Title: Do You REALLY Want Revival
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: Psalms 85:6, 2 Chronicles 7:14
This week seemed a little backward to me. My prayer time and sermon prep were reversed of times past. I prepared tonight's message BEFORE I even thought about this message. I didn't know why then, but now I do. I'll as this question tonight, but it fits for everywhere.
Why do preachers spend hours praying thru the message that no one (or few) hears?" The best I can come up with is this: PERSPECTIVE. For anyone to hear and respond to truth, their perspective must be that they NEED THAT TRUTH. For instance, in the aftermath of 9-11 everyone was listening, people were attentive after Katrina, and the same happened after the pandemic came.
Until there is something to move us in our emotions, we rarely deploy our minds except for 'information.' We're big on information, Our tendency to read the Bible for information. Interestingly, Robby Gallaty studied the "Jewishness of Jesus" and found that the re ason the Jewish people read the word was not for information but for intimacy with God. After all, this is what Jesus came to offer us, a close, personal, intimate, ongoing, relationship with God the Father through God the Son.
Even as I have described this, there are people who 'remember' that closeness, that intimacy, that connection with God. You also remember that somewhere along the way either something happened which harmed that intimacy or, like so many things in life, you simply allowed gravitational pull of this present life to slowly erode this relationship.
To the person who is brave enough to admit, 'this could be me' there is an answer. It's Spiritual REVIVAL. We have a Revival meeting coming, but Revival is MORE than a meeting. Our scripture for the day is, by design, our scripture for the Month, Psalm 85:6. (PRAY) - Chapter 85 is the path.
This morning I want to ask this question: (TITLE)
Revival - What is it? - a one-word definition for REVIVA ...
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: Psalms 85:6, 2 Chronicles 7:14
This week seemed a little backward to me. My prayer time and sermon prep were reversed of times past. I prepared tonight's message BEFORE I even thought about this message. I didn't know why then, but now I do. I'll as this question tonight, but it fits for everywhere.
Why do preachers spend hours praying thru the message that no one (or few) hears?" The best I can come up with is this: PERSPECTIVE. For anyone to hear and respond to truth, their perspective must be that they NEED THAT TRUTH. For instance, in the aftermath of 9-11 everyone was listening, people were attentive after Katrina, and the same happened after the pandemic came.
Until there is something to move us in our emotions, we rarely deploy our minds except for 'information.' We're big on information, Our tendency to read the Bible for information. Interestingly, Robby Gallaty studied the "Jewishness of Jesus" and found that the re ason the Jewish people read the word was not for information but for intimacy with God. After all, this is what Jesus came to offer us, a close, personal, intimate, ongoing, relationship with God the Father through God the Son.
Even as I have described this, there are people who 'remember' that closeness, that intimacy, that connection with God. You also remember that somewhere along the way either something happened which harmed that intimacy or, like so many things in life, you simply allowed gravitational pull of this present life to slowly erode this relationship.
To the person who is brave enough to admit, 'this could be me' there is an answer. It's Spiritual REVIVAL. We have a Revival meeting coming, but Revival is MORE than a meeting. Our scripture for the day is, by design, our scripture for the Month, Psalm 85:6. (PRAY) - Chapter 85 is the path.
This morning I want to ask this question: (TITLE)
Revival - What is it? - a one-word definition for REVIVA ...
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