Coming Revival

Sitting in the rain in the Los Angeles Coliseum with 65,000 people we started to get a picture of Revival.  The Body of Christ coming together at Azusa Now to pray for revival, unite, and heal together across denominational lines, racial lines, socio-economic lines, and theological lines.  Holy Spirit began to speak to me about the importance of honoring and loving people who are radically different than myself.  He showed me that judgments, unforgiveness, offense, and fear kept us from valuing different dimensions of the Body of Christ and thus from drawing from the revelation of Jesus Christ that the group of people carry.  Like during the Azusa Street Revival in 1906 the color lines, the denominational lines, and many other lines were wiped away as people experienced wave after wave of the Presence of God.

Since judgments, unforgiveness, offense, and self-protective fears towards those who are different from us are not a creation of God, then by His Spirit we can partner with Him to see the walls come down.  During the Azusa Now there were Jewish believers and Gentile believers coming together, Black believers, Latino believers, Korean believers, Native American believers all reconciling, asking forgiveness, and serving one another.  Father's love flowing through different dimensions of the Body is so powerful to open our spiritual eyes to the depths, heights, lengths, and widths of His love "in Christ" (Ephesians 3:18).  In this passage the phrase "to comprehend with all the saints" reveals that there are dimensions of the love of Christ that we cannot experience if we are not in unity with other believers.  Yet when believers focus on unity, it seems that what comes up is all the divisions, strife's, and unforgivenss.  We need to focus on Christ because "in Him" we are already One, aligning our view with His means letting go of the judgments, divisions, and fears to see heaven manifest on earth.

The cross is the great equalizer, every person needs grace to come into wholeness.  Romans 3:23 tells us, "...all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."  Amazing that God announces through Paul in Colossians 1:27 that "...Christ in us the hope of glory."  Christ in us corporately is the hope of glory, yet in our rugged individualism, independence, and need to build our own kingdom (the American Dream) we have lost the experience of being a true community of interdependent believers.  In this coming Revival I believe there will be those who work to come together as One in Christ and there will be an increase in the anointing and power in these ministries.  Also, there will be those who tend to separate through criticism, judgment, legalism, control, and fear the anointing of the Spirit will not function over these ministries.

Father has done the work through Jesus Christ for us to be One with Him and One together.  We cannot accomplish by our self-effort what God has already purchased through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  We must receive through humility, dependence, trust, and grace just like how we receive all benefits from God under the New Covenant.

One in Christ,
Bret