Revival awakening is coming to you!

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Awakening is at the very heart of the Christian faith, and it is the very reason we are Christians. Awakening is the powerful work of our sovereign and gracious God. When He awakens us, He doesn't simply awaken us from sleep, but from death. Awakening is the glorious work of regeneration, revival, and reformation. When God awakens us, He regenerates our hearts, gives us the gift of new birth, and makes us alive. He says to us, "Live!" (Ezek. 16:6).

The Holy Spirit invades, conquers, and persuades us. He rips out our stubborn, self-trusting hearts of stone and replaces our dead hearts with new, living hearts-hearts that are made willing and able to believe; hearts that are soft and pliable in the hands of our Father, united and lovingly enslaved to Christ, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

When God awakens, He always brings revival, whether it is the revival of a single soul, the revival of a family, the revival of a community, or the revival of a nation. When God brings revival, He always brings deep and convicting repentance that leads to a life of faith, repentance, and obedience. 

When God awakens, He always brings true and lasting reformation- reformation of hearts, lives, homes, and churches. However, we cannot schedule awakening, and we should not attempt to devise a superficial, formulaic scheme to bring about awakening. A revival never needs to be advertised; it always advertises itself. Awakening happens only when God ordains it. 

God brings about awakening according to His sovereign plan. He brings about awakening where He wants, when He wants, and to whom He wants, all according to His good pleasure.

Nevertheless, just as God ordains awakening, He ordains the means of awakening. God not only sovereignly ordains the ends of all things, He ordains the means of all ends as well. And the means that God has ordained to bring about awakening are the ordinary means He has already ordained for our regular weekly worship and daily growth in grace. 

The Word, prayer, and the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper are the ordinary means of grace God has given to us. These are the means through which the Holy Spirit works to bring true conversion, true revival,. and true reformation. God's awakening power is not activated by our schemes and tactics, but by His Spirit and His ordinary means of awakening. 

And we trust Him for His grace as He does what He pleases (John 3:8), asking that the light of His countenance would shine upon us as we live before His Him forever.




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