Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.
Interpretation
Revival involves spiritual awakening through prayer and repentance, leading to a deeper relationship with God.
This quote by Henry Blackaby emphasizes the concept of revival as an act of divine intervention that requires the active participation of believers. It highlights the importance of prayer and repentance as essential steps for individuals to restore their spiritual vitality and foster a loving and obedient relationship with God, suggesting that true revival occurs when people passionately seek a more profound connection with the divine.
In practice
During a church service focused on spiritual growth, this quote can inspire the congregation to seek a deeper relationship with God.
When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders.
Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom
Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love that is so powerful, so overwhelming as to surpass the capacity of the human tongue to express adequately. He gave His life to break the bonds of death. His Atonement made fully active the plan of happiness of His Father in Heaven.
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!
The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world.
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.
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