Sukkoth: Feast of Tabernacles 2019

Sukkoth:  Feast of Tabernacles 

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Lev. 23:33-43

Sukkoth, the Feast of Tabernacles celebrates the harvest of the fruit of the land.  During this Appointed Time, many people, both Jew and Christian, build tabernacles or huts.  Generally, they spend at least part of each day during the seven days celebration in their tabernacle. 

Sukkoth reminds us of the forty years Israel spent wandering in the desert and God’s provision. According to Nehemiah, during the forty years in the desert, the people’s clothes did not wear out.   Along with manna and water, God provided for all the rest of the people’s needs.

After the return from the Babylonian Exile, Ezra read the law and led the Israelites in acts of repentance during the Feast of Tabernacles (Nehemiah 8:8-17). “So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading. And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.'' For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.''

 "So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, "Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.'' And all the people went their way to eat and drink, to send portions and rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that were declared to them.

"Now on the second day the heads of the fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and Levites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to understand the words of the Law. And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month, and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.''

"Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the Water Gate and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim.
So the whole congregation of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness.”

The dedication of Solomon's' Temple also took place during this feast (I Kings 8:2). Later, Josephus referred to the Feast of Tabernacles as the holiest and greatest of the Hebrew feasts. 

We often quote 2 Chronicles 7:14, but few of us realize that the context of this passage was the dedication of Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem.  “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”  

For Christians, Sukkoth can be a time when we rededicate ourselves as the temple of the Holy Spirit.  We are His people, called by His name.  If we want healing to come to our land, the Church must, individually and corporately, humble ourselves, pray and seek a deeper relationship with our heavenly Father.  We must turn from our wicked ways, such as fear, anger, self-righteousness and division.  Then God will hear from heaven and pour out His forgiveness and healing.  

Sukkoth, Feast of Tabernacles, celebrates the completed harvest.  The final crop, the fruit of the land, that has been gathered.  

The Feast of Tabernacles looks forward to the final spiritual harvest, the great revival to come.   The autumn harvest is a forerunner to that time in the Millennial Kingdom when all believers are gathered together and God tabernacles with us.  Sukkoth looks forward to the time when believers will rule and reign with Jesus.

Zechariah 14:16-19 is a prophetic word describing the celebration of Sukkoth during the Millennium.

^"And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles." 

The following Psalm is one that God’s people sang as they passed through the Kidron valley and climbed the Temple Mount to worship during the Lord’s Appointed Times.

Psalms 122:1-9:  “I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go into the house of the Lord.'' Our feet have been standing Within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem is built As a city that is compact together,
 Where the tribes go up, The tribes of the Lord, To the Testimony of Israel, To give thanks to the name of the Lord.For thrones are set there for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces.'' For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, "Peace be within you.'' Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good.

During this holy time, O Lord, we rededicate our lives to You and rejoice for what You have done, are doing and will do.  Amen.

The Church: The Media of the Lord

The Church: The Media of the Lord

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.” (Ephesians 4:29; NKJV)

Each Sunday, our church makes declarations over the seven mountains of cultural influence. One of those mountains is the media. We are in agreement that much of the media is in need of revitalization. Therefore, we declare that the media we receive will be the result of truth and integrity in the lives of those who produce it.

Through our declaration, the Holy Spirit has convicted us that we Christians, too, are a form of media. God’s people are His voice crying in the desert, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” Therefore, we must guard our words, and we must live and speak with integrity.

There are many Scriptures that have significant implications for the concept of the Body of Christ’s role as media to the world:

We are instructed on what things we should definitely speak up about: “Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy” (Proverbs 31:9).

We are reminded to be guarded in how we speak: “He who guards his mouth preserves his life, But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction” (Prov. 13:3).

We must do all things—even speaking up for truth—in love, with gentleness and forbearance.

Perhaps most significantly for us these days, St. Paul extends caution about engaging in the divisive language such as the rude political diatribe that too often appears in the media, particularly in the realm of social networking. “But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.” (2 Timothy 2:23-26)

Consider Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Our words, both positive and negative, both truth and fabrication (fake news including unfounded rumors), bear eternal consequences.

Our words also expose our inner nature; they flow from our hearts and reveal what is actually there. (See Luke 6:45; Eph. 4:29)

The role of media is to investigate, inform, educate, and report truth. The Church’s purpose as God's media representatives is to do likewise. Too often, our conversations sound more like the gossip columns appearing on the back pages of the newspaper or heard on celebrity gossip shows.

Those types conversations can spill into our prayer groups. We do not have to know all the “down and dirty” details in order to pray. Some prayer requests should not go public. Just because we heard it in the beauty salon does not necessarily mean that it should go on the church prayer chain or be discussed in the coffee shop. The private, fervent prayer of the righteous also avails much.

We are the newspapers that our friends and neighbors read daily. We are to be the social network that joins together a disjointed community. We are the news commentators who bring hope in the midst of despair. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!'” (Isaiah 52:7)

As with all renewal, revitalization of the media must begin in the House of God. When individual members of the Body of Christ step out of the pews and become the media of God in our daily lives—when we speak truth and life—we will see that change reflected in the worldly media as well.

Lay the Axe to the Root

Lay the Axe to the Root

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’ Man of La Mancha, was a well-meaning, anachronistic gentleman who longed to right the wrongs of the world.  However, his armor and his weapons were outdated and useless.  In his failure to recognize his enemy, he tilted at windmills from the saddle of a broken down nag named Rocinante. 

  

As Christians, many of us have been waging spiritual warfare in the same way.  We are struggling to wage warfare against the forces of evil with useless weapons and strategies.  It is time to move forward into victory.  It is time to lay the axe to the root of darkness.

Matthew 3:10:  "And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Anger, vitriol, bitterness, ignorance, hatred and filthy language are the fruit of the tree of fear.  We must lay the axe to the root of that tree.  We each must lay the axe to that tree in our own lives before we can sally forth to conquer.

The battle began with the choice that Adam made in the Garden.  Genesis 2:8-9 (NKJV) 
^“The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” 

“Knowledge of good and evil” can be translated as “determination or declaration of good and evil.”.  The tree of the determination of good and evil allows man to decide for himself what is good and what is evil.  It places man above God and eventually sees man as god.

However, the tree of life is the pathway to an abundant life of love, joy and peace.  Its fruit is God’s guidance in avoiding the pitfalls of life

The tree of the determination of good and evil is the foundation of all paganism and worldly philosophies such as humanism and existentialism. Culturally, the two trees are manifested in the Biblical mindset and the Greek (worldly) mindset.

Satan began his attack on God’s system in the Garden of Eden.  He placed in man’s thoughts the desire for worldly wisdom and knowledge rather than a relationship with God that would bring us life. 

The Greek mindset is one of hopelessness and despair. In the Greek philosophy, each man is given a destiny at birth.  The destiny is always one of despair.  Someone once summed up the Greek mindset as, “Life is one damn thing after another and then you die.”

God’s plan is the opposite.  Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  The biblical mindset is one of blessing and hope.  John 10:10 (NKJV) “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”

Semantically, the Greek mindset is seen in the way we define our words.  We have defined darkness as the opposite of light.  Two things that are in opposition to one another must have the same value, the same weight, the same force.  If darkness is truly the opposite of light, then there is no way to overcome darkness, either physically, morally or spiritually.  Yet we know from experience that light dispels darkness. 

   

While the Greek mindset declares that darkness and light are opposites,  the biblical mindset declares truth:  darkness is not the opposite of light; it is the absence of light.  Light will be victorious.

The same is true with each of the following:

▪ evil is not the opposite of good; it is the absence of good.

▪ hate is not the opposite of love; it is the absence of love.

▪ despair is not the opposite of hope; it is the absence of hope.

▪ a curse is not the opposite of a blessing; it is the absence of a blessing.

Therefore, light, good, love, hope and blessing will prevail.

The tree of the determination of good and evil will always result in a pessimistic worldview.  Pessimism is not the opposite of optimism; it is the absence of optimism. 

Instead of tilting at the windmill of pessimism with whining and complaining, we can establish the Kingdom of God (which is love, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit, first in our hearts, and then in the lives of others, by declaring truth. In Him, we are more than conquerors.

Romans 8:37-39 (NKJV) 
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  

Praying for Our Schools

Because schools across our nation will soon be opening, it is time to join will millions of Christians in prayer for our schools and our educational programs.   Prayer is the both the responsibility of believers and the greatest force of power for the education, safety and protection of our future.

Join in prayer for:

School boards:

Pray members are advocates for excellent education

Pray they choose the appropriate school curriculum and standards of education

Pray they provide equal opportunity for all students to expand their knowledge and skills

Pray they listen to what the community needs in a public-school system

Administrators

Pray they effectively communicate the needs of the school with parents and faculty

Pray they set a positive school climate and set expectations for all students to follow

Pray they walk in truth and integrity

All staff, both certified and classified

Pray they have a love for educating children

Pray they are engaging, motivating, and inspiring

Pray they communicate effectively and efficiently to students and parents

Pray they listen to the needs of their students and help them voice their opinion

Pray for their health

Pray they show compassion to students not performing well, and direct them accordingly

Pray they understand their relational boundaries with students

Pray they get enough funding to buy supplies for their classroom

Pray for their patience throughout the day

Pray they will see the potential in every child

Pray when unsafe situations arise they will be quick to think and react

Pray for extracurricular activities

Students:

Pray they enjoy going to school

Pray for their physical health

Pray for their mental health

Pray they know who to reach out to if they need help

Pray for their classmates and friends

Pray for their involvement in student led organizations

Pray they are motivated to excel

Pray for their eagerness to do homework

Pray for their safety within the school

Pray for their safety going to and departing from school

Pray for the special education students, that their needs are met

Pray they don’t pick up bad habits from peers

Pray they won’t be bullied for how they look or what they wear

Pray for their parents

(For Christian students:)

Pray they understand the truth and not doubt their faith

Pray they can stand up for their beliefs without feeling ashamed

Declare that our schools will be havens of learning.

