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Just a thought on how we can have an awakening

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Psalm 139:23–24 ESV
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

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I want to piggy back off the first song that we sang tonight. The song was “Awakening” and verse 1 and the chorus in that song got me. Verse 1 and the chorus goes...
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In our hearts Lord, In this nation--awakening Holy Spirit we desire awakening
Chorus For You and You alone. Awake my soul, Awake my soul and sing For the world you love, Your will be done,
Let Your will be done in me...
As I thought about the lines of this song....the phrase, “we desire awakening...” I kept coming back to. How do you and I desire an awakening. How do we truly desire an awakening?
In preparing this short devotion I came across an article that talked about Spiritual Awakenings. The article mentioned that Spiritual Awakenings whether biblical or church history have elements that are very similar. The article listed 5 similarities but for the sake of time I only what to give you two of the five elements that were listed.
Awakenings are usually preceded by a time of spiritual depression, apathy and gross sin, in which a majority of nominal Christians are hardly different from the members of secular society, and the churches seem to be asleep.
An individual or small group of God’s people becomes conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vows to forsake all that is displeasing to God.
An individual or small group of God’s people becomes conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vows to forsake all that is displeasing to God.

An individual or small group of God’s people becomes conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vows to forsake all that is displeasing to God.

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An individual or small group of God’s people becomes conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vows to forsake all that is displeasing to God.

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Awakenings are usually preceded by a time of spiritual depression, apathy and gross sin, in which a majority of nominal Christians are hardly different from the members of secular society, and the churches seem to be asleep.

Awakenings are usually preceded by a time of spiritual depression, apathy and gross sin, in which a majority of nominal Christians are hardly different from the members of secular society, and the churches seem to be asleep.

2. An individual or small group of God’s people becomes conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vows to forsake all that is displeasing to God.

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As I thought about the second reason a little more…that is what Awakening for us in September is all about.
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An individual or small group of God’s people becomes conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vows to forsake all that is displeasing to God.
The thought that I want you to take home tonight is...

If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God.

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How do you and I get right with God? Well, there are so many great scriptures that comes to mind when I consider this topic, but one of the major ones for me is . So tonight in the few minutes that I have left I want us to look at these two verses. I want to make a few comments and then I want us to pray.
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A little background on . King David wrote this Psalm and this Psalm is considered an Individual lament. Individual laments where written to express deep trust in the Lord, to help a person to express struggles, suffering, or disappointment to the Lord.
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Just a thought on real quickly...Several of of the key terms in verses 23 and 24 are in verses 1-3, because the Psalmist desires for God to examine him once again.
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Psalm 139:23–24 ESV
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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Several of of the key terms in verses 23 and 24 are in verses 1-3, but the Psalmist desires for God to examine him once again.

Several key terms from vv. 1–3 are repeated in vv. 23–24 (see note on vv. 1–6). In response to God’s knowledge and power, the psalmist desires for God to examine him afresh (v. 23).

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If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God. I want to use the word “ALLOW” as an acrostic to help us tonight as we look to on how we, you, me...can get right with God. Look at the Psalm 139:23-24 with me...

If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God....by allowing him to search me.

Psalm 139:23 ESV
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
This is not a normal search…based on the Hebrew verb that is used, it means to examine, to analyze, to consider in detail to discover the essential features or meanings.

If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God… by letting him know my heart

Psalm 139:23 ESV
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
The word picture that we get from the word “know” here is, to be aware of a fact or a specific piece of information on the heart. The heart is basically referred to as everything in a person. To be honest there are not a lot of people who know you like this.

If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God…by letting Him try me and know my thoughts

Psalm 139:23 ESV
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
The word “try” here literally means to put to the test in order to determine the nature of something, including imperfections, faults, and other qualities.
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Not only do I need to invite…to let God try me, but I desperately need Him to know my troubling thoughts…things that makes me anxious.
See if we are all honest we are all concerned about something. There is something that keeps us up at night, it may be family, marriage, parenting, job, finances, health, you name it. We all have things, that we will not share with others, but I have good news for you, God wants to know…He desires to know those things.

If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God… by obeying Him.

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Psalm 139:24 ESV
And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
When the examination has started and God is bringing things to my attention about my heart and my thoughts, I cannot argue it…I must agree and obey.
Be Exultant God Judges Righteously—We Cannot Dispute Him (vv. 19–24)

If we cannot deceive God, escape God, or ignore God, is it not sensible to obey God?

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Lastly...
Lastly, how do we get right with God?

If I truly want an awakening, I must get right with God....Fifth, I must...Walk with Him

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Psalm 139:24 ESV
And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Allow Him to try you.
I have to let God be in control.
Some of us have what I call the BoBo syndrome. BoBo is our dog that we have and anytime he is walking with
Allow Hi
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As we prepare our hearts to pray, I pray that this would be a time where you truly get right with God! Think about this, when we submit to God’s work in our lives, we are granting Him permission to do all that he has purposed to do.

When we submit to God’s work in our lives, we grant Him permission to do that which He has already purposed.

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I pray that you would quiet your heart and mind and seek the Lord first for yourself, your family, your church, Pastor Kevin, the staff, our schools, our upcoming Awakening Services, our city, our state, our country, our world.
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I close with a short story....A Bible College Professor was lecturing on revivals and one of his students came to him with a simple question. The question, “professor besides praying for revival to occur, what can I do to help bring it about?” The professor without a moment’s pause said to the student, “you can let it begin with you.”
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Right where you are will you join together in groups and petition the Lord? One, or two, or three you in a group whoever feels lead to pray out loud.
Let’s Pray…this is going to be different but I want you to spend some time in your seat praying and I am going to ask Pastor Kevin to come up in a few and lead us in a time of prayer. Right where you are will you join together in groups and petition the Lord? One, or two, or three you in a group whoever feels lead to pray out loud.
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I am going to ask Pastor Kevin to come up in a few and lead us as a church in a time of prayer.
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