Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Catch & Release!

What a blessing it is to see people actively seek God’s face! I am not speaking of those who experience an anointing, or a healing, but of those who intentionally seek the presence of the Almighty. I am not the one God has put in charge of determining the success of a revival: the effectiveness of preaching or documentation of healing, but one measure would surely be the desire of people to enter into the presence of God. Over the past months we have been praying for God to move and in order for that to occur God requires that we seek him. Well, God has answered prayers (again) in a mighty way. The numbers of people who have attended services and those who have come forward during the services have blessed me. I have no doubts that God will honor our obedience by using us to help change the lives of others by the power of Jesus Christ. However, now it is again up to us. In order for this revival to grow, or merely continue, we must move out of the comfort of the building we call the church and into the community. Only then can the Spirit we have caught be experienced by others. As Richard shared with us early on; we have not been saved to sit on our blessed assurance! It would seem to me that God has mightily moved these past days at Sesser; now it’s time for us to do the same.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen!

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU for those first 2 sentences!! I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm assuming one can 'intentionally seek the resence of the Almighty' without experiencing an annointing or healing--just depending on where one is one their journey with God. Would that be a correct assumption?

Pastor Harold "Bumper" Quick said...

ABSOLUTELY!!!!