The Beginning Of A Revolution (Part 2)

How do you start a revolution for Christ?

-You pray.

2 Chronicles 7:13-16 CEV “Suppose I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat the crops or make my people suffer with deadly diseases. If my own people will humbly pray and turn back to me and stop sinning, then I will answer them from heaven. I will forgive them and make their land fertile once again. I will hear the prayers made in this temple, because it belongs to me, and this is where I will be worshiped forever. I will never stop watching over it.”

How long have you felt the heavens have been shut up, that locusts in the form of immorality, drugs, criminal activity and the such, have been devouring our land and plagues of calamity have befallen us? That the rain from heaven has not been raining in our lives? God said, when that happens, if the people of God will call on him, and humble themselves, seeking his face and turn from their sins, he will not only forgive them, but heal the land around them.

Prayer is only the first step. What you sow in prayer, you will reap in power. Power is designed to be transferred. Power lines do not hold onto the electricity, which flows from the power station. They are merely the means of carrying the power so it can be put to use. We are the power lines of God, carrying His power to the place it can be best put to use in transformation of our world. Power is not something to be held onto.

-You reach out beyond the four walls of a building.

Luke 14:23 AMP “Then the master said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and urge and constrain [them] to yield and come in, so that my house may be filled.”

People will never know the truth of Christ and how He can bring a life changing revolution into their lives unless someone reaches out to them. Who will you reach this year? Who will you reach out to this month? Who will you reach out to this week? People who do not create a plan by default are planning to fail. The early church was not lead by a hierarchy, but by people reaching out to people, worshiping from house to house, studying the word together in community groups, and living life together in those same groups. Reaching out to their neighbors, friends and strangers with something that so totally changed their lives they could not keep from sharing Christ with others. Oh, that we could become so empowered as the church of the Book of Acts.

-You make every effort to win the lost for Jesus.

1 Timothy 2:3-5 CEV “This kind of prayer is good, and it pleases God our Savior. God wants everyone to be saved and to know the whole truth, which is, there is only one God, and Christ Jesus is the only one who can bring us to God. Jesus was truly human, and he gave himself to rescue all of us.”

You can reach out to your neighbors, but unless you get them to cross the line and sign up with Jesus as their Lord and Savior, you have planted a seed, but not reaped the harvest. Do you see what I am saying? Reaching people is only one step in the equations. They must also be won to Jesus Christ if a revolution is to begin in a city. They need to be shown why He is necessary and how they can get connected to Him and change their heart and mind.

-You must be willing to teach and train them.

1 Timothy 4:6 CEV “If you teach these things to other followers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus. You will show that you have grown up on the teachings about our faith and on the good instructions you have obeyed.”

Training begins by assimilating them into the church and then by going from house to house. If you want to accomplish something you need to be trained in what it is you desire to accomplish. If you want to be accomplished in your Christian life, you need to get involved in training situations which will educate and transform you. This will prepare you for understanding the revolution God desires to bring within a city.

-You must send them out to reproduce.

Matthew 28:19 CEV “Go to the people of all nations and make them my disciples. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…”

Not away from the group necessarily, but send them to reduplicate the process so more people are coming into the Kingdom. So they will not be the dead end of the power line. So they are connecting more people with the truth of Jesus Christ. All of this is revolutionary to the way we do things now. So often we expect just the professional clergy to do the soul-winning job, and fail to recognize the way of growth is through us individually helping souls to Christ.

It is time to let the revolution begin by saying in 2015, I am going to get connected to Jesus and I am going to work on connecting others to Him as well. My church is one door of entry, but my personal contact is a far greater way to help people grow in their faith and have a relationship with Jesus because of my accountability to Christ and His church.

Let the revolution begin! Lord, send revival to my neighborhood, community, and city in the name of Jesus I pray!