God isn't in the word reformation as much as He is in the word revival. Why? You can reform anything even without God being involved in it but you NEED God for revival!
Revive means to live again. There are dead churches that need to be revived-need to be brought back from the dead. They think that they are full of life by all the great things they do but the power & presence of God has never been allowed to show up in their meetings. I have been in those churches and they choke the life right out of you!
How do you know that you have been in the presence of God? Lives have been changed! It is impossible to be in the presence of God and not be changed!
Revival won't just come to us like people think. They think this and then when revival doesn't come they feel that God will just fall wherever He wants to fall. You need to thirst; there needs to be a desperation. You establish your position with God! Create an atmosphere that He will want to be in, one that is full of honor and reverence.
Too many of us hinder revival and God's presence because we want to stay in control, our lives and our junk mean too much to us, we fear His power. The reason we haven't seen global revival is not because there is a lack of water (God) but that there is a lack of thirst on the people's part. God will not waste so He won't pour out on people who are not willing to receive Him.
Thirsty people will change their entire lives in order to pursue God and revival. A thirsty person gets desperate for a drink and will change their entire direction to get one...how thirsty are you?
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Heh, thanks for the note you sent me; it was nice to hear from you. I added your blog to my "blog roll". We were preached something very similar to this at the beginning of this year...
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