Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.
Over the years I've been ask "When do you think revival will come?" Well.... first, what is "revival", exactly? One of Webster's definitions is "a renewed attention to or interest in something". Here are some important questions for us: How interested are we in knowing Him more intimately today than yesterday? How interested are we in gaining a greater knowledge and understanding of His Word? And just how interested are we in sharing those things with the dying world around us? A true revival must begin with us -- it must be intimately personal. And it's not just a one-time thing, either. Once, a lady asked Billy Sunday "Why do you keep having revival meetings?" He replied , "Why do you always take a bath?"
Revival is something that needs to happen daily. It's an ongoing transformation of our hearts to be constantly moved by the Spirit of God. We need to be daily breaking up our fallow ground, those places in our hearts which we've allowed to grow hard. We have to ask the Lord to reveal those hard places, pray that He would forgive us and ask Him to heal all our rough edges so we can be soft before Him and sensitive to His leading. When we open ourselves to the moving of the Spirit of God ... then we will usher in a new move of God in us.
Let's get serious as we approach Revival services starting this coming weekend! It's a new season -- so let's begin this season the right way -- in revival!
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