Hosea 6:1-2
1 Come, and let us return to the Lord;
For He has torn, but He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
2 After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
Ayin Dalet – the bent shape of dalet symbolizes a needy person bent over the Word to hear.
I want to hear. God, what are you saying?
And I want to be listening.
Revival is often over phrased, overused, ill defined, misunderstood, exaggerated.
Some ask for it and when they get it they reject it.
Some cry for it and when they get it they control it.
Revival!
It’s God’s heart being poured out on people.
Waking us up to prepare us for the next level.
Revival is NOT the end, but the beginning.
To be revived is to be awakened.
Revival is meant to raise us up to LIVE IN HIS SIGHT.
So what is God reviving? Who is God reviving?
Gen. 22:4, 6-7
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
“Where is the Lamb?” His question was answered two thousand years later.
John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
The world says, “Know yourself first then try to know God.”
But it’s in knowing God you know yourself.
Without God I AM NOTHING.
But IN HIM!
I AM:
More than a conqueror
The salt of the earth
The light of the world
God, let me be lost in your presence. Permit me to lose my identity, my objectives and my dreams.
Let me be lost at the cross, never to be found, always secure in the shadow of your wings.
Jesus was crucified a lamb yet resurrected a lion.
Revival is God telling His people, “WAKE UP and defeat that serpent.”
The Lion of the tribe of praise roars through us.
Ps. 18:6-9
6 In my distress I called upon the Lord,
And cried out to my God;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And devouring fire from His mouth;
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With darkness under His feet.
Listen, God, in His zealousness and passion for you, will part water and seas to get to you.
Nothing can stand in His way. You are His priority when you are in trouble.
Ps. 18:12-14, 19
12 From the brightness before Him,
His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
14 He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe,
Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
19 He also brought me out into a broad place;
He delivered me because He delighted in me.
WOW.
Why does he train my hands to battle? Because we are empowered to defeat the enemy.
He makes my storm His canopy so His light can shine on me.
I’m telling you that there is a praise inside of you that will cause the enemy to fear you.
The psalmist was saying that from the depth of his being he searched and found a praise and that praise stopped the attacks of the enemy.
We praise to get satan out of the way, the flesh out of the way, the world out of the way. We worship to bring God IN.
Praise gets the devil out. Worship gets God in.
So hear me 3rd Day.
Stay hidden in Christ. Then every time the devil looks for me he ends up finding Jesus.
When he sends demons they will return and say that address you gave me, we got there and guess who was there? Christ.
Col. 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong
