Ride the Wave of Revival - Through Repentance

This topic has been burning me up for weeks. I don't know how to write about it except just to pour it out as it has been LIT UP in my heart by Jesus.

Consider the meaning of repentance - a turning around and a changing of the mind to a new opinion. With regard to God and sin it is saying "You are right and I was wrong - teach me to understand that in every aspect of my existence".

What is this I hear? A voice saying revival and salvation without explaining the meaning of the cross of Christ and true repentance. Proclamations of deliverance that neglect to proclaim the fullness of Him in whom we have salvation by grace through faith. These voices speak “peace, peace when there is no peace.” They seemingly heal the hurt of God’s people a little, even as the scriptures say they will do in these days. THERE IS NO REVIVAL WITHOUT TRUE REPENTANCE.

Consider the meaning of salvation by grace through faith - Trusting that Jesus' death on the Cross was sufficient to pay for my sins. Jesus says we who believe in Him, though we die, we shall live forever with Him. If we have faith and trust in this, we can participate in the rest of the promise. The bible says "It is of God that we are in Christ Jesus." The Father placed us in Christ – we were a part of Him when He died on the cross. We were IN Him when He was crucified and our old man was crucified with Him. When the Father raised Jesus from the dead, we were raised with him with a new life of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, living within us. Now we can learn to let Christ live His awesome life through us.

A prayer asking Jesus into my heart will not save me. I must know what salvation is before I am able to have faith in what Christ has done. Yes, it is possible signs and wonders will startle me into understanding that God is real, but what must I do to be saved? God wants to soften hearts to receive His truth, not JUST to be "wowed". True faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. If the word is not proclaimed, in what is the prayer of faith at the altar call trusting? THERE IS NO TRUE REPENTANCE WITHOUT THE UNDERSTANDING OF SALVATION. But understanding comes by grace from the Spirit of God who uses men to deliver the gospel of peace - what a privilege!

Romans 10:14-15
How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “ How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

And for those who have already been redeemed by the blood of Jesus, how are we to be revived again except “according to your word” OH GOD !?

When it all comes down to it, there is only ONE THING we must know – Christ crucified.

Do we, as God’s children, desire to walk in supernatural power working the signs and wonders of God? There is so much enthusiasm for this now and I love to see God’s people excited about Him. But if I am not in a position of humility, what power am I operating in? What does humility really mean? It is a position of complete and total dependence on God. We may often say we can do nothing without God but in truth, we do many things without Him. Every day we (often subconsciously) assume our natural talents, understanding, or skills will get us through situation after situation. In work done for God, it is often the same. We apply techniques or prayers we have been taught to create the desired effect and God in His mercy often does move simply because He loves us and we are His children! But good intentions to work for God are not enough if we REALLY want to see the power of God manifested.

We must apply the death of the cross to our entire soulish life, including our desires and plans for God. It is of God that we are in Christ Jesus. The Father placed us in Christ – we were a part of Him when He died on the cross. We were IN Him when He was crucified and our old man was crucified with Him.

I pray we will receive a deeper revelation of what this means. This is the key to humility. We cannot simply be humble by determining in ourselves that we desire to be humble. We cannot be fully submitted to the will of God by desire alone. It is only through apprehending BY FAITH that our old man (and our soulish self-reliance) was put to death with Christ that we may become progressively more humble, more submitted to God, and more able to receive the resurrection life and power of God. Vessels of honor are formed and cleansed for honorable work only as the potter remakes them through revelation of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:7, 10-11
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us .... always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

as always - with love IN HIM,
Karen.

Father, Hear Us Call on You

The Global Day of Prayer is coming up this Sunday (see video in previous post). Two years ago, I wrote this song (press PLAY button below to listen) a few weeks before the Global Day of Prayer. As I learned to play it, I realized the Holy Spirit had given me a prayer and a song hinting at the revelation of Jesus to the world in and through His people in the end times.

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So, this blog is about what I desire and am asking the Father to do as HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of His children lift their hearts to Him in unison in just a few days. It is the same cry as the lyrics of this song – My prayer to see the heart and will of the Father be manifested in the earth. It is long, but this barely scratches the surface of all that fills my heart from the Word of God on this subject.

