Episode 28
Becoming Like a Child: The Key to Revival | Nikau Gerrard
In this powerful message, Nikau Gerrard shares a life-changing revelation on humility, vulnerability, and the posture of childlike faith. Through personal testimony, scripture, and prophetic insight, Nikau calls us to strip off the masks, lay down pride, and embrace the freedom and innocence of being God’s beloved children.
Discover how true revival begins in the heart—through washing one another’s feet, esteeming others above ourselves, and coming before the Father with open hands and an undivided heart. This is more than a sermon—it’s a call to a culture of honor that can change the world.
📖 Key Scriptures: John 13, Philippians 2, Mark 10
🔥 Theme: Humility, Childlike Faith, Revival Culture
Transcript
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Speaker B:Who here loves God?
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker B:I'm going to open up in prayer.
Speaker B:Before I do, I just want to mention this message I'm going to share is really.
Speaker B:I had to apply put in the application even for this morning for my message.
Speaker B:And it was awesome because what I'm going to share isn't just a tool or a key.
Speaker B:This is like the cutting edge and can be actually the difference in how you live and the way you live, even eternal life.
Speaker B:And it took so much off my shoulders and I just became like a child.
Speaker B:So, Father, I decree under heaven, there will be an open heaven in this atmosphere.
Speaker B:In the mighty powerful name of Jesus Christ, I ask Amen.
Speaker B:Who knows that being a child, there's a liberation of being a kid and being a child.
Speaker B:I'm not talking in a sense of immaturity.
Speaker B:I'm talking in a way of you can be free to be you.
Speaker B:There's a liberation.
Speaker B:The facade goes off security.
Speaker B:And it's knowing the Father who you're a child, whose child you are.
Speaker B:There's also, it's this heart posture.
Speaker B:You see perfectly in Jesus.
Speaker B:And I'm going to share some scriptures.
Speaker B:So you better have your Bibles ready.
Speaker B:Boaz is ready.
Speaker B:I'm going to open up with a story.
Speaker B:I have opened up, but I'm going to share with a story.
Speaker B: And this story was in: Speaker B:I had to share and I had to share on the testimony of what he had done in the she.
Speaker B:And I remember that morning, I had this.
Speaker B:I had like, I had notes ready.
Speaker B:But who knows?
Speaker B:I heard some of you guys laughing already.
Speaker B:You already know where it's going.
Speaker B:And I had, I had notes ready and I was just like, I was like, yeah, I'm gonna bring it.
Speaker B:I'm gonna bring it, man.
Speaker B:I'm gonna stir and encourage.
Speaker B:I'm gonna get some.
Speaker B:And God peeled me away.
Speaker B:He burked me that morning before I stood up.
Speaker B:Something happened, man.
Speaker B:Something happened because he put on my heart what he wanted me to share.
Speaker B:It was the most uncomfortable thing I had ever shared in my life.
Speaker B:It was a confession in front of family and friends.
Speaker B:And I was about four lines away from the front, four rows up.
Speaker B:And my friend, my sister, she's on the mic, and I'm next, and I'm there, and I'm on my knees, and it's me and God.
Speaker B:I'm doing business.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm just on my knees.
Speaker B:But something shifted in how I pray.
Speaker B:Because I had been seen for who I was, not who I was putting on was the core of me.
Speaker B:And the reality I'm going to share, I shared in front of many.
Speaker B:As I'm praying in my heavenly language before I'm about to step up, revival happens in me first.
Speaker B:I felt the power of God come on my body.
Speaker B:From this end, left to right, my whole body come under the power of God.
Speaker B:This isn't the highlight of my message.
Speaker B:It's what triggered it.
Speaker B:And the power of God hit my body so hard, I felt like the highest source of voltage come into my being.
Speaker B:I can't describe it.
Speaker B:I start shaking and screaming.
Speaker B:Service.
Speaker B:I'm yelling, I'm not gonna do it, but power of God come on my body boos.
Speaker B:I'm screaming.
Speaker B:And I run up to my sister, who's on the mic, and I just go.
Speaker B:And revival hit the place first, hitting me.
Speaker B:What triggered it?
Speaker B:Humility.
Speaker B:What triggered revival.
Speaker B:I missed the mark.
Speaker B:And in front of everyone, I said, I've been a fake.
Speaker B:Fraud.
Speaker B:Everyone in that room had actually seen me layers down for the first time.
Speaker B:Being a Christian in his eyes, you striving and trying.
Speaker B:Man in his lens, not what he's after.
Speaker B:He loves you.
Speaker B:You have the choice to ravish his heart.
Speaker B:And in that place, it looked like me unloading.
Speaker B:And I shared.
Speaker B:And I said, I've been a fake.
Speaker B:I've been a fraud.
Speaker B:I said, I've been so scared that I might be rejected.
Speaker B:Now I want to ask you a question.
Speaker B:I want you to picture this.
Speaker B:I want you to picture this.
Speaker B:Just listen to me and I want you to just visualize.
Speaker B:Say Jesus came to you and he stooped low and he asked to wash your feet.
Speaker B:What would you say?
Speaker B:Would you say maybe what Peter said?
Speaker B:How could you do that?
Speaker B:What does Peter say here?
Speaker B:He says, no, Lord, Lord, do you wash my feet?
Speaker B:Who knows that?
Speaker B:Like, at first, I'm like, that's my reaction.
Speaker B:That's ego.
Speaker B:But he kept Jesus just.
Speaker B:If he came to you and just asked you, what would your heart Response be And what do you even feel right now in your heart?
Speaker B:Go back.
Speaker B:Last Supper.
Speaker B:There he is around his waist, gets down.
Speaker B:This is the last hour.
Speaker B:What does he do?
Speaker B:This is his closest disciples, including a betrayer.
Speaker B:A betrayer.
Speaker B:We know Judas and was last night.
Speaker B:He's gonna.
Speaker B:He's gonna.
Speaker B:He washes his feet.
Speaker B: John: Speaker B:You ready for this?
Speaker B:If I then the Lord and the Teacher wash your feet you also to wash one another's feet.
Speaker B:Christ is the perfect representative of God the Father.
Speaker B:This is the command he just gave you and I in Even in the epistles of Paul Paul says now to outdo one another in honor.
Speaker B:Now we've just been given a command, let alone an example.
Speaker B:He washes his feet of his betrayers and and his closest friends.
Speaker B:But the betrayer, this is him.
Speaker B:This is Jesus.
Speaker B:This is God.
Speaker B:Jesus, this is God.
Speaker B:This is the example he sets.
Speaker B:And he gives the command.
Speaker B:Is he our master?
Speaker B:Is he our master?
Speaker B:There's something that powerful I haven't thought like I'm still grasping it and this is preaching to me but I'm serious.
Speaker B:I want to see a culture of honor.
Speaker B:Honestly.
Speaker B:He became the lease Positionally he was God, but positionally at heart he was a servant.
Speaker B:Philippians 2.
Speaker B:What does it say?
Speaker B:I'm going to reopen up verse 4.
Speaker B:If you are familiar, this is what Paul says.
Speaker B:This is speaking Jesus do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
Speaker B:Have this attitude in yourself which was also in Jesus, who although he existed in the form of God, the representative perfect reflection fully God.
Speaker B:He did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped catch this verse 7.
Speaker B:But emptied himself taking the form of a bondservant being made in the likeness of men.
Speaker B:Peter's response that ego, that false humility.
Speaker B:But this is something Jesus betrays.
Speaker B:What if this army he was raising up this army he is rising up.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker B:Is a lowly one.
Speaker B:Is a lowly one.
Speaker B:Quick to get to the so quick to get to the pulpit.
Speaker B:At times I tell you I strive to be but what if we reversed our prayer?
Speaker B:Mark 10 Jesus gets a little kid.
Speaker B:He says, if you don't become like a little child, you will not inherit the kingdom.
Speaker B:When I think of children, when I think of a child, I think of freedom.
Speaker B:I'm going to get there and touch that on a moment I'm going to get there.
Speaker B:But here I want to tie these two in together because there's a humility we get to get.
Speaker B:We got to get I'm telling you, in this time, in this hour, it's costly.
Speaker B:Pride gets you out of the game.
Speaker B:We need to get it weeded out.
Speaker B:We need to become like a child.
Speaker B:Humility.
Speaker B:If we cultivate the space where we honor and esteem others, like Christ did, in that, even as betrayer, even the homeless person, even that, I could get into it.
Speaker B:I could go, like, seriously, God, he searched my heart and I've searched his, searching his, and even see through Christ.
Speaker B:Representative Mark 10, as I just read, didn't read, but as I shared, I'm going to go there.
Speaker B:Might take 30 seconds.
Speaker B:Hold on.
Speaker B:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker B:Yeah, all right.
Speaker B:Verse 14.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'll wait.
Speaker B:I'll wait.
Speaker B:Sorry, go on.
Speaker B:When Jesus saw this, I'll give you some context.
Speaker B:Verse before, and they were bringing children to him so that he might touch them.
Speaker B:But the disciples rebuked them.
Speaker B:Verse 14.
Speaker B:But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant.
Speaker B:In other translations, he was angry and said to them, permit the children to come to me.
Speaker B:Do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Speaker B:Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.
Speaker B:I want to Repeat that verse 14.
Speaker B:But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, this is Jesus.
Speaker B:Permit the kingdom, permit the children to come to me.
Speaker B:Do not hinder them for the children, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Speaker B:And truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child, will not enter it at all.
Speaker B:What does it mean?
Speaker B:What does it mean?
Speaker B:The definition of humility?
Speaker B:This is it.
Speaker B:It's humbleness of mind.
Speaker B:I find the greatest humility is when there's no masks, when your heart is completely open and transparent and like a child.
Speaker B:This is it.
Speaker B:This is the posture he wants and desires.
Speaker B:What if you could not just ravish his heart?
Speaker B:That was an understatement.
Speaker B:This is his greatest longing.
Speaker B:Like a child, you come ready to receive his embrace.
Speaker B:We see it throughout passages.
Speaker B:But what if he's longing?
Speaker B:What if this is his greatest desire?
Speaker B:Like a child?
Speaker B:Come, we can do church a lot.
Speaker B:This is it.
Speaker B:This is it.
Speaker B:I was one time at a church and I'm there and I'm standing there and I look to my left and I see an autistic boy embraced by his pop.
Speaker B:And his pop is kissing him non stop kissing him.
Speaker B:Autistic boy, 3, 4 years old, and his pop is just kissing him and embracing him.
Speaker B:And I looked at him, I Started weeping.
Speaker B:I started crying.
Speaker B:Exaggeration.
Speaker B:I was crying, tearing.
Speaker B:Because I was captured and captivated.
Speaker B:I was just captured in the moment.
Speaker B:It was a little boy who didn't know much better.
Speaker B:But it was just a love and a simplicity.
Speaker B:It was this innocence.
Speaker B:I just want to wait on the Lord.
Speaker B:I feel like there's.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:None the more said, you know, you guys know me, but I just want to wait.
Speaker B:A lot of my story.
Speaker B:A lot of my story.
Speaker B:My mama's here, so, you know, I got to be careful.
Speaker B:Hallelujah.
Speaker B:Praise God for my mother.
Speaker B:I'm so serious.
Speaker B:Yesterday, one thing at a time.
Speaker B:So a lot of my story, my testimony, I. Yeah.
Speaker B:Before I do, there was yesterday I got the privilege to be with my cousins, three nephews I spent a long portion of time with.
Speaker B:Man, oh, man.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:It was great.
Speaker B:It was great, man.
Speaker B:Got to be with my little nephews and like, you know, just what there's something special, you know, you pick up.
Speaker B:Just personally, you know, yesterday, just seeing.
Speaker B:And I was like, man, how this ties in perfectly with what I was going to bring the receiver from the Lord today.
Speaker B:Becoming like a child.
Speaker B:Man, oh, man, we got to be like a child, eh?
Speaker B:I believe.
Speaker B:Yeah, I believe.
Speaker B:And I'm going to be quite stern, raw and real with you.
Speaker B:I believe this revival will be feet washers.
Speaker B:Don't catch what I didn't say.
Speaker B:Their heart will be the esteem.
Speaker B:Go low, be meek, become like a child.
Speaker B:Because it's those in whom he can trust that won't blow it and become all about them.
Speaker B:It's this childlike position of heart.
Speaker B:That's it.
