Where is the Revival we have been waiting for?

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Sam

AMEN!!!!!

I received the HGB on May 20, 1956 at Bethel Tabernacle UPC in Racine, Wisconsin. I attended one year 1956/1957 at the Apostolic Bible Institute in St. Paul, MN. I attended a UPC church here in the Cincinnati area from 1957 until some time in the early nineteen sixties. Then I attended an ALJC church from that time until I left in 1978 or maybe 1979. During that time I was a licensed minister at different times with three different organizations --The Church of Jesus Christ; The Church of Jesus Christ Pentecostal Faith; and the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ. As we heard and read about people known as the Jesus People or the Jesus Freaks, and then later on folks called Charismatics we looked down our righteous noses at them. This couldn't be real. They didn't look like us. They didn't dress like us. They didn't baptize like us. They didn't believe like us. The didn't come to us to receive the Holy Ghost Baptism. We thought we had the exclusive franchise for God's Spirit. They went directly to God with hunger and thirst in their hearts, and, as He promised, He filled them. It took a while for this to soak through my hard head and my proud heart. God is pouring out His Spirit on ALL flesh, not just UPC, PAW, CoJC, ALJC, AMF, GIB flesh, but all flesh just like He said in His Word.

Good post! Me thinks that our hunger for revival has been out weighed by our hunger to see it our way. Our hunger for revival no matter the cost or even the look about it has faded to the point is almost nothing more than a cliche'. I read in the Bible that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. I also read that He changes not. Yet I also read that He does a new work. How can He be the same and yet do something new? Something new suggests doing something that has not been done before. I have come to believe that His makeup isone of changing and doing new things. If He is not a saviour and God that can or will do things new then He is then a liar. That is due to the fact He does a new work. I beleive that He is always doing something new. He is a God that changes things. To think that God will always do things like He has always done it IS NOT SCRIPTURAL. Infact what is scriptural is that HE WILL DO A NEW THING. Again I ask are we like the Jews when Jesus came? As they sat and waited for a Messiah and missed him are we sitting here waiting for a BIG revival to come? When God is known for doing a new thing are we trying to keep His ways in a box that we have built based on how He moved in the past? I think this movement is falling short here....and I love this movement.