CLEDDIE: You know I want to answer something that Sid asked me. He said what is the revival going to look like that God is going to send? And I’m telling you were on the verge of a move of God!
AUDIENCE: Praise God!
CLEDDIE: I mean for him to buy the station over in Israel. Do you all understand that what God does in the natural will manifest in the spiritual?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
CLEDDIE: I’m telling you just the fact that he was able to go in there with his genuineness. Let me call it that. That’s what I like about Sid after being around him and the humility of his life and his wife. We were eating with them last night and I thought man, she’s got the best story around here. She gets to talk about all he’s ever done and she gets to air out his dirty laundry.
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
CLEDDIE: And we’re all glad to listen to it. But what happened he asked me what’s it going to look like and I can tell you right now I don’t know but I know you’re not going to like it!
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
CLEDDIE: He said aw, you got to be kidding. No, no I’m not kidding at all. Because what happens and there are several answers to this that I want to deal with. And some churches’ will never have an outpouring. Some preachers will never experience an outpouring in their life and some individuals will never experience an outpouring and there are reasons why. And that is because you see people are not willing to go the second mile. The moment God begins to move it. Puts, a second mile, in you! If God sends a revival to your life I’m going to tell you right now you’d better get in shape! For ten years I traveled 120 days a year all over the world a year as a pastor. I came back and would have conferences 4 and 5 times a year and the services were running from 7 o’clock in the morning until 1 and 2 o’clock in the morning and we’d go to the hotel and go to sleep and get up and be at it again. That went on for 10 years.
AUDIENCE: Wow!
CLEDDIE: And it all happened when I begin to pray a prayer and the prayer was this. God if you don’t send revival to our church! Now we had a great church. We’re building churches in Mexico. We did that you know for our hobby. We’d go down and build churches in Mexico. And I love the church. We had great programs. We had great things and great people. Preachers were being produced. And I really think that’s the way you measure a church. How many people are coming out of that church, that are producing men and women of God, and missionaries? And so all of that was happening but I wasn’t satisfied. God had satisfied me with a divine dissatisfaction! And when I was a child I saw God move and I could never be content after seeing what God did when I was a child. I could never one day be content with the same old same old!
AUDIENCE: Yes.
CLEDDIE: I just could not be satisfied. So I begin to pray. Sid, I begin to pray God if You don’t send revival, if You don’t send a revival like I know You can, if You don’t send revival like I saw when I was a child when You gathered my family in, then a million years from now I am going to disgrace heaven with your tears! And I meant it! I would pray that prayer every day! Finally, I got the people to begin to pray God if You don’t send revival, a revival like I know You can. This needs to be the prayer of America right now! God, if you don’t send revival to this land, revival like I know you can where the blood of Jesus solves the differences of culture and race if you don’t send revival like I know you can then a million, million years from now I’m going to disgrace heaven with my tears! I would pray that on Sunday mornings! All of a sudden there was two or three people begin to pray it with me. The prayer warriors begin to pray it with me! The intercessors begin to pray it with me! People that loved the church begin to pray it with me and all of a sudden on July the 17th 1994 God answered that prayer. I was up preaching and had a great message you know that I was getting ready to deliver. I mean it was, you know it was a home run! It was a sugar stick. It was one that I was very proud of.
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
CLEDDIE: Like every preacher should be but all of a sudden what happened was is the power of God fell, in the building. I tell people God hijacked the church!
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
CLEDDIE: He literally did! He literally hijacked that meeting and all of a sudden people jumped up! They begin to run around the building. They were so excited. I never have seen The preachers were running counter-clockwise. The people running one way and all the preachers in the church running against the grain! I guess that’s the way it’s supposed to be. But when I was setting up the front finally I just sat down by the pulpit. I just watched people going by and it was like I mean I’m telling you they were 80 years old. They were running! They weren’t trotting! They were running!
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
CLEDDIE: And people just run up and spin. We didn’t have any catchers. It wasn’t that formal. There wasn’t any of that. I mean they’d just run up and spin around like a helicopter and fall flat on the floor!
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
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