KAREN: About restoring the family altar and restoring the altar in homes. Restoring the altars in churches. And so we actually travel and we do services where we actually bring an actual physical altar to churches and plant them in the church!
LAURA: Wow!
KAREN: Not because that church needs an altar but because they’re preparing them for an encounter!
LAURA: Uh-huh!
KAREN: Preparing them for a moment of transformation! Because the altar is the place where what you have been, gets interrupted by what you can become!
LAURA: Wow! That’s powerful!
KAREN: And so we’re wanting to bring that back into the homes, into families, into marriages, into churches where the altar is just used so many times as a prop in sermons.
LAURA: Yeah. The move has worn off.
KAREN: Rather than as a place of encounter!
LAURA: People don’t really – they look at it and they think “Oh, that’s where you know people go to do this or that.” They don’t get it!
KAREN: That’s right.
LAURA: That they can experience that at home.
KAREN: That’s right.
LAURA: All right. Tell me about “I am Revival” because it’s a similar concept.
KAREN: Yes.
LAURA: You are the revival!
KAREN: That’s right!
LAURA: You know you are the altar, you are the revival!
KAREN: Yes. Well, when we were writing the book together, we were traveling and there was one particular time that I couldn’t go with my husband and he was off ministering. And I remember feeling slightly jealous that I couldn’t be there.
LAURA: [laughing]
KAREN: Because he was going to be at a church that was just so powerful and my husband is just a powerhouse preacher!
LAURA: [laughing]
KAREN: And so I was sitting there and I was thinking “God, I want to be there! What if revival breaks out? I’m going to miss it!”
LAURA: [laughing]
KAREN: “I’m going to miss that moment!” And God spoke to my spirit because so many times we run here for revival, we run there for revival. We’re revival chasers! You know we run to this church or that church. And God spoke to me in that moment and He said, “Why would you miss revival? You are a revival!”
LAURA: Oh wow!
KAREN: And I sat in that moment, and that’s where the chapter in the book came from, because God spoke to me and He said if the Word is true, and where it says “In him we live and breathe and have our being” or if it says that “He lives in us” and His presence, His Spirit, the breath of God lives inside of us then we should be fire-starters! Everywhere we go there should be sparks of revival fire! If I’m on an airplane, if I’m at the grocery store, if I’m at a restaurant everyone I come in contact with should feel the fire that is inside of me!
LAURA: That’s right!
KAREN: That wherever we go demons should be diving out windows!
LAURA: [laughing]
KAREN: Because of what we bring into the room!
LAURA: It is true. It is true!
KAREN: That we are the revival that the world is looking for! Because if it’s true and we believe what we preach, if we believe what the Bible says, that that power – He says that He gives us a spirit – He doesn’t give us a spirit of fear but of power, of love, and a sound mind, then we should be walking in victory everywhere we go and spreading that revival! And through our life in Him, that’s how people will be changed!
LAURA: That’s exactly how people will be changed!
KAREN: That’s right.
LAURA: Because we were changed, with a personal encounter!
KAREN: That’s right.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth