building … and I’m afraid our prayers are not that desperate yet — because most of us come to the altar with two or three alternatives in our pocket.”

Elliff extended his appeal beyond trustees, asking IMB missionaries and all Southern Baptists to join him in praying weekly for the United States and the nations of the world. Elliff designated a specific 24-hour period, from sunset Sunday to sunset Monday, for Southern Baptists to join together in petitioning the Lord for spiritual awakening.

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, from the time the sun went down every Sunday evening until the time the sun went down every Monday evening, that somewhere in that 24-hour period … we found time to steal away … and fall on our knees and cry out to God for spiritual awakening?” Elliff asked.

“Pray for the nation, our nation, and for the nations. That’s the prayer. … Could you not do that? Is that an impossibility? Is that too steep of a challenge, to find time in a 24-hour period to pray for the nation as well as the nations of the world? Surely we can do that.”

David Hankins, executive director, Louisiana Baptist Convention

The following article is adapted from Dr. David Hankins’ address during the Louisiana Baptist Convention Executive Committee meeting, delivered Sept, 2011. The full audio file of the address can be found by clicking here:  Dr. David Hankins’ vision for Awaken Louisiana

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Next year, 2012, is the 200^th anniversary of Baptist work in Louisiana. There has never been a spiritual awakening during that time in our state.

It’s time.

Awaken is the theme we’ve been developing with our Louisiana Baptist Convention staff for the coming year. We wanted to use the opportunity of bi-centennial celebration and gratefulness, thanking God, to call Louisiana Southern Baptists – and any other Christian – to think about what God wants to do in us going forward in the future, and we thought nothing was more important than a spiritual awakening.

It would be a wonderful time if we could experience an awakening by God’s grace. Our theme for this upcoming annual meeting of the Louisiana Baptist Convention (Nov. 14-15, 2001) is: “It’s time.” We are developing a framework under the Awaken theme. We’re branding all of the events that we ordinarily do under this theme. We’re going to challenge our pastors and then our congregations to engage the process. The last part of the convention meeting is going to be a call to commitment and prayer that begins the process and asking God to take this year – this significant year in the life of Louisiana Baptists – and do something only He can do if He chooses.

In Ephesians 5:14 there is a quote, either from Isaiah or an early Christian hymn or some variation that the Apostle Paul uses as he’s talking about our duty, giving a contrast between light and darkness, reminding us that we’re children of light. The quote is from the Book of Isaiah: “Wake up, oh, sleeper. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you.”

The message to awaken is really to the church. Our culture is not going to change from its sinful ways and people are not going to suddenly change and live transformed lives. Spiritual awakening begins with the household of God. We in the church are the conduit and the channel, and if the conduit and the channel are corrupted and not clean – if we’re not walking, living in the light – then the culture will not be able to respond.

The church is the custodian of the kingdom of God and He’s going to bring His revival through the church. The church has the opportunity to be the instrument of God, and so we’re talking to ourselves. We can’t influence the culture until we correct ourselves. That’s where it starts, and the Apostle Paul offers steps we can take.

He writes in verses 14 and 15, “Be careful, then, how you live; not as unwise, but wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil.” It has to do with our walk, our morality, our holiness. There will always be evil days. Our challenge is not to hope society will improve but to realize we live in evil days and we’re to redeem them. We’re to seize them. We’re to bring the kingdom of God to pass in these evil days. We are going to have to do the work of the Lord and minister in these days. We’re in a sinful, broken world. That’s our context and we get discouraged sometimes because we think our context ought to be heaven on Earth.

It is not, and so we have a duty to seize the moment; to redeem the time; to go into these evil days and turn them – capture them – and bring the rebels home, causing them to lay down their rebellion against God and come to the King. So, it’s important that we live wisely. This is addressing the moral area of our life. If we’re going to have the impact that we need and seize the opportunity as well as protect ourselves from great harm, we’re going to have to live wisely.

We also have to have complete comprehension, preaching and listening to the Truth. What’s the goal: to understand the will of the Lord. The process, the steps toward awakening is going to be repentance from wrong living and start wise living.

Awaken is not a campaign for us to see if we can up our numbers by three percent. We would like God to do what He wants to do and we want to be the vehicles and the vessels of that if He’ll let us, and He’ll have to have us cleaned up. He’ll have to have us believing the right things, knowledgeable and mature in the things of God, and rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

We need to be controlled by the Holy Spirit and then maybe, just maybe by the grace of God, He will bring what we would describe – or what the historians will describe later – as the spiritual awakening that began in Louisiana, or the Third Great Awakening of the United States, or the last awakening before the end comes.

