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we need revival


Revival services have been happening the last two weeks on college campuses the last two weeks.  The awe and news of revival is not new, but it is new for the people who are experiencing it.


Isaiah 43:19  NLT  

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.


That is our theme verse for 2023 at our church.  Literally when God does something new it is incredible.  People begin to experience God in fresh ways and He does miracles that all include life change.


Oh, the stories coming out of college campuses have been incredible.  The personal experiences have been awesome to hear about, but the thing that gets me the most is the joy people are finding in the presence of God.  Longing to be in the presence of God is not new, but that place, being with God, changes the person that spends time there.


Throughout Scripture there are stories and times when God showed up, and the number one thing that happening was that lives were changed.  Thus, the best way to know that what is happening is from God is in the people who are changed forever.


Many people have been questioning, critiquing and offering skepticism has been a lot.  Often the negative voices are the loudest and most concerning.  That is why I wanted to share just a little from my heard.


People often question and don’t like what they don’t understand.  Since the beginning of time when something is outside of the norm those who are religious say that cannot be God.  God can do anything He wants to do because He is the beginning of it all and the sustainer of all.


Ephesians 3:20  NLT  

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.


Through history revival has begun when young people come in the presence of God and begin to confess sin and worship God.  I have been places where God has worked in wonderful ways.  I have also been in places where the evidence was little to nothing of lives being changed.


But if one person in each of those places, in each auditorium around those colleges, is changed because of the grace and goodness of God, this stuff is real.  


What needs to be our response to these revival services and people sharing about them?  Thanks for asking.


We need to pray.  Pray that God changes lives.  Pray that God changes you and me.  Pray that God changes the mess in our world in to miracles.  Pray that God saves those who are far from Him and need Him.  Pray that God brings waves and waves of lives being changed every where around the world.


Let it begin with you and with me.  God is able.  He is only one who saves and who changes lives.  We need revival!


Colossians 1:6  NLT  

This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.

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