AS WE WERE HAVING OUR MORNING PRAYER YESTERDAY (AUGUST 28, 2017) FOCUSING ON THE TRAGEDY TAKING PLACE IN THE HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA
CONCERNING THE NEWS DEALING WITH THE INCREDIBLE DANGEROUS STORMS RESULTING IN SEVERE DESTRUCTION, DISMAY, DEATHS, WE WERE IMMEDIATELY BLESSED WITH THE STRONG PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WERE LED TO THE SCRIPTURE IN GENESIS 50:20 WHERE JOSEPH WAS TALKING WITH HIS BROTHERS CONCERNING HIS RESTORING THEM - "BUT AS FOR YOU, YOU MEANT EVIL AGAINST ME; BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD, IN ORDER TO BRING IT ABOUT AS IT IS THIS DAY, TO SAVE MANY PEOPLE ALIVE."
CONSIDER THIS...THE MOST POWERFUL WEATHER DISASTER LIKE NEVER BEFORE IS HAPPENING IN TEXAS AS THIS IS BEING WRITTEN WHICH THE ENEMY (SATAN) MEANS FOR EVIL, BUT GOD CAN TURN TO GOOD...WE FOUND OURSELVES PRAYING FOR A POWERFUL HOLY SPIRIT-LED REVIVAL TO SWEEP ACROSS TEXAS AND THE NATION, "LIKE NEVER BEFORE"!
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS THAT WE SO ENCOURAGE EACH OF YOU TO JOIN US BEGINNING NOW AND THE DAYS AHEAD TO PRAY FOR SUCH A POWERFUL HOLY SPIRIT REVIVAL TO COME TO BE AND THAT THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS AND THE COUNTRY WOULD WITNESS "LIKE NEVER BEFORE" SUCH A MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND AS A RESULT, MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE WOULD BE INTRODUCED TO THEIR SAVIOR AND LORD JESUS AND BECOME FOLLOWERS OF HIM AND BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT ASKED TO BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, PLEASE GIVE MUCH THOUGHT TO THE SCRIPTURE - (PAUL TALKING) "HE SAID TO THEM, 'DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED?'" SO THEY SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE IS A HOLY SPIRIT'.....AND WHEN PAUL LAID HANDS ON THEM, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THEM, AND THEY SPOKE WITH TONGUES AND PROPHESIED.'" (ACTS 19:2,6)
A QUICK HISTORY OF REVIVALS IN THE UNITED STATES. THERE WAS THE WELCH REVIVAL (1904-05) AT BETHEL BIBLE COLLEGE IN TOPEKA, KANSAS. THEN CAME THE AZUSA STREET REVIVAL IN LOS ANGELES, CA WHICH BEGAN ON APRIL 9, 1906-1915. THEN THERE WAS THE REVIVAL IN 1975. MY WIFE AND I BECAME CHRISTIANS DURING THIS REVIVAL, PRAISE GOD!
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND JOHN 15:1,4,5 "I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE VINEDRESSER; 4: ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, UNLESS IT ABIDES IN THE VINE, NEITHER CAN YOU, UNLESS YOU ABIDE IN ME; 5: I AM THE VINE, YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. HE WHO ABIDES IN ME, AND I IN HIM, BEARS MUCH FRUIT; FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING." IT IS CRITICAL TO ADD FOR WITHOUT YOU I WILL DO NOTHING.
AS RELATES TO THE REQUEST TO PRAY FOR A MIGHTY MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ACROSS TEXAS AND THE NATION, CONSIDER GOD'S PROMISE IN JAMES 5:16B "THE EFFECTIVE FERVENT PRAYERS OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILS MUCH". PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE AS CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, THUS WE QUALIFY, THANKFULLY! ALSO, THE WORD "EFFECTIVE" RELATES TO THE "ACTIVE OPERATION OR WORKING OF POWER AND ITS EFFECTUAL RESULTS". (WORD WEALTH - THE NKJV SPIRIT-FILLED BIBLE). THUS LET OUR PRAYERS BE EFFECTIVE BECAUSE OF OUR FERVENCY...AMEN?
LASTLY, CONSIDER THE SCRIPTURES WHICH DECLARE:
- "AND WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, YOU WILL RECEIVE." (MATTHEW 21:22)
- "SO I SAY TO YOU, ASK, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU; SEEK, AND YOU WILL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT WILL BE OPENED FOR YOU;.....FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES AND HE WHO SEEKS FINDS, AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS IT WILL BE OPENED." (LUKE 11: 9,10)
- "BUT EVEN NOW I KNOW THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK OF GOD, GOD WILL GIVE YOU." (JOHN 11:22)
- "IF YOU ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME, I WILL DO IT" (JOHN 14:14)
IT IS MOST APPROPRIATE TO CLOSE WITH PSALM 5:1-3 "GIVE EAR TO MY WORDS, O LORD, CONSIDER MY MEDITATION. GIVE HEED TO THE VOICE OF MY CRY, MY KING AND MY GOD, FOR TO YOU I WILL PRAY. MY VOICE YOU WILL HEAR IN THE MORNING, O LORD; IN THE MORNING I WILL DIRECT IT TO YOU, AND I WILL LOOK UP."
THUS LET'S PRAY AND BELIEVE JEHOVAH JIREH (GOD OUR PROVIDER) TO HEAR AND ANSWER THE FERVENT PRAYERS OF HIS PEOPLE CONCERNING A MIGHTY MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ACROSS TEXAS AND AMERICA...AMEN?
