A Word from THE WORD
Good Morning Happy Church,
Today is Wednesday, March 2nd 2016. Today is the 62nd Day of 2016.
There are only 304 days left in this year; and, there are only 39 Days Left until Our Spring Revival Begins!
We will begin the Revival Meetings on Saturday, April 9th with a Banquet and Sermon at 6pm.
Sunday, April 10th, we will hear Bro Bobby at 10am and again at 6pm.
Monday and Tuesday, April 11th and 12, we will hear Bro Bobby at 7pm each night!
Please clear your schedule to attend as many of these meetings as possible.
As I often say, “The two things you have to invest to be blessed are your Attendance and your Attention!”
Please be in prayer for Dr. Bobby and Sandra Boyles as they travel here and back.
Pray that God will pour out HIS SPIRIT on us as never before!
Pray for the salvation of the lost; repentance and renewal in the life of God’s people; new people to become part of our Church Family; the calling out of ministers and missionaries; a spiritual awakening in our area; and, for Jesus Christ to be glorified in all that we do!
Some time ago, the Men’s Bible Class did an extended study of Psalm 1. I heard lots of great things about that study, so, I want to use this passage for a few devotional ideas about revival in general; and, our upcoming revival meetings in particular!
Psalm 1:1-6
1 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”
The Second Lesson from this Psalm is, Revival is Based on Obeying the Word of God!
First, an authentic spiritual revival will produce a “delight” in “the Law of the LORD” (the Bible) in the person who is revived.
I know that anything we do day in and day out; day after day; everyday; can – and sometimes does – become more of a burden than a blessing. I know because I fight this myself!
BUT, spiritual renewal will renew the freshness of God’s Word to us and reading and studying it will become a blessing again!
Second, we are to meditate on the Word of God! I have shared this before; but, it is too cute to pass over…
The Hebrew word translated “meditate” is the word for an animal chewing the cud.
The same way that a cow, for example, will eat, chew, swallow, regurgitate, and then chew its food again is used by the LORD to show how HIS people ought to think about HIS Word.
We ought to take it in; think about it; bring it back to mind; and, think it about again, and again, and again!
Meditate. Not mindlessly emptying the mind and humming… but, filling our mind with God’s Word and thinking about how to apply it to our life again and again and again.
This is another clear picture of revival.
One who does not read, memorize, think about; then re-think about the Word begins to do just that – and, then – Revival!
I have said much over these past weeks about the relationship of the Word to our being renewed in our spirit; and, I have done so over and over because the Bible makes this connection over and over.
Blessed is the person who delights in God’s Word!
Blessed is the person who meditates on God’s Word!
Revival CAN happen, it really CAN happen!
Will we really have revival?
We will soon see!
Carpe Diem!
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