Requirements for Revival Part 2

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This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Speicher, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative wouldn't want revival. A fresh start in my relationship with God and enthusiasm new energy for the Lord's power in our lives today. Dr. Evans explains that there are some requirements for revival and spells out how we can meet them. Let's join them. Verse 14, which will get prescription for revival both in the Old Testament and New Testament. This series is for those who need to be restored. Solomon built the temple for the Lord God is built for you. This is your house and that leads us to this issue are revival, beginning with verse 12 Solomon ignited the camp.

I have heard your prayer and show this place for myself as a house of sacrifice verse 13 shop so that there is no way I command the locus to devour the land then my people right here.

We have read the Bible as needed because God is no longer working people working against his people. So what is going through things that God hath against me every negative thing that happens is not God working against some things happen because the citizen the world and this just all other evil people, but there some things and more than we would care to admit. That happens where God is working against us because we have departed from him. When God is working against you, it is because there has been a spiritual client that is gone unaddressed. The second thing with that thing is that the circumstances not only never change, but they keep getting worse job circumstances got worse but he was not in a state of spiritual decline.

Therefore, it was a test.

But when there is a state of spiritual time with an increase that no matter what you do things don't get better, you have to seriously raise the question whether not dealing with circumstances without dealing with judgment, because unless the spiritual gets addressed. God will not show he is relating to us. We must connect problems with spiritual issues, either judgment and discipline all trials that he brings to take us further and develop us further. God gives how to turn it around revival, we can turn around I would like to submit to us today that there are many things we can turn around he says in verse 14 when all this negative stuff to make life miserable people called by my name will themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal them.

One of our problems when we want things change in circumstance is we don't necessarily want God, but we want what God can do for us. We want to benefit. We want his help we want is deliverance, but we don't won't heal. He says in verse 19, but it turned away at the site, my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them. Verse 22 and I will say because they.

The Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worship them and serve them.

Therefore, he has brought all this adversity has to tell them to seek my face, is seeking all the other folks place to is called Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree is when you add other gods to the true God.

When you go outside of the true God to get your needs. You have now adopted an idol so I can be an occupation. It can be money and I know can be a person can be any authorized location. God says if you want revival, you must seek my face, maybe don't see the face of items. In other words, don't go outside of me. It is the moment you go outside of me you cancel me so a lot of us are praying to God that we cancel out by the lack of ability or failure to seek a relationshiphe says turn from your wicked ways. Were the actions that the idols freed them up to do. One of the reasons people like idols idols came to idols freed up I don't let you do your pay the true God doesn't. So people like idols. That way they can still use the name God without having to be accountable to God's will do anything that I don't let you do your thing does you know it's a false God can't do anything he says but if you turn from your wicked way, the way God cites our wickedness is by bringing us its consequences. The problem is when we don't think of the consequences to the wickedness and therefore the wickedness goes unaddressed to what God does is he brings negative circumstances until we get the message says until you grasp what he calls the wicked way that is your course of life independent of me. This involves two things. It involves acknowledgment and an action acknowledgment.

You must agree with God that the way he is wicked, unless you agree with God that the way is wicked. It is not a mistake is not a bad habit is not your personality, that's not the agreement. You must agree that the action that you will and whatever the problem or the addiction is unless the issue is addressed that this thing we are dealing with is not only a bad habit.

A mistake and something else I should be doing. It is wickedness, and in the front until that agreement has been made, then the transforming shall not be taken as long as I can estimate to be something less than a wicked way, I can call it. You know, just being human long as I can call and we know everybody struggles all that you know everybody have been issues as long as I can like the weight of it, then I'm not calling it what God calls us, and when I don't call it what God calls it. I have not free God to address it and that's the problem with a lot of twelve-step programs. A lot of twelve-step programs what you feel okay but before you can feel okay. You need to feel really bad, really, really bad become until you feel really really bad, but that is until you feel like God feels about God is not free to address it with an acknowledgment followed by an action turn turn turn from your wicked ways that must be a real bursting of the course, a new course of action set in motion.

That's why accountability is so important because accountability is responsible for the change of direction is one thing the talks is another thing to be accountable for your actions. That's why you'll see them flowing idols away that'll just say I'm not worship idols anymore.

There is an actual pick them up or throwing them away.

