REVIVAL TALK

  II Chronicles 29:36 – “Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced that God had prepared the people, since the events took place so suddenly.   When I was a young boy growing up my dad bought my mom a very nice 1969 Chevrolet Caprice.   It was silver with a dark vinyl top.   I remember it being a sporty car with a powerful engine.   One of the things that I remember is my father talking about the car having a passing gear.   A passing gear is a gear in an automatic transmission that shifts to a lower gear to provide an extra burst of power to pass slower cars on the highway. The driver activates it when the gas pedal is sharply depressed.   When the gas pedal is released the car will return to normal driving. We are entering into a time of rapid acceleration. God is going to allow us to accomplish His purposes at an accelerated pace.   In II Chronicles we learn that King Hezekiah cleansed the temple and restored true worship.   In verse...

  Matthew 6:10 – “Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” We are entering into a kingdom reset.   We are experiencing a paradigm shift.   In Luke 12:32 Jesus said, “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Reset is defined as “to set again, or to set, adjust, or fix in a new or different way.” When we reset our computers or smartphones it is to restore them to their factory settings.   God is resetting the church to restore us to our original purpose. God is restoring us to pure worship. He is calling us back to His original blueprint in Matthew 21:13, a house of prayer. Many things around us are changing. There will be no going back to what we have known as normal. Things are going to be very different.   How do we navigate these changes?   At the beginning of 2020 I wrote the following words: “We are entering into a new kingdom era.   We are in unchartered territory. ...