My pledge to you – to our Lord – is that I plan to participate in the praying and the fasting and the emphasis and the prayer meetings, not because I’m paid to do it; but because I want to do it. I do not want to be an impediment. Also, that I might be a gateway and a conduit for what God wants to do. I encourage you – I beseech you – to participate with us.

It’s time.

To find out more about Awaken Louisiana, visit www.lbc.org/awaken.

The following article originally appeared on Baptist Press and was authored by Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church (crosschurch.com) in northwest Arkansas, with campuses in Springdale, Pinnacle Hills and Fayetteville, and the author of a newly released book, “Our Last Great Hope.” Used here by permission.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) — Research suggests that only 11 of every 100 people in the world claim Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. About 50 percent of the world’s population presently has no realistic opportunity to hear the Gospel and the percentage is growing. Every minute, 120 people are born, likely to live their entire lives and never hear the name of Jesus, not even once.

What is the greatest need in the world today? Awakening! We need to see an awakening of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the earth. We must go places we’ve never gone to, talk to people we’ve never talked to, and share Jesus where His name has not yet been spoken. Our last great hope in this world is to experience an awakening of the Great Commission.

Consider three brief questions that I believe must be answered if we are going to meet our world’s greatest need:

1. How should we define the Great Commission?

It really is a clear vision: Tell every person in the world about Jesus Christ and make disciples of all nations. The challenge is getting people to realize that the Great Commission is about more than going “over there.” It is also about reaching people “right here.” It is not an either-or for Christ-followers, but a both-and!

In fact, Jesus shows us in Acts 1:8 the progression of how we are to fulfill the Great Commission. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Jesus starts where the listeners were and moves farther away. Notice it is not progressive in a chronological sense. He never uses the word “then.” We are not intended to go here then there, but here and there. We are to be witnesses for Jesus locally, nationally and internationally, all at the same time.

This is the missional vision model we have adopted at Cross Church where I pastor: “Reaching Northwest Arkansas, America, and the world for Jesus Christ.” The Great Commission is the task of reaching every person in the world with the life-changing power of the Gospel and helping them grow in their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

2. How can I see my church awakened?

We need to see a major global spiritual awakening in the church of Jesus Christ. We need a global spiritual shaking to occur all around the world. In seeking the catalyst for this spiritual movement, we need to:

– Wake up to the need itself. The world has seen too long what the arm of the flesh will do in and through the church. We need the world to see what God will do in and through the church. Business as usual has to stop and stop immediately. We need to experience a mighty spiritual movement of God.

– Prioritize prayer. When we pray, it demonstrates that we are depending on God. When we do not pray, it shows we are depending on ourselves. Prayerless worship services will develop prayerless churches. Prayerless churches will operate in the power of the flesh, rather than the power of the Spirit.

– Act on fulfilling the Great Commission NOW. Yes, this is our NOW moment. We can no longer delay in capturing our communities with the Gospel or proclaiming the Gospel to the ends of the world. Spiritual awakening will occur when the church is doing Gospel work. Acts 1:8 affirms that spiritual power is commensurate with our commitment to taking the Gospel to people and places where the Gospel has never been before.

3. How can I make the Great Commission more personal to me?

One of the reasons many churches do not have an emphasis on the Great Commission is that the members and leadership of those churches are not personally committed to it themselves. Each Christ-follower must own the Great Commission! To awaken the Great Commission personally, we each need to ask ourselves three questions:

– Do I know Jesus intimately? Developing an intimate relationship with Jesus will create a deep desire to fulfill the Great Commission. It works the other way too. The more passionate you are about the Great Commission, the more intimately you will know Jesus.

– Do I love Jesus passionately? There is no better way of becoming passionate, intimate Christ-followers than through prayer and the Word of God. Despite our best efforts, awakening the Great Commission will lack its full effectiveness if we do not follow biblical principles and cover everything in prayer. Pray for a personal rediscovery of your passion for Jesus and a Great Commission awakening will surely follow.

– Do I share Jesus constantly? Knowing Christ intimately and loving Him passionately will always lead to sharing Him with others. These three ideas are inseparable. To know Christ is to love Him; to love Him is to share Him.

Never has there been a better time to live than today. While we might bemoan the events occurring in the world today, we need to see these moments as God moments. This is a special defining moment for the church to become awakened spiritually, resulting in an awakening of telling every person in the world about Jesus Christ and making disciples of all the nations.

