Revitilization Launch

My story about what God is doing in my life.

Story about the deer.

Psalm 42 ESV

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

2 Corinthians 12:9–10 ESV

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

How that translates to the church - Preparing for Revitalization

Personal revitalization of individuals in the church

Conviction of and repentance of sin in our lives.

Complete reliance on God for His power and working in our lives.

Commitment to living out God’s will in our lives.

Collective revitalization of groups of individuals within the church

Focusing on what matters

Being committed to one another and holding one another accountable.

Rallying together and working toward common goals.

Completely trusting in God.

Our Goal is Christ. We have personally attained more than we could have ever hoped for.

Our work has been given by and is empowered by God. We must remember this.

The results are God’s. His power is made perfect in weakness. We seek Him, we trust Him, we obey Him, and we watch Him work.

Prayer Guide for 2023

Questions to Consider