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Revival and Other Resources

There has never been a time when we are in more need of a great and powerful life-changing revival. The church is in desperate need for a revival and the world is in desperate need for the church to have one. A true revival is the only solution to raise the Church to normal Kingdom living, produce massive salvations, and determine the destiny of nations. A revival of the Kingdom is first a personal revival. It then becomes corporate. It is the sum of all individuals being touched anew that makes revivals so powerful. Then it touches and changes the world.

Nothing has become clearer to me than that revival is of God. It is something first revealed to those in need of it in order that they may begin seeking Him for it. The irony is that it was in His heart first. So our call to Him is a Spirit birthed call and the answer is prepared as is all his works which are know to Him from the beginning of the world. So we can safely say that once we begin to cry out we can have concrete faith that revival will come. And that crying out is through regular personal and corporate prayer.

If there is one outstanding feature and the primary one about a revival it is that the life of Christ in the body is manifested more and more. Even when the doctrine of the indwelling Christ is not clearly understood, His life is still expressed in the body. However, the truth should be revisited so as to bring the children of God to a desire for an ever increasing life of Christ. It is easy to live a religious life without the real power of that life. It is done all too much. Now is the time for change. We must come to say “for me to live is Christ.”

Revival
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	Message Title - Hearts For The King and His Kingdom (Luke 6:46-49 and Matthew 13:51) - Part 2 Message Date: 7/11/2010 This message is a continuation of last week's message entitled 'Hearts For The King And His Kingdom'. The Holy Spirit spokes that we would be raised from inactivity where we have felt paralyzed and unable to move and flow with the Lord. He also said that some would get raised up from sickness, disease and mental harassment. We are learning how to hear God. We listen selectively, we see selectively, and we hear selectively. We have paradigms that control how we perceive. The point is that we don't always see what we think we are looking at, and we don't always hear what we think God is saying. He wants us to see and hear accurately. We live by the power of God, not by our own strength. Near the end of our meeting we took steps of faith to move with Holy Spirit and arise in our walks and ministry. One of our dear members had one leg that was shorter than the other. As she received prayer and ministry, her leg grew out. She immediately saw her ankles even out and she felt something in her leg happen. She was overcome with joy over experiencing this miracle. A week later she continues to be filled with joy over what the Lord did in her and for her. We are all going to experience rising, awakening and being lifted up out of paralyzing conditions as well as an awakening to righteousness (1 Cor. 15:4) as we continue to seek Him and pursue righteousness. Praise Him forevermore!
	Message Title - Hearts For The King and His Kingdom (Treasures of the Heart) - Part 1 Message Date: 7/4/2010 This Kingdom message touches on how to develop a hearing heart, and the value of a hearing heart. When the love of God (and love for His Kingdom), His ways, His Word, His purposes, His instructions become a treasure to you, it will come forth from your heart. This is the treasure that Jesus talks about. Jesus is always trying to get to our hearts, where our treasures lie.
	Message Title - The Reign and the Realm of the Kingdom Message Date: 6/27/2010 We are not moving toward the Kingdom, it is coming to us. It comes into people. The Kingdom comes in the dynamic presence of Jesus who overturned the Pharisees' burdens of righteousness, a righteousness which was accomplished in Jesus and which we experience as He lives in and through us. We fulfill our duty to all men to present to them the reality of a present and future Kingdom into which all are called and only a few respond. We are the presence of the future.
	Message Title - Kingdom Reign and Kingdom Realm Message Date: 5/23/2010 Jesus made it abundantly clear that the Kingdom of Heaven had come to the earth. Mat.4:17. However the full realm of the Kingdom of Heaven remains to a date when our Lord returns and the consummation of the Kingdom occurs. In the meantime, we have the reign of the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth within believers. The reign of the Kingdom has its first expression in the believer. Righteousness is the best example of this reign. It is how we live in relation to our Lord and to His saints. Everything we do can have an effect on others. The considerations we show in how we honor this reality is a mark of a mature believer. In contrast, the society of today is disrespectful of the neighbor next door when it comes to one’s personal comforts. The world is a “me first” society and it is getting worse. People want all the benefits of living in a great nation, but don’t think keeping the laws and covenants of the government, and business in general are for them. God’s people are different. The Kingdom of Heaven is a Kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. It breaks in on the present day. It is the future coming to town. Even though the full realm of the Kingdom isn’t here, the rule and reign of the Kingdom can be. It is up to the church, the society of Heaven on earth to demonstrate it.
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - #13 Forgiveness, Part 2 (Asking For Forgiveness) Message Date: 5/16/2010 Forgiving others and asking for forgiveness go hand in hand. We can feel unforgiveness. And we can feel forgiveness. When you grant forgiveness you are ministering to the person mercy and compassion. But for some it is easier to receive forgiveness than it is to ask for forgiveness. If giving forgiveness releases mercy and compassion, then asking for forgiveness brings you humility. We must pray that we all come to this Kingdom humility that allows to admit that we've hurt someone and that we were wrong. We don't want to be just right. We want to be righteous. We want there to be a yieldedness to the Holy Spirit in this area. And in so doing our homes, our families, our marriages, our churches, will be healed.
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - # 11 Forgiveness, Part 1 (Giving Forgiveness) Message Date: 5/2/2010 The power to forgive is in our spiritual DNA. Forgiveness is how we got into the Kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven runs on forgiveness. This means a loving fellowship with no animosity and no ill will. In Matt. 18:21-35 we read the parable of the unforgiving servant. After having been granted an incomparable forgiveness he then showed unforgiveness towards a fellow servant. The debt the first servant was forgiven was huge in comparison to the debt of the fellow servant. Within his unforgiveness lay a lack of respect, a lack of honor and appreciation, and a complete lack of love. The same respect, honor, appreciation and love he had received from his master. Don't make the mistake of keeping others, and even yourself, locked in the chains of unforgiveness. Take that debt of unforgiveness, put it in your hand like a feather, blow it away, and forget the thing. As long as you hold onto it you'll never be able to forgive that person and let them go. Forgiveness is love! Love is forgiveness! Praise Him forevermore!
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - # 9 Parables From Matthew 13 Message Date: 4/18/2010 As we continue to learn about the Kingdom of God, we know that there is good and evil sowing. Good seed sown by the children of God into the world and bad seed sown by the children of satan into the world. They both bear some similarities. They grow side by side and they grow to the end of the age at which time Jesus says to the reapers gather them out so the tares do not enter the Kingdom. Only the children of God enter. Jesus also taught to the crowds about the mustard seed and leaven. They both show the effect of kingdoms in the world from small to big. The Kingdom has a tiny beginning by comparison, but eventually the tree will be the extensive nature of the Kingdom. The leaven is an agent of growth. It affects and influences all common life. As shared last week, the first 4 parables were to the crowds, and the next 4 (the treasure, the pearl of great price, the dragnet, and the householders) were taught to the disciples. The treasure is a picture of us/man who encounter the Kingdom realities in the course of life. The pearl of great price is an illustration of a seeker of fine pearls. When one is looking for the best and finds it, he sells all to have it. The process of the net/kingdom catching many is an end of the age picture. And lastly, the householder is one who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old. Eternal Kingdom truths that are unchanging. As we continue to study from these teachings and ask Holy Spirit to bring great understanding and revelation to us, we will have greater insight into the Kingdom of God within us and how to live here on this earth as sons and daughters of the King.
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - # 8 Deut. 18:15 and Matt. 13:1ff Message Date: 4/11/2010 Jesus uses parables to teach the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God was His message. Parables illustrate common life set as example of the Kingdom. It is important to get to the point of what Jesus was teaching and not get lost in the details. He taught the disciples in parables so that they could know the mysteries of the Kingdom. Jesus teaches eight parables in Matthew 13. Four were to the whole crowd and four were to His disciples. The eight clustered parables establish the "spiritual geography" of the Kingdom; its beginning, its action and its consummation. The first four Parables Jesus taught to the crowds. Most had a preconception of how the Kingdom would manifest, not unlike us. In short, a King restoring Israel, judging, separating evil and ruling over all. Jesus did not fulfill anyone's expectations but instead revealed the Father's Plan. In the parable of the sower in Matt. 13:3-9; 18-23, the sower is the Son of man -- Jesus. The seed sown is the Kingdom of God in the hearts of men in the world. As we continue to learn more and more about the parables we will have a greater understanding of the Kingdom of God, and His message to us to live as Kingdom sons and daughters here in the earth.
	Message Title - Easter/Resurrection Sunday Seamless Work of the Incarnation, Resurrection, and Holy Spirit Message Date: 4/4/2010 The interesting thing about Christmas (the celebration of the Incarnation Christ) and Easter (the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ) is that they are both supernatural events. Jesus participated in many miracles that He performed, but these two were miracles that involved HIM and His life. Whereby He WAS the miracle. The first one, which we call Christmas, was actually the celebration of the Incarnation. The miracle is that God came into man, and we had the first God-man. That's a miraculous event. A fusing of the natural and the supernatural, the earthly with the heavenly. It was part of a supernatural plan for us. You cannot just celebrate Christmas without it being connected with the second supernatural event that we celebrate, Easter (or Resurrection Sunday), the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many came out of their graves after His Resurrection. Jesus tasted death for us all. We can rejoice in that He rose from the dead because had He stayed dead, our faith would be in vain, our sins would still be on us, we couldn't be healed by God, and we would have no hope. Instead, our sins have been born away, we're forgiven, we can be healed, we live in the Kingdom of our Lord, and we have hope! Go tell the world what the Lord has done for you. Celebrate His Resurrection! Praise Him forevermore!
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - # 7 Message Date: 3/28/2010 Jesus often spoke in parables. A parable is a story/illustration from common life known to the hearer. Their purpose is to get the point across while not getting lost in the detail. We need these parables to align our lives and our personal destiny with God and His Kingdom. Seven reasons to know what parables say about the Kingdom. 1. Matt. 11:3. The Kingdom as revealed by Jesus contains His nature as well as His knowledge. 2. Matt: 6:33. If we seek it, as revealed in His teachings, there is a promise of our needs being met. 3. Matt. 13:11-17. There is healing in knowing the Kingdom. 4. Matt. 25:14, Luke 19:12, Matt. 13:52. So that we can live out our mission as God reveals, between now and the return of Christ. 5. Matt. 13:24-29 and Matt. 13:47-49. So that we can understand the present Kingdom existence between the 1st and 2nd coming. 6. John 18:36. So that we can understand something of heaven. 7. Matt. 13:44-45. So that we can live in joy.
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - # 6 The Presence of Evil Message Date: 3/7/2010 The mystery of the Kingdom is that it exists and grows in the midst of evil. In the parable of the wheat and tares, the tares have a similar appearance to the good wheat. The tares entangle with the wheat's roots and cannot be separated until the harvest time so as not to destroy some of the wheat. We live, therefore, in a Kingdom that itself exists in the midst of evil. The god of this world (satan) and the sons of darkness are still at work blinding men (2 Cor. 4:4) but we are still involved in delivering mankind out of darkness into the Kingdom of God. The way we function in God's Kingdom is not to be overcome with evil, but to overcome evil with good (Rom. 12:21). Evil has a wide spectrum which includes crimes and personal wrongs inflicted on others. These behaviors come from both the redeemed (saved) and the unredeemed. This all belongs to the fall and the work of satan. Good (benevolent , morally right, profitable) on the other hand belongs to the Kingdom of God, where the emphasis is on God and His nature. God's rule in us is a reflection of His nature, which issues out of us. God's Kingdom cannot be shaken. It does the shaking (Heb. 12:28). We conquer evil by presenting ourselves as living sacrifices to God for others (Rom. 12:1-8). We are to be honest and honorable in all things, and with all people. We are to develop a peaceful spirit which never seeks to get even. Instead, when it is right we are to do good by recognizing a need and ministering to it. So determine to have the Kingdom rule in you as a conqueror of evil, not as a conqueror of people. Through it all we are training for reigning.
	Message Title - The Kingdom of God - Already And Not Yet - # 5 The King, The Kingdom And Revival; More Than A Revival, A Restoration Of Kingdom Message Date: 2/21/2010 We can reign in and within the world now. Ultimately Jesus will reign over all the world. Its blessing, power and provision can be received now through Holy Spirit. The same way it worked in Jesus is how it is to work in us. When it does, the Kingdom manifests (Matthew 12:28). But the Kingdom is God's and not man's and thus it has a superior motive derived from the character of God. He acts lovingly and redemptively. We enter the Kingdom experientially and it enters us spiritually. In both cases the Kingdom rules.
	Message Title - Trust, Belief, Faith - # 2 Message Date: 12/13/2009 God guards, covenants and preserves our inheritance but we must remain in faith. His promises to us are unconditional and conditional in that we remain in faith. Both are necessary. Exercising our faith is always a choice. We are tested in our faith (Rom. 5:2-5). There is joy in this testing (James 1:2). There is proof in this testing (1 Peter 1:4-7). The testing of our faith results in spiritual growth.
	Message Title - Trust, Belief, Faith - # 1 Message Date: 12/6/2009 Many people are experiencing above average challenges in life. Stress abounds, caused in part by the world's economy, health issues, terrorism and strife. Up until a few years ago conditions were such that most of us didn't have a great need to exercise our faith. There was relative prosperity, for example, but that had more to do with the conditions in the world or our own natural strengths. It is different now and our faith is being dragged out of the storage chest and dusted off. God entrusted us with faith - Jude 3. None of us is born with inherent faith. It is given to us (Eph. 2:8). Our salvation by faith is of God. We have a free will to exercise it. Our faith is stimulated by hearing the Word, reading Scripture, prophecies, and God speaking to us internally. Exercising our faith is always a choice. The faith we have is entrusted to us by God which when used puts us all in the honor roll of faith.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 7 Love Is - 1 Corinthians 13 Message Date: 11/29/2009 Love is directly connected to the spiritual gifts. 1 Cor. 13 actually begins in 1 Cor. 12:31. We can divide the first 13 chapters as.... * Chapters 1-3 -- The need for love with gifts * Chapters 4-7 -- Love defined as to character and relations * Chapters 8-13 -- The eternal state of our being expressed as love enduring when all else passes away Without love we end up using the gifts as noisy cymbals which do not benefit us Love is patient with people and doesn't retaliate when unjustly dealt with. Love is kind and is focused on people, is gentle and benevolent. Love is not jealous nor does it desire the possessions of others. It doesn't seek to control others. Love doesn't brag or boast in anything. Love is not arrogant or proud. Love is not rude, nor does it ignore others. It doesn't act indifferent/discourteous towards others. Love doesn't seek for its own satisfaction. Love isn't easily provoked. It isn't easily irritated or angered. Love doesn't account for wrong suffered. It doesn't hold records of wrongs nor does it store up grievances to be used at a later date. Love doesn't delight in evil or unrighteousness. It does, however, rejoice in truth. Love bears all things and provides an environment to put up with until healing comes. Love believes and sees the best in others, and to believe the best for others. Love hopes. It holds out a favorable expectancy for all believers. Love endures and provides a steadfastness to endure temptation and trials without retaliating or rejecting another person. God knows us perfectly and in time we will know Him intimately. Love is the means to this end. The spiritual gifts and ministries heal, prepare and perfect. Love finishes the work.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 6 How Love Works In Us To Make Us Whole Love Never Runs Dry - Wonders Of His Mighty Love Message Date: 11/15/2009 The love of God (salvation love we see in John 3:16-17) is a guiding love that flows like the river Jordan. We must first identify God's love further by contrasting it to human love which by comparison is weak and frail. Human love has controls and regulators on it. Without the life of Christ indwelling us, it is like a glove without a hand....limp. When the hand fills the glove and directs it, it becomes the hand of God's love reaching out. We, as Christians, learn the difference as we travel along the Christian path. Idolatrous love has no place in us. Things that keep us from coming after God will reveal that we love God too little, not others too much. Idolatrous love compromises and competes for our heart. We must know (1 John 4:10) that God loved us before creation. We cannot earn His love. He freely gives it. We must freely receive it, and then freely give it to others. The mix of need-love and give-love makes for healthy Christians.
