The Lesson of Recovery
View all responsesIf your joy has been lost, it can be retrieved. If your inner peace has vanished, it can be rediscovered When love has diminished it can be restored. If your faith has faded it can be recovered.
If the fruit of the Holy Spirit has withered in your life, it can be revived. If your direct personal connection with the risen Jesus is shaky, it can be made stronger than ever through a spiritual wakening called revival.
When people saw Jesus healing people and doing miracles, they were amazed and praised God. (Matthew 15:31) Two of Christ’s first disciples when threatened with prison or death said: “We cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:20)
When people see Jesus doing miracles and when they experience His presence and reality in their life, they are amazed by Him. All they want to talk about is Jesus. They continually testify about the incredible things they have seen, heard, and experienced Him say and do. They are so focused on the living Jesus that the things of earth fade away from their awareness.
We live in a time when there’s not much amazement about Jesus. There’s very little focus on Him. You seldom hear church goers testify about how Jesus is working in their life. (Revelation 12:11) They rarely even say His name unless a preacher tells them to or they are made to repeat words written on a Sunday morning bulletin. Instead, Christianity has focused on personal prosperity, promoting preachers as personalities, political power, and prideful self-focus. It desperately needs reviving and reconnecting with the risen Jesus!
To experience revival, keep your focus on the risen Jesus, not on any other person, place, or thing. Revival restores Christians to an ongoing awareness of the presence of the risen Jesus. It keeps them in such awe of Him that they humbly listen to His voice, set aside their own will and opinions, and excitedly obey Him.
Revival isn’t a bunch of people merely repeating a “salvation” prayer after a leader and then being baptized. If the people’s beliefs, words, and way of life isn’t changed from within to align with the Sermon on the Mount that’s just a powerless form of religion.
When revival happens sermon-hearers will be changed into Jesus-mirrors. They will reflect and radiate His love, His presence, and His power everywhere they go. Sunday church goers will be miraculously transformed into radical and obedient Christ-followers who humble themselves, earnestly seek a greater awareness of God’s presence, turn away from all the sins they are defending, forgive everyone, love their enemies, and bless those who curse them. What will it take to experience a Spirit-led revival? Begin to daily and wholeheartedly obey 2 Chronicles 7:14.
If you’ve never lived with an ongoing awareness of the living Jesus and the fruit of His Spirit, you can begin to daily live that way. Begin to continually surrender your thoughts, words, feelings, desires, and behaviors to His moment-by-moment control and allow Him to be the absolute Lord and Director of your daily life.
Jesus is better
Than lottery pics.
Jesus is better
Than getting your kicks.
Jesus is better
Than politics.
Nothing is better
Than Jesus Christ.
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