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Revival is a must. We as His body are not destined to be born into this world on the day of Pentecost and turn the world upside down in selfless love for our brothers and sisters and passion for others to know Him as we know Him, only to evolve downward over nineteen hundred years into a social apparatus, a schism-eroded organization that can lead none to green pastures because we ourselves are starving fro spiritual nourishment.
In the early church, imperfect as they were, they still turned the world upside down in less than seventy years. Men exclaimed "Behold how they love one another!" Men were willing to lay all at the feet of the apostles so that the body as a whole would prosper and grow and Jesus would be glorified.
But today, we are a rudderless and sailless ship, and the world as a whole mocks our hypocrisy and shallow words, because our shallow lives testify to them that we simply do not possess what we profess. Saints are given no instructions as to how to grow, how to defeat sin in their lives, how to increase in love, how to possess our vessels in sanctification and honor. The truth is, we do not even believe as a whole it is possible to do so.
Is this the state the church will be found when our Lord returns? Will we be found clinging to a grace that only forgives us, but has little if any power to change us and turn us into living sacrifices as it promises to do for us? Will we lower our eyes as we face Him and get into heaven by the skin of our teeth? Worse yet, will we enter eternity with hearts that are quite content with that thought process, walking not as strangers and pilgrims, sojourners here in a world ruled by our enemy, and not at all bothered by the sins that still possess us, and the love of the world we are told we should not love?
Is this our destiny? 1000 denominations, each thinking their doctrines are the true correct ones, while the world shakes its head at all of us and says "If that is all that Christ can do for you, no thanks." Or is something on the horizon that will change us and alter our path 180 degrees?
I am convinced scripturally that it is not our destiny to come in like a lion and go out with a whimper, with a people still laden with the same sins of those in the world but who will see heaven simply because of a one time prayer.
Some will say that this type of preaching puts men under law, and throws them back under self effort to "try to do better". Let me be perfectly candid.
We cannot do better. No amount of effort, of guilt response, of brow beating, of threatening hell will have one iota of effect on our spiritual state. Law is simply man's effort to walk pleasing to God and law does not work. It cannot, for it is trying to make our old nature do new natured things. It is simply an impossibility.
The "revival" I have been called to share is a personal revival, you and God, none else. It is simply coming to the point that one is tired of going through the motions of Sunday after Sunday, never being changed, never seeing others changed, never hearing HOW to walk as a true overcomer. Each one of us must determine for ourselves whether we need this revival of spirit. But if sin still is our bedfellow, if the world pulls on us so that we cannot walk pleasing to God, if our hearts condemn us even if we are told there is no condemnation, if we are less sold out for the kingdom after years of serving God than we were in our "honeymoon" state as a new believer, then something is wrong, bad wrong.
Is there an answer? Is there a clear word that tells those seeking for more as to how to walk as an overcomer, even in our weakness? Yes, there is. It is not a "new truth", woven from taking many obscure scriptures and weaving them into the next new thing. It is not a movement in Seattle, or Amsterdam (sorry, Messy) or Brownsville or Toronto. It is not a specific preacher who can lay hands on us and make us free after years of bondage. It is truth, truth we have not believed, truth that is plainly stated with no interpretation needed, truth being revealed again to our needy hearts.
It is the simple promises of God that He has asked us to believe.
We are new creatures. Now. Today. We have been new since the day we first gave our lives to the Lord. But it has not works thus far. Why is this? What is the problem? What are we told?
"But it did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."
If we are truly new creatures, and sin no longer has dominion over us, why then do we still struggle and fail? There is the reason. We have a part on this amazing covenant, this "agreement" with God. We are asked to believe it to be true.
Our personal revival is not dependent on God stirring the waters of the church, so that those who live the closest, or who have the good fortune of hearing about the new "anointed preacher" can go get a touch. No, friends. It is to be ours today, and there is not one reason it cannot begin right now.
So what must we do? We must accept what God says of us as true and then arm ourselves with it when satan comes to steal it back from us...and he will. And what does God say to us. How do we start?
First, we simply acknowledge that two things are bedrock truth of what Christ accomplished on the cross.
1) When Christ died, so did our old nature. Our rebel within was deposed, overthrown. We are dead.
2) When Christ rose from the dead to newness of life, so did we. He gave us the same new life and the same power to overcome that He possesses.
