Doorkeepers of Revival: Birthing, Building, and Sustaining Revival

by Kim Owens, John Kilpatrick (Foreword)

"This book will serve as a modern-day epistle to those in revival and those seeking it. Kim is a doorkeeper. She does not just know about revival but has experienced it firsthand." -- John Kilpatrick, pastor Church of His Presence, Pastor of the Brownsville Revival, Pensacola, FL"Jesus is coming back for a church in revival!" -- Kim OwensRevival was never meant to come and go, ebb and flow. In fact, it's not God Who taps out of revival; it's us. Heaven's desire is a church that's burning with passion, alive with the Spirit, and flowing with the supernatural.What if it were possible to actually sustain moves of the Holy Spirit in churches, cities and regions? While many are waiting around for a sovereign outpouring of God to come down from Heaven, there is a remnant of believers rising in the Earth who are declaring war on dry places and dead spiritual atmospheres. Many claim to desire revival, but few are willing to keep the door open for the move of God to continue and increase!Sustained revival is doing what it takes, no matter how long it takes, to keep the door of revival open and the fire of God burning on the altar. Kim Owens is pastor of Fresh Start Church, a thriving church in Peoria Arizona that has been experiencing sustained revival since 2015. It's not extended services or special meetings that characterizes this revival. It's far more transferable and applicable to you! Pastor Kim has simply given her life to training everyday believers to live as powerful, Holy Spirit-empowered revivalists.In Doorkeepers of Revival, you will learn how Press into God, refusing to settle for a passive, substandard Christianity.Create space for the Holy Spirit to move, accommodating Him above everything else.Cross thresholds into new realms of glory, learning how to seize and steward key moments of Holy Spirit outpouring.Follow the Upper Room strategy, prioritizing the power of Pentecost over programs.Sustained revival is not only what the Lord desires, but it's what most Christians and church leaders desire. Even more so, it's what the world needs to a church ablaze with Holy Spirit fire!

176 pages, ebook

Published August 17, 2021

Reviews

[Brian McBride · Rating 5 out of 5]

A call to arms and to action that every believer NEEDS to read! It will stir you and challenge you and provoke you!

[Wayne Moore · Rating 4 out of 5]

He will do it again!!!

I have experienced revival like what is talked about within this book. As a Christian school teacher years ago, our Head of School told us that he believed God said that we would have revival with our students that year. For most of the school year, many of us pressed into God through prayer, worship, fasting, and spending more time in the secret place. We had a move of God that led numerous students to give their life to Christ, many to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and left great testimonies of students that today are serving God in ministry. This book helps describe what I saw happen with my very eyes. Press into God, consecrate yourself and watch God move in your life and in the life of others.

[P Grid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my word!!!

If you have ever wanted to know keys to getting yourself closer to God you must read this book. When I say that you will be changed it’s no exaggeration. Yes you will have your choice to make but if you want to make a difference for God then READ THIS BOOK!!!

[Randy Tramp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Creates great hinger for a move of God.

[Paula White · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book over a period of months. It is challenging, inspirational at times and even uncomfortable. One theme throughout is prayer. I will need to read it over again.

[Kristin Hodge · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some really really biblically sound nuggets of gold scattered through out that i loved! There was also a lot of repetition. And ultimately there was a huge key part missing that made this unpractical. Relationships. Being relational with people. It cannot always be extreme, wild, aggressive. There is absolutely a time and place for it but we must love people where they’re at and not demand them to where we are at.

I asked myself. Is it unbiblical for me say this is unpractical? No, i think Holy Spirit is without religion, without constraint, he may not be practical, but i think if being a little practical lead someone to experience the unpractical love of Jesus, then He would be.

At times this felt like I was reading a math formula for building a revival center. Do this this and this and you’ll have revival! But at the same time the things they said to do were biblical. PURSUE HIS SPIRIT! Pray intensely! Intercede! Then there were things like, have no time limit on church, no announcements to distract people from what we’re doing, etc But what if..... these things worked for this church. This was their experience with God in their church. This may NOT be your churches calling/focus! While revival is so important, revival can happen in your own heart and life outside of these extreme circumstances. God revives people in MANY ways! But they all filter thru one- experience and accepting Jesus Christ.

Great read but be careful not to read it literally. A lot of the things about revival I read in a way that wasn’t so super focused on revival so I could still really get something out of what she was saying.

Her ideas are good, a new perspective, but extreme in every way.