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Why Revival Tarries byy Henry Blackaby
Why does revival tarry? Because God’s people are full of idolatry. We’re shaping God into the God we want Him to be, and if there was any mention of repentance, some dear soul will pray under her breath, "O God, I pray that if there is some lost soul here who needs to repent…" God is saying, "It’s you, sister. You need to repent." But God’s people are not facing the incredible need for us to repent.
And yet we cry out, "O Lord, bring revival!" God could say, "Why should I? There is nothing in you which matches what I require to come to My people in great presence."
And so revival tarries. The heart of God is broken that we have forsaken Him. We’ve run after everything under the sun except Him. We don’t pray like He told us to, so in that sense we have forsaken Him. We don’t trust Him. We trust our money and other things, but we don’t trust Him, so we have forsaken Him.
When you forsake the people of God, you forsake Him, because He said that how you respond to those He sends you, you are responding to Him. I always treat every child of God He brings across my life with joy and stewardship. I say, "Lord, You love him, and what You love I love. Don’t ever let me depart from You or I’ll depart from my brother." I can’t do that!
[b]Ezekiel 14:1-11
Ezekiel 14
1Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
3Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
4Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
5That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
6Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
7For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
8And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
9And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
11That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.