Where is the Revival we have been waiting for?

[stmatthew]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

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.

Lets make sure that we stay in context when we use a scripture. The "New Thing" that God spoke of in the old testament was the New Covenant.