(This list is a revision of “Fifty Items to Pray over Our Public Schools.)   http://www.mamaofthreeboys.com/pray-public-school/

Discerning God in His Creation

Discerning God in His Creation

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Genesis 1:3: “And the Spirit of God hovered, brooded over the face of the waters.  And God said, ‘Light be.’ And light was.”

Isn’t it interesting that first came sound, the voice of God, and then came light.

Scientists believe that the universe is in constant vibration, that sound always results from vibration and those sound waves hold the universe together. 

The following is taken from NASA's Exoplanet Exploration:

“We can’t hear it with our ears, but the stars in the sky are performing a concert, one that never stops. The biggest stars make the lowest, deepest sounds, like tubas and double basses. Small stars have high-pitched voices, like celestial flutes. These virtuosos don’t just play one "note" at a time, either — our own Sun has thousands of different sound waves bouncing around inside it at any given moment.”

Job 38:4-7:  God is speaking to Job, “Where you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

The stars sang during creation and those songs remain today. 

In the midst of the song, came the light. That Light is the Logos, the Word of God.

John 1:1-3: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 

Where and how did life begin?

John 1:4-5: “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”

In his first epistle, John wrote to the church.  1 John 1:5. “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”

Genesis 1:4: “And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and morning and there was morning, day one.

Darkness does not have the power of light.  Darkness is not the opposite of light.  Darkness is the absence of light. Evil does not have the power of good. Evil is not the opposite of good. Evil is the absence of good.

Our salvation and our growth as Christians are dependent on our accepting that God is light and God is good.  Therefore, His way is the holy highway to an abundant life both here on earth and in eternity.  Therefore again, in Him, we can walk out of darkness and into the light of His glory.

Our God is an awesome God.

Freedom to Walk out of Our Past

Freedom to Walk out of Our Past

Galatians 5:1 For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Freedom is autonomy, independence and the power and authority to make wise choices that will lead us into an abundant life in Jesus Christ.  Freedom comes from knowing who God is and  from knowing who we are in Christ. Freedom also comes when we choose to walk out of the bondage of the past. 

The way our past determines our present and our future is determined by our response to it. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the apostle Paul encourages, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."

God has made all things new, but now we must walk into our newness without lugging the excess baggage of our past.  One of the first bits of baggage that we need to leave behind is blaming others for our mistakes.  When we own our failures, we can move past them.  When I understand that I am my worst enemy, I can begin my growth toward emotional and spiritual well being.  I learn from my failures and move past them.  When I acknowledge that I have missed the mark, I open the door to forgiveness.  When I accept the forgiveness of God, I can move on to forgiving myself. When I forgive myself, I can better forgive others.

Shame and unforgiveness are excess baggage that hinder our freedom in Christ. Romans 8:1 says, "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." 

When we walk according to the Spirit, we walk out of condemnation of both ourselves and others and into the freedom of who we were created to be.

         In Micah 7:18-19, the prophet encourages, "Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea."
  
         God is omniscient. Yet He chooses to forget what He has forgiven.  To grow in the grace of newness, we, too, must choose to forget what God has forgiven whether it is our own sin or the sin of others.  God has cast our sins into the depths of the sea.  We don't have a license to fish them out again. 

When we rid our lives of the anguish and regret of the past, we are set free to learn from our experiences. In Romans 8:28, Paul writes, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."

 God uses both the joys and the difficulties of our lives to teach us the peace of faithfulness, the power of His authority, the blessings of obedience, and His plans and purposes for our lives.

In that sense, it bodes well for us occasionally to revisit the past, but we must be careful not to pitch our tents there. God does not intend for us to dwell the in past.  He has called us to be present and future people.  When we have a healthy response to the past, we are more free to move into our destiny in Christ.

A Tribute to Aunt Wilma (Winnie) Allan (1917-2019)

A Tribute to Aunt Wilma (Winnie) Allan (1917-2019)

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Ecclesiastes 3:4: “a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”

We weep and mourn at the thought of our lives without Winnie, but we laugh and dance when we remember the joy she brought into our lives. 

