First Fruits Deliverance Ministry
Deliverance & Inner Healing
Be stirred by the Fire of
The Holy Spirit !
[A Revival] presupposes that the Church is sunk down in a backslidden state, and a revival consists in the return of the Church from her backslidings, and in the conversion of sinners.
1. A revival always includes conviction of sin on the part of the Church. Backslidden professors [of the faith] cannot wake up and begin right away in the ...service of God, without deep searchings of heart. The fountains of sin need to be broken up. In a true revival, Christians are always brought under such conviction; they see their sins in such a light that often they find it impossible to maintain a hope of their acceptance with God. It does not always go that extent, but there are always, in a genuine revival, deep convictions of sin, and often cases of abandoning all hope.
2. Backslidden Christians will be brought to repentance. A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God. Just as in the case of a converted sinner, the first step is a deep repentance, a breaking down of heart, a getting down into the dust before God, with deep humility, and a forsaking of sin.
3. Christians will have their faith renewed. While they are in a backslidden state they are blind to the state of sinners. Their hearts as hard as marble. The truths of the Bible appear as a dream. They admit it to be all true; their conscience and their judgment assent to it; but their faith does not see it standing out in bold relief, in all the burning realities of eternity. But when they enter into a revival, they no longer see “men as trees, walking,” but they see things in that strong light which will renew the love of God in their hearts.
4. A revival breaks the power of the world and of sin over Christians. It brings them to such vantage-ground that they get a fresh impulse towards heaven; they have a new foretaste of heaven, and new desires after union with God; thus the charm of the world is broken, and the power of sin overcome.
5. When the churches are thus awakened and reformed, the reformation and salvation of sinners will follow. . . The worst of human beings are softened and reclaimed, and made to appear as lovely specimens of the beauty of holiness.
Some thoughts on revival:
God is preparing His church for revival..His will for us is to be purifed, refined and stripped of our lower nature to where we become abandoned to Him 100%.. the Refiners fire will burn off the dross to prepare us..IF we say yes and yield to Him... and for those who want nothing to do with building intimacy and going through His Cleansing process to become vessels of gold and silver. Revival will still come....What will it take to bring the church of Jesus Christ to the place of believing and receiving what the Lord is about to do? During this mighty move of our Supernatural God, nothing or no one can keep it from coming. The question remains will we, the church the bride take the steps necessary that will bring the spiritual cleansing that is needed.
Our prayers should be... Lord as Your revivals came to Azuza St. and Wales, the revivalists prayed for the fire of God to fall. Where you turned the world upside down through simple people with your supernatural acts ... Lord I join my prayers together with the prayers of the revivalists of the past and present who have and still Cry out Lord Jesus " Send your fire and revival to a world that desperately needs you".
Army of God Awake and Arise to your calling, He is the master and He knows your part in His perfect plan.
Let Him prepare you for the Great Revival and to rise up to your full potential in Christ!
God's Fire
Everything of the enemy that has been kept hidden for ages and now as we look around it has now stepped out of secret in Boldness of it's darkness .....to make all that is ungodly acceptable and unfortunately it's spilled into and seared the concious of the church of Jesus Christ....The battle cry is being sounded God is calling to His church to Wake Up be filled with His unction and boldness to step out and step up the warfare against the enemy and step into what God's calling on our lives............No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him (1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV).
Friend To Friend
God always has important kingdom work for us to do. Paul tells us: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). We were not meant to be mere stagehands or decorative props, but leading ladies working together alongside our brothers and sisters to impact the world for Christ.
Every little girl needs to grow up knowing that she is valued, that she is made in the image of God. Every little girl needs to grow expectantly waiting for her God-given potential to be released. The women in the New Testament gave us a taste – a glimpse. Mary Magdalene is just one example. She did not lobby for a position of leadership. She did not argue for women’s rights. She was content with the lowest place on Jesus’ ministry team, doing whatever needed doing and giving financial support out of her own means. But Jesus had a different calling for Mary Magdalene – one she certainly did not choose or aspire to. He called her center stage and gave her a leading role to announce the most important news in human history. She was an apostle to the apostles, commissioned by Jesus himself.
In the Gospels, we see Jesus pause in the middle of his busy day for the bleeding woman, stop his teaching to lift the chin of the bent and bowed, walk miles to deliver one small child, and wait patiently in the hot noon sun for the broken Samaritan to arrive. What kind of God does that? A God who loves his daughters.
How did the women respond to Jesus calling them center stage
Mary of Nazareth stepped up to accept her calling.
Mary Magdalene signed up to join Jesus’ ministry team.
The woman with the chronic bleeding spoke up to tell of her miraculous healing.
The woman caught in adultery cleaned up to start anew.
The empty woman at the well filled up to evangelize an entire town.
The Syrophoenician mother was shored up for bold believing.
Mary of Bethany showed up in the classroom.
The woman with the alabaster jar opened up her heart to worship.
Martha was steamed up in the kitchen, but then moved up to the head of the class.
The woman with the crippled back walked up to receive her healing.
The widow gave it all up as an example of sacrificial giving.
These leading ladies’ stories show us that in God’s family, girls are important too. They are strong women of faith who were bolstered by Jesus to come out of the shadows and take their place among the world changers of their day. After Jesus’ ascension, both men and women waited in Jerusalem for the promised Holy Spirit. On the day of Pentecost as the Holy Spirit descended with a gusty wind and tongues of fire, Peter stood and explained to curious on lookers what was taking place.
“This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel,” he began.
In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Sprit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your young men will see visions,
You old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.”
Peter explained to the people what Jesus had been showing them all along. God’s grace, love, and power are extended to all people regardless of rank or race, gender or generation: sons and daughters, young and old, men and women. Paul would later pen: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). If God calls you center stage to accomplish His purpose for this generation, I pray that you will accept the role of a lifetime. And who knows, perhaps you are reading this devotion and being challenged to fulfill God’s purposes in your lifetime, “for such a time as this.”
Let’s Pray
Dear Lord, I’m ready to do whatever You tell me to do. Thank You for my New Testament sisters who were brave enough to step out of the shadows during a time when women were rarely seen or heard. Thank You for Jesus who called them forward and sent them out. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Now It’s Your Turn
In today’s devotion, I mentioned several women of the New Testament. Pick two of them. Use a concordance and look up where their stories appear in the gospels. Read their stories and ponder their bravery, ask God for His power to fulfill your destiny.
Is there something God has been nudging you to do, but you’ve been putting it off?
