REVIVAL TALK

Joshua 3:5 - “And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”  Joshua 3:4 in the New Living Translation reads, Then Joshua told the people, “Purify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among you.” The world is enamored with power. In the Body of Christ, we recognize that purity is the prerequisite to power. Joshua’s instructions to the children of Israel were to purify themselves in preparation for crossing over into their promised inheritance.   Verse 4 says, “for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among you.”   As Spirit-filled believers, we believe in the nine manifestation gifts of the Spirit as defined in 1 Corinthians 12, and we desire to see them in operation in our services, prayer gatherings, and individual lives.   We define these gifts as power encounters. These power encounters are life-changing.   In Galatians 5:22-23, we are introduced to the Fruit of the Spirit. I believe the Fruit of the Spir

In the twenty-third chapter of Leviticus, the Lord spoke to Moses about establishing seven major feasts. The first of these seven feasts was Passover. Passover always comes in the first month of the year on the Hebrew religious calendar. This month is known as Abib in the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy but later came to be known as Nissan after the Babylonian captivity.    Although there are a total of seven feasts (the divine number for perfection or completeness in the Bible), God divided the seven festivals into three major festival seasons. Every male was to present themselves before the Lord three times in a year in each festival group.    The Jewish male would travel to Jerusalem for Passover in the spring, Pentecost at the end of spring, and the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall.    The fall festival season consisted of Rosh Ha Shana (Trumpets), The Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles.  Rosh Ha Shana comes on the first day of the month of Tishri and begins the Ten Days of Awe, w

Joshua 3:5 – 6 - “And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”  Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.” In Joshua 3:4 the Lord told the children of Israel, “you have not been this way before.”   This is the year of the new thing.   Isaiah 43:19 says, “Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth …”   In Joshua 3 God is preparing the children of Israel to enter into their inheritance.   Like the children of Israel, we are poised to enter into a new day. God is leading us on a new path.   Psalms 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” In Joshua 3:5 Joshua told the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”   The Christian Standard Bible reads, “Consecrate yourselves.” Why did Joshua instruct the children of Isra