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Revival

Heard a sermon yesterday by Rev. Edmund Chan. He defines Revival as "responding to God's transforming presence" Revival is an act of God, Revival is God revealing His transforming presence to us. Our respond to God's transforming presence is crucial for a spiritual reformation. The result of our response to God's transforming presence will producemany things. Yet it is not the signs alone that tells us revival has taken place. It is the change of heart, the switch of allegiance that causes that the impact of that revival to last in our hearts.

Many a times what causes the frequent instability and inconsistencies in our walk with God? A heart not totally yielded and surrendered to God for transformation. We fear that our surrender to God will rob us of our pleasures... yet the greatest truth is when we surrender, we will experience the greatest joy. It's because of our lack of trust in a great God that causes us not daring to put both feet forward. If we have not yet experience the Joy of God, we have not surrendered. We run after substitutes day in day out to find that satisfaction but we will never be satisfied.

How i wish, we can just be transformed by just running to altar calls? Life will be easier for the disciple and the discipler. Sorry to say, it's not the case. Rules does not transform life, religion does not transform life, receiving His love will if we recipocrate appropriately.

We can herald the right doctrines about the Holy Spirit but if we have not yielded our lives entirely to Him, the teachings, the doctrines can't change us. Teaching that tongues is the initial evidence will bear little significance at all if Christ is not evidenced in our lives, our behaviour, our thoughts, our decisions, our relationships with others...

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