Todd Smith - Unless We Pray: The Hour Is Late. God Has a Plan and This Is It!

Copyright 2022Todd Smith

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D EDICATION

I dedicate this book to the hundreds of faithful men, women, teenagers, and children who have continuously labored in prayer at Christ Fellowship Church, Dawsonville, Georgia. Your consistent intercession and contention for the face of God has created the perfect environment so people from all over the world can encounter the sweet and raw power of God. Together, our eyes have seen thousands of miracles, dramatic deliverances, and unspeakable life change in the baptismal waters of the North Georgia Revival. You have truly prayed the price.

After the revival started, the Lords voice spoke to me. He said, Revival sits on the shoulders of men. In other words, men and women get to determine the depth and magnitude of His manifest presence within a church and a revival. Christ Fellowship Church, you have faithfully and honorably carried the revival and the increasing weight of Gods Glory.

Well done!

I NTRODUCTION

L IONS A RE C OMING F ORTH

T he mayhem and chaos in our culture is not slowing down. The uninvited guests of perversion, wickedness, hopelessness, confusion, and violence are here and kicking down doors with little to no resistance from both the physical and spiritual sides. Sadly, in these most trying times we the Church have grown eerily quiet and still.

The question begs to be asked, The Church, where is she? Where is the voice crying in the wilderness? Where is the bastion of life and peace? Where is that light on a hill? Where is the beam of hopethe lighthouse that weary sailors look for in troubled seas? Where is the flame of God that prepares the way of the Lord?

Where is the flame of God that prepares the way of the Lord?

Honestly, by and large we retreated. We have hidden ourselves; we have withdrawn and linked arms with meekness and silence. We have been intimidated by the woke spirit that demands we conform to social norms. Furthermore, that same spirit dares us to speak up. Sadly, due to fear we have tucked ourselves away with a desperate and optimistic hope that things will somehow get better. We ponder, Perhaps this nightmare will suddenly vanish and things will get back to normal.

I was once told by a very wise man that hope is not a strategy. Hoping is not enough. I am convinced things will never be normal again. This is the new current reality. A rugged frontier, a battlefield, and things are now different. Moving forward looks different than it did ten years ago. We have to come out of hidingwe have no choice. We must risk it all in order to make a difference in our society. The solitude and silence has to be broken. The great Oswald Chambers said, The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

In the midst of all the uncertainty, a deep yearning is emerging within the body of Christ. A holy anguish is surfacing, and people are ready for spiritual war. I see it everywhere I go. For far too long, the devil has dealt with docile, compliant, comfort-seeking sheep, but now he must prepare himself to deal with lions. There is fierceness entering the Church of the Lord Jesus, the like of which the devil hasnt witnessed since the book of Acts. This is one thing I know for certainthe hungry, longing, and desperate people of the Kingdom are adjusting, restructuring their lives for this moment. I am moved by the instruction the warrior Atticus gave to his soldiers: Keep your head up; you are a lion. Dont forget that, and neither will the sheep.

There is fierceness entering the Church of the Lord Jesus, the like of which the devil hasnt witnessed since the book of Acts.

The Lamb of God is arranging His warring army. The Bride, the Church, is and will continue to emerge and fall into ranks, and she will be different from what she has been. The lions are being released!

Hell is about to feel the fury of millions of praying lionsfull of power, glory, and fire. This is a new era, a new season.

S ECTION 1

U NLESS W E D IE

D IE W ELL

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

M ARTIN L UTHER K ING , J R .

J im Elliot was one of the five faithful missionaries who were killed with spears by the Auca Indians on January 8, 1956. He was attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador when they fatally attacked him and the others.