Turning 50

Some interesting things happened since I last blogged. For one, I turned 50, still getting used to that. I loved my 40’s which were the new 30’s so 50 will be like 40 – you know what I mean LOL. Age is what you make of it. I just want to make sure I am fulfilling my destiny.

Another interesting thing that happened was on December 21 the moon turned red. When Joel spoke of the last days he mentioned this in Acts 2:20:

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

So to me, turning 50 and having a red moon means Jesus is coming soon. Sooner than we think!

Are you ready? I trust you are.

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

2010

As we get ready to close out 2010 and enter 2011 some may say, “Praise the Lord! What a terrible year. Can’t wait till it’s over.”, etc. The question I have is, “Whoever said that Divine order would be easy?” It’s like God dropped a plumb line and said, “Now line up.”

So I am thankful for this year. Yes I felt like quitting, weekly sometimes. Yes, it would be easy to run but to where, and when do you stop?

So embrace this year and thank God for it. I bet you grew more than you realize. I would say more things are in order now in your life than early in the year.

So I can’t wait for 2011!

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

KOINONIA

Fellowship’s a word Christians use for almost everything. Eating – fellowship, walking with someone – fellowship; Tim Horton’s for coffee – fellowship…

A recent look at this word told me we really don’t know a lot about this word.

Acts 2:42 gives us a clue that the early church knew something about it because they were devoted to it.

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

In the Greek (you say “in the Greek” to sound smart) the word for fellowship is Koinonia. It means community, intimate. No wonder we don’t know much about it – very few of us do it biblically.

In a world of me, myself and I – a world of separation, divorce, etc., what do we really know about community or intimacy? Imagine what could happen in churches if we became devoted to fellowship. The Book of Acts tells us the result (of Koinonia) was people being added to the Church daily. Do you know why? We all need and want fellowship, so let’s work at being devoted to it!

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

HIS PEACE

We have all heard of pressure cookers, but what do you do when you feel you are in one? Athletes feel pressure in the heat of the battle. Children feel it in school. Marriages feel it. Job stress creates it.

Then there is the pressure of others’ expectations. They want you to act a certain way or talk a certain way.

Teenagers feel pressure at school – their peers wanting them to do what they normally never would. Pressure to do things for others.

Religion is like that. Jesus faced it all the time but He lived in peace. He said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you, NOT as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)

His peace takes the pressure off.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

The power of God is moving in Canada. Wherever hearts are hungry, God is moving.

Pastors are getting fed up with religion as are the sheep.

So what does all this mean? It means we are ripe for a revival. I just got back from Newfoundland where, again, I encountered hungry hearts and the wonderful presence of God showed up in a powerful way.

So it’s time to stop looking at the flood of evil that enemies of the Cross have unleashed in our world. We need to look and see what God is doing. He is raising up a standard against all that is not lawful in His sight.

The power of the Cross is being revealed. Now we must dare to believe God that HIS world-overcoming life is for us today!

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

Blessings for Revival

When God wants to get our attention He does it by calling us to repentance. He wants us to see exactly where we are at. A heart filled with the world’s philosophy and personal corruption is NOT prepared for revival.

Exodus 12:14

‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a FEAST to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a FEAST by an everlasting ordinance.

Leviticus 23:1-2,4

1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.

4 ‘These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.

In Ezra 3 a revival broke out at the Feast of Tabernacles. The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are considered 10 days of repentance or Days of Awe. The Day of Atonement is considered by the Jews as their most HOLY DAY. The 3^rd feast is Tabernacles.

Deuteronomy 16:16

“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

These are blessings for revival during this season that we seem to forget.

Change

As we enter into September the seasons are beginning to change. Soon the leaves will change colour and the evenings and mornings will be a little cooler.

I really believe that our church is also in a season of change. The difference is we are getting hotter for God. More than ever I sense revival is in the air. You can sense and almost feel it!

People are talking about it and wanting it. This truly is a year of divine order. Don’t miss your season. It is a great time to be serving the Lord!

Isaiah 43:18-19

"Do not remember the former things, 


Nor consider the things of old.

Behold, I will do a new thing,

Now it shall spring forth; 


Shall you not know it? 


I will even make a road in the wilderness 


And rivers in the desert."

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong