Is the "Asbury Revival" of God or Satan? Q&A 270

Christ Worked In spite of the Way I was Raised!

I was raised with some very bad examples and bad doctrine but became saved because of the knowledge of Jesus Christ in spite of the wrong stuff. It was the Holy Spirit working in a desperate heart that knew she needed Him. Hallelujah!!!!

God can use foolish things to bring salvation to the lost but those who use foolish things will be judged, and not in a good way, for their attempts to pervert God's Word.

Genesis 50:20 " 20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this— to preserve the lives of many people."

Romans 12:2

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

We must be mindful of the ways of God so that when we do our work for HIm it is according to His direction and in complete compliance to His Word the Bible.

Any work done in our own will according to cultural standards will be disobedience and unacceptable. Doing works in the flesh is spiritual death to those who do them and those who accept them.

If the Holy Spirit leads you God will accept it, if we do it in our flesh or led by men it is not pleasing to God.

1 Peter 2:15

"For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people."

Ephesians 5:17

"Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is."

Traditions of Men will Kill the Soul of Anyone Using Them

Just a thought about some silly traditions people hang onto. I used to think we had to go to a church building to pray. Another person I heard of thought we had to go to a building to be saved with the help of pastors in that building. Rolling on Floor Laughing right now!!! Not just at others but at myself when I was new in the faith.

I am a little amused that anyone thinks one must go to a building to be saved or to pray, since Paul was saved on the way to Damascus, Zacchaeus in a tree, and Nicodemus on the road near a river, the thief on a cross and many other examples of people who came to Christ wherever they were without "ordained pastors" or "buildings."

Jesus Christ prayed in the wilderness, and David prayed on his back in his room by himself.

It is astonishing when we think of how many traditions of men have dictated what people do and what they believe that are completely unnecessary but have caused pressure and guilt if the people thought differently.

Did you know you can become saved in a jail cell all by yourself with the influence of the Holy Spirit, it is happening in some countries of the world?

Did you know you can pray anywhere at any time for any reason without the help of another person?

Romans 8:25-27 "…25 But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently. 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. 27 And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God."

It is not the words people want us to say that save us, its not the rituals people want us to do that save us or impart wisdom.

Ephesians 6:18

"Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints."

Never pray another man's prayer, and never pray from a book unless its the Bible. Never repeat words others tell you to say. God wants us to speak our own minds to Him. He wants genuine worship according to what's in our own hearts, not the canned thoughts of someone other than ourselves.

Mark 7:5-13

"5 And the Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk in accordance with the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with [a]unholy hands?” 6 But He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:

‘This people honors Me with their lips,

But their heart is far away from Me.

7 And in vain do they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8 Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

Following the traditions of men causes the deadness of the soul, the laziness of the heart, and non-thinking patterns of the mind.

When you pray use your own heart and your own words as you seek God.

Confidence in the Cyclone

Leave the Revivals alone!

Please do not get on any bandwagons claiming huge revivals. If it is true then great, if it is not and you endorsed it then you were fooled.

Just keep looking up doing what God told you to do and leave all the hype and news alone.

There will be many false signs and emotional hype about revivals in the last days, we cannot know which ones are true and which are false so just keep obeying the Word of God, and live as you should looking toward the narrow road.

We don't have to figure out if the "revival" is real or not, we can leave it alone entirely.

Living in a Wicked world while Our Heart is Desiring Home

When someone places their children above their spouse they are teaching the children to disrespect their other parent. It is a tactic of those who want to be loved by their children more than they love their spouse.

When adult children interfere in the marriages of their parents it is likely because one of the parents placed the children above the spouse and the children saw this as an endorsement to make judgments about the other parent as well as disrespecting the parents who is devalued by their spouse.

We live in a culture now that values personal aggrandizement above quality relationships. Divorces are rampant, and children are angry and disrespectful because of this selfishness.

2 Timothy 3 told us the intensity of the wicked attitudes that will prevail in the end times. We are living in those times right now. As long as we know it we can take less personally the attacks and angst that is all around us and focus on Christ Who lives in us.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult (ragingly insane) Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

If we were placed in a foreign country and discovered these attitudes and resentment toward us we would be observing without hurt feelings. We would not be devastated or emotional over it, we would simply document what we see knowing this was not our home.

This is the way we must live our lives now, we are in a foreign land, this world is not our home and nothing that happens here needs to destroy our faith or ruin our emotional stability.

Hebrews 13:14-16

"14 For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

God-pleasing Sacrifices

15 Through Him then, let’s continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips praising His name. 16 And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."

Our job here on earth is not to have friends, not to play, and not to build a fortune for ourselves. Our job here is to share the gospel, live as examples of Christlikeness to the world, and then when we go home we will go with the knowledge that we pleased God.

We are living in times when our closest godly friends are long distances away. God has provided Facebook to connect with those who love Him more than their own life. We share His Spirit and his goals as servants of Him. We can praise Him for these connections when we have no one in our own communities.

2 Timothy 2:24

"The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,"

2 Corinthians 6:4

"but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,"

Psalm 113:1

"Praise the Lord!

Praise, O servants of the Lord,

Praise the name of the Lord."

Our reward is coming, let's focus on that. Let's not lament day after day, day in and day out, on the wickedness of this world, it is a distraction from Christ and our mission, which is to bring Christ to the lost.

Satan is a Liar Don't Believe Him

There are those who wish to believe things about you that are not true and are dedicated to their belief to the point of refusing to discuss their thoughts to find the truth.

Do not be intimidated by these people who love their ideas of you rather than the truth. They did it to Christ and all the apostles. and they will do it to us too.

Remember the narcissists favored tactic is to accuse us of doing what they are doing and we are not. The devil is behind it all, he is the accuser of the brethren, working every day to turn as many people against God's people as possible.

We have no reason to take seriously what others say and do if we are secure in Christ. We only worry about what someone thinks because we elevate them to the level of Christ. He is the only One Who should matter, He is the only One Who loves us and Whom we follow. He was the One Who died for us!!!

We do not follow people or assign value to their opinions of us. We value above anyone else what God thinks of us.

Galatians 1:10

"For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ."

Ephesians 6:6

"not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart."

Psalm 16:3

"As for the saints who are in the earth,

They are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight."