Revival: Rekindling Our Hearts and Communities for God

1) "Growing up in, not all, not growing up really in the sense of a young person, growing older, but growing up as a young Christian in churches, it was always impressed on me that revivals were the special time of the year where the church would bring in some special speaker, and everybody would invite the lost friends, and we would see, we would, everybody would get saved. And that was revival that I grew up with, this term revival. But really, revival is for the children of God. The revival of the sins to rekindle, what was once there." [00:01:20] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "And this is what I want to impress upon you if you're taking notes or using your bulletin as a sermon outline. The sermon title today is When Revival Is Needed. When Revival Is Needed. Of course, we would all agree after the last few weeks, of studying Israel and 1 Samuel, poor Israel needed a revival. They were hurting. They lost the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of the Lord. They lost their entire spiritual administration." [00:02:43] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "So the first aspect of revival, of course, that we find in the first two verses of chapter seven is the need for revival. We see when revival is needed and boy, does Israel need revival. Look with me here in verse number one in chapter number, seven, as we have our Bibles open today and look there, it says, then the men of Kirjoth and Jerom came and took the ark of the Lord. If you remember, they went to a place, the ark went to a place called Beth Shemesh last Sunday." [00:05:08] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "I wonder if you and I today, just thinking out loud as I was reading that, as children of God, have we ever benched the physical tokens of God and found ourselves lamenting the apparent absence of Christ? I mean, boy, those Israelites had it rough. They couldn't go into the Holy of Holies. They couldn't sacrifice right there in the Ark of the Covenant. They couldn't even dare touch it because they just remembered that literally tens of people, maybe hundreds, if not thousands, lost their lives by misplacing that." [00:12:50] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "Sometimes the need for revival Is not more preaching but better reading Not more powerful on the higher voice But a more heartfelt and deeper study Well Israel needed revival And I got to keep my word The second aspect here and I love this Old Samuel comes around The first time he's in the church He's in the picture now Finally after two chapters He's a little two chapters too late But he's finally here And he gives Israel what I would call The recipe for revival The recipe for revival Look with me here in verse number three Down in verse number six As Old Samuel talks to the Lord" [00:15:07] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "And so Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, maybe after the 20 years, maybe through the 20 years, however, that structures look like we're not for sure, but somewhere in that time, Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel saying, if you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Astros from among you and prepare your hearts for the Lord and serve him only. And he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines. So the children of Israel put away the Biles and the Astros and serve the Lord only." [00:17:30] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "lord to work in your life you need to put away the false gods that you have created in your life bible tells us in the new test in the new testament that the temple of the lord is no longer going to be a building but going to be the body of which christ has paid for in the spirit of christ that dwells inside of us and we become that new temple the temple that the spirit of god the spirit of christ now the holy spirit lives in and dwells in and works through and how you treat that temple and how you serve that temple is a great marker of how the presence and the work of the lord will work in your life" [00:21:55] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "You want to see revival in your life? I don't need to go out there and pay a preacher $3 ,000 to come over here. You want to see revival in your life? That's the recipe for revival. Save this church a few thousand dollars and let's see revival in the house of the Lord today. Following these things, the Lord God will hear us, answer us, and deliver us. And that's exactly what happened in verse number 9. When Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel and they did these things, the Lord answered Samuel." [00:24:10] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "It's always interesting to me, and I've happened to it more often than not. You'd think I'd get wiser, but oftentimes I don't. That sometimes the best days of my life come from spiritual victories I see on Sunday. And then by Monday, I'm just down and distraught. Usually. In preachers, they call that the Monday blues, but there's some truth to it. If you're not careful. You can see the Lord answer your prayers and think, man, this is great. I'm glad that we're back on fire for the Lord." [00:29:39] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10) "You see, when revival is needed, God will answer if we go before him with true repentance. And the sign of authentic repentance is not only the manner of how we approach God before he answers, but also much the same in how we treat God after he answers. Sometimes we can be just like a little kid and say, Mommy, I'm not going to do that no more. Daddy, I won't do that no more. If you just give me what I want, I won't do that no more. We get what we want, and then the next day we go back to doing what we promised we won't do no more." [00:32:33] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)