Is that all? No, there is one more step. Our head agrees with this, and the Lord now asks that we climb out of our boat of unbelief, and despite all the naysayers, the roaring winds of logic, the waves of doubt that tell us it is not possible, Jesus asks us to put off that old man by faith alone, and to put on that new man and lay claim to who we are in Christ.
It has no bearing on how bound we are by sin. It has no bearing on how far we have strayed. These are the result of us not believing this truth and they cannot hold us back from victory. We are asked to plant the seed of faith, and speak out the truth that our old man is dead, not dying slowly over fifty years of church services. We are asked to simply put on the new nature, to accept the truth as OUR truth that we are free.....right now and that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
Does it sound too simplistic? Will we fall after the same error of Naaman, who complained that the instructions the prophet gave him were too easy to free him of the grip of leprosy. "Surely just dipping in the muddy Jordan river seven times cannot set me free", he said. But he was wrong. It can.
The Lord lamented once on a dusty road:
"When the son of Man returns, will He find faith on the earth?"
I assure you, He will. The church is about to be re-awakened. It is not hard, even if your faith is now riddled with doubts and unbelief. Your small seed of faith, as small as a mustard seed, is just enough to accomplish your miracle you seek. Shall we linger in doubt, or rather be like the woman who touched the new of His garment, convinced that because of who HE was, not because of how she lived, that He would heal her completely and free her of her disease?
I say to you today, any who read this, that your revival, your transformation from old defeated going-through-the-motions man to new fully overcoming, bubbling with new life, sin-shall-NOT-have-dominion-over-me new man is yours right now. The words are nigh you, even in your heart and mouth. Speak, and let the truth you say fill your ears and see the salvation of God change you into who you have always been, an overcoming child of the most High King.
Are you weak? Perfect. Our strength is made perfect when we see how absolutely dependent we are on the promises of God being true for us.
These words I share are not mine. By His grace, He gave them to me so that I myself could get freed from the grip of a self loving, sin saturated old nature that refused to do what I longed for deep inside. He has asked me to share these words with you and promised that the truth is not partial for any who hunger and thirst for free indeed. It is yours. Today. Let us put on the new man, our armor of light and see the salvation of the Lord manifested in our fleshly bodies.
Blessings to all.
Gideon
In the early church, imperfect as they were, they still turned the world upside down in less than seventy years. Men exclaimed "Behold how they love one another!" Men were willing to lay all at the feet of the apostles so that the body as a whole would prosper and grow and Jesus would be glorified.
But today, we are a rudderless and sailless ship, and the world as a whole mocks our hypocrisy and shallow words, because our shallow lives testify to them that we simply do not possess what we profess. Saints are given no instructions as to how to grow, how to defeat sin in their lives, how to increase in love, how to possess our vessels in sanctification and honor. The truth is, we do not even believe as a whole it is possible to do so.
Is this the state the church will be found when our Lord returns? Will we be found clinging to a grace that only forgives us, but has little if any power to change us and turn us into living sacrifices as it promises to do for us? Will we lower our eyes as we face Him and get into heaven by the skin of our teeth? Worse yet, will we enter eternity with hearts that are quite content with that thought process, walking not as strangers and pilgrims, sojourners here in a world ruled by our enemy, and not at all bothered by the sins that still possess us, and the love of the world we are told we should not love?
Is this our destiny? 1000 denominations, each thinking their doctrines are the true correct ones, while the world shakes its head at all of us and says "If that is all that Christ can do for you, no thanks." Or is something on the horizon that will change us and alter our path 180 degrees?
I am convinced scripturally that it is not our destiny to come in like a lion and go out with a whimper, with a people still laden with the same sins of those in the world but who will see heaven simply because of a one time prayer.
Some will say that this type of preaching puts men under law, and throws them back under self effort to "try to do better". Let me be perfectly candid.
We cannot do better. No amount of effort, of guilt response, of brow beating, of threatening hell will have one iota of effect on our spiritual state. Law is simply man's effort to walk pleasing to God and law does not work. It cannot, for it is trying to make our old nature do new natured things. It is simply an impossibility.
