Revival: Noun or Verb?

"Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You. Psalm 51: 12, 13

Do you consider the word REVIVAL a noun or a verb? It is both in the grammatical sense but for the collective church, is the thing we look for the revival of the church body--a noun, or are we, individually, willing to be revived--a verb.

I can ask for a revival in my church And my country. In this, I am thinking it is a thing to watch, to see, in which to participate. That is a noun as in "Lord, send revival. We need a revival!"

But in speaking the word revival am I also asking for new life for myself? Am I admitting I'm dead and desiring to be alive? An example as in, "Lord, revive me. Give me new breath of life. Resurrect my spirit with Your Spirit!"

Then revival is a verb, something to be done, something changing, something moving, an exciting action.

Complacency is quicksand. Week after week we can go through the actions of church attendance and we settle in our faith. It no longer lifts us to higher heights, but fills the Sundays of our week. 

When we see this form of death, like David, we need to cry out for the joy of our first encounter with Jesus. The joy we had when we asked Jesus to save us and the immediate response when He did.

Psalm 51: 12,13, is about personal revival, newness of life. When I am returned to the wonder and awesomeness of my salvation, I can be glad and rejoice, and shout and sing as a child again. It is then when those around me without Christ Jesus will see my new life and desire it. They will want to know my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

From a human standpoint, to be revived is like resurrection, we neither can provide ourselves life in either situation. The dead cannot do anything. God is the Life Giver.

Restore to me the joy of Your Salvation so people can be saved! 

"Revive Me!"

AMEN!!!

Never Fast from the Word of God

No Christian should be on a Fast from reading God's word. Skimping on reading the Bible, will leave you weak and frail in your daily walk. In today's world, no Christian can afford to go on a diet from reading the Bible and expect to stay Spiritually healthy and strong. (Not that anyone ever could at any time!)

Eat it daily 

"Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel." So I opened my mouth, and He cause me to eat that scroll. And He said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you." So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness." Ezekiel, 3: 1. (Italics added)

For Ezekiel, the scroll was good and bad news for Israel, sweet and sour. Ezekiel was told to eat the scroll and he did. With the word of God inside him, he went and did the Lord's work in that strength. Some he enjoyed, some he hated, but Ezekiel was willing to receive all of it.

We too must eat God's word, get it inside us, assimilate it into our core being, to do God's work.

Have you eaten God's word, all the sweet and the sour? Begin now to assimilate it into your core. With God's word devoured by Christians, we have all the weapons, power, heart, and mind of God working through us to do all the work He desires us to do.

Read it at breakfast, lunch break, at the dinner table. Snack on it. Munch away with appetite!

Read it to learn it. Listen to it preached and taught. Study it alone, or in groups. Pray over it. Pray for utilization, pray for the blessings of it, pray for boldness, & strength in the word.

Never go on a Fast from the Bible!!

We Need The Bible

We need the Bible. How else will we know about God? Where would we get any information about God today without the Bible?

I ask this question in my * EBook Squished! Why God Seemingly Destroys Our Fruit,  I talk about the truth of the Bible and the desperate necessity of it for God's people.

This is an excerpt from the book:

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What if God didn’t give us any information about Himself and we had to find it on our own? Ever think about not having the Bible to tell us about God in today’s world? What if God had never given us the Bible, from where then would truth come?

What would happen to you if the Bible somehow disappeared, as if it never existed? Do you know enough about God to sustain your relationship with Him? How much Scripture have you memorized. How complete a picture do you have of God?

Is the only time you open your Bible is when you attend church service? What would you rely on if disaster struck? What comfort would you have if you had no access to Scriptures? Would you have to run to another Christian or your pastor for a word from God? What do you do if you lost the availability to that person to help you understand the will of God?

Scary thought isn’t it.

The Bible is a gift we should praise God for every day."

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God's word is alive always. It is just as valuable to us today as when God had it written.
Psalm 119 is so beautiful. We should read it often. If you have children or grandchildren, read it to them. If you have a Sunday School class, read it to them. A bed-ridden friend or someone you care for, read it to them.

The Bible is one of our communications with our Loving God. read His word for the pure joy of it!

*(Published by Westbow Press a Division of Thomas Nelson Publishers, available at Amazon.com  by S. L. Estes)