Revival Week

It has been a long and intense week! I feel like I have been trying to take a drink out of the fire hydrant. I need to get alone for an entire month and reflect upon all that I've heard this week. It has been such a refreshing time and God has broken me so much more for the need of revival in our churches and our nation! While dealing with myself and things the Lord was showing me in my own life, I was also being burdened greater and greater for our church and our city.

The speakers that we were blessed to have this week were Michael Catt, Dave Butts, and Kyle Martin. They were definitely ordained by God to be here this week. If not for the whole of Life Action, then definitely for me. The focus of Revival Week is to give us, as Life Action staff, a time to be fed and poured into so that God can bring revival to our own hearts. Let's face it, if we, as Life Action, don't allow God to revive ourselves first, then how can we ask God to revive the churches we're going to and the nation as a whole?

As I stated above, God has really started burdening me heavily for our church. God is never going to use us and we are never going to be effective for the Kingdom if we don't start allowing Him to break us! We have fallen into apathy and complacency. We are completely comfortable and we're okay with that. My prayer is that God would disturb us out of this sad state we are in as a church! Lord, disturb us! You have not called us to a life of comfortableness!

In our apathy, we have closed our ears and hearts to His voice. No wonder God wont move in our church! Because we wont listen to Him! We call ourselves a praying church but we are in desperate need of prayer. We are a mission-minded church in need of a touch from God. We have absolutely packed our schedule with THINGS. They may be good things. But have we packed our schedule with too many events throughout the year that we aren't allowing God to move? Are we saying, as a church, "We just don't have time for prayer?" God could make it to where all we have is time.

I love all of you guys! This week has truly challenged me and broken my heart for the need of revival in our nation! We have to start asking ourselves these questions as a church if we want Him to move in us! If we truly want to see revival in our nation, are we willing to be broken by Him? Is He not worth it?! Please church! Seek HIs face for how He wants to move in us as Candies Creek. I pray that these questions that He has given me for our church prompt other questions in your own life. He wants to see us as a desperate people in need of Him. Only when we get to that point will He send an outpouring of His Holy Spirit and bring revival to His people!

With love,
Reid