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Doesn’t revival mean “new life”? It seems strange to suggest that you must first cross out your self. But your selfishness is the thing causing the dryness in you, the lack of life. That’s why it must be cross out before you can have revival!
“Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above all that we ask or think.’”
Self-centeredness is the greatest enemy of spiritual life. All is not well so long as the center of your personality is occupied by that little god. It’s too little to be your god. It can’t occupy the throne. The throne is for him who died in love for you–I mean God in Jesus Christ. when self is on the throne, it is conspicuously out of place. It is too weak to meet your needs, too small to satisfy your hunger, too dry to quench your thirst. Revival begins by putting a line through the I which at the center and turning it into a cross. (Festo Kivengere, When God Moves in Revival, 11).
“Do not neglect the means which the Spirit has appointed for help. Pray, meditate, hear, read, do your best, and expect his blessing. Though your ploughing and sowing will not give a harvest without the sun, and rain, and the blessing of God, yet the sun and rain will not bring a crop unless you plough and plant.”
Motivating Joy
By Tony Reinke | May 19, 2012 04:00 am
Puritan Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity:
If anything can make us rise off our bed of sloth, and serve God with all our might, it should be this, the hope of our near enjoyment of God forever.
(Design submitted by Jennifer Knight.)
You can be orthodox and at the same time dead! Religious phrases and biblical language don’t make a person alive. You can stock your head with the most evangelical vocabulary and be the driest Christian on earth–until God moves (Festo Kivengere, When God Moves in Revival, 9).
“The worldview is fashioned by the person using it. The average Christian spends about 90 minutes in church. The average person watches 29 hours of TV per week.”
How much time each week do we read the Word of God?
About meditation on God’s Word?
Today as Dr. Bruce Waltke was teaching us about Psalm 1, he stated…
The wicked disadvantage others to advantage self. The righteous disadvantage self to advantage others (This is the way of Jesus). There are many good people who are self-contained.
Obama Uses Scripture to Justify Same-Sex Marriage Stance
The dust has hardly settled on President Obama’s move to support same-sex marriage. Indeed, it’s an issue that’s likely to linger on through the 2012 presidential elections and beyond.
The Assemblies of God is voicing its dissent and objection. George O. Wood, AG general superintendent, says the denomination is in complete disagreement with the president’s new position and takes exception to Obama taking Scripture out of context to defend his position.
“[Michelle and I] we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others. But, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated.
“And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a dad and a husband and, hopefully, the better I’ll be as president,” Obama told ABC News.
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