In the case of the high places in Scripture. They would now the fall alters words that was going to be an action if you can't point to an action of turning that's tied to your recognition of the wicked way that you have not responded to the wicked way to have a discussion about the wicked way arrived when there is an action associated with it. You have now free to do three thing you are free to do three things all he says when the people themselves and pray seek my face from that wicked way, I will hear from heaven, I will hear from heaven, so why do you because just because you're talking not me.

God listening who says pray and therefore our prayers on the ceiling and bouncing back they not even making it to heaven which is wide and not being answered. Don't know what God knows everything is not paying attention to it. You talking you might be talking five hours but you talking because you have not taken the prescription you like me to not be at the show gets magnitude to the prescription here and asking for guys what you now that you have written me a prescription prescription pharmacy and take it make a lot of noise that the solution is not earrings, not in concert with the prescription.

If you want to change the from our know you got the prescription and he says this prescription will allow him to hear from heaven against benefit number two benefit number two is I will forgive their sin.

There is nothing like the healing of having your slate wiped clean. Use a calculator punched in the wrong number and then push clear. Guess what you have to do start all over again what God is with the prescription taken is hear from heaven and punches on the top of your life so that that is no longer an immense answer response or interaction with you.

She has now been freed up to pay attention to you because the thing that is getting in the way has now been addressed to me. You still struggle about me but you still have problems, but it means that you have tangibly demonstrated your seriousness by your actions and not by your discussion and how does the healing happen once the obstacles are out of the way. Dr. Evans will tell us when he returns with part two of today's message as relearning revival is a new birth, a new beginning, something many of us need and the subject of Tony's current teaching series revive us again. This two-volume collection will teach you how to fan the flames of faith, not just in your own life in your family, your church, and even in our country and all 14 messages in this set both on CD and instant digital download will be yours with our thanks when you make a donation to help us keep Toni's teaching on the station along with them will include a special limited time extra is brand-new book, God himself.

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No matter how much overtime you make, because their spiritual big plot you don't get out of bed all their problems because the money is not jacking you up is your problem until God heals and God reverses that that will be no change in your relationship. If you are refusing to fulfill your biblical biblical role of the wife, refusing to confess your sin in that role vacation nice birthday present because the spiritual issue was the actual issue is the last you.

You will feeling and that's messing with you you I will bring to bear situation. Don't misunderstand me, the old testament of the degree of the people's compliance with God it was that physical land, the land of Israel. The reason why Israel is in conflict today and will continue to be in conflict is that it refuses to submit to God's son, and therefore the land stays in conflict while what is true of the land in the Old Testament is true of the light in the New Testament, there are certain things you have to go to God for yourself because you're God's house and you have things you do in your land called your life.

There are others things you could never get by yourself. One of the reasons why God wants individual temples to also participate in the collective temple called the church is that if you have an eight cylinder need, but you're a fool some of the thing you need to pick up four more cylinders if you make someone believe what you are for some of the sites you don't have the power on your all to get extra energy you need to get where you need to go. So that's why the Bible so that's one accept the Bible says Peter was in prison he couldn't get out and the church gathered together to pray and when the church gathered together to pray, it says Angel intervened and shut people moved out of the prison earthquake that broke off the shackles. It says because the people of God are added more cylinders to the situation so that some things you can get on y'all, but there are things you can get on your own because it's bigger you. That's why you need the body of Christ limiting some mouse if you willing to go for another site that has the knee that don't be surprised that God not respond to you when you have yours because you are so selfish that you charge when you have a need, but I'm not going to be part of the church. The battle and somebody else hasn't believes that God turned you down because you think you and only child in the family of God not know if our father who art in heaven, be thy name. So the issue today for revival is to follow the prescription of the doctor knows what works.

The doctor knows what works it means coming to God on his terms. Don't try to pump God come shuck and jive in operating company in the theory around when the Holy Ghost don't even know what you talk about just so they cannot we do in the moment we step on the scale we step on the scale what we step on the scale because the scale tells us what we way.

A lot of us don't want to deal with the scales go say so what we do is we will step on it right.

We step out and lean into the side.

We let it start below to zero total shoulder laws wakes out job and in the scale don't change the reality of how much we meet and how fat we really tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God.

So you can be a what reality don't be poking God's heavenly father way up in heaven, we praise your name and your great God we can get over you so we can get on you so we can get around your balm in Gilead. Bright morning star Sharon God's sake… See me again did not know what is life and transform the life Dr. Tony Evans talking about what we need to do to make way for revival in our lives. And if you could use some help figuring out where to start with God's plan of renewal for you visit 2011's.org and click on the link that says Jesus there.

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