	Message Title - Blessings In The Heavenlies Spiritual Warfare Message Date: 11/8/2009 The word 'blessing' in Ephesians 1:3 comes from the Greek word eulogian from which our word eulogy comes. It is God's action upon someone who is spoken well of. We are well spoken of because of our position in Christ and our endowments. There are three major areas of struggle. Our fallen nature. The fallen world. And satan and his evil spirits. Satan seeks to control the world through governments, nations or religion. But we are higher in position and rank, stronger in God's strength, and equipped with the Lord's armor.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 5 Fulfilling the Royal Law of Love Message Date: 10/25/2009 Many Christians practice some love and some hatred, and live in a mixture which they have come to think is the norm. The tongue reveals this mixture, James 3:10. Hatred is an extreme opposite of Love. It is malicious, is often unjustified and causes darkness, unhappiness, offences, and stirs up and drives away others. God's love is from above and is pure, peaceable, gentle, merciful. It produces high quality character that generates the grace of God, without partiality, not wavering, without hypocrisy, and has no double standard. Peace reigns. We must decide what environment and what identity we wish to live in and have. James 2:8 says we are to live fulfilling the royal law of love. So, it should/must be our decision to have no mixture. * Owe no many anything but love -- Romans 13:8 * Love enough to correct -- Hebrews 12:5 * Love overwhelms the sins of others, but hatred stirs up strife -- Proverbs 10:12 * Live by the life of the Loving One in us. For us to live is Christ, Phil. 1:21 * Desire to create an identity and atmosphere of love.
	Message Title - A Second Wind - Part 4 Knowing God And His Love Message Date: 10/18/2009 While we might have a traditional understanding of God's love through His healing, providing, protecting, and answering of prayers, there is a longing to know the Father more, and to receive and understand His love more. Knowing God's love is not just getting your way and getting things that you ask Him for. It is not just goose bumps and excitement. It can include those, but there is more to the God kind of love and knowing Him. This love has "another" as its objective. We learn and know God's manifest presence by practicing His love towards others. In doing so, all become givers, and all become receivers. God is always present, but manifests Himself in, by and through love (agape love). As our hunger to know God and His love more is satisfied, we become vessels of that love to those around us and in the world.
	Message Title - God Sending His Word Message Date: 9/6/2009 Psalm 107:19-20 (NIV) - "Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. He sent forth His word and healed them...." Summary: God is speaking in response to our prayers for revival (Psalm 107:20). We cry out, and God hears our prayers. He sends His Word to heal and deliver. We must learn to listen in order to hear and receive. And, of course, we must learn to obey what He says.
	Message Title - The Course of This World - Part 2 Message Date: 7/19/2009 Summary: This is the second part of last week's message.
	Message Title - The Course of This World - Part 1 The Course of the Kingdom Message Date: 7/12/2009 Summary: There is a truth about the course of this world. It has a path of destruction to it. The course of the world is like a raging river that takes everything caught up in it and sweeps it along. As an illustration, when I was a child I used to spend time at the local river banks. There was a kid there fishing and his line got caught in some reeds. He proceeded to pull up his pant legs to go into the river to free it. We warned him that there were leeches in the river but he paid us no attention. Well, sure enough, when he came out of the river he had leeches stuck to his legs. Leeches that such your blood. That's what happens when you get into the course of the river of this world. Nobody can get into it without getting contaminated through its disobedience, self satisfaction (of the flesh/mind), unbelief, etc. The world can look good and might be doing some "good", but at its root is contamination of various sorts. In this teaching we look at the course of this world and the course of the Kingdom. Part 2 will be covered next week.
	Message Title - The Rising of One Stepping Into Corporate Anointing Message Date: 7/5/2009 Summary: As the Father, Holy Spirit and Jesus were committed to each other, we are to be equally committed to the Lord and to one another as in seeking first the Kingdom of God. The rich, precious, right anointing of Holy Spirit (Psalm 133:2) on the head of Aaron is a picture of us as the one body functioning in our ministry to God on behalf of men and on behalf of God to men.
