REVIVAL TALK

Psalms 150:1-3 – “Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty firmament! Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness!”             Our God is worthy of to be praised.   The Psalmist encourages us “to praise him according to His excellence greatness.” Approximately 791 times in the Scriptures we are instructed to praise, sing, rejoice, and celebrate the Lord. We were created to give Him glory.   We are called to worship and give Him praise.   Jesus told the Samaritan women at the well in John 4:23, “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.”   –       You become like what you worship. If you worship superficial things, your life becomes superficial. If you worship perverted things your life becomes pe...

To understand how God has created and orchestrates time we must understand how He measures time.  The Bible gives insight into how God works in time. He established the Hebrew Calendar in Exodus 12:2.  “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.”  This calendar is on a different time cycle than the calendar of the western world, the Gregorian calendar.  The Hebrew Calendar is both a religious and a civil calendar. The Religious year begins at Passover in Nissan (March/April) and the civil year begins at Rosh Ha Shana in Tishri (September/October).  The Bible refers to Elul as the “sixth” month. Historically the following things took place during Elul: God begins to work through Haggai the prophet –Haggai 1:1. Ezekiel is given a vision from God, sees several abominations being committed by God’s people in the eighth chapter of Ezekiel. The Spirit stirs up the spirit of Zerubabel to do th...