FROM MY HEART TO YOURS:  Being positioned for the blessings of God, especially as it pertains to revival, involves confession and repentance.  Confession is an admission of wrong thoughts and actions that are usually a result of self-sufficiency and dependency rather than relying upon God and His Word.  Such is born of pride and human wisdom, and it always leads to a breach of fellowship and resultant corrective measures.  When we are confronted with our wrong attitudes and actions we can confess that they are indeed wrong and then repent of them.  Repentance is Key to Revival.  I often ask if you think that we need revival.  The response is almost always unanimous.  The confessed need for restoration and revival points out the clear need for repentance.  In 2nd Chronicles 7:14, God required that a return to God must be with a whole heart that involves a turning from evil ways.  We can define an evil way as one that isn’t God’s way.  It could be that we don’t recognize that the decisions and directions we have made are wrong, that we’ve left God out of them and not sought His wisdom or will, or just outright gone against His clear teaching and leading.  Let us pray that God will reveal to us the areas in which we need to confess and repent so that we can experience His joy, assurance and the blessings of true Revival.

VERSE OF THE WEEK:  If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14