Happy Sunday!

Wow, I just finished an intensive study of Revelation 12. Not on purpose, by my final preparation for this mornings message took me there.

I was meditating on verse 12, “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

This chapter set me ablaze… just thinking about how fast biblical prophecy seems to be unfolding these days!

According to Revelation 12:12, there will be a great increase of demonic activity in the earth as we head out of this Grace Age. The darkness will put up everything it has, evil will surge at God’s people… because he [the devil] knoweth that he hath but a short time.

I don’t want to be a weak Christian. If we are one of the final generations, then we should become the finest generation of Christ followers the universe has ever known. We should train ourselves for intensive opposition, and go forth unfazed by any of it!

2 Peter 3:10-12 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment. Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.

Since this is not my main focus for today, I’ll leave it here for now.

You should come hear todays message if you’re nearby! You can also watch it online @ DestinyFamilyCenter.com. I’m speaking from the Favored Series: 4th Down & Inches To Go!

For everyone else, I wish you a most triumphant Sunday! With much love…

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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Happy Friday!

A challenge: read these legendary quotes and journal the impact they have on your heart today!

If revival depended on you… your prayers, your faith, your obedience… would your church ever experience revival? Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. Leonard Ravenhill

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today! Adrian Rogers

God’s time for revival is the very darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless. It is always the Lord’s way to go to the very worst cases to manifest His glory. Andrew Gih

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE. William Booth

Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival – men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations. C.H. Spurgeon

Revival, no matter how great or small in its ultimate scope, always begins with individual believers whose hearts are desperate for God, and who are willing to pay the price to meet Him. Del Fehsenfeld Jr.

We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again. G. Campbell Morgan

Whether it be in the personal life, or in the church life, or on the mission field, we need revival–we need revival urgently–we need revival desperately! Stephen Olford

Revival is not some emotion or worked-up excitement; it is rather an invasion from heaven which brings to man a conscious awareness of God. Stephen Olford

If your Gospel isn’t touching others, it hasn’t touched you! Curry R. Blake

While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight… I’ll fight to the very end! William Booth

I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. Count Nicolaus Ludwn Zinzendorf

God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth. David Smithers

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshippers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose. John Piper

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. John Stott

We don’t understand revival; in fact, we don’t even have the slightest concept of what true revival is. For generations we have thought of revival in terms of a banner across the road or over a church entryway. We think revival means a silver-tongued preacher, some good music, and a few folks who decide they’re going to join the church. No! Real revival is when people are eating at a restaurant or walking through the mall when they suddenly begin to weep and turn to their friends and say, “I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I now I’ve got to get right with God.” Tommy Tenney

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great. John Wesley

Love you all…

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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Happy Thursday!

Great worship video: Amber Brooks @ MorningStar Ministries singing “Surrender” with spontaneous elements.

The original and full version of this song “I Surrender All” was written in 1896 by Judson W. Van DeVenter. In her song “Surrender,” Amber Brooks builds a song around the first line of the verses, “All to Jesus I surrender.”

All to Jesus I surrender;

All to Him I freely give;

I will ever love and trust Him,

In His presence daily live.

Refrain:

I surrender all,

I surrender all;

All to Thee, my blessed Savior,

I surrender all.

All to Jesus I surrender;

Humbly at His feet I bow,

Worldly pleasures all forsaken;

Take me, Jesus, take me now.

All to Jesus I surrender;

Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;

Let me feel the Holy Spirit,

Truly know that Thou art mine.

All to Jesus I surrender;

Lord, I give myself to Thee;

Fill me with Thy love and power;

Let Thy blessing fall on me.

All to Jesus I surrender;

Now I feel the sacred flame.

Oh, the joy of full salvation!

Glory, glory, to His Name!

I once heard the renowned Brownsville Revival Evangelist Steve Hill say, “Freedom isn’t being controlled by nothing. Real freedom is being controlled by the Spirit of God.”

Real freedom comes from full surrender… to God.

Full surrender.

Job 11:13-19 CEV

¹³Surrender your heart to God,

turn to him in prayer,

¹⁴and give up your sins–

even those you do in secret.

¹⁵Then you won’t be ashamed;

you will be confident

and fearless.

¹⁶Your troubles will go away

like water beneath a bridge,

¹⁷and your darkest night

will be brighter than noon.

¹⁸You will rest safe and secure,

filled with hope

and emptied of worry.

¹⁹You will sleep without fear

and be greatly respected.

James 4:6-8 CEV

In fact, God treats us with even greater kindness,

just as the Scriptures say,

“God opposes everyone

who is proud,

but he is kind to everyone

who is humble.”

⁷Surrender to God!

Resist the devil, and he will run from you.

⁸Come near to God, and he will come near to you.

Clean up your lives, you sinners.

Purify your hearts, you people who can’t make up your mind.

So you see… real freedom comes from full surrender… to God.

Full surrender.

Today, pray as you watch the video. Search the innermost compartments of your heart and surrender everything. Don’t hold anything back. Then, watch what happens to the rest of your day and week!

For me, it’s so easy to surrender… to a God that surrendered everything for me.

I love you all… anticipating your epic comments!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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