Morning by Morning, June 2 - We Are the Revival -- for the Revivalist Lives in Us!
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Revive me with Your Spirit and clothe me with Your Presence, as I begin my day looking to You and seeking to follow Your leading. As Your Word promises, “As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (Galatians 3:27). ...
A few days ago, Dutch Sheets shared a dream about Evan Roberts and the Welsh Revival that began at Moriah Chapel. The Holy Spirit began stirring up my heart for revival again in a fresh way, reminding me of our ministry trip through Wales twelve years ago with Heather Butler of Wales, where I was so unbelievably thrilled to sleep in Evan Roberts’ bedroom, where he encountered Jesus before the revival, and then get to preach a revival meeting in Moriah Chapel, where the Welsh Revival was birthed. I’ve been sharing my devotionals from those days, and feel led to share this last one from the morning after our Moriah Chapel Revival Meeting twelve years ago:
Morning by Morning, October 28, 2010 - We Are The Revival!
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You’re amazing. You’re awesome. You’re my All in All! …
“To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
There’s a sign outside the door of this home down in the Gower of south Wales that says “Home of Evan Roberts, the Revivalist.”
He was born here, lived here, prayed here. And he walked from here down the lane to Moriah Chapel, where You chose to release the Welsh Revival out of the passion of his heart and the fervency of his prayers.
And last night You filled Moriah Chapel again with hearts hungry for a fresh move of God in our lives and in this land. We worshiped and prayed; we testified of Your goodness and proclaimed Your glory; we laughed and cried and encountered the Presence of God deep in our hearts!
One young girl even came up to testify You were healing her blind eyes right before our eyes! And after midnight, in the early morning of a new day, when we finally prayed for the last person, with a father in the faith, still hungering and thirsting for the power of Your love to be poured into his heart by Your Spirit, we thanked You for allowing us the honor to serve You with our lives.
But when all was said and done, the riches of the glory of this mystery became more clear to me than ever before--it’s Christ in us; Christ in each one of us, the hope of Your glory (Colossians 1:27).
We are the revivalists. We are the revival. We are the move of God in the earth. Christ in us, awakening us, reviving us, pouring God’s love and power into us and pouring out God’s love and power through us. Wherever we are, wherever we go, Christ has come because Christ is in us; the Kingdom has come because the Kingdom is in us (Luke 17:21).
The Kingdom of God is at hand every time we reach out our hands, because our hands are now Your hands. The Father’s blessing is released every time we embrace it and give it away, because we are blessed by God to be the blessing of God. We are the revival!
You share Your glory with no man. And yet, in this marvelous mystery of faith, grounded in the truth of Your Word that Christ is in us, You choose to display Your glory through Your people (Isaiah 60:1).
When we are in You and You are in us, You make us to be Your “oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, to display (Your) glory!” (Isaiah 61:3). Christ in us--this is “the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
This is Your revival, Your world-wide, world-changing revival we’ve longed to see throughout the generations of time. And we are Your revivalists!
Let it never die, never be quenched, never burn out until You come again in the fullness of Your glory to receive Your glorious Bride (Revelation 19:7). In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
(Here’s a note below I added at the end of my prayer that morning, to share with those who were praying for us):
Friends, thank you, thank you, thank you for all your prayers for us on our Encounter Wales! adventure. Every stop along the way has been amazing, but truly last night at Moriah Chapel will be a memory to cherish forever, and yet just a foundation of more to come as God continues to pour out His Spirit on the earth in our generation. As Heather Butler, Andrea Clemons, our team, and I ministered last night with the young worship team, among people from many different churches and traditions together as one in Christ, we experienced and encountered the living God in tremendous ways. The consistent prayer of every person, young and old, as we prayed until after midnight, was to be filled afresh with God's Holy Spirit and boldness to be the Body of Christ, fully alive! Let it be so in your heart and mine and throughout the earth! We go back to Heather and Bob's home in north Wales for a day before going to our last ministry engagement in Birmingham, England to lead a prayer conference at an Anglican Church there and return home. We couldn't do any of this without you and all your prayers, encouragement, and support. God bless you! Messiah Ministries -- "Preparing the Way of the Lord ... Ministering the Healing Love of God"
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Yes, Lord! Because You are in us and we are in You, we are the revival! You are moving through us, loving through us, reaching out to a hurting, broken, lost, and fallen world through us, as we abide in You and You abide in us (John 15:4). For it’s in You, “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). “Christ in us, the hope of glory!” (Colossians 1:27) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you know you are The Revival because The Revivalist lives in you, Christ in you, the hope of His glory, displayed through your life to touch a world desperately in need of the Presence and power of Go, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
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