Revival Starts with You

Revival In Us

My Testiamony

Thank you Pastor, having me here again and its honour to speak.

As i was thinking about this theme of revival, i was a share some important God taught me this year in my life and ministry i feel is important that i think will bless you. I Got married and entered ministry less then a year ago, in the beginning marriage was tough the basic things like putting the toliet seat down like 10 times a day or the cooking im ethiopian and shes german and i love spicy food and her family sometimes could handle to much pepper. All these little things that can and did create fraction but more challegeing was the ministty becuase when your a young pastor who is filling in someone who left big imprints its tough and people question your capablitys. People left right after our lead pastor left and i remember being so discouraged one evening i didnt want to leave my bed. In my darkest point of ministry God. I wanted God to change my circumstanses but God was using my circumstances to change me. instead of hyper focusing on my circumstance i focused on myself. My ministry started growing and more imprtant i was become more like christ. My message for tonight is revival starts with you.

I dont know if your heard of the proverb of a man pushing a wall day after day and he was getting tired and weary and he asked God to remove the wall for him but God said stop look at your arms. he look and his arms got big and strong and sometimes God allows us challeneging circumstances in our lifes to make us stronger. Revival starts with you.

Pauls Command

In the book of acts The apostle paul was going city to city planting church and in acts 20 he calls the ephesian elders who was ovrseering the church and he reminds them to watch themshelves before they focus on the sheep.

Acts 20:28 NIV

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

The apostle didnt say watch them then yourself but he said rather watch yourself then your flock.

These to us seems selffish and maybe conceited but this isnt the first time he says this when he speaks to timothy he also as a similliar message in

1 Timothy 4:16 NIV

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

The apostle is teaching us God is intersetred in reviving you and through you revivaling others.

The diffcultity managing yourself

Proverbs 16:32 NIV

Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.

The proverbs is telling it its diffclut to be self controlled that why its greater then ruling a city, But if you allow God to take control of your life, then you will become the vessal for the city to change.

Jesus Command

Jesus say something similliar in mark 12 when whenhe was asked the question what is the greatest commandment he responded by saying to love God and love your neighbor as yourself.

God reminds us if we love him we have to allow him to love us so that we can love other people.

Both paul and jesus call us to pay attention to ourselfs becuase your Gods vessal and his temple through which he brings his blessings of love, wisdom and power through.

Revival in Family

Deuteronomy 6:6–7 ESV

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

When God brings revival its not only for us Our God is generational. He expects us to share what God has done for us and his ways to our childern so that they can pass it to there childern. God is a of blessing genertions and what he started in us he wants to multiply.

Mother Tersea Life

Mother Teresa was intimately aware of poverty – living it and serving the poor. Yet she identified poverty of spirit as one of the greatest ills in society. He understood if the nation is going to be transformed it started with the build blocks of its walls that family.

Mother Tersea Wisdom

Her advice to families was to pay attention to one another and notice needs beyond the physical. It is at home that we learn what God is like and what we are worth. When we notice the needs of our family members, we show them that they are beautifully made, worthy of love, and desired by us and by God.

Sometimes people are hungry for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that they do not feel alone, abandoned, neglected, or in need of some affection?”1

“Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.”

I didnt come from a beliving family but when i got saved my mother and father saw change in my life, i shared the gospel with them and shared my testimony they didnt come to faith. I showed them christ in me by my life. In the beginning my mother didnt want to come near a church building but this december he attend our morning service and her hearts has soften and he want to learn. My father also dismissed everything i use to tell him but know i was recently out with him for lunch and he said to me people who know me come to him and say good things about me. He looked at me and say im proud of you son. That meant everything to me and when i tell him scriptures and things know he listens to me. I dont share this to boast but to say God is using in your family if you know it or not and you words and life will impact them.

Revival in our city

Introduction to Jonah

Faithlife Study Bible Introduction to Jonah

Jonah is the only narrative included in the books of the Minor Prophets. It tells the story of God commanding the prophet Jonah to preach in Nineveh, but Jonah decides to run the other way by boarding a ship. After God orchestrates a storm and a great fish swallows Jonah, he obeys God’s command. But when Nineveh—a major city of the Assyrian Empire and Israel’s enemy—repents after listening to Jonah, he is infuriated. The book’s lesson becomes clear in the end: God’s care extends to all who call on Him—even those who previously stood against His people. His mercy is truly for all.

Gods people need a heart change

This story allows puzzled me becuase why didnt God just send another phophet or call someone else. But what the story of jonah teachs us is that God wanted to change jonahs heart not just nineveh. Sometimes for god revival to happen that doenst just need a change in the heart of the people in the city there needs to be a change in the heart of the people.

Jonah verses God perpective towards the Lost

The New International Version Chapter 4

But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD, “Isn’t this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

4 But the LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

We lost Heart for the Lost

God problems isnt with the city its with jonah and somethings the problem isnt primary with the city its with his church. We lose the desire to be witnesses, we get tired of trying, or we get so anger and dont care if where they end up. But if we want revival in our city there we need Gods heart for the city.

Gods Compassion

The New International Version Chapter 4

And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

God can redeem this city but he wants to partner with us to do so

Application

lets Pray for God to change us

Lets Pray for our familys

Lets Pray for our city