From the Desk of James W. Goll
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This week I asked Munday Martin, a young revivalist and dear friend who is a part of our EN Alliance, to share about the youth revival that is beginning on the streets in Nashville. In August and September of this year Munday committed himself to ministering on the streets of Nashville every night for a solid month. He saw GREAT THINGS happen and God showed Himself mighty time after time! I would like to share a quote from the article below:
"I was renewed all over again with a furious sense that God wants to pour out his Spirit on people on the streets, more than we want him to. But, 'How will they know unless one is sent?' Romans 10:14-15. This is the question we must answer, along with laying down our lives to go."
Could you dare to be bold for Him? Could you take it to the street? Can you believe that God will show up if you simply go? Read Munday's testimony below and let it inspire you to be a part of the Greatest Youth Revival the World has Ever Seen! And remember anyone is young who believes themselves to be so! There is no age restriction in the Greatest Youth Revival!
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Youth on the Streets!
by Munday Martin
The Next Wave of Nation Shakers
God recently asked me, "Munday, who do you think will be the next nation shakers in America I will raise up at this hour?" I knew that God meant ones that would be used on national and international levels such as the next soul winners like Billy Graham, healing evangelists like Oral Roberts, TL Osborne, and Jack Coe, or perhaps, the next warriors for change in a nation like Lou Engle. I said, I don't know Lord... who? The Lord said, "I will choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to shame the things that are mighty." 1 Corinthians 1:27. The Lord showed me, they are legions of youth, and myriads of them are on drugs in middle school through college. Many are drop outs. Many are drowning at the bottom of liquor bottles. Many of them are on the streets, and they are the refuse of the world that the church in majority has no time for in their busy programs. Many are homeless, on the brink of suicide, and many have NO FATHERS! They are the ones on the highways and byways in the parable of the great supper, "Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind." Luke 14:15-24. HOW EASY IT IS TO FORGET THEM. Then, the Lord reminded me of a vision I had years ago.
Vision for this Generation
In this very simple vision within a dream, I saw a young man with tattoos all over him. I felt dire compassion for him. In the vision, this saddened young man pulled up the arm sleeve of his t-shirt and showed me a tattoo on his right arm. The tattoo was a banner that was falling to the ground and destroyed. On the banner, I read the word FAMILY. Family was falling. I wept! The Lord impressed to me, “Family is under attack in America, and as a result, many youth like this one, carry the scars and burdens on their souls of having no fathers and they don’t know I am can be their loving Father they never had.” It was like a mandate for me to help father a rejected generation and replace the scar of the fallen banner of family, with the banner over them which is love! “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.” Song of Solomon 2:4
We Recently Hit the Streets for an Entire Month
I got radical all over again. Recently on August 7th of this year, our ministry entirely put aside our crusade work, all conferences, all itinerant speaking, and I gave up an entire month to the Lord, hitting the streets with Prophetic and Power Evangelism nightly in Nashville. Not that we had not already been saving souls because I had been doing it once a week or so. However, this time, I gave the Lord a whole month of my nights with no day off. My wife agreed and said, “Yes this is the Lord - Do it!" Jennifer, my precious bride, caringly stayed home with our two babies each night, while Daddy went to fight devils and bring the Kingdom on the streets.
I was renewed all over again with a furious sense that God wants to pour out his Spirit on people on the streets, more than we want him to. But, "How will they know unless one is sent?" Romans 10:14-15. This is the question we must answer, with laying down our lives to go. We saw good ole’ Kingdom chaos. In a nutshell, we saw God blast the streets with Holy Spirit power. Hundreds came to Christ in Nashville, TN in that one month. It was like a fast from my comfort zones.
Word got out, and teams of soul winners joined me in my soul hunt. We took dream interpretation campaigns right into demonic atmospheres in coffee houses and bars. We boldly got up on open mics, convincing crowds intoxicated on booze, and many living on the edge, that we can hear from God. We invited anyone to talk to us, and said we would prove Jesus is real. One time, I even said, "If we don’t hear from God for you, then we will buy you a free cup of coffee." No coffee needed that night. God read mail! We did servant evangelism, taking 50 dollars and buying lines of customers free drinks at Starbucks. We saw God accurately read people's mail, sometimes so accurately, it was scary. Ha! God gave us names of people, even stories about their pasts. Many cried. Many said, "Who are you and how do you know this?" God even had me ask many people who drink alcohol as a vice, if they would like to get drunk for free. Most of the time, people said yes, and it was followed by, "Whoa! Man I feel it; there are tingles all over me!" The Holy Spirit was tangibly falling on youth on the streets. Young people described feeling peace they had not felt in a long time! Some said they needed a sign to believe in Jesus, and we brought it right to them. We saw God heal people with broken bones and casts on in front of many people, and they took their casts off feeling no pain at all and praised God.
A group of young fired up evangelists and I pulled 7 homeless youth in their twenties off the streets that month, led some through deliverance, and today we are discipling them. It seems now that they are hungrier for God than I am, and are saying they are ready to go to the nations for Jesus! One of those girls was going to commit suicide the night we met her! Go God! One girl who got saved was a stripper who used to make $100,000 a year taking her clothes off for people. It was radical harvest! God promised me if I did this for an entire month, it would ignite inspiration all over the church. I am seeing it. Many churches where I shared these recent stories have reignited their evangelism programs again that were lying dormant. Was it hard? No… It really was not hard. I just lived in the glory, and the glory ignited me every night, even if I thought I did not have anything left to give.
