Written By Jim Dierickx (C) 2004

Cost of Revival Resources Needed

Another major reason that the marketplace ministries and business owner are important and essential in God’s Army that they will actually be funding the harvest. One person recently asked the question of who is going to act as pastors to the newly saved if we were to have major revival today, and if even 1 person could be on staff 24/7 , to equip and disciple a bunch of radically saved Christians with major problems meaning , coming out alternative lifestyles one day and a radical Christian the next, or being a Satanist one day and a Jesus person the next. With all the problems and major maintenance needed if 1 pastor did this and nothing else 24/7 and they were supported to do this and nothing else like the Levite Priest of old. And these equipped and anointed local Cell Pastors could handle 50 of these people without falling and growing cold themselves, and 100,000,000 people were swept up in revival in the USA alone , how many would you need ? The answer is 2,000,000 and if they could even have a living wage for this very important work of $2,500.00 a month to support themselves and their families we as Christians would need $5,000,000,000 a month yes that is $5 Billion a month to support this effort, remember this is strictly a maintenance cost to keep those who have gotten saved discipled and to get them equipped so we do not lose what was gained in the harvest, this comes to $60 Billion a year. I feel that the worst thing that could happen is to have revival but the fruit dies on the vine because it rots away before it can be picked, again just like scripture says the harvest field is ripe and white for harvest but the workers are few.

If this sound too large then think for a minute what it will cost to evangelize the lost through effective anointed evangelism it will probably cost alot more than this to get the message out in the first place, for instance again if we were to mail out a NIV Bible and Video About Jesus To every Household in the USA and you could get your cost down to $15.00 for the whole package, and you were to send it to all 120,000,000 households in the USA Alone that would be $1.8 Billion for the mailing alone, anyway the cost to really truly reach the USA first and then the world would be multi hundreds billions if not trillions of dollars. And yet there are so many programs and organizations that are just hanging in there now and the net gain of Christians from some studies would actually say is on the decline or plateau growth even with billions in donated money today. So the wealth transfer with proper stewardship and the ability to step out in faith in the business arena will be essential to the end time Army to fulfill it’s destiny.