SID: Okay. So Lindell is a worship leader in a very large church in, what is it, Nashville? And your career is zooming. You’re doing work with Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks. And he resigns from the church, and he decides he’s going to hang out with intellectuals. He starts studying psychology. And I don’t get it, Lindell. You grew up miracles. You told me stories about your mother and your grandmother dying of cancer, your grandmother, and she has a miracle, and she gets healed. You’ve seen all these things and you get to the point you get so cynical.
LINDELL: Yes.
SID: How does someone coming from here get there?
LINDELL: I guess, Sid, the same way Peter denied Jesus three times. You become so accustomed to what the Lord is doing and then you start reading books and you know, it’s important what we allow to influence us. It’s very important. It’s important the atmosphere we have at home. It’s important who we listen to, who we come under the influence of.
SID: Okay. You are unfortunately…so many young people this is happening to. So he gets, for lack of a better word, he didn’t go into blatant sin, but he gets cold to the things of God.
LINDELL: Absolutely.
SID: He even questions speaking in supernatural languages, which he’s done his whole life. So he gets a phone call from John Kilpatrick.
LINDELL: Yes sir.
SID: From Pensacola, Florida. John says, “I have a job for you.” Lindell says, “I’m not interested.” John says, “I don’t care. Lindell,” he says, “I’m going to meet you.” He gets to his hometown at something like, what?
LINDELL: Eleven o’clock.
SID: Eleven p.m. at night. And Lindell says, “I know how to get rid of this guy.” Guess where he meets. In a bar. Of course, that’s about all anything that would be open for a snack at that time of night. He figured that would do it. Didn’t stop John one iota.
LINDELL: Didn’t faze him.
SID: So Lindell has a backup plan. He writes down 27 things that have to be done where he goes to work, of which he knew none of them John Kilpatrick would agree with. Now John doesn’t even look at the list. I’m sorry, John can’t see the list. John proceeds to read the first seven things on the list without reading it, saying, “By the way, you can do this, you can do this.”
LINDELL: And they were insane. They were insane. No office hours. Nobody hires anybody without office hours. It was insane.
SID: Okay. So by the seventh, what happened?
LINDELL: And I put my hand up, and I go, “John, stop. Just stop. I’ll take your stupid job.”
SID: But then he says he’s cold and what did John say to you?
LINDELL: I said, “John, I have to just tell you, I have no business being a worship leader. I’m cold in the Lord.” And he says, “I’ve heard from the Lord. The Lord is about to move. He wants you there. You know how to get things right with God. Do that and be there Palm Sunday.”
SID: And you said?
LINDELL: Yes sir.
SID: Okay. Now there was a man that everyone has heard of, William Booth, founded the Salvation Army.
LINDELL: Yes.
SID: And he wrote a song, and he wrote a song. I’ll tell you what, Lindell, will you go out to the piano, and William Booth wrote this song because the believers were cold. Guess what? Lindell took that hymn and put a little Lindell into it, a lot of the spirit of God into it. I want you to hear Lindell Cooley, “Send the Fire.”
LINDELL [music, singing]: Oh God of burning, cleaning flame, send a fire. Your blood gets cleansing today we claim. Send the fire today. God of Elijah, hear our cry, send the fire. And make us to live our time. Send the fire today. Come and burn up every trace of sin, bring the life and glory in. The revolution now begins. Send the fire today. Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire. Send the fire today. It’s fire we want, for fire we plead. Send the fire. Only the fire of God will meet our every need. Send the fire today. Give us strength to always do what’s right and give us grace to conquer in the fight. And give us power to walk this world in light. Send the fire today. Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire, send the fire, send the fire. Send the fire today.
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