Tuesday's Thoughts

Psalm 85:6, “Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?” (NKJV)

I read an article this morning that challenged my heart. It is entitled Don’t Give Up On The Church In America. It was written by Shane Idleman. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a person that strongly believes that God desires to revive the church in America. I pray that request each time that I pray and I still believe that God has prepared an awakening for this day and time. Each of us must be prepared to respond to God appropriately and correctly. I encourage you to read these words and allow the Holy Spirit to quicken your heart and life. These are the days that we need to respond to the unction, direction and guidance of God on a personal basis as well as a corporate basis.

“In Duncan Campbell’s book, The Price and Power of Revival, he made the following statement: “Here I would suggest that one of the main secrets of success in the early Church lay in the fact that the early believers believed in unction from on high and not entertainment from men....How did the early Church get the people? By publicity projects, by bills, by posters, by parades, by pictures? No! The people were arrested and drawn together and brought into vital relationship with God, not by sounds from men, but by sounds from heaven...Unction is the dire and desperate need of the ministry today.”

We must ​preach God’s Word with genuine power via humility if we are to truly help others. Without God’s authority and power, words are lifeless. Where are those with uncompromising power and authority in the pulpits today? The one thing that all of the great revivals in church history had is the one thing that we often lack—the genuine power of the Holy Spirit. The very thing that we need is the very thing that we are afraid of.”

Dear God, will You not REVIVE US AGAIN?