I am believing God for a global spiritual awakening. This is our last great hope!
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Donna and John Avant live in West Monroe, La.

My first vivid memory of my dad was on a Sunday morning in San Jancinto Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas. I was five years old. My dad leaned down and whispered in my ear, “Do you want to go talk to the pastor?” My dad had seen tears streaming down my face at the end of a worship service in response to an alter call.  I was crying because I wanted to know about this Jesus that I had heard the pastor talking about.

I nodded yes through my sobs, and my dad picked me up in his strong arms and carried me to the front of the church. After talking to the pastor that day, I prayed asking Jesus to come into my heart. Walking out of the church, I looked up at my dad and felt very sad for him. Even at five years old, I knew that my daddy didn’t know Jesus. Dad just went to church.

Our family played the church game very well and we definitely didn’t talk about God at our house. God was strictly for Sundays. The game ended abruptly when I was 16. As one day my dad announced we were having a family meeting. We had never had “family meetings” before, much less family devotions or prayer times.

As the meeting began in our living room, my dad announced, “I love you girls, and this doesn’t have anything to do with you, but your mom and I are getting a divorce.”

I really don’t remember what all was said after that announcement. My whole life changed. I went from living with my family in a beautiful two-story suburban home to living in a two-bedroom apartment with my mom. My sister lived with Dad and his new wife.

Dad wasn’t really a part of my life after that – he showed up occasionally with his new wife – and in the span of 20 years he had three more wives.

During that time my heart did break for my dad. I wasn’t really angry with him. I had a realization from the time I took his hand at five years old that he was going to spend eternity apart from Jesus…and from me. I felt sorry for him. I knew he couldn’t change his behavior apart from the power of Christ in his life.

I prayed for him daily. Sometimes I would simply hit my knees and cry and sometimes I would just ask my children to, “Pray for Grandpa…he needs Jesus.”

At every church where John was pastor, I asked people to pray for my dad. At one church, Coggin Avenue Baptist Church, Brownwood, Texas, there was a prayer room which had a card with his name on it. Literally hundreds of people initialed that card and prayed for his salvation.

In February of 1996 the phone rang and it was my dad. I hadn’t heard from him in months. He was in Atlanta on business. He was on his fourth marriage, which was about to fail. He was being forced into retirement and was close to bankruptcy. “Coincidentally” John was in Atlanta as the guest speaker at a church nearby. Dad told me he would go hear John preach that night – he had never heard John preach!  When I hung up the phone, my heart was racing. Maybe this was Dad’s time to come to know Christ. I called several friends and asked them to pray.

My husband’s response was different than I anticipated. He was skeptical and was afraid I would just be disappointed once again. I rebuked him quickly and demanded for him to have faith!

John later told me that as he stood to preach on that February night in 1996, he saw my daddy sitting on the back row of the church. As he finished preaching, John said my dad began to weep and visibly shake. Dad stumbled down the center aisle of the church and fell into my husband’s arms.

My dad choked out these words: “I’ve ruined my life and hurt all those I love. Can God ever forgive me?”

That night Jesus Christ entered my daddy’s heart! Hours later when the phone rang in our home in Brownwood, Texas, I jumped as John said these words:  “Donna, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you have a new daddy.”

After hearing these words, I dropped the phone and ran to each of my children’s bedrooms. I knocked on each of their doors and woke them up yelling, “Grandpa got saved!  Grandpa accepted Christ!”

At the time Trey was 5, Amy was 8, and Christi was 11 years old. They had to know immediately. They had to understand that God had just answered a prayer. They had to know that the God we talked about at home, the God we prayed to, the God that we sang to and served—He was REAL and He answered prayer!

My daddy went to be with Jesus in 2005. I had almost ten years with him as a changed man – and he literally was a changed man!  He became the best dad and best grandpa in the world!  At his going-home-to-be-with-Jesus service, many young men that he worked with came to know Christ. Several of them told me, “Your dad was a great man. He was like a father to me!”

Never, ever, ever stop praying for someone’s salvation.  I prayed for my dad for over 30 years! God really does answer prayer.

For more information about how you can be involved in praying for spiritual awakening in Louisiana, visit www.lbc.org/awaken.

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Donna Avant is the wife of Dr. John Avant, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church, West Monroe Louisiana.  Married 32 years, the Avants are parents to three adult children. Donna currently leads the Women’s Team at First West and speaks globally on ministry topics. Donna is a contributing author to The Woman’s One Year Devotional, has  authored “No Excuses” a bible study of I and II Timothy, works in Broaden Horizons, a local ministry to at-risk teens in West Monroe, and volunteers at Kids Hope and CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate).

