Our Country Desperately Needs Revival

OUR COUNTRY DESPERATELY NEEDS REVIVAL 4-19-08

What we need here in our Land today is a Heaven-sent Revival! Not something drummed up by Man, or some sort of program-generated revival, our nation is in dire need of a Revival straight from the throne-room of God. What most Churches call revival nowadays is from Sunday night _Wednesday.

Let me say that the lost world can not have revival because it is dead in trust passes and sins, something dead can not be made alive apart from being born again. Revival means to be re-vived, and dead things are not re-vived, but we that have been born again can be re-vived if we’ll do what Gods says here in His Word.

And God tells us how we can have revival in our text today in:

2ND Chron. 7:14 If my people,**{Israel} which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ^^~~~

It seems as though the whole world is on a none stop slide into hell, and I’m sorry to say that our nation has slipped so far from the things of God that it appears that there’s no turning back. God cannot bless a nation like ours has become as He would, if only the American people would turn back to Him, and give homage to Him as it did so honor Him many years ago.

If you’ll think about it, we that are parents, we don’t reward our children if their rebellious and neither will God bless His rebellious children, oh God don’t disown His children because their rebellious, but instead Chastens them. A person could change his or her name and even move to another country, but he’s still belongs to the same family, his Father is still the same.

Like the Prodigal son, God the Father is waiting with out stretched arms to have His wayward child back close to Him once again.

There’s no telling what God would do for any nation that would whole heartily follow Him. But instead our nation it seems has just about forgotten about God, not all, but a vast number of our nation.

God said in Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Have you ever seen such wickedness that’s going on in our land today? There’s many places across the country that you had best not be caught at after dark, fearful of what will happen, perilous times are here there’s no doubt about it.

Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. It seems as though God is slowly but surely removing His Hand from our country. And let me say right here, that if we ever elect government officials that don’t want to stand with Gods chosen people Israel, we’re on our way to certain destruction, I believe the only reason God has blessed our nation the way He has in the passed is because of our stand with Israel. Listen, Israel don’t necessarily need us, but we surely need Israel.

Gen.12: 2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:

Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;

Today we have become a nation of many gods, there are people now in this country whose god is “alla”, and some even praying to Mary, talking to dead saints thinking that they can help them, And many other self-made gods, how can God bless this nation?

Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. And I want us to be sure and realize that that is not a request, it’s a command.

A real revival is not built on emotions and sentimental thoughts of yesteryear. It is not eyes full of tears. The flesh can do that. It is not shouting. The flesh can do that, too. It is not large ------crowds. A circus can attract crowds. It is not even folks getting saved. God graciously saves by grace, even when churches are not in a state of revival. The word “revival” literally means to “revive to life again”. It is God’s people coming alive again to their responsibilities toward God. It is returning to a life of obedience to the things of God.

I want us to look at our text verse again: 2ND Chron. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.