Something to Revive

One of the biggest spiritual, religious topics engulfing our Christian movements today is that of revival. Of course, 11 Chronicles 7:14 is highlighted. It is the epicenter of biblical revival; but look a little bit deeper into God's Word. One person that does not get preached on significantly and is left out in our fervent pursuit of Christ is Holy Ghost. We are called and compelled by the Holy Ghost. We display humility like Christ through the Holy Spirit. We pray by the Holy Spirit. We quench the Holy Ghost with our sin; therefore, abstaining from sin would please him and produce His favor. Striving for revival without the help of the third part of the Holy, perfect Trinity is like trying to run a race with no legs. It is senseless and a foolish effort to even try without the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is introduced to us in the second verse of the Bible (the KJV that is) when God tells us that he "moved upon the face of the waters." The Holy Ghost was moving upon creation before it was even created! Let's then turn our attention to the New Testament. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Word of God (likened unto water in the Bible) Himself (John 1:1), lay in a borrowed tomb. The Spirit of God rushed into that cold, damp tomb, expelling every drop of darkness and breaking the very grip of death. It filled my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and fulfilled the promise that He had given! Talk about revival!!! The Son of Almighty Jehovah God stamped our victory in this, the first real "great awakening"! Then turn our attention to Ezekiel 37:4-5. The prophecy that Ezekiel speaks of was toward the children of Israel, God's chosen people. This prophecy indicates that a new breathe would come into the dead, dry bones, and they would rise up as a great army, functioning as a Spirit filled body again. The Spirit of God was and is that breathe that caused them to leave their graves in verse 12! In 1948, this prophecy was fulfilled as the dry bones of the non-existent nation of Israel came together to finally become a nation again! Do you want life? Do you want revival? Then we must have an extreme, fiery passion to be filled, changed and awakened by the Holy Ghost! However, a dead body can't have life it if clings to the disease that killed it! We must confess and forsake our sin of coldness, vain tradition, apathy and complacence! God is pulling back His Spirit more and more in these last days due to our dead rottenness. We can and will have revival if we get clean through the Blood and get filled of the Holy Ghost. Then we as Christians can act as an exceeding great army, a body of one, filled with the Holy Ghost. We need revival; therefore we need the Holy Ghost!