We will focus these devotions on Revival & Reformation as we desperately long for the Gifts & the Fruit of the Holy Spirit to break forth into revival & the transformation of our personal lives, families, society & faith communities through Christ’s example, His authority & manifested demonstrative power.
1. DAY 1 – Revival & Reformation are interconnected to reveal His grace & power
KEY THOUGHTS
REVIVAL & REFORMATION are two concepts of our faith that should go hand in hand. It can not be separated from each other. Both interact together with the Gifts & the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.
THIS pertains to ‘How we get saved?’ & ‘How to live when saved?’
The 1st is the fundamental question that was asked by Martin Luther in 1517 & the latter is the question that should be asked now to bring about the next revival & transformation of society. (Tony Kim – ROAR Academy)
How can society be transformed in this late hour?
How should we live our lives?
These are QUESTIONS that we should seriously consider in the light of the current disarray that society finds itself in.
REVIVAL
It comes as our HEARTS are touched, moved towards repentance which leads to salvation.
REFORMATION
Greek: Diorthosis – to create a new system & a new order, to correct, making straight. It also means to choose to allow the Holy Spirit to re-align our lives with Biblical values.
This happens as we apply our MINDS to a reformational action, changing ourselves & the world around us.
Christians & unbelievers alike are tired of mere words.
We want to see the Gospel of Good News in action (Is40),
through the working of His power & might in the manifestation of signs, wonders, healings,
setting the captives free & the harvest to come in by the droves.
Let us consider the following Scriptures prayerfully & lift up our voices before our great King & loving Father in this moment.
That by His mercy, through the Spirit & by the POWER of GOD, we might live & have our being. To change the world around us in living out sound doctrine through love that flows into good works by faith through His mighty working power – for His name’s sake.
SCRIPTURES:
Hab 3:2
O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
1Co 2:4-5
(4) And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
(5) that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Heb 2:3-8
(4)[Besides this evidence] it was also established and plainly endorsed by God, Who showed His approval of it by signs and wonders and various miraculous manifestations of [His] power and by imparting the gifts of the Holy Spirit [to the believers] according to His own will. (1Co1:4-9)
PRAYER:
Abba Father,
we humble ourselves before you to see Your kingdom come & Your will be done on earth through the mighty working of Your Holy Spirit.
We believe and pray that You will perform Your word in bringing the believer to maturity in the full knowledge of Christ & the Father’s love, as we move towards sonship & taking ownership. (Col2:10)
We pray that the new wave of desperate outcries before Your throne of Grace will usher in REVIVAL & REFORMATION to change the atmosphere, climate & culture through good works by faith in personal lives & in our nations.
We pray this in Jesus Name.
Amen.
2. Day 2 – Revival Starts With Me, My Household, My Family.
KEY THOUGHTS
Revival starts with the individual & the families in our society.
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