Prayer and Song for the Global Day of Prayer

Call on You

Father hear us call on You
Father won’t you make this worship true?
All we really want is to see Your Face
Spirit, Jesus, lend your grace

Pour out all You are
On Your sons and daughters
Fulfilling all Your words and all Your times
Through softened hearts and open eyes

Jesus poured out His blood
Covering the earth with a Holy flood
Glory, water on the sea
Glory now, in you and me

Pour out all You are
On Your sons and daughters
Fulfilling all Your words and all Your times
Through softened hearts and open eyes

Yahweh hear us call Your Name
Aish Ha Ruach, the Eternal Flame
Consume our ways and let them go
Holy River, begin to flow
Through us and all around
Salvation spring up from the ground
Sons and daughters prophesy
As the Morning Star begins to rise

And Father won’t you please

Pour out all You are
On Your sons and daughters
Fulfilling all Your words and all Your times
Through softened hearts and open eyes

Father hear us call on You

Time and time again, the psalmist David appealed to the Lord to hear His cry and answer speedily. God assures us that He will indeed answer our cry as His Spirit moves us into a desperate supplication day and night for His Kingdom to come to the earth.

Luke 18:1-8
Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’” Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”

Father won’t you make this worship true?

And so we ask Him to give us what we cannot just “muster up” for ourselves – true faith, love, devotion, and passion for Jesus. We ask God to fulfill His word that Jesus gave to the woman at the well.

John 4:23-24 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

What does it mean and how can we worship Him in Spirit and in truth?

All we really want is to see Your face
Spirit, Jesus, lend your grace

The whole point is to see Jesus. Who is this Son of God? What does it mean that the Living Word, the Manifestation of all the Promises of the Living God, is alive and walks the earth living His life through us?

Revelation of the Person of Jesus is the key to it all. As we see Him, we are transformed into what He created us to be – children of the living God able to glorify and reveal to the world and all the principalities the perfection of our Creator. We do this as we worship Him in Spirit and truth through the grace given by the same Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

1 John 3 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Ephesians 3:10-11 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord

It is no longer I who live in these moments that my faith takes hold of the promise of the Father.

Pour out all You are
On Your sons and daughters
Fulfilling all Your Words and all Your times through
Softened hearts and open eyes

Joel 2:28-29

“ And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days

John 12:38-41
that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:

“ Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

“ He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

I may continue on these things in a future post because there is so much here to set my heart on fire. I love the names of God used in the song and how they reveal things about God. Yahweh - the Great I AM. Aish HaRuach - literally fire of the Spirit or the consuming fire of God's Holy Spirit. Holy River - the Spirit of God who flows corporately through His people (see references to the river of life in Revelation.) I especially love the Morning Star and the idea of the revelation of Jesus rising like the sun in our hearts as He glorifies Himself in the church.

Isaiah 60:1-3

Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the LORD will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.

As always,with love,
IN CHRIST,
Karen.

Global Prayer Meeting!

The Global Day of Prayer (GDOP) (http://www.globaldayofprayer.com/) is coming up on Sunday. Here is a wonderful description of the event and its history.

It is amazing that hundreds of millions of Christians will gather publicly to cry out to the Father for the world. Locally, we enjoy going to the Austin House of Prayer (AHOP) (http://www.austinhouseofprayer.com/). For the ten days leading up to GDOP, many people from several local churches have been participating in round-the-clock prayer at AHOP. We went last night for two hours.

Shortly before the time of prayer, I was reading the GDOP website to see what the theme for the day was on Sunday. Repentance was the focus and I asked the Holy Spirit to give me prayers to begin our time of worship and prayer. I could hear worship music in the prayer room from the group that preceded us and, as I hummed along with their tune, I began to sing and write down these words as the Holy Spirit answered my request for an opening prayer:

Turning from darkness of my inner man. Letting the light of Christ shine into those corners. Trusting the Father to keep me in Him. Repenting of hardening my heart and not believing in the greatness of His infinite love. Lord, let times of refreshing come to your children, as the Living Word of your Son breaks the grip of sin. The chains fall and hope comes as the cross wipes out the curse of sin and death upon our lives. So, give boldness for the first ones to step forward, humbling themselves and rending their hearts instead of their garments. Inwardly broken instead of outwardly righteous. And as they obey in love, your Spirit falls afresh and others are able to come receive of the living stream of life. And He shows His goodness in new ways as Your Kingdom comes upon the earth. Open up the eyes – Let us see what eyes can’t see. Open up the ears – Let us hear what ears can’t hear. But inwardly through You we will know and follow.

Pour out Your love in my heart by Your Spirit that You promised. Let compassion fill my heart for the aches of others. Let my heart reach beyond myself and cry out to You for them. Only Your love can do this to me and with me. I confess a hardness of heart. I confess of self-centered ways. I confess I am weak and I acknowledge You alone are my strength. And I thank You for showing me that this is true. And I thank You for keeping me from thinking I could figure out a way to You. For in Christ is found all wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. To Him be glory, power, blessing and dominion forever and ever. He is worthy. My lovely Lamb. My fierce and gentle Lion. The forever Lover of my soul. Whose Father is my Keeper and my Guide. Whose Spirit is my Thought and Light through the mind of Christ He bestows upon me. Thank you thank you thank you.