REVIVALTALK

  Psalms 26:7  - “That I may publish (proclaim) with voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.” We are entering into a season of praise and thanksgiving.  In the coming days we will gather with our families and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving.  People will travel great distances to gather around the table and share a meal of thanksgiving.  This is a wonderful holiday and we should enjoy our time with family and friends.   Worship involves a number of elements.  Two elements that are closely related are thanksgiving and praise. Though they are similar there are differences.  Praise is a powerful weapon to be used against the enemy of our soul in spiritual warfare.  Praise nourishes the soul, prepares the heart to become pure, and builds us up in faith.  The twin sister of praise is thanksgiving.  These two elements of prayer look alike, perform alike and come from the sa...

  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. ...

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 ...

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...

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, “Consecrat...

  Matthew 16:18 – “ And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” We have entered into a time of divine reset.  God has pushed the reset button. We continually hear people using the words, “A new normal.” Perhaps Romans 8:22-23 describes the times we are currently experiencing. “   For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.”  Many are wondering, what will our future look like?  There are many businesses that will not survive the Covid-19 lockdowns and economic downturn.  People’s jobs and livelihood have been threatened and some are very fearful of the future.  I want to encourage you. As...