The Last Move of God Has Already Started. Don’t Miss Out!

When we look back in history at the great moves of God, the focus was most often upon the preachers who led those revivals and were at the forefront of those outpourings.

Yet I have sensed for years that this last great outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is upon us even now will be radically different, and I want to conclude by looking forward with expectancy for what’s been spoken about the end-time Army of God Rising.

As I was completing my final edits and reviews of this book, I made a quick trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with my oldest son, David. While I was driving into the office on the morning of our departure, I decided to text a minister friend of mine, Tony Cooke, to see if he had dinner plans for that evening. He responded back saying he and his wife already had plans to go out to dinner, but we were welcome to join them.

We were enjoying a great time of fellowship when George Washington Carver came up in our conversation. Tony asked me if I recalled the prediction that Carver made regarding the last end-time move of God. He pointed out that Carver said,

There is going to be a great spiritual awakening in the world, and it is going to come from… plain, simple people who know—not simply believe—but actually know that God answers prayer. It is going to be a great revival of Christianity, not a revival of religion. This is going to be a revival of true Christianity…. It is going to rise from the laymen, from men who are going about their work and putting God into what they do, from men who believe in prayer and who want to make God real to mankind.

As we continued talking, I realized that I was suddenly getting the closing words for this book you are now reading. Tony continued to share additional quotes by other great men of God that confirmed what has been stirring in my heart about the end times that we are in even now.

Another quote Tony shared was from Charles S. Price who wrote the book The Real Faith published in 1940. Price was originally from Britain and trained in law at Wesley College, Oxford. He had a conversion experience at a Free Methodist Mission in Spokane, Washington, under the ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson, when he went to her meeting to gather material to expose her. The plan to expose her backfired, and, at a later meeting, he was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in other tongues, which was something he was determined not to do. From that time on, he became a blazing flame of evangelism and a channel for divine healing wherever he went. Often more than 10,000 people attended his meetings.2 Charles Price once said concerning the last-day outpouring of the Holy Spirit, “Laymen will be His [God’s] most important channel—not the clergy, or the theologians, or the great gifted preachers, but men and women with ordinary jobs in the ordinary world.”

Mordecai Hamm, who was the evangelist the Lord used to bring Billy Graham to the Lord in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1934, said something similar. Hamm said that God had given him a revelation that it would be ordinary men and women of God who would reach the world with the gospel. Hamm called laymen “…the sleeping giant of evangelism.”

D.L. Moody, renowned 19th-century American evangelist and publisher, made the statement, “If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.”

To me the Great Commission is the greatest mission, vision, strategy, and core value statement ever uttered. It is clear, concise, and perfectly complete in content. Jesus told His disciples, “I have been given all authority in Heaven and on earth. Therefore, go!”

Notice that Jesus did not say, “Go and hold mass crusades,” or “Fill up stadiums,” etc., although I love to see all of that and think we should be holding mass crusades. But Jesus said it best when He said, “Make disciples of all nations, all people.” Go near, go far, go to one, or fill stadiums and hold mass crusades with many—but by all means go! The Great Commission cannot be fulfilled any other way. Some 95 percent of people who come to know the Lord do so through an individual relationship of a family member or friend.

In fact, I have heard it said that if we counted seats in all Christian and Catholic churches and every Jewish synagogue in the world, it is believed that less than 2% of the world’s population could fit into them. Face the facts! We will never get all the world into church buildings—even if they were inclined to come. Therefore, the Church—the Body of Christ—must go into all the world!

For the sake of illustration, let’s say that we wanted to visit and reach every single person on planet Earth with the gospel either for the very first time or one last time. Of the 7 billion-plus people alive today, if we could win 1,000 of them to the Lord every single day (365 days a year), it would take in excess of 19,000 years to reach them. So, we are back to what Jesus commanded us to do from the very beginning—to go make disciples who can go make disciples who can go make even more disciples. Then, we can reach the world in a relatively short amount of time!

Tommy Hicks was a major figure in the powerful 1954 Argentina Revival, who had a stunning vision of the end-time move of God. I encourage you to find it and read it! He made the following statement that I believe sums up who will be in this great end-time army of God.

“God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every woman, and He is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God.”

It has been difficult to get people involved in the things of God in days gone by; however, there is a promise that a day is coming when God’s people will be ready and willing to gather in the harvest. “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power” (Psalm 110:3).

The last great move of God has already started. I believe that so much of what you have gone through in the last several years and even decades will soon begin to make a great deal of sense. There is a mighty Army of God Rising, and it is my prayer that you will join the ranks.