By Dr. John Avant, pastor and guest blogger

Dr. John Avant, pastor, First Baptist Church, West Monroe, La.

When our son Trey was very young we embarked on a long-awaited trip to Disney World. We had saved our pennies, even had a family garage sale to raise the money. We rarely flew in those days and we had even managed to afford plane tickets. We were pumped.

When the big day came, our three children were bouncing off the walls. We arrived at the airport early, made our way to the gate and waited to board. Trey was clad in a Mickey Mouse shirt and Mickey Mouse hat, fully equipped with ears. The boarding call was announced and I said, “Let’s get on the plane!” Suddenly everything in Trey’s demeanor changed. He went from all smiles and energy to total fear and panic. “I don’t wanna get on the plane!” he said. I was totally confused. Trey has always been our adventurer; never afraid of trying anything new, then or now. I explained to him again how much fun this was going to be. All to no avail. He began to cry and shout, “I DON’T WANNA GET ON THE PLANE!”

Well since I had shelled out all our cash already for this trip, there was no doubt in my mind that we were all getting on that plane. I picked him up kicking and screaming and headed to the gate.  I said, “Son I don’t know what’s wrong with you but we ARE getting on that plane.” That’s when everything changed and it all made sense. Trey cried out, “Daddy I don’t wanna get ON the plane. I wanna get IN the plane!”

I could then see into his preschool mind, a picture of him standing on the top of the plane, holding on for dear life, Mickey Mouse ears flapping in the wind, as the plane took off!

I am afraid that we mostly stay on the outside of what God is doing, rarely venturing in, into the realm where His Spirit invites us, into the Holy place where He is at work. Why is that?  Well actually, it may be because we are praying and God says to stop.

Read Isaiah chapter one carefully, especially verses 15-17. God says he is sick of our prayers and offerings and doesn’t intend to listen anymore. That’s pretty strong stuff. Then He tells us why.  Because while we have prayed, we haven’t done much to be a part of the answers. We haven’t stood against injustice, encouraged the oppressed, or ministered to the orphans and the widow.  Until we are ready to do this, it doesn’t appear that God is too interested in what we have to say.  In this context he calls us to repent: “Come now, let us reason together says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…” So there is great hope for us. But only as we become a people who plead WITH God not just TO Him. In other words, we join Him in His mission. As we pray, we go. We never consider prayer to be completed inside the prayer closet. It is completed when we are with Him to see the answers, when we refuse to stay on the outside of need – when we are IN and not ON.

You cannot join our church unless you commit to “give yourself away for the Bongay people of Central Asia.” That’s a part of our vision statement. When we began to reach out to this people group there were no known believers among them. They had been resistant to the Gospel every time they had heard it. It is almost impossible to get to them. They are one of the most isolated people groups in the world. But our people prayed. They grabbed heaven and would not let go.  Then they gave. Then they went. They risked. They shared. They loved. And then one of our administrative assistants decided to live among them as one of our missionaries. Now the first Bongay believers are growing in Christ. Miracles are happening there every time we turn around.  The village Muslim mullahs see it themselves and have given us freedom to share the Gospel, even asking us to pray for their families. Now our church gets to see what happens when they truly pray.

So God could be telling you to stop praying today. But of course He will then tell you to start again. But not like before. Go into the prayer closet, but don’t stay there.  Jesus doesn’t.  He is out among the hurting and the lost, beckoning you to join Him.

To be IN and not just ON.

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Dr. John Avant and his wife Donna are parents to three adult children and live in West Monroe, La., where he is pastor of First Baptist Church. Dr. Avant is an author and is known for having a passion for evangelism and church planting. For more information about First Baptist Church, West Monroe, visit the church’s Website at www.firstwest.cc.

I believe most people get Psalm 37:4 all wrong.

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

Seems many people I’ve known through the years tweak that verse just enough and the emphasis lands on the “desires of your heart,” as in: “I really want to take that job offer, and God knows I’ve sought His will. They keep dangling the offer in front of me and it is certainly a desire of my heart. He must want me to have it.” Nothing wrong with job offers, but sometimes we do gymnastics with Scripture to justify our desires. When we do it is self deceit, but at its worst we can become guilty of a Prosperity Gospel. You know, where you are convinced God wants you to materialistically prosper so – as some people preach – He calls you to, “name it and claim it” (or as a friend of mine calls it, “Blab It and Grab It theology”).

