The Heart that Revival Seeks
Revivals start with hearts that seek the whole of God and nothing of self.
Hearts ready to give all up for God, hearts with hunger not for fame, not for name or for gain but hearts seeking the will of God to be done at all cost in themselves first and in other people and places. Hearts seeking the total reign of Jesus Christ and His absolute Lordship!
Hearts that seek the kingdom of God and God's kind of righteousness. Not hearts seeking personal kingdoms, where they'll be worshipped and served in place of God or be feared more than God is feared!
Such hearts are results of faith in the words of Jesus, faith that comes from the understanding of the essence of the gospel of Jesus. Faith that sees Jesus as all in all. Faith that comes from knowing Jesus in His Character and doctrine, desiring both with passion and leaning on grace to live that out...
Such faith comes from sound teachings of the works, doctrine and the character of Jesus Christ.
It is such faith that sends us to the place of prayer. Not the place of prayer where we ask to consume on our lusts but the altar where we seek the kingdom of God and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
A place of prayer where we open up ourselves to God in utter spiritual nakedness to cleanse out of us every self seeking, every plan, purpose and pursuit that's out of His will, every aspiration that's contrary to His plan...a place where we cry to the Father in intercession for wicked men and women to be saved, an altar where the flesh and all it's lusts are burnt up in sacrifice for Christ to be formed in us...an altar where the laws of God is engraven on the tablets of sincere hearts!
An altar of the heart, set up in the very temple of God in the sanctuary of the regenerated human spirit, administered by the Holy Spirit Himself.
An altar beyond organised or unorganised religion, an altar beyond this mountain or that, an altar unrestricted by space or time, an altar that's stayed on God irrespective of physical activities and disturbances with constant fire of prayer burning in known and unknown tongues, in thoughts and imaginations in the spirit...
An altar in godly sincerity and truth...
There the fire of revival is kindled and when such hearts connect, the will of God is done as heaven connects with them...there change is born and the course of history altered and none can tell how far such a fire will burn to establish God's kingdom in people's hearts and lives!
Such hearts revival seeks! Who amongst us is ready?
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