Revival in our midst

Hear my cry O God
Don't turn Your face away from me
Here's my heart O GOd
May Your love and mercy
Wash over me

Take Your truth and let it be
A river of love
That flows through me
Take these eyes
And let them see
The power to heal our land
Come heal our land

Once again the focus of our monthly prayer meeting for the second time is on revival. There were many passionate prayers and tears but I know that our prayers today will amount to naught if we do not continue to pray outside of that prayer meeting; if we cease to pray in our homes, at our schools or at our work places. If we do not continue to pray we will not see the fruit at all.

How can our services be filled with God's power; the power to repent and transform from our self-indulgent ways? Through preaching of the Word. How is the preaching empowered? By the prayers of the saints! The service is about 2 hours long, but the real power behind the service is the hours of intercession and tears that caused the Lord to have mercy on us and move through our service in power. It's not just a superficial power that we always hear about. It's a power that breaks down every will of man; to cause them to realise that he is nothing. When we decrease, Christ will increase. If we look at the condition of our spritual life now, have we really decrease so that Christ can increase in us?

Listen my friends, we sang the song "I'm not satisfied..." when we do things our way, on our terms we will not be satisfied. But if we do it God's way on His terms through total submission to His will, we will be satisfied. Like I share yesterday, "When God becomes our priority, we will not be concerned about ourselves but we will become more concerned with God's concern."

What is stopping us from turning our eyes upon our Saviour? Turn back! Turn back to when we first begun. Turn back to where Jesus is our first love. Dun lose your first love, if not God will remove our light stand. What makes the church? It's its people; they are a reflection of the church. If the people are not completely sold out to Christ, we will perish just as the Ephesian church did as John warned in Revelation. They lost their first love!

Go back to where we began! I must admit that these days, I tend to love theology more than I love Christ, but that is not right! Theology magnifies and upholds Christ; it's is only a tool and I fell into the trap of worshipping wisdom and not the giver of wisdom. Get back! I got back to the time when I loved Christ so much and I didn't have any theology. It was so innocent. It's just the most gratifying and satisfying feeling to love Him without distraction.

Get back to before it went wrong. It's time to return to our first love when nothing got in the way. The time when we were so exciting about worshipping, attending services and bible studies. At least that was what I was excited about in the past. I have not lost the fire though I admit I hid it away for a while. It's time to return back to where it was simple then and from there walk on and not be distracted as we grow from strength to strength.

Lastly, revival is all about saving souls. But we cannot save others if we do not save ourselves. The great commission is for everyone of us and we all have a part to play. Besides waking up a sleeping church, we are also doing our part to share the gospel so that they will be snatched from the road that leads to hell. May the Lord be gracious unto us and cause His light and favour to go before us as we submit to His Lordship exclusively and unconditionally.

Hear my cry O God Don't turn Your face away from me...