The Psalmist reminds us that “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” 

Winnie walked in that knowledge.  Her life was not without sorrow and struggle.  She endured the hardships and embraced the joy.  Nehemiah 8:10 teaches us that the joy of the Lord is our strength.

How can we, too, embrace the joy in the midst of sorrow?

Two Latin phrases come to mind:  carpe vita and carpe diem.

Carpe vita means to seize life. In seizing the opportunities of life, of both our earthly life and our eternal life, we find the scope of God’s plan for us.  Jesus defined that scope when He said that He came that we might have life and have it ever more abundantly.

 

Carpe diem means seize the day.    While carpe vita is the scope; carpe diem is the sequence. As we embrace the scope, the sequence of life opens before us.  Each day presents opportunities to know and to glorify our Lord in our lives and to live abundantly in Him.

(Psalm 90:12) “So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.” That is carpe diem.

The psalmist asked the Holy Spirit to teach us to number (to value) our days. In valuing our days, in valuing our lifetime (which includes eternity to come), we find a source of wisdom. I define wisdom as the ability to make good decisions.  It is a good decision to be joyful: Proverbs 17:22 tells us that a merry heart does good like a medicine. 

Psalm 118: 24 is all about carpe diem.  “This is the day which the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it.”

Winnie rejoiced in each day.  As she has entered into eternity, I sense Jesus saying to her, “Well, done good and faithful servant.”

Dr. Seuss, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, is credited with saying, “Don’t cry because it is over. Smile because it happened.”  I say, in the midst of our crying because Winnie has gone on to the next chapter in her journey, let us smile and be thankful because she happened. She happened to walk abundantly in this life for 102 years. 

Well done, Winnie, well done.

Embracing the Spirit of Mothering

Embracing the Spirit of Mothering

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

It is ironic that the dominant culture of today embraces mothers and, yet, often diminishes mothering. One who accepts the role of mothering is one who nurtures, protects and sustains not only physical life, but also emotional and spiritual life.   

As with many female figures in the Old Testament, Eve represents the Church, the Bride of Christ.  She is also the first to walk in the spirit of motherhood.  We are familiar with the woman and the fruit, but pay little attention to what happened afterwards.

Genesis 3:9-12 (NKJV) “Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself." And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"
Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

  Adam blamed God for giving him the woman.

Genesis 3: 13 (NKJV) “And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

The woman discerned the root of the problem—the deception of the serpent.

Even though the woman had been deceived¸ she came to understand the deception of the enemy and call it for what it is.  In the same way, for the Church to walk in the spirit of mothering, we must, male and female both, have the discernment to call out fallacy and deception.  If we condone the deception, we can no longer nurture and protect.

When we step up, God steps in.  Genesis 3:14-15 (NKJV) “So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."

When we step up and God steps in, others, including the Adams who blame their troubles on others, will often step up as well.

 Genesis 3:20-21 (NKJV):  “And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.”

In Hebrew, Adam called his wife Chavah which means “life-giver”.   In naming his wife, Adam accepted her destiny as the one who will not only give life to their immediate children, but who will also be the source of eternal life to her generations through the sacrifice her of seed, Jesus Christ.

The Church is called upon not only to evangelize, to call people into new life in Jesus, but also to nurture, protect and disciple that new life.  Establishing a mothering spirit in our churches and in our homes will do much to correct the ills in our society.  No matter how the family is structured, a mothering spirit can prevail.  One does not have to be a female in order to walk in a spirit of mothering. One need only submit to the chavah spirit of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45 (NKJV): “And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” 

Jesus walked in the chavah spirit.

Becoming an Instrument of God’s Peace

Becoming an Instrument of God’s Peace

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

The gospel of Matthew records Jesus speaking of the wars and rumors of wars that will come. We speak often of these wars on a global scale and just as often neglect the root of those wars. The root is a spirit of strife, hopelessness and anger that rests in the hearts at the community, regional and national levels.

The wars include more than military engagements. The wars are emotional, physical and spiritual as well. The entire planet is experiencing emotion, physical and spiritual warfare at this time.

Unfortunately, many have reacted with anger and bitterness which only breed more anger and bitterness. We accomplish nothing but the breeding of more strife by sitting over our coffee cups and grousing and blaming. The media breeds strife on a global scale, but still accomplishes nothing.

We may say, “What can I do? I am only one person.”

Speaking through the prophet Ezekiel, the Lord said, "So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one” (Ezekiel 22:30).

Are you willing to be one person to stand in the gap against the spirit of strife, hopelessness and anger?

How should we stand? “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8).

Personally, we must “let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” (Amos 5:24.)

Jonathan Cahn, author of The Harbinger, The Paradigm and the Oracle has said that we must do more than pray for revival. We must live in revival. If we live in revival, revival will start now.

It is time to humble ourselves and pray with St. Francis of Assisi:

“But Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

Amen and again I say, Amen.