You Can Become a Walking Revival!

By Pastor Larry Beauregard

On February 13th, 49 years ago, I got saved in this church. I am Ground Zero for the Door Church Tucson congregation. Everything that’s here came after I got saved.

I live for the day God moves. This is how I live my life. I am a walking revival.

I believe anyone can become a walking revival. This is the message of my book.

It is my prayer that I may impart some spiritual gift to those I preach to and to those I speak with. If people get around me to draw things out, I will freely give.

I attended my first Bible Conference in Prescott, Arizona seven months after giving my life to Christ. There were 25-30 people in the church then, and a steady stream of new converts.

I did most of the follow-up, because I wanted everyone to get what I got.

Three years later, Susan and I pioneered the church in Douglas, Arizona. One day, I went to pick up my wife and found her witnessing to a high school student.

While she never came to our church in Douglas, that high school girl got saved in Tucson a few years later while we were in Vancouver. She introduced herself to us at the Tucson Conference. She later married Mike Webb. Her name today is Mary Webb.

At the first Bible Conference in Prescott, Al Fury preached a sermon on the call of God. I poured my heart out at the altar. I had a vision and began to weep for the lost souls of the world.

I felt God was calling me to be an evangelist, but pastoring was the only fellowship ministry back then, so I pastored for a total of twenty-five years.

But that evangelistic element stayed with me. From the second month I began pastoring in 1977, I have preached a revival somewhere every month.

In 1988, I was at the Prescott Bible Conference and Susan was home in Vancouver with the kids. From the moment Harry Hills began the altar ministry that Friday, I was overwhelmed by the feeling that God wanted me to leave Vancouver and become an evangelist.

I began to shake, so I sat on my hands and prayed silently: “God, if this is really You, let me know right now!” Harry Hills stopped just then, spun around, and pointed his finger at me. “Beauregard, stand up!” he said. In shock, I slowly stood.

“That’s God speaking to you! In the early days you would do whatever God wanted you to do, no matter what. Now it’s more difficult to make radical choices. But, that is God speaking to you and you need to go tell your pastor!”

After the service I went to Pastor Warner and told him everything. He told me he knew I already preached revivals, but that I should schedule a few more meetings to see what God was doing.

I called Susan and told her what happened.

“I believe God wants me to be an evangelist!” I blurted out. I was excited. She wasn’t.

She hung up on me. That is the only time she ever hung up on me in over 47 years of marriage.

We loved Vancouver, the people, and all God was doing there. Becoming an evangelist meant giving up the church, and neither of us really wanted that. But God was calling.

Just before the closing prayer on Friday night of Prescott Conference in January 1989, Pastor Mitchell announced that I would become an evangelist out of the Tucson church.

Within twenty minutes, I was solidly booked for the next two years. I was in the will of God.

Back in 1987, Larry Reed came to preach a revival for us in Vancouver. I picked him up in Seattle, and about an hour into our drive – in the middle of visiting, laughing, and catching up with each other – the Spirit of God spoke so clearly to me that it was almost audible:

What is in Larry is in you. The same thing that happens through him will happen through you.

I pondered this message down through the years. I don’t preach like Larry Reed and I don’t preach on the streets like he did. It was a bit of a puzzle.

But in the last ten years, God has shown me things about Larry Reed’s bold spirit of spontaneity and passion for the Gospel that He mixed with his personality to make him a walking revival. God connected this revelation about Larry to where I find myself in life at this moment.

This is the very reason I am going to India twice a year and seeing God move so powerfully in my meetings there.

It has everything to do with what He is doing. I’m just along for the ride.

Everything that is in my book is what I have lived over the last 33 years.

I’ve been in the ministry for over 46 years and have preached in over 50 countries. I have gained a lot of knowledge in Christ and have many stories and lots of experience. I’m easy to talk to and willing to speak to anyone about the things of God.

This next generation could learn a lot from me if they would only ask. I’m available.