Revival Fires Can Happen Today

Spiritual Revivals Blessed Nations:  Today nations suffer due to lack of prayer with a dwindling number of people who walk in the Fire of God's Presence.  The devil hates humans, who are made in the image of God…so warfare is a big battlefield in the entire world with many struck down and he is trying his best to keep everyone in a back-slidden zone or far away from God where they will never walk with God.

With this NOT being about prosperity, there is a connection between the Presence of the Lord and a blessing falling in all spheres of our lives in His Presence...In the past, I could not help but observe that Britain in the 1800s rose to be a world power and went through a glorious age called the Industrial Revolution.  During this time, spiritual awakening shone over England, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Smith Wigglesworth, Charles Spurgeon later and many others brought winds of change in England which spread to world and the economic prosperity of England flourished during this time.  Maybe a couple of centuries later, there are no spiritual revivalists in Britain, churches are empty and many in Britain say that the Muslims bought the churches turning them to mosques as churches were lying vacant and unused.  In Britain today, Islam has overtaken Anglicanism as the dominant religion as more people attend mosques than the Church of England and today, Britain is no longer the dominant powerful world power as in the past and over the years, the economy has gone down as compared to the past.

Again, America went through winds of change of revival around the same time.   The principles of the Bible ran very strongly through the early part of American history and over time, great evangelists rose in America, in fact many tent evangelists and many Christians walked in the Fire of God's Presence and did great and marvelous things.  I do believe God blessed America to become the most powerful nation in the world.  Though there is a powerful remnant of believers in America, today many have rejected Christ, and created new laws to keep Christ out of schools and even Christ is X-massed out of Christmas, popularizing Santa Claus widely and commercially.  In this rejection of Christ, I do believe America is sliding down slowly, and financially is facing more troubles than before.  Before, in the Great Depression, Americans had wonderful testimonies of how the Lord cared for them through it, but today, there is more rage and anger in the many of the people against the financial fall they are facing.  At the same time, because of the remnant of praying powerful believers, the blessing of America is still not completely taken away!

During the time of Sadhu Sundar Singh, Bakht Singh and many others in India in the early 1900s...villages turned to Christ, people got healed supernaturally and many wonders happened..which is why Christianity spread in India and all this happened because of the mighty Presence of the Lord.  Today, perhaps we do not see such though of course there is still great things happening, yet not in the proportions of a revival which awakens a nation to God.

A Communion Walk Changes Everything

The reason why the storm brews and the pot starts to bubble again is because the majority of us Christians do not have a "communion walk" with the Lord.  This means we get up in the morning, pray, read the Bible, read a devotion and then start the day.  Throughout the rest of the day, we rarely speak to the Lord, the fire in the soul is cold.  Over the years, this condition continues, the soul is cold, and one dark day, things get really bad.

Abide under the Shadow Of His Wings to Deliver us the Storm

As believers of Christ, when the storm hits so hard that there is no time to even pray or if we are in deep emotional pain or shattered, there is only one thing that can protect us beyond anything from that ugly wrecking storm and that is hiding in the shadow of the Lord's presence.

As we abide in Christ, in His presence, wonderful change happens.  The great secret is that even if we spend hours in prayer and the moment we walk away from prayer and live in our own thought patterns without connecting to the Holy Spirit, our lives start to feel empty very soon, our cup is half full and we live in carnality without compassion and love for others.  It is not that I am underestimating prayer, but if our prayer does not continue in fellowship, we are disconnected from the Lord.  It is really abiding continuously in His Presence with constant communion that fills our cup to overflow with richness and blessing to others around us as well as ourselves and our prayers are powerful and mighty on Earth.

Throughout the year 2015, the words" shelter of His wings" brought great release and comfort in my times of meditation.

Under that shadow, we are deeply protected.  Peter dwelt in the Presence of God, and when his shadow fell on the people, they got healed!  Such change can happen when we dwell under His Shadow.  Then revival fires can blaze through the nations again, once again, before the return of Christ, before the end-time prophecies will be fulfilled...(the final ones like the rise of the anti-Christ, not yet revealed and the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem) if we start learning to have a communion walk with the Lord....again, the greatest revival today that we need is a repentance revival, not a miracle revival.....

Rita.....