day 11 devotional- revival

day 11 in my fasting guide:

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Scripture: psalm 85:6 (NLT) Won't you revive us again, so your people can rejoice with you? Show us your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.

Personal reflection:
Revival is an awakening of our relationship with God that motivates us to place him first- first in our thoughts, first in our time, first in our activities, first in the way we spend our money. Out of love, we make him a priority in our lives. However, much of the American Church has become anesthetized to its need for revival, so distracted by the demands of 'doing' minitry that our ears are often tuned more to the voices of those around us than to the Spirit within us. Although our faith is in Jesus, we've grown complacent and cold toward the disciplinces required for a church to be alive in Christ, with a heart for the gospel and a love for a lost and dying world. Ask God to remove any obstacles that would hinder the Body of Christ from experiencing genuine revival and a renewed spirit of evangelism.

going forward I'm committed to ________

additional scripture support: psalms 19:12-14, 1 john 2:3-6, James 1:22-24, Matt 28:18-20, 2 Cor. 5:10, rom. 9:1-3, 1 john 4:1-3

praying through scripture:
psalm 139:23, 1 john 1:6, 8&9, Psalm 85:6, Psalm 67:2 (MSG)
Jesus, investigate your church, find out everything about it; cross-examine and test it to get a clear picture of what it's about. See for yourself if we have done anything wrong and then guide us along the road of eternal life. If we claim that we experience a shared life with you and continue to stumble around in the dark, we're obviously lying through our teeth- we're not living what we claim. If we claim that we're free of sin, we're only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is nonsense. On th eother hand, if we admit our sins- walk away from them- you won't let us down, you will be true and will forgive us and purge us of all wrongdoing. Help us make a fresh start- a resurection life. then your people will laugh and sing! Then the whole country will see how you work, all the godless nations will see how you save. Amen.

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I love that revival is the start of the second half of the fast. right in time when we need it most.

Whenever I get sad, I like to write down psalms onto paper- it's a cool form of worship/prayer that's really nice for down time. I encourage you, if this piece of Psalm 85 comforts you, to go back and read the whole thing.



going forward, i'm committed to looking towards God for revival, and not wordly things.