A Call For Revival
Right now, the Asbury Revival centered in Wilmore, Kentucky is growing stronger and spreading to Christians living in various cities in our land. God and Christ are not dead in America. The Holy Spirit Christ sent from Heaven ( John 15: 26; 16: 7) is still transforming lives and giving us hope. That hope from God is better for the heart of man than any other news: “Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope” ( Psalm 16: 9).
The best meals I’ve ever had began with me being hungry. When you’re driving in your car hungry, it seems that every billboard flashes images of food in front of you: pancakes, hamburgers, steaks, seafood. And when you’re resting hungry in your recliner, not wanting to get up and do anything, then the food commercials pop up on TV with mouth- watering close- ups of everything delicious: soda pop splashing over ice, juicy burgers loaded with sizzling bacon and sliced ripe red tomato. Doesn’t a meal taste all the better after you’ve been force to drive a few more miles “on empty” to get it?
I’m hungry for a renewed moving of God in my heart. While I fully appreciate the closeness I feel with Him while reading my Bible, praying, or enjoying worship service at church, I still want what those folks in Asbury are getting. I know what they’re getting, because I’ve had it before. First time was when I received Christ as my Savior. Another time was when God’s Spirit moved in with more force during my Spirit baptism. Other times were during various church services and revival meetings through the years.
I want REVIVAL! That experience when God feels so close that you can almost reach out and touch him. When goosebumps run up and down your spine. The kind of revival that makes you hang around inside the church building even after dismissal prayer, not wanting to leave the ‘ Holy Ground’ where God has just been.
What God is doing in Asbury, he can do in Malvern. I sense that revival Spirit is coming to many in our town soon. Maybe not to everyone, but to those who are hungry for more of Him. Regardless of the church name printed on the sign. God is no respecter of persons ( Acts 10: 34). The only name that’s important is the one imprinted on our Christian hearts - the name, Jesus Christ.
“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near” ( Isaiah 55: 6). Lord, we Malvern Christians are calling upon you to draw nearer, to manifest yourself to us and in us. To forgive us of anything that has not been forgiven. To save the lost, heal the sick, cast out demons, perform miracles, and to be free to pour in us that Living Water that only you can give.
Please pardon us for being too easily satisfied with mediocrity, of just being a “church person.” Renew us on the inside with that zeal that we felt when we first discovered you.
God is a faithful God ( 1 Peter 4: 19). Those who earnestly seek a closer walk with Him will not be disappointed. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” ( Matthew 7: 7- 8 ).
Dear God, in Jesus Christ’s name we’re asking, seeking, knocking. Please come all the way in. Amen.