	Message Title - The Power of the Word "IN" Christ IN Me Coming & Abiding (The Grace For Both Comes From Christ) Message Date: 6/7/2009 Summary: This is the third part of the message about the power of the word IN, and the important truths that as Christians we are IN Christ and that Christ is IN us. The Holy Spirit may give us power, but the end of the whole thing is not to have power, but power for life. We can get so caught up in the excitement of people and activities (and even sometimes ministry) and end up getting off course. This happens because we never learned how to abide. Grace enables us. The same grace that called us enables us once we respond and abide in Him. Our call is to come to Him and stay/abide with Him.
	Message Title - The Power of the Word "IN" IN Christ and Christ IN Us - Part 2 (Salvation Is A Person) Message Date: 5/24/2009 Summary: This is the second part of the message about the power of the word IN, and the important truths that as Christians we are IN Christ and that Christ is IN us. Do you know that the devil is not threatened by our knowledge of the Scriptures? Rather, he IS threatened by the character of Christ being formed within us. There can be a lessening of our expectations of what it is to live as a real Christian, because we're doing so much in our own power and think that we're calling upon the Holy Spirit for a little help when in reality He is just along for the ride. And He is not going to step into action until we finally say "that's it, I'm done", and then He can and act in our lives. Because we are IN Him, we are saved. Our salvation is in Christ Jesus. When He died, we died. When He rose, we rose. When He stood before the Father (Eph 1:6), we were blessed in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. When the Father looks at you and I He looks at Christ and we are counted clean, pure, justified, and blessed in all of the promises of God. And so there we are IN Christ receiving everything. And while it is true that because we are IN Him we are saved, because He is IN us we are being saved. There is an exact ultimate application to our lives that eternity is ours with God because of the work of Christ and our faith in Him and that we are IN Him. But day to day salvation occurs because He is IN us. The overcoming of our lives occurs through Christ IN us, by Christ IN us, and by no other means.
	Message Title - The Power of the Word "IN" IN Christ and Christ IN Us Message Date: 5/17/2009 Summary: We have previously looked at the power of the word OF. Now we look at the power of the word IN. This word is used in connection with two of the most important realities of our life as Christians. The first is that we are IN Christ and the second is that Christ is IN us. When we come to realize the immense significance of these truths and then put them into practice, our lives will change beyond anything we have ever experienced. In order for this to happen we do need a change in our paradigm of how we think as Christians, which affects our behavior. It is repentance at the core of our faith. It will place our faith on the indwelling Christ, and not ourselves, and our energy to function as Christians.
	Message Title - The Power of a Resurrected Life - Part 3 Forgiveness of Sins on Earth--Our Ministry Message Date: 5/3/2009 Summary: Within a short time before Jesus was to leave this earth, He appeared to His disciples and symbolically blew on them the Holy Spirit. he then commissioned them to the same ministry He had. He said as the Father has sent Me so send I you, told them to receive the Holy Spirit, and then declared that whosoever sins they would remit (forgive) they would be forgiven, and whosoever sins they retained (didn't forgive) would not be forgiven. In this teaching we look at the categories of sin, the character in Christ that made Him so compassionate in forgiveness, and then 4 illustrations of Him forgiving. All of this provides us with examples of how we are to function in forgiveness as a ministry to the church and to the lost. It is truly an "everybody" ministry.
	Message Title - Resurrection Sunday (Principle of Death and Life) Message Date: 4/12/2009 Summary: The concept of resurrection existed before there was a human death. God placed it in creation first as a sign of what He would do with Jesus and then mankind. Throughout the Bible evidence of resurrection exists. It exists in the three major feasts of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles, and then in the raising of the dead in both old and new dispensations. Jesus taught of the corn of wheat dying to bring life, of the need to take up our crosses and die, and of the kingdom as a seed sown that dies and brings forth fruit, some 30, 60, and 100 fold. Both Satan and God use death as a primary weapon either of destruction or of life. The one holds men in bondage to sin, sickness and fear of death, and the other to freedom from sin, sickness and self.
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