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KINGDOM REVIVAL 2022

I delivered my second message, “Revival – A Call To Action,” at Corpus Christi Christian Fellowship almost two weeks ago (Jan 12, 2022,) the first one being Oct 16, 2019. The central theme of my mantra between those two messages has been one of revival.  God placed that word on my heart in November of 2019, for the year 2020. I thus began talking about revival before the outbreak of the pandemic. Throughout all of 2020, I posted “mini-blogs” on FaceBook, most of them around revival. Following are excerpts from some of those posts. The full posts are on this website. I invite you to visit (or revisit) them.

(1/7/20) God is moving and it is a time of revival, both personally and within the community of the body of Christ. I don’t plan on watching it grow. I will be a part of it. I pray that He gives me the strength and wisdom to move this forward. And surrounds this city, state, country and world with like-minded believers to spread the coming revival. It is time to shine the light of Christ!

(2/20/20 My desire is to light a fire and inspire a revival of the body of Christ, one body at a time, if necessary (starting with my own.) Are you with me?

(3/25/20 God didn’t unleash this virus, but He will turn what the enemy intended for harm into good for His purposes. Church buildings may be closed, but the Word continues to be delivered through the same medium many point to as evil – the Internet. God works on so many levels, at the same time. At some point, God will stop this virus. My prayer is that all those who turned to Him in prayer during this crisis, stay with Him in praise and thanksgiving after the crisis, and grow stronger in faith, and don’t become “Emergency” Christians, abandoning Him until the next crisis. May God water that seed planted in them and bring them closer to Him. Cause a revival to flourish across this planet!

(6/7/20) Scriptures abound exhorting Christians to be bold and to be the light. A revival is spreading throughout the land. We can no longer stand on the sidelines, as Saul did watching Stephen being stoned to death. And we do not need to wait for Christ to knock us down to get our attention. He has already done that through His Word, planted deep in us. Acts 4:29-31 tells us: “Now, Lord look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness, they may speak Your Word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Lord, use me to be your instrument of REVIVAL. May your light shine through me so that others can know of your great mercy and grace. Allow me to be a part of Your Solution now. I am all yours.

(11/11/20) We may have missed the boat, but that ship has yet to sail. It’s not too late to respond to God’s call for revival. He’s giving us every opportunity to begin our personal revival journey. Only after we begin our personal revival, can we then begin a revival for our community, the Church. But we must take that first step. MOVE!

I ended the year with a series titled Kingdom Revival, discussing  2 Chronicles 7:14:

                – Kingdom Revival #4 on Humility (11/19/20)

                – Kingdom Revival #5 on Prayer (12/2/20)

                – Kingdom Revival #6 on Seek My Face (12/12/20)

                – Kingdom Revival #7 on prayer and seeking (12/16/20)

                – Kingdom Revival #8 on repenting (12/18/20)

                – Kingdom Revival #9 on what God promised to do if we did the above (12/31/20)

Revival continued to be my word for 2021. I started the year off with a series on Kingdom Prayer for the Nation. #2 (2/8/21) talked about the Super Bowl commercial, which would send us to Kansas to pray for the healing of our nation. #3 through #7 talked about various things concerning prayers for the healing of our land, leading up to our trip to Lebanon, KS, in March of 2021. I posted Kingdom Prayer 7:14 Mar 13-21, the outline for the prayer we recited on the morning of March 13 (published on March 15, 2021.) I then published two posts about Kingdom Revival 2021 (#1 Surrender and Obey and #2 Call to Action.) Then I received a diagnosis of kidney cancer which led to surgery in Aug 2021 and my subsequent retirement following recovery.

During all this, I created this website, kingdomsurrender.com, in Feb 2020, launched it in Jun 2020, but did not advertise its existence until October 2020 after moving over relevant posts previously posted on FaceBook. I have been posting blogs on this site since then and sharing them on FaceBook.

This is a long way around to say the message I preached on Jan 12, 2022, has been on my heart for some time and that message has been consistent. God is calling us to a REVIVAL. As I said on June 7, 2020, “Lord, use me to be your instrument of REVIVAL. May your light shine through me so that others can know of your great mercy and grace. Allow me to be a part of Your Solution now. I am all yours.”

I encourage you to first get into Scriptures to see what God has to say about revival, to get an idea of the plan He has for you. To learn how to surrender All to Him. Jesus may be the public face of God, but we are carrying the Light of Christ and must walk like Christ and be credible witnesses. Be Blessed!