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Thoughts On Revival

I've got to get this book!

http://www.azusastories.com/

Even though I'm interested in a diverse range of subjects, one subject I can never seem to get away from is revival. I've always been drawn to accounts of revival and stories of God's supernatural power coming in contact with the lives of everyday people. William Seymour, a man greatly used of God during the Azusa Street Revival prophesied that in approximately one hundred years God would powerfully visit His people. There's no doubt in my mind it's time! We are a generation marked to experience a reviving of God's glory, power and goodness more than any other generation. The story of Christianity over the past 2000 years is imprinted over and over again with seasons when God would visit His people. Performing supernatural miracles through humble people, breathing new life into His eternal plan. A plan to communicate and compel all of mankind to choose the free gift of life He offers.

I'm encouraged to see so much creativity, technology and resource utilized throughout the Body of Christ in the effort to reach the world for Jesus. Although, I can't help but think we're still falling far short of what God intends us to accomplish in this hour. It's time once again for heaven to invade individual lives, churches and nations with heaven's glory and heaven's power. To precipitate change in the lives of people in ways and on a scale no one has ever seen before. Bringing us to place where we(the church) correctly and collectively reflect God's glory and transmit His power to a generation of people who are searching for true power and a genuine spiritual experience.       

How Spiritually Hungry are You?

Lately I've been reading a book entitled The Nature and Dynamics of Revival Glory by Dr. John D. Shiver. I think it's one of the best books I've read on the subject of revival. It really has challenged me to take my spiritual life to the next level and has strengthened my core convictions regarding what God wants to do in the church in our generation. Here are a couple quotes - enjoy!

The first thing the church must experience before true revival can come is a deep, heart-felt, spiritual dissatisfaction with their present circumstances. This is called spiritual hunger, and with it, nothing can ever change. God reveals himself to spiritually-hungry people more than to complacent, indifferent, and satisfied religious people.

It is the heart of the church that either attracts revival or resists revival.

For the healing of a nation to come, God's people must desire it and be willing to change their own hearts in order to bring forth revival as is prescribed in 2 Chronicles 7:14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Selah