The "revival" I have been called to share is a personal revival, you and God, none else. It is simply coming to the point that one is tired of going through the motions of Sunday after Sunday, never being changed, never seeing others changed, never hearing HOW to walk as a true overcomer. Each one of us must determine for ourselves whether we need this revival of spirit. But if sin still is our bedfellow, if the world pulls on us so that we cannot walk pleasing to God, if our hearts condemn us even if we are told there is no condemnation, if we are less sold out for the kingdom after years of serving God than we were in our "honeymoon" state as a new believer, then something is wrong, bad wrong.
Is there an answer? Is there a clear word that tells those seeking for more as to how to walk as an overcomer, even in our weakness? Yes, there is. It is not a "new truth", woven from taking many obscure scriptures and weaving them into the next new thing. It is not a movement in Seattle, or Amsterdam (sorry, Messy) or Brownsville or Toronto. It is not a specific preacher who can lay hands on us and make us free after years of bondage. It is truth, truth we have not believed, truth that is plainly stated with no interpretation needed, truth being revealed again to our needy hearts.
It is the simple promises of God that He has asked us to believe.
We are new creatures. Now. Today. We have been new since the day we first gave our lives to the Lord. But it has not works thus far. Why is this? What is the problem? What are we told?
"But it did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."
If we are truly new creatures, and sin no longer has dominion over us, why then do we still struggle and fail? There is the reason. We have a part on this amazing covenant, this "agreement" with God. We are asked to believe it to be true.
Our personal revival is not dependent on God stirring the waters of the church, so that those who live the closest, or who have the good fortune of hearing about the new "anointed preacher" can go get a touch. No, friends. It is to be ours today, and there is not one reason it cannot begin right now.
So what must we do? We must accept what God says of us as true and then arm ourselves with it when satan comes to steal it back from us...and he will. And what does God say to us. How do we start?
First, we simply acknowledge that two things are bedrock truth of what Christ accomplished on the cross.
1) When Christ died, so did our old nature. Our rebel within was deposed, overthrown. We are dead.
2) When Christ rose from the dead to newness of life, so did we. He gave us the same new life and the same power to overcome that He possesses.
Is that all? No, there is one more step. Our head agrees with this, and the Lord now asks that we climb out of our boat of unbelief, and despite all the naysayers, the roaring winds of logic, the waves of doubt that tell us it is not possible, Jesus asks us to put off that old man by faith alone, and to put on that new man and lay claim to who we are in Christ.
It has no bearing on how bound we are by sin. It has no bearing on how far we have strayed. These are the result of us not believing this truth and they cannot hold us back from victory. We are asked to plant the seed of faith, and speak out the truth that our old man is dead, not dying slowly over fifty years of church services. We are asked to simply put on the new nature, to accept the truth as OUR truth that we are free.....right now and that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
Does it sound too simplistic? Will we fall after the same error of Naaman, who complained that the instructions the prophet gave him were too easy to free him of the grip of leprosy. "Surely just dipping in the muddy Jordan river seven times cannot set me free", he said. But he was wrong. It can.
The Lord lamented once on a dusty road:
"When the son of Man returns, will He find faith on the earth?"
I assure you, He will. The church is about to be re-awakened. It is not hard, even if your faith is now riddled with doubts and unbelief. Your small seed of faith, as small as a mustard seed, is just enough to accomplish your miracle you seek. Shall we linger in doubt, or rather be like the woman who touched the new of His garment, convinced that because of who HE was, not because of how she lived, that He would heal her completely and free her of her disease?
I say to you today, any who read this, that your revival, your transformation from old defeated going-through-the-motions man to new fully overcoming, bubbling with new life, sin-shall-NOT-have-dominion-over-me new man is yours right now. The words are nigh you, even in your heart and mouth. Speak, and let the truth you say fill your ears and see the salvation of God change you into who you have always been, an overcoming child of the most High King.
Are you weak? Perfect. Our strength is made perfect when we see how absolutely dependent we are on the promises of God being true for us.
These words I share are not mine. By His grace, He gave them to me so that I myself could get freed from the grip of a self loving, sin saturated old nature that refused to do what I longed for deep inside. He has asked me to share these words with you and promised that the truth is not partial for any who hunger and thirst for free indeed. It is yours. Today. Let us put on the new man, our armor of light and see the salvation of the Lord manifested in our fleshly bodies.
Blessings to all.
Gideon
