The People’s Revival

Recognition: The Gate and the Hunger

In 2 Kings 7, the city of Samaria was dying behind its own walls.  Famine had rotted its conscience.  Mothers traded their children for survival.  Religion had become rhetoric.  Power had become cannibalism.

And outside those walls sat four lepers.

Unwelcome. Unclean. Unfit.

They were the ones the system had pushed beyond its borders so it could pretend to still be holy.

I know that place.

I live there.

Autistic, blunt, disqualified by neurotypical decorum. I have “sinned” publicly, failed the purity tests, refused to play the church’s political games. I call out the machine when it devours the weak. That makes me one of them—the lepers outside the gates.

But I’m not alone. The LGBTQ+ believers. The ones chasing Spirit, not spectacle. The poor who can’t tithe their way into belonging. The thinkers with questions the pastors fear. Even the evangelicals who finally wake up and see what the system has become—we’re all out here together now. The unwanted. The misfit saints.

Revelation: The Lepers Moved First

When the city was starving, it wasn’t the priests who brought deliverance. It wasn’t the king’s advisors or the conference speakers.

It was the lepers.

They looked at the siege and said, “Why sit we here until we die?”

And they walked straight into enemy territory—into the camp of those the city feared—and found that God had already moved ahead of them. The armies had fled. The abundance was waiting.

That’s the pattern of revival: it starts with the rejected.

When the insiders hoard their holiness, God gives the keys of the Kingdom to those who’ve been locked out.

When the gatekeepers starve their own people with pride, God sets the table in the wilderness for the ones they cast out.

Response: The Real Revival Won’t Be Approved

The church system is besieged—feeding on its own credibility, defending its brand instead of the broken. It calls its cannibalism “revival” because it doesn’t know the difference between fire and rot.

But outside the walls, something real is stirring.

It’s not lights and stages.

It’s compassion in action.

It’s lepers feeding the city that abandoned them.

It’s trans believers washing feet.

It’s the poor sharing food.

It’s exvangelicals praying for the ones who exiled them.

It’s the outsiders building something merciful and alive.

Revival is coming—but it’s not coming into the besieged system.

It’s coming through the people the system rejected.

Through us.

Stand-Out Truth: We Are the Leper Church

We are the evidence that God still moves outside the institution.

We are the ones who discover the abundance others fear to seek.

We will share it—not to shame them, but to feed them.

And when the starving city finally dares to open its gates, it will find that the lepers have become the lifeline.

Let the establishment keep its walls.

We’ve found freedom in the open field.

We’ve found God where the outcasts gather.

We’ve found the Spirit in the places they said He would never go.

Revival won’t wear a collar or a suit.

It will look like mercy in motion.

It will sound like the laughter of lepers sharing bread.

It will be built by those who were never supposed to belong.

Let’s build something better.

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