Revive.
Revive. That’s all I’ve heard in my spirit for days.
God is trying to REVIVE me. REVIVE you.
What exactly does it mean, to REVIVE something?
1. To restore to life or consciousness
2. To give new strength or energy to
3. To restore interest in or the popularity of
4. Improve the position or condition of
God wants to REVIVE us so we can bring about REVIVAL.
“We need a Revival” “Can’t wait til Revival comes” “Sure hope we see a Revival” “What this world needs is a good old fashioned Revival!”
Listening to this “waiting on Revival to happen” feels hopeless. Rather than encouraging me, it’s been discouraging me. I’ve been doing some digging deep inside to see if I could figure out exactly what it is and this is my conclusion.
Christians speak of Revival as if it is an event. Something that will happen. Like the rapture. Like one day a preacher is going to hold a meeting in a tent and then the whole world will be set ablaze with Revival! People’s lives will be changed, our government will be reformed, the children will be safe and we will all live happily ever after.
BUT THAT’S NOT HOW IT HAPPENS......
I’m sure there are so many out there like me, saying, “THAT IS NOT HOW IT HAPPENS!”
Listening to Christians “TALK” about revival and the need thereof, reminds me of what I hated about Christianity as a young person, it’s the “This will save you” mentality, the “Obviously, YOU need saving” mentality. “The world needs a REVIVAL” mentality.
Growing up amongst carnal Christians, all I could see was hypocrisy. I watched the lives they lived behind the scenes while they publicly proclaimed what they called “The Gospel.”
The Gospel of, “YOU NEED SAVING” and “THE RAPTURE IS GOING TO SAVE US.”
When you have good news, you want to share it and I am the first person to share good news. I love good news, I love the Gospel. Everything a person needs in this life to live abundantly is wrapped up in That Good News, The Gospel. But unfortunately and fortunately, I grew up in a time where The Gospel was mere words, not deeds.
I would later find out that I needed to
SEE the GOSPEL. I needed to
EXPERIENCE the Gospel. I needed to
TASTE the Gospel. I needed to be
CHANGED by the Gospel.
That can’t happen when The Good News is just empty words. I needed to see manifestation. I needed to see Fruit. I needed to see that the person who was trying to SHARE the GOSPEL with me had indeed experienced it themselves, not to mention, I was already saved :) I was just looking for someone who had something I didn’t.
The search for the REAL GOSPEL led me down some hard roads, painful experiences, near death experiences, deep discovery and exploration of the unknown. And then one day almost 20 years into it, I discovered it.
That REAL GOSPEL was inside me.
It was the very Kingdom of God.
It was Christ, the Hope of Glory.
Christ the seed, was inside my very own DNA.
Do you know how I found it?
I had to die!
I had to die to SELF.
I had to die to my DESIRES, my PLANS, my IDEAS.
But it wasn’t a bad thing. It was the BEST THING that’s ever happened to me.
Here I am 10 years into that Revelation and I’m still amazed all that my life has become. I’ve learned on this journey,
It is SELF that gets in the way of true REVIVAL.
REVIVAL is not something that should happen on the outside.
REVIVAL is not something that should happen TO OTHER PEOPLE.
REVIVAL is not something that we should be WAITING on or LOOKING for.
REVIVAL should be an active REVIVING of Christ the SEED on the INSIDE OF US!
We all have a seed, lying dormant. It is waiting on us to DIE to our SELF so that God’s word, God’s Presence, His Glory, His Love can penetrate that seed shell and bring it to Life and Produce a Harvest.
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat (seed) falls into the earth (vessel) and dies, it remains (just one grain/seed; it NEVER becomes more but lives) by itself alone. But if it DIES, it produces many others and yields a RICH HARVEST. John 12: 24
We must die (TO SELF) to see TRUE REVIVAL come.
TRUE REVIVAL OF THE SEED CAN ONLY PRODUCE ONE THING:
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed planted in a field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but it becomes the largest of garden plants; it grows into a tree, and birds come and make nests in its branches.” Matthew 13:31-32
THE KINGDOM WILL COME ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
When the Body of Christ truly gets this revelation, NOTHING will be able to stop the THIRD GREAT AWAKENING.
REVIVAL will BREAKFORTH when we have a TRUE REVIVAL WITHIN OURSELVES.
This REVIVAL will bring the Kingdom of God WITH POWER. It will not be one of words but of deeds and Truth.
Just as when Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death BEFORE they see THE KINGDOM OF GOD has COME with POWER!” Mark 9:11
FOR GOD’s KINGDOM WILL COME, HIS WILL, WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!
This REVIVAL, THIS THIRD GREAT AWAKENING is
a REVIVING of GOD’s Children.
a RETURN TO OUR FIRST LOVE
a DYING TO SELF, SO THE SEED OF CHRIST CAN BRING FORTH A RICH HARVEST, WHICH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD
THE KINGDOM OF GOD INSIDE ME AND YOU!
LESS OF ME, LESS OF YOU and MORE OF CHRIST
Kingdom of God COME, Erupt inside of us with such a force that no words are needed.
May the Kingdom of God COME, IN POWER, not in mere words, but in DEED and IN TRUTH.
Let us look inward into what you’ve put inside of us; For it is there and then that a TRUE GREAT AWAKENING will manifest.
It is then and only then, THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD can come.
CHRIST IN ME, IN YOU, IS THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!!!!
MAY ALL THE GENTILES SEE YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THE KINGS YOUR GLORY!
Let us be TRANSFIGURED!
