HOW TO "CLEANUP" IN THE COMING REVIVAL

This book is a compilation of messages given to me by the Holy Spirit.  They were generally conveyed to me following an early morning time of “entering into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.”

When I first came to know the Lord, I had a bad practice of running to consult anointed men who had the gift of ‘word of knowledge.’  The Lord quickly broke me of this habit by separating me from all past ministerial associations.  At that point, I was left on my own to seek His face and to find His path for me.

In late 1980, I decided to start getting up around 5:00 A.M. to worship God - according to Psalm 100:4 - and to pray in the Spirit.  After a time -it varied between 30 minutes to an hour - I often sensed that the Holy Spirit wanted to speak to me.  So I found a pen and wrote down His words as they came to my spirit.  The messages in this book were recorded over a period of eight years, from 1980 through 1987.

Believing that the Lord’s words were timely, I did my best to get them out to the public.  But apparently it wasn’t His time.  Rejection letters from publishers were followed by long periods of discouragement.  I felt at a loss to know how to make the body of this work readable and acceptable both to a publisher and to the public, so the manuscript sat in my file cabinet for over a decade.

One day recently I was simply worshiping Jesus, with no petition or request, when suddenly a sentence flashed across my mind: How to Clean Up in the Coming Revival - Not Just Another Soap Opera.  I knew it was the title for a book - the one composed of these messages that you are about to read, which had lain dormant for so long.  I felt prompted to pass on the manuscript to a dear friend and minister, Sherry Wanner.  The further she read, the more excited she grew.  The words entrusted to me by the Holy Spirit seemed far more timely now than in the 1980s!

When she offered to help polish it for clarity and style, I gave her complete freedom to do whatever she thought would work.  The original collection of prophecies had no structure, only dates and titles (for easy retrieval from my computer).  The Lord faithfully equipped Sherry to reorganize and smooth the work into a logical flow while maintaining the integrity of what He had spoken.  Her husband Bob came alongside to do the detail editing, proofreading, and checking for scriptural accuracy.  I acknowledge and thank Sherry and Bob for their significant contribution in getting this word of the Lord into the hands of the reader.  If you are blessed with the book, all the credit goes to the Lord for speaking it into my heart years ago.     

Since these messages are now grouped in chapters (for the reader’s convenience), they do not necessarily reflect the chronological order in which they were first received.  In the back of the book you will find a few blank pages so you can make written notes of what God does for you as you absorb His messages into your heart.  May He prosper your journey in Him.