Revival

What does Revival mean to you?  I struggled with this word for a long time, not really agreeing with it in the context of the church.  To revive something it has to be dead or on the brink of death.  I guess the truth is that I really didn't want to deal with the fact that the church needs to be on life support.  The church is having trouble breathing on its own, and needs God to do the breathing. 

The truth is, the only way a church can be alive is if God does the breathing.  Someone asked me a question the other day, he said "if God were to completely pull His hand out of the church, how much of it would go on?"  You think about that question as it pertains to your church.  If God were to pull His hand/Spirit from your church, what would change?  Whose driving the bus? Man? God?

Somewhere along the way most, not all, churches saw fit to relieve God of his captain status and put themselves as navigator, so that they could pick and choose which direction to follow.  God is not the co-pilot, the navigator or second chair.  He is the Captain, the Pilot, the number One!  Church I feel we are living out the the letter to the church at Ephesus and if we are not wise to heed the words of Jesus to that church, soon we will become like the church at Sardis, or worse.

Ephesus was on the brink of death because they had abandoned the source of their life, they left their First Love.  The church at Sardis was dead and was in danger of the wrath of God, unless they repent.  Then He said of those that remain, the remnant, that they would be saved because they were undefiled.

There is now a remnant of believers in the church who are alive and wanting the bride of Christ to reveal the glory of the groom.  If we will as the Book of 2 Chronicles says, humble ourselves and pray and seek God's face and repent, God will begin the work of revival in our churches. If you are a believer and have had or have a desire to see the Spirit of God move on the church as he did in the upper room the day before Pentecost, then I am calling on you to join me in "Crying Out" to God for this awakening.  Join me in this, let's raise our voices together and beg God to begin this work in us, that it may overflow to all those around us.