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Revival: Am I Willing To Pay The Price?

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Today I am posting an article written by my friend Missionary Jim Kilgore on revival.  I hope you are challenged by it.

“Revival:   Am I Willing To Pay The Price?

 

Many Christians today have no clue what a critical hour we are living in. The hour is urgent, the Lord is willing, the devil is hard at work, and too many church members are sitting in the grandstands enjoying the view when they should be suited up and on the field.  “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion…” (Amos 6:1)

Around 1am this morning, I was paying about revival when God challenged me with why I REALLY want to have a revival.   I searched my heart for improper motives.  Was it merely to make life easier for us in America?  Was it to make life easier for the Christian?

Jesus reminded me that in THIS world we shall have persecution. John 15:20, “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”    II Timothy 3:12 reminds each Christian, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus SHALL suffer persecution.”

The object of spiritual revival is not the emotional outbursts, unstructured services, and excessiveness in enthusiasm, bigger budgets, or even the crowded churches which often accompany revival. These things may occur and often do.

The whole point of a movement of God’s Spirit which we call revival involves great concerns, matters like:  glorifying God in this world, magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ, the salvation of the lost, often times in great numbers of people coming to Jesus Christ, the restoration of families, and the reviving and re-aligning the Lord’s churches.

It is time to rise up out of our sleep.  It is time that each one of US confronts our own casual approach to Christianity.  If we really want revival, then each mush DO something.  A good place to start is by humbling ourselves.  II Chronicles 7:14).   James 4: 6 reminds us “that God resists the proud…”    the word resists carries the idea of “raging in battle against the Believer because of his pride.”

Until our pride is smitten, destroyed, and we completely lay bare and honest before God, revival will not come.  May you and I take time today, no matter how busy that we are, to fall down before God and start confessing our pride, our independent spirit, our utter nothingness apart from God.

We have ALL said, “Something needs to be done.  Someone needs to do something to help save America.”   Here is YOUR opportunity.

Revival must start within you and I. This is how this “Revival Facebook page” will be different.  We must refuse to cease talking about revival and allow the Holy Spirit to start the revival with us!

Will you seriously start this inner process of revival today?  Will you be willing to confront your own indifference, inactivity, and insensitivity to the Spirit of God today?

God, I now lay myself on your surgery table.  Start the painful process within my life.  Amen”

So, how are you doing?

 

We Must Trust In His Provision

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On Sunday my Pastor Al Ray preached a great message in which the past few days I have been sharing his main points with you and adding my own commentary (Yes, I received permission.)

He related a story of a woman traveling on business.  Her cab ran late due to driver inability to go the correct direction.  She ran into the airport to check in and found that her flight has been delayed.  She then purchases a “Kit Kat” bar and sits down with her stuff stacked on the table next to her.  She turns away and turns back to find a rather large, rough looking man eating her “Kit Kat” bar.  She is so angered that she reaches over and grabs a piece of it.  The man breaks off another piece.  This plays out until it is gone.  The man goes and gets another.  As he begins to enjoy it, the lady grabs another piece as she is thinking, “We ate mine.  Now we can eat yours.”  The entire scenario plays out again.  The woman’s flight arrives and as she is gathering her belongings to board the plane she spots her “Kit Kat” in her purse.  She never said a word.

I shared this lengthy story because I want to look at God’s provision.  We need to trust in His presence, His provision, His promises, and His person.  That is the four days all rolled up into one.

Having been near the bottom of the barrel many times over the past twenty years I understand about God’s provision.  There have been times that it seemed that the end was not just near; but, upon us.  Then God in His miraculous way came through again to provide.

Our problem is that we have no idea the difference between our wants and our needs.  We need daily food to live.  We need oxygen to live.  I want an eight thousand dollar digital camera.  I want a five bedroom house in a steady climate of sixty-eight degrees every day of the year.  See the difference.

Some people want something to eat.  Some people want a warm bed to sleep in.  What are your wants and what are your needs?  Do you know the difference?  Jesus knows our deepest needs and wants to provide them for us.  He will provide our needs and He can transform our wants to be His wants.  There is the “pay dirt”.  God make my wants Your wants!

In John 14 and the last part of verse two He puts it this way:  John 14:2, “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”  That is the provision of God and we can bank on it!

So, how are you doing?