Restoration

This devotional really spoke to me about the progress of where we are at. Many have opened to me about what God is doing in their own lives, and it is truly God who is moving, not man. It is within God's own timing that revival happens. 

A wise friend once told me this about revival "Its actually here already. We just need to change our mindset and know we are the revival we have been praying for, I feel when we believe that, that's the breakthrough..."

Lets make it happen. Speak the Truth and Live the Truth. Revival can only occur if Truth is it's foundation.
Love, 
Christina

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010

RESTORATION

The days of the Gentiles are almost over. God has given us plenty of warning
that the Spirit will not forever strive with the rebellious. But before this
generation comes under the retribution of almighty God, a great restoration is
prophesied.

“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent
among you" (Joel 2:25).

The psalmist David said the righteous shall "be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit...with leaves that do not
wither...and whatever he does shall prosper" (see Psalm 1:3). But that promise
is only to those who have totally separated themselves from the wicked, and who
refuse to walk in the way of sinners. It is only for those who are devoted
students of God's Word, meditating in it day and night.

"The ungodly are not so," said David (v. 4). They become weak and withered,
blown about by every wind and wave of doctrine. The compromisers are likened to
withered trees, diseased and corrupted with every conceivable kind of worm.

This is a picture of many professing Christians in God's house today. They
neglect their Bible reading; they become too preoccupied to pray and build
themselves up in the faith; they become cozy with the ungodly and take their
seat among the scornful.

An army of cankerworms has been eating away at the lives of multitudes of
backslidden Christians. Outwardly they appear as trees planted by the
water—but inwardly they are corrupted, weak, diseased. They no longer bear
fruit! They are drying up spiritually. The cankerworm did its destructive work
with the bark of the tree. So it is with sin—it is eating away deep within
those who have strayed from the presence of the Lord.

God has told us how he is going to bring about this great restoration. First,
he will pour out his Holy Spirit in such abundant ways, it will bring health
and strength back to all the trees in his forest. The worm of sin will begin to
lose its power as God's people get back to Bible reading. A powerful revelation
of the Lord's new covenant will make God's people as bold as lions.
Yes—believe it—a revival of spiritual strength and divine health is going
to be poured out from on high.


- David Wilkerson Today