Asbury University of Kentucky has become the sight of a revival gathering, with students and staff engaging in continual worship and prayer on campus over the past few days
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The service is being described as a revival and “a movement that only God could orchestrate and keep going.”
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been inside Asbury University’s Hughes Auditorium since last Wednesday looking to strengthen their relationship with the Lord.
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I recently heard someone speaking on the subject of REVIVAL.
As they spoke...they detailed a time in which they began SEEKING "revival."
Describing this "pursuit"...they mentioned they entered into a time of more intense and ongoing PRAYER...with a greater focus on REPENTANCE.
Yet...they continued on in "pursuit of revival."
Now...hear me...and pay close attention:
Their words ALONE expose the "agenda"...even if the one INVOLVED in this "pursuit" is UNAWARE of the DECEPTION within.
You see...REVIVAL is about bringing something that is DEAD back to LIFE
Revival is NOT a series of meetings...nor is it some "happening" where people gather because something "spiritual" is taking place.
REVIVAL is not about "unusual moves of God" that makes us "sense His presence"...services that make me "feel" something that "makes the hair on my arms stand up" or makes me CRY and/or SHOUT.
No.
Notice above the instance I recounted...specifically these words:
"Describing this "pursuit"...they mentioned they entered into a time of more intense and ongoing PRAYER...with a greater focus on REPENTANCE."
Folks...that in and of itself IS revival.
You see...what this person had been PURSUING had ALREADY been made SIGHT...yet...SADLY...they failed to RECOGNIZE it!
Thus...they CONTINUED to PURSUE something...something they had ERRONEOUSLY pictured as "revival."
We OFTEN will miss GOD when we pursue our OWN desires.
Folks...when people are focused on PRAYER and REPENTANCE...that IS revival.
If we believe REVIVAL is ANYTHING more...we MISS revival!
We now live in a day and time when REVIVAL is ill-defined...morphing into NOTHING more than a series of meetings where GOOSEBUMPS become "the Holy Ghost."
People PURSUE it...and TRAVEL just to "see it"...to "experience it."
MANY want to be STIRRED by SOMETHING...and they will EXHAUST themselves in PURSUIT of that STIRRING!
Notice the words of the Psalmist...as he defines REVIVAL:
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.....Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.....Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:1-3, 7, 10)
If you seek REVIVAL...don't MISS it when it COMES.
Wise words from a friend
Twistie