2. Day 2 – Revival Starts With Me, My Household, My Family.
Heb 12:28
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.”
KEY THOUGHTS
Revival starts with the individual & the families in our society. It starts with me, my household and my family sphere.
Are we & our families “right with God”?
Scripture : 2 Sam 23:3-5
Last Words of David – A king & a leader to God’s Nation – A Father & Grandfather – The priest of His Household.
(3) The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘He who rules over men must be just, Ruling in the fear of God.
(4) And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Like the tender grass springing out of the earth, By clear shining after rain.’
(5) “Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?
Here we have a king who bears his heart about the state of His household. Trusting that God will secure them in a right relationship with Him and make their faith in God grow.
PERSONAL APPLICATION: Leading ourselves before we lead others
Let us consider afresh, where we are with the Lord. Where our families & loved ones are with God and where our next generation is heading in their relationship with God? How are we leading them?
We are encouraged through David’s example to continue in fervent prayer for our children & their children… the next generations.
REFORMATION APPLICATION: Ask the important questions
As a family unit & faith fellows we are also then commissioned to “GO” to the nations, doing our part in having a dynamic & powerful impact in the world out there for His kingdom to come & His purposes to be fulfilled.
It is time that the right questions are being asked again in society & for us to be actively part of God’s army that will bring about change, reformation and align people back to God’s ways.
The time is here to become bold in leading ourselves, our neighbors, fellow brothers & sisters & those we encounter on our pathways in much love & grace, to answer to the most important questions of their lives.
WHO DO YOU SERVE?
Jos 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
WHO DO YOU SAY JESUS IS?
Mat 16:16
(16) Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
WHICH REVELATION DO YOU BUILD YOUR LIFE UPON?
Mat 16:17-18
(17) Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
(18) And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
PRAYER:
Father, we humble ourselves in Your great presence and we ask that through Your Holy Spirit, You will secure us, our families and loved ones in the foundational truth of your Good News & Biblical Principles. By grace we desire to become part of a new move of God across this nation.
We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus, our Lord & Saviour.
Amen