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Posturing for Revival

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Posturing for Revival

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Acts 2:1-4, 14-21 TPT “On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. 2 Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of wind rushing into the house from out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear! 3 Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfed each one of them. 4 They were all filled and equipped with the Holy Spirit and were inspired to speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! 

14 Peter stood up with the eleven apostles and shouted to the crowd. “Listen carefully, my fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem. You need to clearly understand what’s happening here. 15 These people are not drunk like you think they are, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says: 17 ‘This is what I will do in the last days—I will pour out my Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God. 18 The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy. 19 I will reveal startling signs and wonders in the sky above and mighty miracles on the earth below. Blood and fire and pillars of clouds will appear. 20 For the sun will be turned dark and the moon blood-red before that great and awesome appearance of the day of the Lord. 21 But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”

The last couple of weeks we have been talking about posture and how just like correct or incorrect posture can affect your natural body, the same is true in the things of the Spirit. Last week we talked about posturing ourselves in response to a prophetic word. Last week we went over a few of the prophetic words The Lord has given us as a body. (You can review those by looking at the notes connected to the podcast on iTunes or on our site)

June 10, 2020 “I hear the rumbling of an underground movement of believers not swayed or influenced by the lies propagated by those who seek to control and dominate, but chose to walk in the live and power of The Spirit if God! Focused on demonstrating and manifesting the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, proving His Will in every situation! 

I hear the rumbling of an underground movement of believers who refuse to bow their knee to public opinion, political pressure, or sacrifice their convictions and what they know to be true on the alter of complacently! 

I hear the rumble of an underground revival ready to explode forth as yearning for His presence intensifies and the fire of His holiness burns within us bringing the remnant to a boiling point causing an explosive eruption of The Glory of God!” 

July 20, 2020 “God is raising up a people who have been placed in a position of sonship. Their posture before Him will be one of expectation. 

Their posture before the world (meaning unbelievers) will be one of love, compassion and empathy. 

Their posture in the spirit will be one of absolute victory taking territory with no thought for selfish promotion but only Kingdom promotion. 

They will be compassionate with people, but violent with the spirits driving people!” 

Posture: 1. The position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting.

2. A particular way of dealing with or considering something; an approach or attitude.

As I closed last week I said, “I believe The Lord is realigning us with His original intent. He is posturing us to walk in the fullness of what Jesus has done! Its a finished work! Revival is not coming, revival has come! Revival is within each one of us.

  • In order for us to receive something correctly we must perceive it correctly!  
  • Our posture, way of dealing with or considering revival; our approach or attitude toward revival may be THE determining factor if we experience revival or not! 

    • Revival is not coming… Revival has already come! 

    • We are still living in the outpouring of the day of pentecost! 
    • Revival is not locked up in the heavens waiting for enough desperate cries and persistent prayers to pull it down. This sounds spiritual, but is theologically and fundamentally incorrect.
    • The truth is the church is not waiting on revival, revival is waiting on the Church! Revival is waiting for an intercessory voice who says, “Amen” to every promise that God has already said YES too!
    • Revival waits waits for the one who stops praying, “Lord, rend the Heavens,” and instead, starts praying and living as though He already has on the Day of Pentecost!
    • Revival waits for people whose hunger is greater than their history! 
    • Revival is here! Revival is now! Revival is in ME! (say that with me)
    • We are not seeing the manifestation or outpouring as we say we desire because we are asking God to do something He has already done! 
    • It’s not about asking God to send down more of the Holy Spirit; Its about posturing ourselves in such a way that the Spirit of God is granted permission to be released through us in a greater demonstration. 
    • It’s not about more of God coming down from Heaven; it’s about more of God coming out of His people and being visibly manifested in the earth!
    • We must awaken to this truth: The rain of revival has already been poured out to us so that we can cry out for an even greater demonstration of God’s power and Presence to be poured out through us.

      • What is true revival?.

      • Revival is not… an event or extended services. 
      • Revival is not… an event or extended services. 
      • Revival, at its very core, is the dynamic demonstration of New Testament Christianity. Without hype. Without pollution. Without compromise. 
        • Jesus Christ being unveiled and revealed in His people, through the power of the Holy Spirit. 
        • Revival involves a divine visitation of God’s manifest Presence that produces a sustained habitation of His glory, both within and upon His people. 
        • Revival confronts old wineskins, obsolete traditions, and outdated methods. 
        • Revival is normal, supernatural Christianity in action and demonstration. Every Christ-follower walking in the fullness of the Holy Spirit’s power. 
        • Revival involves entire households, cities and regions being shaken by an overwhelming awareness of the manifest Presence of God. 
        • Revival is not God’s perfect will for His people; it’s the divine remedy to bring His people back to Heaven’s perfect will. A Kingdom people operating in power and purity! 
          • The goal is not to have permanent revival but to live permanently revived!
          • Revival opens eyes to the supreme, limitless reality of “Your Kingdom come…on earth as it is in Heaven,”. 
            • Jesus did not build comfortable perimeters or restrictive boundaries around The Lord’s Prayer. 
            • Revival reminds Christ-followers of the keys of Kingdom authority that they already carry—to bind what has been already bound in Heaven and release what has already been released in Heaven.

              • From crisis to revival  

                • Ofter crisis is a catalyst of revival. 
                  • We are experiencing a crisis. The crisis I am describing is that gaping divide that  exist between visible reality and Scriptural reality, what we are presently seeing and what is biblically available.
                  • We can never allow the visible reality to become our definition of Christianity when the visible reality is in opposition to the biblical reality. This produces status quo Christians at best; immoral and carnal Christians at worst.
                  • The key to positioning yourself for an encounter with God and manifesting His Kingdom is being open to what the Holy Spirit is saying and doing. Allow Him to move in your heart without restraint.

                    • Ask for rain!   

                      • Ofter crisis is a catalyst of revival. 
                        • We don’t need more God out of Heaven; we need more God out of us, the church. We need to see the outworking, the demonstration and the manifestation of what every believer carries—the power of the resurrected Christ.
                        • Zechariah 10:1 “Ask the Lord for rain in the time of the latter rain.”
                        • What is the appropriate respond to the rain of outpouring? Ask for more. When you cease pressing in to experience more of God, the very thing we labeled as “revival” in a former season can become religion in the next.
                        • It’s the hunger for further exploration of God that keeps people postured to experience the increase of revival. 
                        • More often than not, revival is the byproduct of a man or woman who becomes discontent living in a previous level of “glory” with God.
                        • The only thing God will do with an individual or community who truly desires to experience Him in a greater, deeper way, is increase the manifestation of His Presence.
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