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The Great Paradox of Revival by Jesse Raley

Revival is the free bestowal of God, yet it is costly and must be preceded by the sacrifice of His people. Dark pages of history and painful years or seasons of captivity, adversity, suffering and failure show up in scriptural stories of the revival of God’s people. One of the greatest examples is taken up in 1 Samuel, chapter 7. "And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve Him only: and He will deliver you...." (v. 3).

This is a most marvelous example of divine intervention and with the price to be paid for revival. It can be encouraging to us who almost despair of any sort of revival of things spiritual. It looks bad to us today, but read of their condition at that time. Things were at a perilously low ebb, dire adversity for years, beaten in battle by the Philistine enemy, now reduced to abject serfdom. Their lives were not their own.

"The worship of Jehovah had virtually ceased – declined even before the military catastrophe. Eli had allowed his profligate and greedy sons to usurp the sacred authority of the priesthood and to abuse it for their own iniquitous ends. The people had fallen into indifference if not into actual apostasy. Then came the Philistine invasion to administer a stunning blow to the external expression of religion in the regular ritual of worship….The ark of God, which had degenerated into a superstitious symbol was captured by the foe….the national shrine at Shiloh was devastated…. such was the condition of the nation on the eve of revival. The outlook could hardly have been less favorable."

It is in a midnight hour such as this, and in such a time as we face today that the Lord is about to bless His people. The House of Israel was lamenting after the Lord. It seems that "God is more prized when withdrawn." "At long last His chosen began to yearn for Him again. There was an aching void within that the world could never fill. The broken cisterns had failed as they always do. The people lamented after the Lord ‘as a child follows the father who had been forced to turn away in anger…and with sighs and tears entreats for reconciliation.’"

"Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in Thee? Show us Thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation" (Psa. 139:6-7).

from: http://revivalconferenceblog.com

The atmosphere here is very very very intense! The people I know personally who have ministeries in intercession are all commenting how intense the climate is here. You can "feel" it! I would encourage everyone who is coming to come hungry for the Lord Christ Jesus
Him self, come with great expectancy, I believe we'er about to see a move/manifestation of Jesus such as has not been experienced in over 100 years in this country!!

A word of encouragement to those that are coming, read it with your ears open toward heaven.

Isa 54:11 "O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.[2]
Isa 54:12 I will make your pinnacles of agate,[3] your gates of carbuncles,[4] and all your wall of precious stones.
Isa 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.
Isa 54:14 In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Isa 54:15 If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;
Isa 54:17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication[5] from me, declares the LORD."

Believe it! The Lord is going to set the captives free and give us grace to destroy all the works of the enemy in our lives and bring every thought captive unto the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ.