Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.
Interpretation
Revival involves spiritual awakening through prayer and repentance, leading to a deeper relationship with God.
This quote by Henry Blackaby emphasizes the concept of revival as an act of divine intervention that requires the active participation of believers. It highlights the importance of prayer and repentance as essential steps for individuals to restore their spiritual vitality and foster a loving and obedient relationship with God, suggesting that true revival occurs when people passionately seek a more profound connection with the divine.
In practice
During a church service focused on spiritual growth, this quote can inspire the congregation to seek a deeper relationship with God.
When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders.
Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom
Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.
It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa. I've lived a Muslim life and prayed in Mosques, Husseiniyahs, and shrines where needed. One must respect Islam to understand Islam. I've read the Quran through and through a half dozen times.
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
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