March 7, 2010

In this week leading toward our Revival services, I’m asking that we focus as individuals and as a church to pray for focus.  We need to meet the criteria of Revival: recognition, repentance, reconciliation and rededication. Revival comes when God’s people meet the conditions He sets forth in His Word.  Let’s focus through prayer and fasting on meeting those conditions.  If we are to make the impact upon our community that will impact lives and the Kingdom of God, then we must begin in our hearts and homes.  Our actions may not seem like much, and they may not have an immediate impact.  We never know the results until the effects of personal revival are seen in the lives of others who are closest to us.  We see this evident in the life of Manasseh.  Although his life in the beginning did not reflect that of his father, Hezekiah, he found redemption and reconciliation.  His attempts at national revival didn’t impact many in his life time, but they did impact his grandson, Josiah.

Verse of the Week:  And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thanks offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

                                                                                                         ^{2 Chronicles 33:16}