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Praying for Revival Will Bring You to Reconciliation


I am continuing to chew on something one of my ABF (Adult Bible Fellowship):

What if in our praying for revival it has actually brought us to a sphere of where reconciliation must be exercised? I see this is a wonderful discovery and in my heart I hear, DO NOT MISS THE TWO! They are part of each other. friends said about revival and reconciliation, which has brought me to ask: 


Revival and Reconciliation. 

Let me dig into this more with something simple: a triangle. There are three points to every triangle, but if you have it flat side down, two points go up to ONE point to meet. 

There has to be ONE point we all see for revival to happen as we pray for it; ONE point that draws us all together and I believe that ONE point is GOD as revealed through JESUS CHRIST and attested to by His Word given to us in the Bible.

As we all come from whatever point we are currently standing (two points of a triangle) we need a ONE point to bring us together. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw ALL to myself." So when that ONE POINT is turned to by everyone--like a triangle point, and whether you are acute or obtuse in your belief or attitudes or sin, when you take one step closer to that ONE point, you CANNOT help but take ONE STEP closer to one another! 

So as I see it, Revival and Reconciliation go hand and hand together. My two oldest have been attending the rallies at the Court House square in our town. I have had conversations with them about the current state of things, and although we do not see eye to eye on every point, I am proud of them for moving --moving, by inertial definition, is better than sitting motionless; and in moving, God can direct--and that moving will be drawing power to himself. 
The word that sticks out to me today is HUMILITY. HUMILITY with the Covid visitation; HUMILITY with the Reconciliation subject; HUMILITY with those close to me and those far away. And HUMILITY within myself before GOD. --kk
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