There's Something About Mary

Revival must begin with me… it must begin with you!

What then is the first key for humility? Well actually I think that there could be several answers to this question - but the first answer surely is knowing ourselves.

I mean what am I really like. I saw a great actor on the television he had won many awards but when I looked up his work on youtube it was foul and very very ungodly – what is needed?

Repentance it is turning back to Godly standards and Godly ways.

Solomon had just built the temple here is what he said

(Read 2 Chronicles 7:10-15

& Pray)

10On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

11Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house.

12Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

13When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

14if 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.

15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.

The Lord appears to Solomon and lets explore what he said.

If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves.

The first thing we need to do it seems to me is to humble ourselves which actually is recognising our true position before God.

How Other Men Of God Have Defined Humility:

“Humility is recognizing that God and others are responsible for the achievements in my life.” Bill Gothard

“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or irritated or sore or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is to go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret, and be at peace as in the deep sea of calmness when all around and above is trouble.” Andrew Murray (1828-1917)

“I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character the more easily we could reach them. I now find that God’s gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller but of stooping lower.” F. B. Meyer (1847-1929)

“I’ve never known a person whom I thought was truly filled with the Holy Spirit who went out and bragged about it or sought to draw attention to himself.” Billy Graham

“Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.” Jonathan Edwards