LIVING IN REVIVAL Part 2

It is not merely in reading or hearing the Word that we are changed. God calls us to listen and obey. Revival breaks out where there is a radical obedience to the Bible:

"If MY people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chron: 7:14

A revival without repentance and without confession of sin, is a spurious revival. It is a revival that results in neither the salvation of the lost, nor in the transformation of Christians' lives into those that bear the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, longsuffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.

Revival consists of getting our minds off earthly thins and our minds and spirits focused on heavenly things, glorying in the cross of Christ. True revival is a revival of obedience to God. Obedience is conformity to God and His plans and purposes for us.

True obedience is unlimited obedience, not mere obedience to the Ten Commandments or the written Word, but carefully heeding every word of God to my conscience and spirit. True obedience has to do not merely with action but with attitude and motivation, not just what I do, but why I do it.

The only acceptable motivation for heeding God's voice and doing His will is that of love for Him. True revival must necessarily be also a revival of love for God.

Revival love is a love that consumes the dross, a love fed on a lively relationship between God and the believer. It is a love that inflames and engulfs the recipients of revival - Christians first, then unbelievers.

It has often been said that revival follows only after prevailing prayer, but what is the nature of such prayer? Is it begging an unwilling God to become willing to send revival? No, it is rather, "Ye shall seek Me and fine Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart." Jer 29:13

It is true that some may experience revival not because of long seeking after God on their part, but because others have sought it on their behalf. But be sure of this, someone has!

There is no secret to revival, no spiritual magic. Revival is the miracle of God's response in love to those who seek Him unrelentingly in love and faith. Brothers and Sisters in Christ, be on your faces before God! Spend as much time as you must there.

Enjoy a blessed week.

Regards Pat Edited from 'Living in Revival' by Ron Marr: