Hope and Hopelessness in the Revival Generation: Part V

Revival

It is a historical fact.
It is the word that we have made for a phenomenon that has happened in the past.

The problem is that the fruit cannot be grown without the root. Revival is not what God does. It is the natural result of what God does. It is the fulfillment of God's working out of the prayer "Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven" God does not directly cause revival, by Himself. Revival is what God's people accomplish when they come in line with God's heart by being filled with God's Spirit.


Revival cannot be acheived by pursuing Revival.
Revival is the word for all of the things that inevitably happen when God's people come into deep, deep, deep intimacy with Him.

Inevitable.


Revival is:
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me...

...And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."

John 17:22-26

When Jesus prays something, it isn't a suggestion or a request. He is coming in line with the purposes of the Father. It will be accomplished. It is His heart's desire.

Revival is not the goal. Revival Generation is not the identity.

The goal is receiving the Father, loving us (each of us, as a part of the body of Christ) with the exact same love with which He loves the Son.

The goal is receiving the Son, loving us (each of us, as a part of the bride of Christ) with the exact same love with which He loves the Father.

The goal is receiving the Holy Spirit, loving us (each of us, as part of the inheritance of God) with the exact same Glory that He loves Jesus.


The identity is:
His, fully, forever, world without end. Amen and Amen