If there was ever a day when our families, country,
and world call for Revival…this is the day!
My grandsons are in college, but they call me every week to fill me in on their busy lives. This past week, as I am reading through Ezekiel, I asked them both to read Chapter 33 and be prepared to share with me next week. Ezekiel was a prophet, a priest, and a faithful servant of God who was sent to give God’s message to a wicked and rebellious nation,not unlike our own!
In Chapter 37, he speaks of his vision of a “valley of dry bones” and in verse 11 cries out,” Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off”! Spiritual deadness is a frightening position to be in and falling into the hands of an angry God is a dreadful thought. The absence of the fear of God reveals itself in our moment by moment life practice…
Are we dedicated to comfort and convenience,
claiming personal rights, doing our own thing
or are we dedicated to Calvary’s road
and a God that calls us into holiness!
Jesus says: Putting anything before me reveals spiritual deadness.
Our dedication determines how alive we are spiritually, or if we are a mass of “dry bones”. There is a quality of spiritual life that is rarely experienced among believers in the West because we are so busy…living in entitlements. The anger and rage seen all over America is the mark of entitlements!
Where are you living this moment?
Stephen Olford in Heart Cry wrote, “O that God would teach us that it is just as important to be spiritual, as to be sound in our approach to the Bible; just as vital to be obedient, as to be orthodox; and that the purpose of revelation is nothing less than transformation of human lives.”
Revival is the power of the Holy Spirit transforming God’s Word in our souls. While in Bible School a fellow student introduced me to a small paperback book, The Calvary Road by Roy Hession. Revival’s clear definition and seeing my need for personal application has been a constant reminder of God’s promise to set us free from sin and self…continually!
Revival does not begin with our nation or someone else.
It begins with me…and you.
Understanding our desperate need initiates the promise that “surely God will cause breath to enter into us and we shall live!” Christ did not come into this world to make bad men good…He came to make dead men live!
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
