- Today is the National Day of Prayer!
- This country desperately needs a spiritual revival!
- Our schools need revival.
- Our homes need revival.
- Our churches need revival.
- We need to get back to God and His ways!
- Christmas Evans the Welsh revivalist once said ‘Revival is God breathing down to the dying embers of a fire which is just about to go out and breathing into it until it bursts into flames.’
- Revival begins with you.
- When you humble yourself and allow God to breath on you by His Spirit.
- Examine yourself....Are their "idols" in your life?
- Are there things that come before God?
- Have you become complacent in your spiritual life?
- Have you become used to all the crud and immoral stuff in our media...TV, Movies, Music, etc...and become dull spiritually?
- When one person decides to humble themselves and put away their "idols" and put God first, it gives God room to move.
- When one person sees a desperate need for God and is no longer happy with "church as usual", it makes way for a real encounter with God.
- In 960 BC Israel was in a spiritual and moral decline and the people were failing to worship God.
- Solomon had just finished building his Temple and was dedicating it to God and he pleaded with God to forgive the nation of their sins.
- God answered that if they would humble themselves again seek His face and turn from their wicked ways He would heal the land.
- Today, We need to make the same plea.
- It just takes one person to make the spark to get the fire going.
- Will you be that person this morning?
- Will you be that fire starter?
- Don't say "why me?"... Why not you?
- God will hear from heaven...
- God will forgive our sins...
- God will restore us...
- But it has to begin somewhere with someone!
- Why not you this morning?
- Have a great Thursday!