Tommy's Devotional: She was born there

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Psalms 87:6 (NIV)
6 The LORD will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."

"Zion" can refer to several things. Jerusalem, raised up, heavenly city, church of God, people of God are a few things it can mean. All of these references have one thing in common: they all have a special place in God's heart and belong to him. That is where God chooses to dwell.

Being that I want to celebrate my wife's birthday but this is a devotional blog, I will thank God for one of the things I'm most grateful for. I'm grateful to have been given a wife of whom it can be said, "This one was born in Zion." This can be said of her for several reasons: First, her parents had recently given their lives to Jesus before she was born so she was born into a home belonging to God. Second, she had an open heart for the Lord ever since she was a child and allowed herself to be a special place for God to dwell. And finally, she continues to allow herself to be raised up by God and loves God more than anything and anyone making herself a pleasing habitation for the Lord.

I love you Keri. Happy Birthday. Continue being a symbol of Zion.

REVIVAL

“I will guarantee you that after the crucifixion of Jesus there were 120 mighty hungry folks at Jerusalem. That if they had not been exceedingly hungry they would not have gotten so gloriously filled. It was because they were hungry that they were filled.”

“We are sometimes inclined to think of God as mechanical. As if God just set a date for this or that to occur, but my opinion is that one of the works of the Holy Ghost is to prepare the hearts of men in advance by putting within them a strong hunger for that event that has been promised by God until it comes to pass. The more I study history and prophecy, the more I am convinced that when Jesus was born into the world he was born as an answer to a tremendous heart cry on the part of the world.”
-John G. Lake

“The reason we live without revival is because we are willing to live without it.”
-Leonard Ravenhill

“You have to get to the point where you are in actual pain. Where hunger becomes a pain and there is a vacuum big enough for God to fill.”
-A. W. Tozer

“Revival is not a miracle. A revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat is a miracle. If fact, if you follow the natural laws and you plant your seeds properly, you prepare the ground properly, water it properly and everything works out properly you will have a harvest by natural law. How much more definite and sure is spiritual law. If you will follow God’s spiritual law a revival will come.”

“You have two basic means. The Gospel to influence men and prayer to influence God. What you have to do is constant prayer, secret prayer, prevailing prayer. Unless prayer is offered with the agony of desire it’s not effectual prayer. Persistent prayer, fasting prayer, private prayer, public prayer and speaking the word will bring revival.”

“Here’s when a revival is needed: when there is a want of brotherly love and Christian confidence among believers, then a revival is needed. When there are dissensions and jealousies and evil speakings among believers, then there is a great need for revival. Religion cannot prosper with such things in the church and nothing can put an end to them like a revival. Revival is needed when there is a worldly spirit in the church. Revival is needed when a church finds it’s members falling into gross and scandalous sins.”
-Charles Finney

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