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Christmas has come and gone for another year. I know I am not the only one noticing the increase of the homeless standing at street corners looking for a crust. I see more and more couples in clean clothing and looking less homeless and more embarrassed that it has come to this. This year was hard for many more families than last year. The economy all over the world, but in particular in the US is collapsing. We sit in a recession that the experts tell us will be over by 2010. As a student of history and economics, I know those are comforting words, but they are not the truth. We are descending into a depression that will end the abundance of the majority of America and will end up being worse than the Great Depression. And that means it’s time for the Church to rise. The sleeping giant needs to be stirred.

Yeshua told us plainly that we are to care for the poor. Not Socialism or welfare, which is the theft from one person to give to another, but charity is the ointment the Lord has given to us for times like these. Forget Sunday church, we the people are the Body, the Church, and it’s up to us, not some mysterious group “there” at our local fellowships. It’s up to you and me now, not someone else. Our weekly tithes are not a loophole to get out of our lack of hands-on help for the poor and homeless around us.

We’re going to need to reconsider how we live our lives. Maybe we can skip buying that expensive cut of meat this week, and then we can cook a stew, and make an extra 3 portions to give away to the first people we find begging at a street corner. Yeshua was right that we’ll always have the poor, but He didn’t say that to deter us from obeying Him. If you can afford to eat at Burger King, buy a duplicate of your order, and give it to the man waiting at the exit to the mall. Ladies, next time you’re buying fresh underwear, buy a few extras. I know you’ll have no trouble finding someone that needs them.

We can’t be inactive during this time. It’s going to be hard, and we’re going to have to sacrifice, and we’re going to have to go without at times. But someone else is always going to have it harder than you, and in your own downturn, you can rise up to the challenge and be a blessing. And if you do have a pot of gold saved for a rainy day, it’s about to start pouring...

“The king will answer them, ‘I can guarantee this truth: Whatever you did for one of my brothers or sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:34

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Is there any kind of revival outside of the personal revival? Revival can be experienced not just personally, but also in the church or in the community around us. Never though can there be a revival in the latter 2 groups, without there first being a revival in the life of the individual. God always works first with the person. From there revival may spread. Is there a contradiction here? Not at all. For though revival may be experienced in a larger group, it is only made up of the individuals' revival. If there be no individual revival, there can be no corporate revival.

We see revival meetings all throughout America, and now even in Europe and beyond. Yet these meeting as as far from revival as heaven is from hell. Revival is not the perfect singing of Hillsongs worship music, smoke machine or lights in unison with the chorus. Revival is the heart that has fallen upon the rock, broken to pieces, only to be put back together by the Spirit.

It is the same as prayer. Corporate prayer can only be as powerful as the individual's prayer. If there is a deficit in the prayer life of the individuals that make up the fellowship, then no amount of yelling and screaming in a meeting will make up for it.

Our fellowships are made up of real people, and though a facade may be there for show, God is not fooled by our display. It is up to us, the real people that make up our fellowship to seek the face of God, to draw near to him, to experience our revival with the Lord. Then and only then will we see the corporate fruits we so long for. Then the world will see, that God is truly in this place. Then we will understand, that we do not go to church, we gather as the Church.

Revival, must come to us, not them.

When they arrived, they called the members of the Church together. They reported everything God had done through them, especially that He had given people who were not Jewish the opportunity to believe. Acts 14:27 (GWT)

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