Code Orange Revival Day 8

Wednesday night, orange is everywhere. Staff is wearing Team Jesus jersey's.... Volenteers wander through the crowd painting orange replicas of Elevation's insignia on the cheeks of the waiting little ones.

"There you go, girls," they tell two tiny blond clients. "All beautiful for Jesus."....

So this is what tailgating for the soul looks like?

Lawn chairs and space heaters. Cornhole boards and coolers. Footballs and beanbags. And long lines stretching down the grass medians and both sides of Elevation Church.

"This is history... In 2012, just look at how many people are tailgating for hours to hear The Word!" (over 10,000)

I wounder how many people could actually imagine this?  This is one of the reasons I love Elevation Church

Onto the recap

As a large digital clock counts down, the big screen above the sanctuary offers a stream of incoming tweets (#codeorangerevival).

• I want to Tebow on the stage.
• What would Jesus tweet?
• If you live ANYWHERE in the country and can get to Charlotte, get here before it ends.

Boom, Day 8 kicks off and I could tell Stovall Weems was going to give an intense message... I dont know if I thought that based off his look, the laser focus he went onto stage with, or if it was that fact that when Stovall was introduced and he started telling his story...I actually heard MY story!  With that said,  it was another great sermon and even though I dont know Mr. Weems by the time he wrapped up, I felt like it did!

Stovall Weems is the founder and lead pastor of Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida.

Celebration Church is a global, diverse, multisite church that reaches people from all walks of life. Since it began with just seven people in 1998, the church has grown both regionally and internationally to twelve locations with over ten thousand people in weekend attendance.  Stovall is noted for his energetic, engaging and practical communication style. As pastor, teacher, and conference speaker, his ministry focuses on building the local church, reaching people with the gospel, and developing passionate followers of Christ

Stovall started out the night in typicall fashion (like all the other speakers)... just preaching an intesnse heart felt message.

See, "what some prefer as a private communion with God... Elevation Church  has gone high-def, big-screen and viral. It is not contemplative. It is not for everyone. But, Code Orange's style of performance-art worship offers a boldness and power that Weems, in his sermon, says the world sorely needs.

It's "God Swagger"... as he calls it. (I Love that BTW)

Hebrew 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need..

Stovals main message was out of Genisis... 

The flood has already happened... now check this out

Genesis 8:6-12 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and lay hold, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

Stovall also made it a point to read this:

Job 1:7-12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 

Right now, do not pay any attention to Job (for right now).... just read Genisis

I want you to understand.... Noah originally took two birds, a Raven and a Dove

What did the Raven do?  It went to and fro... it was just circling above... thats it.

Now, look at The Dove, she went out and came back to Noah... with no good news the first time. 

Notice the author says that the dove found no rest for its feet (that means that Noah had to make room for her).  It says he LAY HOLD and PULLED HER IN! 

The second time the Dove went out what did she have?  The Olive branch!  The universal sign for Jesus!

You ask what is the point... or what does that mean?

Check this out...

The Dove always comes back.... JESUS Always comes back!  You and you have to understand that unless Noah makes room for that Dove (Jesus) there is no place for it to come and land....  basically, Jesus can't just come into your life and land.

The author also says He LAY HOLD!  He grabed it... if you are seriously going to have that relationship you have to take hold and pull it in! Treasure it and make it work.... make sense?

Now look at that verse in Job... Notice what Satan says to God when asked where did you come from.... Satan says I move to and fro in the earth.

You see We all have those Ravens in our life... they are just waiting for us to doubt, waiting for us not to make room, moving to and fro... wispering to us... "Jesus doesn't care".

We have to

• Make Room
• Lay Hold
• Pull In

It totally amazed me that the verbage when comparing those two stories is right now. 

Stovall explains to the crowd  The world thinks it needs a lot of things. What it needs is a revelation of the son of God, He said "this is the lay-hold moment." #CodeOrangeRevival is not going to stop when the rally nights end. It's going on for the entire year. IN CHARLOTTE. ALL OVER THE WORLD. AND IN YOUR LIVES!"