In “Death to Counterfeit Christianity,” Lydia Marrow addresses the serious issues facing the Church in the western world today. There is a shocking lack of prayer in our modern churches, and that lack of prayer has birthed churches that lack the tangible presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But authentic outpouring is the identity, the inheritance, and the legacy of the Church of Jesus Christ.
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Revival is a term that many people and ministries have sought to redefine, but we believe that authentic, legitimate revival is a return to nothing less than what we see written in the book of Acts. The book of Acts is not the highlight reel of the Early Church; rather, what Luke documented was the normal expectation of the Church of Jesus Christ. Revival occurs when God steps in by His Spirit to close the gap between our daily experience and what we see written in the book of Acts. It’s time to reclaim revival!
God got a hold of Lydia at the Brownsville Revival just before her twelfth birthday, and she has served in ministry with her family since that time. She has had the privilege of being both a worship leader and a preacher for most of her life, and she has had the honor of traveling the world, watching as Jesus did the impossible by His Spirit. She also had the honor of being the worship leader of the Bay Revival, as my spiritual father, Pastor John Kilpatrick, led the second major outpouring of his life. Night after night, God demonstrated His power, and thousands of people were swept into the Kingdom. That revival had far-reaching results internationally, because millions of people watched live via GodTV.
Since that time, God called Lydia and Nathan Marrow to launch Vanguard Ministries. The mandate from Heaven that God put on their lives is this: to be a holy provocation; to provoke the Church toward revival and the lost toward repentance.
In “Death to Counterfeit Christianity,” Lydia specifically share the testimony of how God apprehended her family in March of 1996, changing them and forever marking them with His glory. But throughout the pages of this book, she shares many testimonies and experiences of revival that will spark faith and courage to contend for revival.
We hope and pray that “Death to Counterfeit Christianity” will do the following:
- Return us to a biblical, book of Acts definition of revival and outpouring
- Impress upon the reader the extreme importance of contending for revival for the sake of the next generation of Jesus followers
- Cause us to hunger to see the reputation of Jesus (miracles, signs, wonders, preaching of truth, deliverance) become the hallmark of our lives
- Make us hungry for the refining work of the Holy Spirit, and embrace a lifestyle of real repentance
- Provoke a legitimate hunger for God that is evidenced by a lifestyle of prayer
- Stir up a desire to host God’s presence, understanding that He comes and stays where He is hosted well
- Impart courage and boldness to stand and contend for revival and awakening in our time
If the reader applies the principles written in this book, they can expect to become a person of prayer, seeing and experiencing the reality of revival in their life and ministry. They will avoid the pitfall of thinking that celebrity, Americanized Christianity is the goal of this life, but will be provoked to pray through to the New Testament reality of outpouring.
Our greatest prayer for this book is that it will return the Church to the altar. As Vanguard Ministries travels across the USA, we have seen God fill the altars with church people who weep, wail, and travail in repentance and intercession for God to pour out His Spirit. May this book provoke the people of God to fall in love with prayer and repentance, because that is surely our only hope of seeing revival in our land.
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