A Needed Revival For Us All.

I selected the article below this week and allowed it to take-up most of the room in our newsletter because I thought it was that beneficial to us as church members and Christians. I am a firmly believer that we live in an era where Christians and churches are not living properly in the Lord. I think Brother DeMoss has really pinpointed the needs of Christians and churches of today. I believe we all need a revival, not a revival service but a real revival from the Lord. The word “revival” means - an improvement in the condition or strength of something. That “something” is our Christian hearts to better serve the Lord, the bible, and the church. I believe we could all use a good dose of chastisement from the Lord with much grace and mercy to change our hearts on His word, our love to each other as Christians, to our prayer life, and to our churches. Church is a seminary of biblical studies for believers to learn how to serve the Lord our God who saved us by His grace and mercy to honor Him in this world for as long as we live in it. Sometimes Christians grows weak and we are the last to know. Please take the time to read and study this list for improvements in your Christian life. Please study it with an open, honest, and prayerful heart. Sometimes we fail to recognize our downside or where we are lacking, but today is a good day for a Christian REVIVAL. I will also be studding it for reviving some of my lacking in the Lord. Let us pray for one another and we spiritually exercise in the word of God to strengthen our spiritual understanding.         

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WE NEED REVIVAL:
By: N. L. DeMoss

. . . when we do not love Him as we once did.

. . . when earthly interests and occupations are more important to us than eternal ones.

. . . when we would rather watch TV and read secular books and magazines than read the Bible and pray.
. . . when church dinners are better attended than prayer meetings.
. . . when concerts draw bigger crowds than prayer meetings.

. . . when we have little or no desire for prayer.

. . . when we would rather make money than give money.

. . . when we put people into leadership positions in our churches who do not meet scriptural qualifications.

. . . when our Christianity is joyless and passionless.

. . . when we know truth in our heads that we are not practicing in our lives.

. . . when we make little effort to witness to the lost.

. . . when we have time for sports, recreation, and entertainment, but not for Bible study and prayer.

. . . when we do not tremble at the Word of God.

. . . when preaching lacks conviction, confrontation, and divine fire and anointing.

. . . when we seldom think thoughts of eternity.

. . . when God’s people are more concerned about their jobs and their careers, than about the Kingdom

      of Christ and the salvation of the lost.

. . . when God’s people get together with other believers and the conversation is primarily about the

      news, weather, and sports, rather than the Lord.

. . . when church services are predictable and "business as usual."

. . . when Christian husbands and wives are not praying together.

. . . when our marriages are co-existing rather than full of the love of Christ.

. . . when our children are growing up to adopt worldly values, secular philosophies, and ungodly lifestyles.

. . . when we are more concerned about our children’s education and their athletic activities than about

      the condition of their souls.

. . . when sin in the church is pushed under the carpet.

. . . when known sin is not dealt with through the biblical process of discipline and restoration.

. . . when we tolerate "little" sins of gossip, a critical spirit, and lack of love.

. . . when we will watch things on television and movies that are not holy.

. . . when our singing is half-hearted and our worship lifeless.

. . . when our prayers are empty words designed to impress others.

. . . when our prayers lack fervency.

. . . when our hearts are cold and our eyes are dry.

. . . when we aren’t seeing regular evidence of the supernatural power of God.

. . . when we have ceased to weep and mourn and grieve over our own sin and the sin of others.

. . . when we are content to live with explainable, ordinary Christianity and church services.

. . . when we are bored with worship.

. . . when people have to be entertained to be drawn to church.

. . . when our music and dress become patterned after the world.

. . . when we start fitting into and adapting to the world, rather than calling the world to adapt to God’s

      standards of holiness.

. . . when we don’t long for the company and fellowship of God’s people.

. . . when people have to be begged to give and to serve in the church.

. . . when our giving is measured and calculated, rather than extravagant and sacrificial.

. . . when we aren’t exercising faith and believing God for the impossible.

. . . when we are more concerned about what others think about us than what God thinks about us.

. . . when we are unmoved by the fact that 2.5 billion people in this world have never heard the
       name of Jesus
. . . when we are unmoved by the thought of neighbors, business associates, and acquaintances who are

      lost and without Christ.

. . . when we are making little or no difference in the secular world around us.

. . . when the fire has gone out in our hearts, our marriages, and the church.