Notes of Faith October 26, 2024
If My People: I Will Hear and Answer
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
2 Chron 29:1-11
29 Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.
3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square on the east.
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5 Then he said to them, "Listen to me, O Levites. Consecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out from the holy place. 6 "For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have turned their backs. 7 "They have also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. 8 "Therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes. 9 "For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10 "Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us. 11 "My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before Him, to minister to Him, and to be His ministers and burn incense."
On September 16, 1859, a newspaper in Ballynahinch, Ireland, carried this article: “For the last two months the Lord’s work has been spreading in this place; hundreds…have passed through the gate of conversion. Prayer meetings…are conducted by the young and old…. Let a minister be seen passing anywhere…and going into a house and, in a few minutes, the reapers would be seen leaving the fields and thronging the house, such is their unquenchable thirst for the means of grace.”1
That’s what revival looks like. Young and old leading prayer meetings. People seeking the means of grace. Many being converted. Everyone hungry for the Word of God and the downpouring of the Holy Spirit.
That’s what the nations of the world need now! The formula is in 2 Chronicles 7:14. The people of God must humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways. Our Lord will hear, heal, and forgive! Let the revival begin in your heart today!
The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it.
Leonard Ravenhill
1. “First Presbyterian Ballynahinch (1859),” UK Wells, accessed June 28, 2024.
Every time we witness someone coming to faith we see a revival, a heart turning from darkness to light, from death to life! Think about what took place before this revival…prayer, many times lots of prayer for this person to humble themselves before God, to seek His face, to repent and find grace and forgiveness! Many may have testified to the truth of God, His Word, His mercy and love before the heart was broken by the Spirit of God. This is still taking place every day in the lives around us. Do we want to be a part of God’s saving grace? We must testify to the truth! Jesus is the only way of salvation! Share His sacrifice, love, and mercy with those that you love…family, friends and coworkers. Jesus even died for those that you do not love. Pray for them! If possible share the truth of Jesus with them. God will bring ALL that belong to Him to Himself. We have just been given the job to share the truth. He will give or not give the gift of salvation. Let us do the work heartily that each believer was given.
Matt 28:19-20
19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Pastor Dale