Revival? It is not going to just fall on your lap

Although many Christians talk about revival, they do not experience revival because they have yet to make a decision to chase God more than they are chasing after the other things in their lives. People have revival with their NFL teams, NBA teams, baseball teams, their secular singers like Lady Gaga, Usher and the likes. They have revival with their hunting rifles. They have revival with new sit coms series, soap operas, block buster movies. It is a remote control revival!! They have revivals with their couches as it happily contours and marks their authority. They have revival with their money as they kiss and caress it. They have revival with their mirrors as they can't get enough of themselves....etc etc..etc


2 Timothy 3:1-5 (AMP)BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].
2For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane.3[They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.4[They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. 5For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].


Most Christians think these verses are speaking of heathens and unbelievers. But these verses are speaking of God's people. In verse 5 it states, "although they hold a form of piety." You see, heathens and unbelievers do not have any form of piety. Verse 4, "[They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God." These are religious lukewarm Christians who are denying the Power of God. 


Revival can happen anywhere but it first must start with you. Revival can happen to anyone who decides to spend more than one hour a week with God. You must decide you want more of God. You must decide you will spend more time with Him. You must decide you will chase after Him more than any other thing this world has to offer. You must decide you will run from SIN and run to HIM. You must begin to fulfill the biblical definition of Loving Him by following His Commandments. You must decide to go back to YOUR FIRST LOVE. You must not only decide but act as though He is your ALL! You must decide to repent!


Why do you pray to HIM? Do you pray to HIM for your own personal interests and reasons? Do you seek HIM for your own welfare and self preservation? Why do you worship HIM? 


He says most of His people treat Him like He is some lucky charm which they carry in their pockets where ever they go and pull it out when they need help! 


You must come to an understanding that you seek, pray, and worship HIM because HE IS GOD!!


John 6:26(AMP) Jesus answered them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, you have been searching for Me, not because you saw the miracles and signs but because you were fed with the loaves and were filled and satisfied.


Habakkuk 3:17-18 (AMP)Though the fig tree does not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines, [though] the product of the olive fails and the fields yield no food, though the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the [victorious] God of my salvation!


Fire of God!