Only one thing wrong with that thinking…it’s totally NOT biblical.

Now I’m not accusing friends of espousing Blab it and Grab it theology (mostly because, let’s be honest, we all too often pray hoping to get our wish list). Most of us are well meaning. We want to seek God. We want to do His will. He says He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6), right? But a subtle and nefarious shift happened in our Western Christian theology over the past 150 years that has gradually nudged God from being the One to Whom we submit, to being the One on whom we call to serve us. So when we pray for the desires of our heart we either consciously or subconsciously hope the desires of our hearts are the desires of God’s heart so He will give to us what we really want.

And I just don’t think that’s what Psalm 37:4 is getting at.

My head nearly explodes when I read J.I. Packer’s book, Knowing God. Packer early on makes a remarkable statement about the difference between knowing about God and actually knowing God.  He offers four propositions as evidence for those who know God. The first is that those who know God have great energy for God and gives biblical evidence for those who publicly expressed that energy against acts of ungodliness (Daniel, for example). But, he says public gestures are not where zeal for God begins. In fact, he says it begins in prayer. “People who know their God are in fact people of prayer, and the first point of where their zeal and energy for God’s glory come to expression is in their prayers…the true knowledge of God is energy to pray for God’s cause…and the more knowledge the more energy!”

He concludes the point by saying that not everyone may be in a position to publicly act against ungodliness, but that we can all pray about the ungodliness and the apostasy that we see in everyday life around us. “If, however, there is in us little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know God,” he says.

And this is where the desires of my heart thing comes into play. If I am in fact delighting in the Lord, then it seems to me that the desire of my heart would be not only knowing God – truly knowing Him – but truly desiring what He wants, and that is for Jesus to be glorified, and worshiped, and loved and shared as infinitely valuable over all else for which my cluttered heart clamors. I believe Jesus had this in mind when He said to seek God’s Kingdom first, and His righteousness and all the other stuff will take care of itself (Matthew 6:33).

So as I read Psalm 37:4 again, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart,” I have to honestly ask myself, “Am I delighting so much in the Lord that the desires of my heart are to know Him so well that I don’t even worry about the stuff?”

How would you answer if posed the question?

If Spiritual Awakening is going to happen in Louisiana (or anywhere else) it is first going to happen within our own lives, and it is going to happen because God IS the desire of our hearts.

Find out more about praying for Louisiana at Awaken Louisiana.

Confession: I’m not very good at praying.

My mind wanders. My seemingly endless – and ever lengthening – “to-do list” pops into my head and I find I pray through what needs to get done. Too often I rationalize it (justify it?) by presuming my to-do list and God’s to-do list are one in the same. Problem is, my to-do list majors on my improved productivity and admittedly, lacks Divine Inspiration.

However, God’s to-do list for me  is short, concise and hasn’t changed one iota in thousands of years. Here it is: Glorify God and make His name known among the nations. That’s it. That’s the to-do list He gave to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-2); that’s the same deal He gives to those of us who claim to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

So what’s that got to do with Louisiana? Everything.

Louisiana has through the decades been slammed by the storms of life and the winds of hurricanes, but it has never been revived -spiritually awakened in a really big way – by the life-giving gusts of the Holy Spirit. Louisiana needs awakening. Those professing faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation collectively need their hearts blown in the direction of God, for the purpose of glorifying God and for the redemption of thousands across the state.

And that’s the purpose of this Weblog: to inform, prepare, help and guide people to pray and fast that God will spiritually Awaken Louisiana. Awaken 2012 is a prayer initiative of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, encouraging churches across the state (or from around the world for that matter) to join together in a time of unified prayer and fasting  Jan. 2-22, 2012. The hope is that God will grant the first major spiritual revival in the state’s storied history. (For more information and to register your church please visit  www.LBC.org/Awaken).

In the months ahead this blog will be filled with articles by pastors and laypersons intended to cultivate the hearts of believers leading to a bountiful crop of meaningful prayer, pleading with God to awaken hearts so that Jesus Christ will be exalted in Louisiana.

And what has that got to do with the price of Beignets at Cafe du Monde? Stick with the blog and we’ll unpack it over the next few months. Meanwhile be sure to follow Awaken Louisiana on Twitter and check the Facebook page for additional resources, information and ways you can participate in a community of believers all wanting to see God Awaken Louisiana.

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