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MONTGOMERY, AL --It was a hard decision for Bill Easter to make but on June 15 he launched a crusade to visit every state capitol in the Untied States to pray on their capitol steps for revival in the nation. On June 29, all that is wrong with this country struck again as The Supreme Court of The United States of America made their ruling on prayer. The demons of Hell must have heard Bill Easter preparing his long crusade. It was on June 29 when the high court decided to remove school prayer with a 5 to 4 vote. No prayer anywhere is what they said. They took the Constitution and First Amendment rights to free speech and told students and athletes all over the nation that the government will control what is said in the public school systems. We all are players in the will of God with timing. Bill Easter is not in politics, he’s just a poor preacher from Tennessee who wants to make a difference. This first visit was up I-65 at in Montgomery at the old Alabama State House that dates back to the Civil War era. Many things have begun on these capitol steps. A Civil War, Equal Rights through the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Judge Roy Moore’s rally to defend the Ten Commandments on the wall of his Gadsden Court House. Bill chose the right day to pray on the capitol steps. The people who run the old state house gave him their guarantee of a stage and a sound system if he wanted it, but what was set up was a people’s vote on the matter of school prayer. On June 16 more than 250 high school honor students from all over the State of Alabama were at the steps the same time Easter was there. One of the students came over and asked the evangelist what he was doing. The girl went back and told the others. Soon many of Alabama’s top high school students volunteered to pray with Easter on the steps of the Alabama’s State Capitol Building. God speaks louder than the leadership and lawmakers at times. Easter was in the will of God as the students joined him there. Who can know the timing of God, we all are players in the will of God with timing. The statement was not made by Easter but the statement was made by God. Easter had no idea the students would be there but he followed in obedience toward God, and apparently the students came under the direction of God. It was a statement made in time by those who are directed toward God. John Kilpatrick has found the need for prayer also. He has put legs to the talk and has visited three major cities already. In Little Rock, Arkansas -- Minneapolis, Minnesota -- and New Jersey the faithful have showed to up to call for repentance in the country. The words of the pastor still rings in our ears. "Revival will not start at the state house but will begin at the church house." It is his belief that the will of the people will eventually turn toward the will of God. It doesn’t matter what the U.S. Supreme Court has to say about the matter. Some how people who have been to revival in Pensacola know one thing, "God will move if we will move." It was on July 24, 1994, that Paul Hill took the law in his own hands and shot John Britton, a doctor who performed abortions in Pensacola. It was eleven months later that God came down at revival in Pensacola. God heard the prayers that had been lifted up from The Brownsville Assembly of God. Violence wasn’t the answer to the Supreme Court Law but the intercessory prayers of those who had been raised up at this time were more powerful than the guns that killed the doctors. Who can know the timing of God, we all are players in the will of God with timing. God spoke in an audible voice to a fatherless poor boy in the public school system of Columbus, Georgia. Divine appointment was right there at the public school in Georgia. On the day that God spoke to John Kilpatrick, could The Supreme Court have stopped the voice of God. God’s voice spoke in the middle of a biology class. Remember it was on Father’s Day when revival happened. The call on this pastor’s life started in the public schools in Georgia as a fatherless child.. God’s power was much stronger than the two killings of the abortion doctors. So much of God’s will can be seen in this move of God. Dr. Michael Brown made the statement that things are moving very fast at present. Many Christians feel God has not heard their prayers because of the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court but that’s the way many at the Brownsville Church felt before June 18, 1995. The prayer meetings going on now led by Pastor Kilpatrick are a vital link for God to move. The statement of "If My People," is being honored right now by the faithful who believe. We are walking blindly in the will of God seeking His face and asking Him to move on our behalf. He is putting it all together and in the midst of the darkness He will abundantly answer. This paper is called The Remnant because we know the power of a few. It was the few who prayed for two years at Brownsville that brought the entire world to their door. Now we are knocking on the doors of Heaven for God to vent His glory on our country. We are walking in unchartered territory and we know He will answer us. Lonely are the roads of those who travel with responsibility. As I heard Pastor John Kilpatrick say they fell short $6,000 in New Jersey for the meeting that was held there, I knew it was my time to sacrifice for this project. It means more for me to give now than it has ever been. I hope you feel that way too. Be in prayer for "United in Prayer," it is such a blessing right now.
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