RevivalNow3

PART 3

Let�s look at John 10: 10 � 11. The first part of verse 10 reveals the devil�s mission statement � he comes solely to steal, to kill, and to destroy. However, in the second part of verse 10 we have Jesus� mission statement � He has come so that we may have life and have it more abundantly � a super-abundance, an excess, an overflow, a surplus, over and above, more than enough, profuse, extraordinary, more than sufficient LIFE! A never ending, continual, perpetual overflow of LIFE!

In verse 11 Jesus goes on to say, �I AM the Good Shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.� That is how we can have life. Jesus gave His life so that we could share in HIS LIFE! The life that we now enjoy is not the natural life that we had before we were born again � we now have a supernatural life, resurrection life. We died with Christ and have been raised again with Him to walk in newness of life � resurrection life!

Paul said, �I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.� � Galatians 2: 20

Our new life is not inferior to our past life - it is superior!
Often we try and �humble ourselves� in the wrong way. We think of �humbling ourselves under the mighty hand of God� as grovelling in the dirt with a �worm� mentality. But the person who is truly humble is the one who is completely submitted to God�s will for their life � the person who thankfully and gratefully accepts who they are in Christ with all the privileges, and who walks in the abundance of God�s provision every day!

Sometimes people think that if they declare who they are in Christ they will become proud � but when the Bible says to �humble ourselves under God�s mighty hand� it means you can come boldly into the presence of God just as a child runs to his father! We don�t need to come to God on our bellies � God is BIGGER than us, and He is always going to be bigger than us � we can�t outgrow God! Anyone who attempts this will discover the same as lucifer did � that God resists the proud! Some folks are so proud of being �humble� that they never receive anything from God, but �God...gives grace to the humble.� Where do we get this grace?

�Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need� � Hebrews 4: 16

We can never outgrow God � He will always be God and we never will, we will always be us! Very often in the Bible when you see people coming into the presence of God they fall on their faces. God is so awesome that falling down in His presence is a very natural reaction, but God doesn�t stand on their heads and rub their faces in the dirt just so that He can remind them of who He is � He says, �Get up!� or He lifts them up! Sometimes we thought that if we could just bury our faces in the carpet a bit deeper, then maybe, just maybe we could be acceptable to God. But God lifts us up - He says, �Get up � I want to pour My life into you, I want to bless you so that you can go into the world and be a blessing!�

It�s Revival NOW!

2 Chronicles 7: 15 says, �NOW My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.�

God said this at the dedication of Solomon�s Temple. But now, we no longer go to worship God in a temple building. According to 1 Corinthians 3: 9, 16 � 17 and 6: 19 � 20, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and so NOW God says, �My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.�

Jesus said, �Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive� � Matthew 21: 22.

He said, �Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened� � Luke 11: 9 � 10.

He said, �Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name I will do it� � John 14: 13 � 14.

He said, �Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you...ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full� � John 16: 23 � 24.