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I received this this morning, thought it was timely and also feel like I wanted to join in again.
Also want to say I pray your rest of the week in Jesus is truly blessed and peaceful as we come
together with our families and that everyday is Jesus day and another day in Jesus. I praise
God, He has truly saved me and brought me out of a icky miry pit and that I am truly born again,
with the awesome, wonderful presence of His Holy Spirit abiding within my being. By
His blood, mercy and grace! God bless you , everyone!!!

To those that KNOW their God and HEAR His voice.. there is a
true Spiritual Revival going on. You won't see it on TV or hear it
on the radio or read about it in the newspapers. It is not being
publicized or even talked about in most "churches" but it is truly
happening in the hearts of individuals who are sold out.

Its just like the story Samson, near the end when his HAIR that
was SHORN, his perfect covering, his righteousness before God,
the source of his power and authority was completely cut off by
the woman he LOVED AND TRUSTED! (Yes. Her name was
Delilah and she's a type of this endtime APOSTATE supposedly
SPIRITUAL, counterfeit CHURCH). The motive of her heart was
never really to serve and love him but to find out the SECRET to
his power and strength and to CAPITALIZE on it so SHE could
buy a BIGGER HOUSE and live an ABUNDANT LIFE of
PROSPERITY and POPULARITY with THE PHILISTINES OF
THE WORLD as her friends and allies!

She feigned love and thus entered in to the SECRET of his
fellowship, but she betrayed him, like Aiken or Jezebel. Like
Uzza or Judas. Her TRUE motives were exposed and she
couldn't help seeking the GOLD and the SILVER instead of
the creator of Heaven and Earth! And for a moment it looked
like she'd won. No doubt she thought so. But in the darkness
of the prison, alone, reviled and persecuted, Samson's hair
began to grow back!!

The unsuspecting Philistines celebrating their "temporary"
VICTORY (and no doubt, Delilah with her newfound
PROSPERITY!) were OBLIVIOUS, caught up in their own
deception and totally unsuspecting when Samson revealed the
REAL power of Godliness and toppled their entire kingdom.
What he gave up in love was given back to him pressed down
shaken together and running over and his END was greater than
his beginning. Samson is indeed a pattern of Christ and the
Resurrection, but he also presents a very vivid picture of the
end time overcomers. Those who are willing to lay down their lives
and their "lifestyles" for the Kingdom of God! Those like Daniel
and his three Hebrew friends who KNEW THEIR GOD and who
against all odds refused to compromise or bow down to the
King, his "IMAGE" or the Kingdom of this world! No matter what
the apparent consequences. They each, like Abraham, believed
that it was GOD who gave them life and it was GOD alone who
could RAISE THEM BACK UP AGAIN! "Whoever seeks to
SAVE his life WILL LOSE IT! and Whoever LOSES his life for
my name's sake will FIND IT!"

The Bible is replete with examples of God moving OUTSIDE the
city or outside the church! Samson, whose life is a true prophetic
timeline for end time events, clearly reveals this. Notice when
He was with the "prostitute" he only stayed until the middle of
the night! Then he got up, in the midst of the darkness, took hold
of the door and the doorpost at the gateway to the city, a clear
type of Jesus (the door) hanging on the cross (the posts.) He
uprooted it and carried it away on his shoulders where he
RELOCATED IT ON a HIGH PLACE OUTSIDE the CITY!
Doesn't that seem like a pretty clear picture of someone's
"candlestick" being removed?

WE need to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and His
Righteousness! Wherever it takes us. Even if its to a high hill
OUTSIDE the hustling and bustling big city! We need to return
to the true GOSPEL, the Cross and the Blood of Jesus.
REPENT. BE BAPTIZED and RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT!!

The Prostitute in this story represents a people interested only
in a LEGALISTIC contractual agreement with God. What's in it
for me? What do I have to do to get MY REWARD or MY profit!
She's more interested in the BENEFITS than the BENEFACTOR!!
She's in it for The GIFTS and not for the GIVER! SHE wants the
"fruit of her labors" for herself, not as an offering to the Lord.

This is indeed a STERN warning to true Christian Believers.
WAKE UP or lose everything you thought you had! THIS IS
WHAT it TRULY MEANS WHEN IT SAYS.. "Give and it shall be
GIVEN BACK TO YOU!! Pressed down, shaken together and
running over.." That's NOT a prosperity message - its the
GOSPEL!! Train your eyes on JESUS and let go of all you are
holding onto.

Look at Jacob who in the end had to GIVE UP EVERYTHING
before he could face the angel of the Lord and receive his NEW
NAME. He first GAVE UP his flocks and herds. His servants
and his wives and children. EVERYTHING he'd gained under
the Blessing he'd received from his father, everything he'd
worked so long and hard to acquire while serving Laban. THEN
he approached God and laid down his life in order to obtain the
blessing! In the end not only did he receive the new name but
everything he gave up was restored to him as well as his LIFE
and his relationship with his older brother! Only by surrendering
his ALL and falling on the rock of humility before God and being
broken could he face his older brother (a TYPE OF JESUS at
the second coming and judgment). He received GRACE and
RESTORATION instead of judgment and the sure Death that
was DUE him for his sin against his brother years earlier!

This process is the eye of the needle! That small place we all
must enter in by. The STRAIGHT AND NARROW GATE which
FEW find.

-Steve Goodyear,

I believe this is the personal revival we should be seeking if we aren't walking in it already!

When you are out there seeking that which is lost with the power of the Holy Spirit and doing what He lays in front of you. You are revived all the time...... It keeps you going and it also keeps your eyes on Him, the author and the finisher of our faith... The Beginning and the End...

Blessings & Shalom,
debbi rennier

Debbi,

I believe even when we are out there doing the will of the Father, I speak for myself, even at times, I have had days where I have felt discouraged and discouragement.
Do I feel revived all the time? Honestly I can say , no!
I am reminded of Davids word in Psalms, and have even prayed them to the Lord.... these very words....

(Psalms 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.) also in Psalms 43:5)

Blessings~

Love that music Paul especially the message that goes with it.

That was Dumitru Duduman's experience as well. What I have learned (not by experience... sadly...) is that when discouragement comes, that is the time to ask the Father for strength to continue on. He will show up and revive you in the time of need.

Thanks paul, that made me smile, and wet me eyes at the same time.

And understand something too

Yes, I get discouraged at times, but I do not need to go around all the time praying Lord revive me... When His Holy Spirit lives in us we are revived....

Hada expericnce once have doing outreaches in the area where I live for about 4 years seen no fruit I [u]could see. Well was ready to givve up when I talked the Lord and told Him how I felt. Well, that outreach a lady was down on her kness crying out to the Lord. Found out she has been coming to these outreach for about 3 years with her family.. I now see the Lord working when we do not see...... Stay revived keep your cup full..... and your lamp full of oil at all times..

Blessings & Sahlom,
debbi rennier[/u]

I felt led to search for the words revive and revived in the bible and here is where it showed up and what the verses speak of concerning ...Great verses:)

Revive-
Neh4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Ps85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Ps138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Isa57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Hos6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Hos14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Hab3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

The word Revived-
Gen45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
Jg15:19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
1Ki17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
2Ki13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Rom7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.


Main Entry: re·vive
Pronunciation: \ri-ˈvīv\

To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice.
To restore the validity or effectiveness of.
To renew in the mind; recall.
intransitive verb : to return to consciousness or life : become active or flourishing againtransitive verb
: to restore to consciousness or life
to restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state : bring back
to renew in the mind or memory
animated, alive - having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"

revived

1. Simple past tense and past participle of revive.