Hi Benjamin. Happy you have joined unto these Forums.
Have you been able to view the Conference on www.christian.tv ?
Unfortunately, I can't get audio/video, but wondered if you are able.
Benjamin, you must be Born-Again if you greeted with Calvary Greetings. That is GOOD.
Brother - "faith comes by hearing and hearing The Word of God".
"Without faith, it is impossible to please Him."
Col 2:6,7 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
You have received Christ Jesus The Lord by faith - so now you are to walk in Him by that same faith. It is His Faith that we have been given.
All that we have in Him is rooted and grounded by that faith.
Faith that He loves us. Faith that when we asked His forgiveness - He forgave. Faith that when we asked to be made His child - we were adopted by Him. That we are heirs and joint heirs with Him. That when we talk to Him, He hears us. That the work He began in us - He's promised to complete. Faith that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Faith that if we ask anything according to His Will, we shall receive it. Faith that if we ask to be transformed into His Image - that that IS His Will and He IS working in us as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Faith that He has set no limits on how much of HIM that we can have.
HE wants you to have that even more than you could ever want that.
HE wants to have an intimate fellowship with you and let you know that HE is Love - despite how ugly the world is around you.
HE is irresistable because of His Beauty. His Beauty is His Holiness.
That is what attracts us to Him. We desire that Nature of Christ - to be transformed into His Image, because of the beauty of His Holiness.
That is our hunger and thirst - after the righteousness of Christ.
We desire more of Him because we Love Him.
It's not difficult to want to talk to someone you love with such an intensity, that you can't bear to think of a day without them. That's how we're driven to Christ. We're driven by LOVE to seek Him with all of our hearts. We love Him so much that tears well up in our eyes because we see Him in His Beauty and all that He is overwhelms our heart with desire for Him and Him alone and all that we can have of Him and His Presence.
What else can Revival be - but to be brought into the very Presence of God and Christ?
That is available dear brother. By faith to those who do not want this world or anything for themselves but HIS GLORY. Alleluia.
When you love Him that much and say, "Whatever the cost to me or anything that's supposedly 'mine' LORD - I want my life to bring YOU Glory - even if what I do is never seen - except by YOU Dear GOD."
So, Faith comes by hearing His Word - so READ.
Desire comes when we die to everything but our desire for HIM.
Prayer is merely talking to HIM, no matter where you are or what you're doing.
I suppose - "counting the cost" is what sums it up too.
I know that is the Transforming power of GOD. His Word and His Presence. We're seated in Heavenly Places with Christ.
Read His Word and Believe Him. Write out Scriptures and ask Him to speak to you as you're reading and to protect your mind from self, etc..
He's promised so much of 'Himself' to us - we just don't "see" that. We're blinded by self, the world and the enemy. So read until you do see and pray while you're reading. With Thanksgiving. :-)
I pray His Joy for you as you realize all He's died to give us of Himself. Romans 8:28,29 are one sentence.
God Bless and Keep The Faith!
