REVIVALTALK

            Valentine’s Day is hijacked by Cupid shooting his arrow into a lonely heart searching for the one true love. The true love that is the love of lovers lamenting and finding themselves in distress with knights in shining armor, walks through fields and forests, gathering flowers, dancing in the moonlight, poetic yammer, and that first kiss so tender and sweet.            This is characteristic of Eros love, passionate and romantic love. Eros is a Greek word meaning desire and longing. This explains why it is normal to desire to be with someone. Eros love can be fickle, operating from first sight, and should never stand-alone for reasons of vulnerability to act on emotion and act outside of biblical boundaries, awakening something meant for a covenantal agreement.               In the search for true love, one must not sto...

1 Corinthians 16:9 – “ For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” At the beginning of each year I pray and ask the Lord for prophetic direction for the coming year.   Why do we need direction? it is important to pray and listen to what the Spirit is saying to the church for this year. In 1 Kings 22:7, King Jehoshaphat was in very tough place with two other kings.   The King made this statement, “ Is there  not still a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of Him?” Like King Jehoshaphat and these two kings we are in a very difficult place.  We need to hear the word of the Lord. The Prophet Amos writes in Amos 3:7, “ Surely the Lord  God  does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.”             This is the year of the open door. The Lord is calling us to move through or beyond the door.   ...