Is God Witholding Revival? What's The Problem?

Good Morning Precious and Dearly Loved Saint and Child of Our Abba Father!

There is such a craze in the body of Christ always looking for the next great “Hotspot of Revival”!  It is all over the Charismania!  There is a cry, a passion, a religious zeal, trying to move God to send “Revival”, to open the floodgates of heaven, for the Holy Spirit to rain on them the blessings of heaven!  People are also always crying out to God to heal them, and for God to do this and for Him to do that!  It is as if our God is asleep on the job, that He is not very competent and not very good at His job! 

 So people fast with religious zeal, and other frenzied religious activity, always trying to move and wake up God!   What if God was not the one who needs to be waken up?   What if God is not the one who needs to move?  What if God has already sent revival to each and every Christian on the earth?  What if the problem was not God’s, but what if the problem of all the lack in church, was not God’s inability, or His lackadaisicalness, or His unwillingness to move on our behalf?  People fast and pray, so God won’t judge America!  What if the problem is not God’s at all?  What if the problem of lack in our spiritual lives was simply our unbelief and dullness of heart and lack of revelation by the Holy Spirit? 

 Oh brother, so might say, “That’s condemning”!  Is it really condemning or is it just the truth and reality?  Is the problem really that God is not moving, or is the problem that so much of the world and the condemnation of the enemy have blinded our own hearts?  Maybe the problem is not that God is not moving, maybe the problem is that our hearts are dull and insensitive to the Holy Spirit and we have not yielded and completely surrendered to the full measure of the Father’s Love! 

 Then if some people do see that part of the problem is on our behalf, then they want to put people under the religious, zealous law of religious striving for holiness!  The Bible says we have been perfected, Hebrews 10:14; we have been glorified, Romans 8:30; we are as Jesus is, 1 John 4:17, that we are one with Jesus, 1 Corinthians 6:17, that we have been seated in the heavenly realms inside of Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2:6; that we ARE members of God’s household, Ephesians 2:19; that have been completely healed and made whole, 1 Peter 2:24; that we have already been given every spiritual blessing in the heavenly spiritual realm in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 1:3; That we have already been given the entire kingdom of God, Luke 12:32; that He has already given us all things, Romans 8:32;  That we have been given everything we need for life and godliness through God’s divine power, 2 Peter 1:3…….   The list is endless of what God has already done us!!!  He has already lavished His Grace upon us in full measure! 

 What if the problem is not with God, or that He is not moving or not answering our prayers?   What if the Truth is that God has already opened the heavens that He has already revived Christians, that He has already sent out the full measure of His Spirit and that heaven has already invaded earth?   Maybe we have been asking the wrong questions because we have been blinded to what the real problem is!!! 

  Maybe we should be asking God through the Holy Spirit, to open the eyes of our hearts and believe that the floodgates of heaven have already been opened, especially since we are already living there In Christ Jesus.  Maybe the problem is not with God.  Maybe it is the lack of revelation of what God has already done in the outpouring of His Love and Spirit?  Maybe if we owned the problem and took responsibility for our own lack, maybe we would see more breakthrough?  What do you think?   Where’s the problem, is it that God is withholding revival, or that our hearts need to awakened to His continual outpouring Of His Love and Grace? 

 “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, make give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.  I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.” Ephesians 1:17-19.

Jerry Brown      4-8-2013