In America, we are sitting under the preaching and teaching of God’s Word by His shepherd’s and servants, week after week… Where is the church failing? Where is the spiritual maturity and growth? Where are the true worshipers and devout followers of the Lord Jesus Christ? Where are the soldiers in the Lord’s Army?
Many have verbally accepted Jesus… But many have not accepted His teachings nor have they received the Holy Spirit. They are not witnesses out of fear, insecurity, uncertainty or truthfully speaking, have just grown comfortable and complacent...
Love this: Are you satisfied with where you are spiritually? After years of walking with the Lord, the apostle Paul said this:
“I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.”(Philippians 3:12–14)
Revival simply means to bring back to life, to restore. To be revived is to wake up from a state of sleep. As C. S. Lewis pointed out, “A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right... You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping.” In other words, if you think you are a great person with no problems, then you are really more asleep than you realize.
Revival is coming back. It is waking up. Revival is getting back to the Christian life as it was meant to be lived. Revival is being in the bloom of first love for a lifetime, walking closely with the Lord.
You can’t always have those “initial emotions” you had as a new believer. That is unrealistic. But your love can grow deeper. Your love can grow stronger.
That is how we ought to be as followers of Jesus. We need the faith of the Christians of the first century, the faith that turned the world upside down. Revival is nothing more or less than a new obedience to God. Then it is, to quote Nietzsche, a “long obedience in the same direction.”
Only God can send an awakening to America. But revival can happen right here, right now!
In Jesus’ name, please, I pray. Amen!
