REVIVALTALK

  Revelation 4:1 – “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.” We are in a time of shaking.  What has been going on?  God is bringing realignment. Most believers I know have been engaged in spiritual warfare. The enemy has come against God’s people. John 10:10 says, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” The Bible reveals the enemy as an adversary and the destroyer.  He is called a liar, and a murderer.  He seeks your demise and destruction.   We are engaged in a war over three things: 1.      Worship  – one of the very first conflicts was a war over worship/sacrifice. 2.      Wealth  – the...

In 1 Samuel 22, David finds himself in an interesting situation. He was on the run from King Saul and hiding in the cave of Adullam. We know previously David had killed a lion and a bear and had become popular in a face-off with Goliath. Now, the honored sling man, singer, shepherd, warrior was suddenly hated, feared, lied about, and plotted against by Saul. David was running through the fields, slimy riverbeds, watery pits, deep ditches, miry mud, and briars. He was half-naked, filthy, stumbling, crawling, and clawing his way into a cave.   What a change from the freedom he had known as a shepherd, singing, and worshipping God everyday, being from a good family with food, shelter, and all his needs met. Now, he was in a dark, wet, cold, stale cave, hungry, exhausted, broken, and alone. David had a destiny of becoming King of Israel, but he was more like Robin Hood surviving day after day. Saul had been successful as King until he began to disobey the laws of the Lord.  H...