Really short blog post here!
We were briefly at the Awakening last night and Allen Hood shared such a great word, a word that I felt would be worth sharing with who ever would listen. You can find it on their website here, click on Apr 29, Thu 9.00PM and scroll forward about 8 minutes and 40 seconds. I can’t really explain what he said so I’m not going to but I do want to recommend you watch this video. Please, please, please. It may not be for you but I can almost guarantee you that it is for someone you know! If you do watch it, even if you don’t think it is for you, take a moment to pray and ask the Lord where your heart is and ask Him to reveal the truth of your thoughts about Jesus’ blood.
Whilst I’m sort of talking about the Awakening services, God has really been talking to us about His thoughts on “revival meetings”. Let me couch the following statement with this. I truly believe that God is moving powerfully at IHOP right now and that the testimonies are true and real. What I want to say is that God does not desire for us to put on revival meetings. He doesn’t want for us to try and force a move of Him, He doesn’t want for us to generate hype and He doesn’t want for us to put on events in the hope that revival will break out. What He wants is for us to cultivate a lifestyle of seeking Him first, developing our relationship with Him and our character as people of Christ. This will create an environment where sustainable revival can birth, a place where people are mature enough in Jesus and living lives that can withstand the rigors that revival can bring. I am not saying that we don’t ask for revival, I believe we should be contending daily in our personal prayer for God to move and revival to breakout in our cities, what I am saying is that we need to be willing to do the prep work required in our own lives now. If we have not got a lifestyle of daily prayer, regular fasting and eating the Word then when revival hits it will be quite easy to lose our relationships with Jesus and start just experiencing Him at revival meetings. I heard Danny Silk from Bethel once say that if revival doesn’t start at home then he’s not interested and I agree. We need to be living lifestyles of daily encountering the love of God in our own prayer closets. So lets take seriously our want for revival and start living how God desires, by being intimate with Him through prayer and reading His word.
I feel like this happens every time I blog, this was only supposed to be short. Hey ho.
