During a moving message on judgment coming to America, my pastor described a revival in one small local church where 53 people accepted the Lord and were baptized in a local river in one week. That revival took place over 60 years ago when certain people prayed and believed God for a move of His Spirit on their community.<\/p>\n
My pastor also expressed his own fervent desire to see a revival like that happen in our church before he dies. After the service I told him I believe that he will see it. But, as I said to him, I do not think it will happen until God shakes America to its core.<\/p>\n
I would be shocked if that chastisement of America did not happen within the decade. There are many ways judgment could come about, but come it will. But, along with that chastisement will come revival, for that will be its purpose.<\/p>\n
Most in America know about Jesus Christ and most call themselves Christians, but for many it is just some religion that they identify with. It is a cultural tradition. These are the ones that a chastisement will impact the most.<\/p>\n
When troubles come to America, people will get fearful and they will seek answers in their religion. In America that is mostly Christianity. People are soon going to find out that politicians do not have the answers for the problems coming to America. Then anyone offering them a message of hope will at least be listened to. When people in America start to listen to those that can give answers from God’s word, revival will come.<\/p>\n
I do not believe that this revival will come from organized church agendas or programs. If anything the efforts to make the church conform to this modern and postmodern world have hindered the work of the Spirit. People do not find salvation through human gimmicks. People coming to our churches will not be saved because we learned how to put on a classy production on Sunday. Salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit. When people hear the gospel, believe and receive, they are saved. If the Sunday church service is just a production without a message from God they soon get tired of the act and move on. Some in the gospel-light seeker churches are now finding that out.<\/p>\n
In spite of the best political and religious efforts in America chastisement is still coming, because only in the storms will some people in America seek God. The revival will be a work of God but Christian believers and churches need to be prepared to give reasonable answers for the hope we have in Christ. The revival will not just come from people deciding to go to church – although some will. It will mainly come because Christians are helping others during the storms. These Christians will also lead those they are helping to their local lighthouse where those shaken can get a ray of hope through one of God’s gifted teachers.<\/p>\n
Today many gifted godly teachers in America have half-empty small churches and those that do not give the gospel but have every social self-help program in the world have full cathedrals. I believe when God shakes this nation that will all change. People will go where they will hear the word of God.<\/p>\n
There are many people in America who claim to be Christians but never attend church and do not regularly fellowship with Christians. Just imagine if all of those people suddenly started attending churches regularly. I think in the shaking of the nation many of them will, and when they come they won’t be coming alone.<\/p>\n
I am not talking about Dominion Theology with some presumptive self-anointed leaders taking America for Christ by conjuring up spiritual forces against Satan. Nor, am I saying that the coming revival in America will be worldwide. Nor, am I saying that America will become a Christian nation or even survive as a major world power. What I am really saying is that I think God is about fed up with Americans that call themselves Christians but sit on the fence or even sit in the devils camp. I believe God is about to send a great chastisement on America. Those with ears to hear the message of salvation in the storm will receive eternal life.<\/p>\n
I think the great revival will come at a time when many people finally realize that there are no worldly or political answers for our problems from politicians on any wavelength of the political spectrum.\u00a0 This revival will not come because America moved back toward the Right – like some political movement will suddenly make everyone moral. That is getting the cart before the horse.<\/p>\n
I believe the great revival will come because during the trials some Americans will realize that we brought a curse on ourselves through our own sinful lifestyles. It is not just Christians that are going to need to change if America is to survive as a great nation. For America to remain a major world power those charming the vipers with their instruments of appeasement would have to cease and the snakes would have to craw back in their holes. Therefore, in spite of the revival that could save millions I am not so sure that America will survive in any, way shape or form that we know her today.<\/p>\n
Yes, I think a time is coming in America when all churches giving the true gospel of Jesus Christ will be filled with people. But, since this revival will be totally a work of the Holy Spirit, if your church does not preach salvation in Jesus alone, you will have no part in it.<\/p>\n
So pastors continue to preach the whole counsel of God and continue preaching those salvation sermons even if some in your organization or congregation are telling you that preaching such messages do not reach this generation. God does not change. In all generations He saves whom He wants to save, regardless of man’s new ideas on how to grow a church, and God still does most of His saving when people hear His voice in the midst of their storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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