Why does real, heaven sent, Holy Spirit caused revival remain absent form so many of our churches? Revival will not begin until we have a holy dissatisfaction with the spiritual drought plaguing our churches and our burden drives us to our knees to cry out in desperation for a flooding torrents of heavens refreshment! We are not desperate rather we are complacent and unbelieving! So many no longer believe in the ole' time religion takes and shakes the soul and transforms the church! Our complacency has led to a causal Christianity that causes the Lord Jesus to be sickened with our halfhearted commitment and self-absorbed worship( see Revelations 3:14-22)! We are bankrupt and the Devil is on a rampage in most of our churches! We are blind! We are like the people in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, "The Emperor's Clothes", in which the king was deceived and swindle by crooks into believing they had tailor made him a new suit of clothes when in fact they made nothing! They so deceived him that he walked down the street naked and everyone was afraid to speak the truth except a child who exclaimed, "he has nothing on"! Satan has so deceived the church in many places with spiritual blindness while we continue to blindly congratulate ourselves with wonder at our ministries and buildings. Yet there is no brokenness over sin, no tears over the many who are in bondage to sin as we witness adultery and abuse destroy Christian homes, no concern over lack of spiritual vitality and fervency, little hunger for the teaching and preaching of the Word, no shame that the testimony of Jesus Christ by the church is dishonored by the unethical and ungodly lives of its' members, and no burden for the Lord Jesus to magnified above all else! We are sleek and streamlined in our organization, dressed in the latest technology in our worship, contemporary in our marketing, and cool and hip in our sound byte sermonettes, but SPIRITUALLY BANKRUPT!
When will someone stand up say we need a real revival and a radical transformation of the attitudes and actions of the church? Revival will not come until our eyes are opened by the Spirit and we become separate like Isaiah and Habakkuk cry out for spiritual healing and real revival (Isaiah 6 and Habakkuk 3)! We need a fresh awareness of the Holiness and Majesty that only the Holy Spirit can cause the soul to experience! Then we will have revival! Like Habakkuk ,I say Lord revive your work in our time! Let it start with me!
When will someone stand up say we need a real revival and a radical transformation of the attitudes and actions of the church? Revival will not come until our eyes are opened by the Spirit and we become separate like Isaiah and Habakkuk cry out for spiritual healing and real revival (Isaiah 6 and Habakkuk 3)! We need a fresh awareness of the Holiness and Majesty that only the Holy Spirit can cause the soul to experience! Then we will have revival! Like Habakkuk ,I say Lord revive your work in our time! Let it start with me!