Oct. 24, 2013–The Sovereign God of Revival

Revival-Image“Where the word of a king is, there is power; and who may say to him, “What are you doing?” (Ecclesiastes 8:4)

God chooses the manner in which He moves in the earth.  We might like to think that our part in it is greater than it really is, but at the end of the day each of us only plays a small part.  We must bow our heads to Jesus and allow Him to have sovereignty over our lives.  When He begins to move in the earth in a new way we must come into agreement with it or we could become persecutors of it.

It is up to us to come in line with what God is doing and not for God to come in line with what we are doing.

Jesus came into the earth and the religious leaders did not like the package that they were seeing.  They got nervous with the power and influence that Jesus was having over the people.  Instead of coming into line with what God was doing they decided that they would kill Jesus, so that their power would remain.

And many of us are the same way.  When God begins to move we allow our own desire for power to get in the way of what God is doing.  We must bow our knee to God and ask Him to help us to see with His eyes.

The things that God does astound the wise and those that are of impure heart cannot see God in the midst of His moving because only the pure in heart will see God.

There are times in my own life that I have cried out to God and asked Him to make me clean so that I can stay in the midst of his moving.  I don’t want to miss revival.  I don’t want to sit on the sidelines and watch as God is moving in other places.  I want to catch the same flame and the same spark and begin to move into the things that God has in store for my own life.

Just because God is using one instrument for His Glory does not mean that God does not have a plan for your own life.  A person may be designed to bring revival and transformation into one place and you might designed to bring it into another.

One of the reasons that we get upset when we see God moving in other people’s lives is because we feel that He might move in theirs more than ours.  And this is a lie from the enemy.  God has different ministries and activities for His people.  They don’t all minister the same way and yet each one’s part is important for the Kingdom of God.

It takes great humility to humble ourselves and walk into the flame of His moving.  We have to die to our own desires and beliefs and let God’s desires and ideas take precedence in our lives.  Only when we do this will we remain in the sound of His voice for our lives.

I pray for you today and ask God to strengthen you so that you might walk in the midst of His calling and revival for your life.  I pray that you will see with God’s eyes and do what might seem impossible for your flesh to do, but die to this world so that you might live for Christ in freedom.

May many lives be transformed as you continue to walk toward your destiny.