Friday, February 24, 2023

Final Revival Thoughts

As great as it this outpouring of God's Holy Spirit at Asbury University and beyond, it is and will go largely unnoticed by the vast majoritiy of people.  It is not that it has not touched tens of thousauds of folks who were either present there, or became witnesses and believers through the sharing of social media, but that given the population in which God chose to work, only a minority know about it and were touched by it.  The majoritiy of the population of the country went about their business without ever knowing that something so life changing and powerful was stirrring just up the road from them.   

While we may have prayed that the fire of this Revival would spread to every campus, every church, and every community, God probably did not have this as a requirement for accomplishing what He wanted to accomplish through this divine moment.  He has always worked with a minority, a remnant to use a Biblical word, or a small group of people to do His work of changing the world.  A spiritual enterprise as big as "the ends of the earth"  was launched with twelve men, great moments of church reform and renewal have been set in motion by the vision of one man, and a few people praying in the unseen places of the world have been used to set in motion many revivals and seasons of renewal in the church.  

We pray for a crowd, God does not need a crowd.  He only needs one.  We pray for signs of this revival to spread into every corner of the world.  God only needs those who have been touched to faithfully go where He has planned for them to go.  What is true is this.  What God has set in motion has not eneded.  It is only beginning.  A great wave of newly spiritually transformed and energized people have been set loose upon the world and they will make a difference in the corners of the world where teachers are teaching, servants are serving, business people are working, and preachers are preaching.  The majority which has not heard is not beyond being touched by this great outpouring.  The Holy Spirit is on the way to them. 

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