Sermon Sundays

Today's sermon was titled The Hour of Maximum Peril and was taken from Psalm 85:1-13.

- Are the glory days of large church attendance and many salvations behind us?
- Pslam 85:6 - Revive us again
- A church in Bible history (sorry I did not catch the reference) brought in idolatry, immorality and God judged them.
- When we choose to go our own way God judges us.
- Revival is what happens on the inside that causes changes on the outside.
- You can put on a false front but if your heart isn't right it is just a sham.
- False revival - no doctrinal basis, no heart only emotional, too much emphasis on show and feelings .
- No one knows the day or the hour when Jesus is coming back. Are you prepared? It could be today. How are you living?
- Amos 4:12 Prepare to meet thy God.
- Nehemiah - fasting and praying confessed sin. He wanted to see Israel rebuilt to glory.
- John said in Revelation Laodicea needed nothing but it was wretched and poor.
- Look over the past year. We examined the gifts of the Spirit and how to use them yet there is a lack of help - who will step up to fill the gap?
- How are we exercising our gifts?
- We looked at sinning against the Spirit, sin in your life, sin in the church (body).
- (Pastor) sees the urgency of the hour and can't help but wonder how much time we have left.
- What do we do?
- Psalm 138:7 - Revive me.
- Need for personal revival. Are we content to let things proceed the way they are?
- If we want to see God move we need to seek personal revival. Lord revive me - do something in my heart.
- If your Spiritual gas tank is registering zero for empty 10 for full where would you set the gauge?
- There is room for improvement - room for revival
- Psalm 51
- Need for personal revival
- A Christian writer listed personal sins of commission and omission- worldly mindedness, envy, pride, slander, trifling with God, hypocrisy, robbing God, temper, hindering others of being used by God.
The list may not include what you know in your heart is withholding the revival of God. What is holding back revival this morning?
- Would you do like David did? Psalm 139.
- Do you want to see God move? Be sure, absolutely sure in your your sould that there is nothing between you and God.
- You say you want revival go straight to God and sincerely ask. ?You don't need anything special or anyone else.
- 2 Chr. 29
- Backslidden nation. Hezekiah opened the doors.
- The priests removed all garbage and cleansed the house of the Lord.
- National revival is doubtful because even churches don't care about it.
- God is not deceived and not to be mocked.
- You can't hide what is really on the inside no matter how good your outside shows.
- Need revival when iniquity abounds, when people rebel, when the presence of God is not revered.
- It is so subtle and so easy to backslide.
- How does God seal our hearts? How does He revive us?
- Psalm 80:7 - when we pray
- If my people will humble themselves, turn from sin and seek my face.
- Prayer begins revival. In Acts they are always praying about something.
- There is lip service to the notion that prayer produces results.
- When was the last time you were at prayer meeting?
- How will this revival happen?
- Participate corporately. In Acts we see they gathered corporately for prayer.
- Deal with sin.
- Individual accountability to God.
- We cannot expect blessing on our lives if we have sin in our lives. Let not iniquity have dominion.
- Psalm 138:7 Revive me.
- It is possible. Do not lose heart.
- Say Lord you have said You will revive me please do it, help me to take the necessary steps.
- Hab. Oh Lord revive Your work.
- Send a Revival.
- Send me Lord an great revival in my heart.

Happy Sunday!
Blessings,
Liisa