Revival May 17, 2007
Posted by mark1fishersofmen in revival.trackback
*I know that the revival meetings are over at Friendship Baptist Chuch, but i thought it good to post this any way in hopes that someone might read this and get convicted by god*SO…I have many hopes for the revival meetings. I hope and pray that God will fill the people young and old alike with an overwhelming awareness of how serious their sin really is. It doesn’t matter if your four or forty, God is willing and able to save, age doesn’t matter. I pray that saved and unsaved alike will truly repent for all their sins. I pray God will open their hearts to accept his gracious gift of forgiveness I know for me when I first felt that HUGE burden being lifted from me it was an overwhelming feeling. It is so amazing to see others myself included living a Christ centered life. Living fully for God almighty. We are so unworthy of his grace and until I came to terms with the fact that, yes I am unworthy, and yes I do deserve to spend eternity in the lake of fire. But God sent his son to die for me and my sin ,did I fully accept the fact that he knows better than me how much I don’t deserve anything he has or will give me but he loves me and he wants me. It was then that I began to look at the world differently and see how truly sinful it really is. And although I will still suffer and still have pain in my life that (God will never leave me or forsake me) Deuteronomy 31:6. I am his now and forever because he said so. (all the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me I will never cast out) John 6:37. How awesome is that really, I mean Satan is going to try us and tempt so much more than everyone else because he wants us to stumble and fall, but when we have God on our side we will never stumble nor will we ever fall. because God promises that “no one will ever snatch us out of his hand”. I pray that over this week God will move among his people and show them/us all of these things. But I don’t wish for anyone to wait for this week to come. They/we need to repent now and need to start living for God now. You can’t just say to God when he’s calling, “ya ya I’ll get to later.” it doesn’t work that way. We aren’t promised later. I hate it so much for people who think they can just put God off for another day. There is no time like the present. What would happen to a loved one or you decided to wait till next week to accept Gods’ forgiveness, then tonight or tomorrow you died. You couldn’t walk up to God on judgment day and try to talk your way into heaven it doesn’t work that way. You couldn’t say, “I was going to repent but I ran out of time”. You had your whole life to repent and believe the gospel. So please don’t think that you even have the next five minutes. If gods’ been calling you answer before it’s too late. Only God knows the hour of your death. I pray if any of you has a sin or burden that has been weighing you down that you will give it all up too God. He’s here and he wants you to come home. *God I pray that you hear the cries of your people. And that you convict their hearts now and give them a heart to understand. We are all dead in our sin and alive in you. Please revive us now, tonight. Lord please we are unable to save ourselves in any way. We cannot just work our way home. I pray that all that have truly repented will now live their lives to fully glorify you. I know that we will all slip up from tome to time, but you will always forgive us all we have to do is ask. kill our pride father, drop us to our knees in grief for the way we’ve treated the most holy God. We come to you with open arms, grab us lord and never let go. In your name I pray, amen*
Great post Suzanne. This is an important message for our time. Revival isn’t something man begins it is begun in the mind of God and He brings it to us for His glory and His good pleasure (Ephesians 1:5,6,8,9,11,12,14). It’s pretty clear in Ephesians why God saves people by pouring out His grace on them. He does it because the purposes of His will are all in all. He does it to display the riches of His grace (see Romans 9:23), for His purpose, for the counsel of His will, and to the praise of His glory! God is glorifed in true conversion! If these are preached, then God is glorified! If these truths are foundational in our understanding of conversion and preaching, then God is glorified! If they undergird the way we talk about things, then God is glorified! If NOT, then God is NOT glorified! To not give Him the glory due Him (which is all glory) is sin.
One of the worst things that we can do is allow and promote man-centered preaching and man-centered evangelism. Evangelists that manipulate people down aisles instead of preaching the power of God to salvation, the gospel, are robbing God of glory (Rom 1:16). Evangelists that make no mention of glorifying God and focus instead on the benefits to man of being converted are devaluing God and will not effect true conversions anyway. Evangelists that tell stories to inspire movement on the part of the people instead of faithfully preaching the Biblical gospel so they may have faith by “hearing the word of Christ” (Rom 10:17) will not honor God’s Word but will ‘win’ people who while being sorry for sin have not “godly sorrow” (2 Corinthians 7:10). These evangelists are after numbers and most of their ‘converts’ will ‘fall away’ after a time. We need to repent of pride and get to basics and search out Scripture to see what God wants us to preach and how He saves sinners and why. Until we do we will preach a weak God, a glorified man, and we’ll never get the message correct. Untold thousands will die with false assurance. It’s sickening, sad, and God will spew it out of His mouth one day. Those who refuse to submit to His Word will be judged harshly. Let’s stop doing what seems right in our own eyes and let’s start searching out the ONLY foundation of truth that exists on this Earth – the Bible.
Remember: Conversion is a miracle of God, not a mere decision of man get some benefits he doesn’t deserve.
Keep blogging your thoughts and studying Suzanne. I am proud of you.
– Brother Josh
amen it sickens me too and am so glad that i was brought up by my true family not biological but the ones christ put in to my life(yall) to understand what is really going on and getting equipped to get out thier and share god’s word with the world thank you for your comment it means alot that you’re proud of me
in christ praying for many
-suzanne