REVIVAL TALK

For a number of years I have been studying and praying for insight into how the Lord moves and works in time. We learn in 1 Chronicles 12:32 that the Sons of Issachar had an understanding of the times and knew what Israel ought to do.  They were masters of the Hebrew calendar.   In  Exodus 12:2  the Lord established the Hebrew calendar.  “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.”  The Hebrew calendar begins at Passover in the month of Nissan.  This calendar was God ordained and introduced in the Bible.  The Hebrew Calendar is both a religious calendar and a civil calendar. The Religious year begins at Passover in the month of Nissan and the civil year begins at Rosh Ha Shana in the month of Tishri. To better understand how God moves in time and works in our lives you can study the Hebrew calendar and the patterns that have been established in the Word of God.  Our Gregorian calendar is on a different time cycle than the

Acts 2:17 – “ And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. We are living in what the Bible identifies as the last days. Some would question if we are really living in the last days. In Acts 2:14-18 the Apostle Peter preached the inaugural sermon of the New Testament Church.   In his first sermon he quotes the Prophet Joel in verse 17, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh.”   In the opening moments of the birth of the New Testament Church Peter is identifying these are the last days. In these days of political division, confusion, wars and rumors of wars, and natural disasters, we can rest in the fact that God has the times and seasons under His control.   The God we serve is the sovereign God of the universe. He is unequaled in power, wisdom, majesty

Ephesians 4:16 – “From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.” The Bible refers to the New Testament Church as the Body of Christ. Jesus is the head and every member makes up the different parts of the Body of Christ. All of us are different, but we are needed to fulfill the mission the Lord has assigned to us.   Romans 12:4-5 says, “For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function. So we being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” When we pray to receive Christ as our personal Lord and Savior we are connected to Christ.   II Corinthians 5:17 says, “If anyone is in Christ He is a new creation; old things pass away; behold, all things become new.”   We become connected to Christ by relationship. We become a part of the family of God. We