What is revival? Resurrection, renewal, recover, resurgence, restoration, regeneration.
Mark 6: 53-56: 53 When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there. 54 As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. 55 They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
Acts 5:12-16: 12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. 15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. 16 Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.
These things happened here in Acts and there are so many stories of these things happening in the present day, but do you know what has to happen for a body to be raised from the dead? You have to pray over a dead body.
The Father Heart of God
It is the Father's heart that all would know him. John 17:3 - "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
Jesus prayed this to the Father - eternal life is knowing the Father. Jesus is the exact representation of the Father. Jesus says "if you've seen me, you've seen the Father". (John 14:9)
Lyle shared his recent revelations from meditating on the Father.
1. The word "Father" is written 49 times in John 14-17. In those three chapters, Jesus talks about the Holy Spirit and the Father. Jesus wants us to know the Father - he prayed that we would know the Father.
2. What makes a father? Children. Before someone is a parent, there is a desire to have a child. The Father had a desire for His children. He desires relationship with us.
3. The word "Abba" is the most intimate name for the Father - it translates as "Daddy". When you call someone by their name, you are addressing a person. But addressing God as "Abba"/"Daddy", you're addressing the relationship.
4. Jesus went to the cross to reveal the Father. In the temple, there was a veil that separated people from the Holy of Holies. The veil was torn when Jesus died, giving us direct access to the Father. We can go boldly right to the Father.
5. What does a Father do? What does a Father look like? Some people may have had earthly Fathers who do or don't show us the heavenly Father. Our heavenly Father is the perfect Father.
6. The arms of the Father - they hold, support, protect, provide for, and hug us. Sometimes they even wrestle us - to get our attention and beckon us to chase Him.
7. We see the Father through Jesus. When we see Jesus do something throughout the gospels, we can translate that to "Father does/is..."
- Father is a worker - his work is salvation, healing, deliverance, multiplying food, raising the dead, etc.
- Father gets his hands dirty - he touches the lepers and the unclean
- Jesus isn't ashamed to call us brother and sister - we are heirs with Christ.
- Father goes to the worst cases - to those others gave up one
- Father cares about the small things
- No problem is too great for Father
- Father loves those who hate him
- Father is incredibly patient and compassionate, gracious, and slow to anger
- Father gives us more than enough
Galatians 4:4-7: But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
John 17:20-24: 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
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