Do We Want Revival?
Do we really want revival?
Do we have the heart for it?
Or are we just paying lip service to a nice idea, but an unlikely event?
What a dreadful thought!
There is a shaking coming, it has even started, in The Church that will rock it to its foundations.
The Church has, in many many places, strayed so far from its foundation that it no longer even bears resemblance to its original.
Ungodly new doctrines; cast off and discarded sound doctrines — the evidence grows daily.
The Church has generally turned away to its own, ungodly, ways. The LORD is beginning to shake her very foundations!
Yet, we also see the remnant rising, growing daily. A victorious, triumphant remnant with only one aim — to bring glory to the Name and person of Jesus!
A Remnant, ready to take The Gospel wherever The LORD leads them.
A Remnant, prepared to pay the price for Revival, a Remnant anointed with that ‘double portion’, who will make the Name of Jesus their priority.
Wake up Church!
This is the ‘narrow gate’, the difficult path, the way of the cross. As Jesus said,
“Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24.
It’s time for The Church to die in order to produce a harvest.
It’s time for us to humble ourselves that The LORD may heal our land.
LORD, send your shaking, in Jesus’ mighty Name.
~ Chris G. Bennett
Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.
Definition of revival
1: an act or instance of reviving : the state of being revived: such as
a: renewed attention to or interest in something
b: a new presentation or publication of something old
c(1): a period of renewed religious interest
(2): an often highly emotional evangelistic meeting or series of meetings
2: restoration of force, validity, or effect (as to a contract)
Do I want revival? I certainly do.
Do I want the King and the kingdom He brings? Yes I do!
I don’t believe the two concepts are mutually exclusive or opposed. I want them both. I believe they come in tandem with a unified church. May we stand together in agreement waiting on the Lord to bring Holy Spirit fire to a moribund church. I’m all in.
C.E.V.B.
PS 131
AMÉN Praising YESHUA’ MIGHTY NAME with ♥♥♥HIS KINGDOM TO COME♥♥♥ SELAH..!
“Do We Want Revival?” I believe the better question: Do we want the King and the kingdom He brings? King Jesus never mentions revival, but why do we talk about it ad nauseam? He does passionately proclaim, illustrate, and demonstrate the Kingdom! We may need to lay down the idol of revival at the feet of the King, and go demonstrate, proclaim, and illustrate the Kingdom of heaven!
Should we continually cry out for something (revival) that seems always beyond our reach and over the horizon, or respond in childlike faith, while entering a Kingdom that is already here? . . . Maybe we need to dry our tears; grow up to maturity in a childlike way, and follow and move with the advancing King! He is still the King of His kingdom! . . . And will we follow the overcoming, powerful, childlike King?
I agree, and would add that if we want revival more than we want the Lord, not only should we question our motives, but it is unlikely that we could be trusted with dealing with revival when it comes, as an influx of newly saved souls who will need to be discipled.