REVIVAL TALK

First Fruit             Jesus suffered many things but none of those things killed Him. He willingly gave His life as an offering on Passover as the Lamb and rose again on the third day known as First Fruits Day. He came during one  of the three times that God uses to speak to His people. They can be researched as the Lord’s feasts. The First Fruit Feast coincides with  the barley harvest, the first harvest, and offering of the year.                Jesus came to reveal God to us. John 1:1 describes Jesus as the Word. This term is used because Jesus explains God’s mind to us and interprets His heart for us. Jesus is called the Alpha and Omega and the last Word  to denote the fulfillment of divine revelation. Jesus is synonymous with Scripture because the written Word is from divine revelation containing supernatural power to transform the heart.             God’s life-giving Spirit works according to the Word. Hebrews 4:12 states that it is alive and powerful, meaning it

Acts 2:2 – “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.”             There is a fresh new wind from heaven blowing on the Body of Christ today. This wind is the wind of revival. After Jesus ascended to heaven there were 120 who gathered in an upper room in Jerusalem.   They were praying and waiting on the promise of the Father.   Jesus had instructed the disciples in Luke 24:49, “ Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”             Throughout the Bible wind is figuratively used to represent the Holy Spirit. In John 3:8 Jesus used the wind to describe the Holy Spirit, “ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”   The wind can be described in different ways.   It can be a

Psalm 46:10 – “Be still and know I am God.” Be still means take your hands off! Relax!   Be still is connected to the word Rapha, from the Hebrew (the Lord my healer), meaning to let go, leave matters with God, or to surrender without the anxiety of the matter.   There are three enemies to stillness: the world, the flesh, and the enemy. Be still is an invitation to stop frantic activity, to relax and acknowledge Who God is. It serves as an act of worship and as a weapon of warfare in times of difficulty. It means to be still until He is Lord, and we are not. Charles Spurgeon wrote that to be still is to wait in patience with a caution against murmuring and complaining, to stop striving and realize God’s power. Simply, relax and trust God. Spurgeon said, “Those who do not hope cannot wait.” The Hebrew word for wait is tiqvah , meaning to hope . Psalm 62:5 states, “Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him.” We can wait quietl