Jesus Said Go Out into the Streets
I am going to just cut to the chase. Many of us have had good training prophesying over believers. It is high time to go and practice what we have become good at in the church - on the lost out in the streets. Yes Lord! Read Isaiah 61 again, and you will find that the spirit of the Lord is upon us for a reason. There is a “because” after it. That reason is to preach the gospel to the poor and broken. It is to set captives free! We can't forget this! Jesus our Lord said in Luke 14 to go out into the streets. If he said it, I believe it. Many of the next young nation shakers waiting to be saved will never step foot into our churches or conferences. I am not being derogatory towards the church, because I love the body of Christ. They are Jesus’ bride, and they are beautiful. Conferences are awesome and regenerating. However, the body must have a paradigm shift in our minds to see Jesus as a "Friend of Sinners" again- Matthew 11:19. We must see and burn for the lost again. Punks and gangster thugs won’t come to churches, because churches with wrong motives were where they felt wounded and judged.
The Language of the Streets
God has been speaking to me about the language of the streets. We must recognize that even we “charismatic folks” are sometimes speaking in church languages and lingos that a lost generation does not understand. I remember when I first came into a charismatic leaders meeting shortly after I was radically saved. Church leaders and prophets were discussing what they were hearing from God that year. They were saying strange words I had never heard before like, “Brother, The Lord has really shifted my DNA. I was like huh? They said God had them in a place of desperation. I was like, “Hmm never been to that place, haven’t even heard of it. Where is it?" I had no clue what people were saying to each other, because I had not yet learned church lingos. I left scratching my head. Church languages and lingos are cool though! We are a peculiar people for sure! (1 Peter 2:9 KJV) Ha ha!
I love the cool and crazy lingos we make up. However, the lost need to hear us speak on a level they understand. Many of us need to relearn the language of the streets again. “Oh, I like that! That sounds like a great book title. “I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some". 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. The next young nation shakers who are now lost need evangelism in a way that relates Christ to them, right where they are, bound in their sins. They see right through traditions of men, vain religion, and lack of love. They want love and they want acceptance. Many want demonstration through signs, and they don't even know Jesus can give it to them. In fact, many in my generation have tasted everything that money can buy, and it has made them sick. They have played with every toy and bought the t-shirt of any adrenaline rush, and they want the real thing! Jesus is the real thing! We are getting ready to see what the hippies saw in the Jesus movement, but it will cost us everything. We will have to leave our comfort zones we love, and live a legacy.
The Importance of Prayer for the Release of Acts 2- Dream and Visions
In Acts 2, we read the famous quote from Joel, that when God pours out his Sprit, then comes dreams and visions. Sons and daughters begin to prophesy! God does all this to show off His glory and wonder! Why? He wants Heaven full! Jesus wants a bride that he can adorn! He turns cold hearts into hearts of contagious fire. Get ready! The worldwide church’s heart is about to get warm again with evangelism! Jonathan Wesley's famous quote when he placed his full trust in Jesus Christ was as follows, "I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." Just look what happened with him. He shook the world for God, we can too.
The Next Jesus Movement
I believe we will never see another Jesus movement in America and across the world unless we are willing in the day of his power. Psalm 110:3. The church at this hour must have bull dog tenacity coupled with radical love. We will only have that when we see eternity. The Lord still chooses that we be sent. We must see how short this life is. We must see the rewards Jesus has waiting for us in Heaven for all of eternity to enjoy. We must see we are seated with him already in Heavenly places. We must see in the spirit, the great cloud of witnesses cheering us on into living legendary lives for Jesus. We must become sons and daughters of the Kingdom at this hour. We must like the Moravians, want to bring the Lord the rewards of his suffering.
A rabid passion is about to hit the body of Christ in a tidal wave like never before. I see and decree that it will be swarms, regiments, armies of youth, swarms of youth like bees, invading the streets and the outside world with untamed love, winning youth to Christ through signs, wonders, miracles, compassion, and mercy. It will be a young remnant who will go and say "Here I am, send me Lord!" I write this now in tears of compassion and I feel God’s burning fire and I just say, "Oh church, receive this burden to pray for the greatest youth revival the world has even seen."
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Pray for those who are going.
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Pray not for the harvest....but that the Lord will send millions of laborers into the harvest field (Matthew 9:37) of the streets, the campuses, the high schools, the crack houses, the coffee shops, the bars, and the places of darkness. It is ripe already unto harvest, and it has been that way now for almost 2 millenniums.
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Pray for the youth across our nation that their eyes will become opened to eternity and that they find the truth amidst all the swarming lies.
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Who will declare His Generation? Isaiah 53:8 You will saints! Declare to your young generation that they belong to God.
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Pray for regional and nation wide youth revivals and open heavens, not just in America, but all over the world, even in the Muslim nations. Now is not an hour to be discouraged, but changed from glory to glory. The church will be triumphant in this hour. Only believe, and you will see the glory of God.
When people see eternity, they will live like they are already in it. I am a living witness of this. A Punk rocker, turned into a Holy Ghost Revivalist. Amen! Bring your fire upon us Lord to pray for the young laborers to come forth at this hour! Pray for the youth on the streets.
Munday Martin
Contagious Love International
Web-site: www.contagiousloveintl.com
E-mail: munday@contagiousloveintl.com
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