Revelation Nation

10/11/2017

"We would never marry someone like that. What makes us think Jesus is coming back for a bride that's like that?"

06/06/2017

If you want the hatred to stop, then you have to stop allowing it to have a birthplace

27/02/2017

God sometimes reveals to us a part of who we really are in our most vulnerable times. A good example of this is where the Israelites were in the hills, hiding from the Midianites. Gideon was beating out wheat to hide it from the Midianites. The whole nation was living in fear for years. In that very time of fear, the Angel of the Lord (capital A -> Jesus) addressed Gideon, who wasn't at that moment anyone significant, as a "mighty man of valor."

Then, in the command that the Angel gave him, he said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?"

Firstly, the Angel addresses the might that Gideon can't see within himself as something that's already established, because God knows him in a state further than he is at that moment.

Secondly, He commands him to save the whole nation. A great commission for someone who's currently in hiding. It's something that he obviously won't be able to do within his own strength.
Because of this, such as most of us would probably do, he doubts in that very thing that God is trying to establish, because he failed to see God as our source of that very might.

Right after the command, Gideon asks God how he, who is the least in the lowest clan, could save Israel. The reason for his doubt is just that - he looks to himself and sees his limitations, his weakness, but God reminds him to find his strength in the One who commands him.

And the Lord said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man." (Judges 6:16)

From being the least in the weakest clan of the whole Israel, to becoming the very one that God used to defeat their enemies, there was a struggle to make sure that it truly was God who gave the command. But eventually, he decided to believe God and chose obedience.

God knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows us in the way we will be tomorrow, He knows us in the place where we've reached our destiny and served our purpose. If an earthly father can have high hopes for his child, then our Heavenly Father surely can take us even further. He designed us to become something significant. We just need to tap into His mind, and His ways, and be guided into that place, step-by-step, moving by faith and growing towards our destiny as we recognise our true identity, what God has called us to be.

01/02/2017

24/01/2017

During transformation processes, God prepares you for what He has prepared for you.

16/01/2017

"You remember Gideon laid a fleece on the barn floor; and in the morning all around was dry, and the fleece alone was wet. God alone had saturated the fleece so that he could wring it out; and its moisture was not due to its being placed in a favorable situation, for all around was dry.

He would have us learn that if the dew of His grace fills any one of us with its heavenly moisture, it is not because we lie on the barn floor of a ministry that God usually blesses or because we are in a church that the Lord graciously visits. Rather, the visitations of His spirit are fruits of the Lord's sovereign grace and gifts of His infinite love, not of the will of man nor by man...

So, God will have us know that He does not give us His grace because of any natural adaptation in us to receive it. Even where He has given a preparedness of heart to receive, He will have us understand that His grace and His Spirit are free in action and sovereign in operation; He is not bound to work after any rule of our making. If the fleece is wet, He makes it wet, and not because it is a fleece, but because He chooses to do so. He will have all the glory of all His grace from first to last." - Charles H. Spurgeon

13/01/2017

20/12/2016

For Christians who believe that an unbeliever's lack of knowledge about the Gospel will be their saving grace on the day of judgement, here's a little bitter pill that might help commission you:

"When people who have never been exposed to the laws of Moses commit sin, they will still perish for what they do. And those who are under the law of Moses and fail to obey it are condemned by the law." - Romans 2:12 tPt

They're called 'unsaved' for good reason - they're not saved. They're not under the grace of salvation. They're lost. And many of us think that we can keep ourselves away from them - because we love the security of our grand lives so much - and that God will have mercy on them, because they just didn't know?

No. God designed man to obey His laws (Rom 2:14). But without knowing Him, we're always bound to fall away from it. That imprint of righteousness is part of God's plan to draw people to Him, but it's our purpose to connect them to Him, so they may know Him, so that through Christ they can be made fully righteous.

If God has called you to the slums, it's because they are lost and need to hear that they can be found.

If God has called you to the dark nations that have never even heard the name of Jesus, then no matter how friendly and nice the village people are, their salvation depends on your response to the call to help bring them to faith.

It's faith that ensures salvation. Good moral conduct and lawfulness will never give the grace that comes through faith in Christ.

If God calls, then we had better up and go.

05/12/2016

How amazing it is that we are given the grace to run to the mercy seat in our times of trouble... When we've fallen into sin, and we stand in the doorway of God's throne, in fear and trembling of judgement that is fair to be received, the Good Father still invites us to come and sit on His lap, so that He can wash us clean, and dress us in pure white grace and glory.

Words are not powerful enough to describe how much and how constantly we need His mercy. A saint without a second of mercy and grace would be forever doomed.

The LORD God is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love, abounding in faithfulness; He maintains love for thousands, and He forgives iniquity, transgression and sin.
How could we not want to be under the mercy of such a God? And He chose to send the Redeemer, so He could again call us His sons and daughters.
He restored us back into relationship, and opened His arms to rid us of our iniquities, clean the slate of our transgressions, and purify us from our sins.

And all He wants from us, is a simple response. This is our worship. This is our relationship. This is His love for us, poured out back into praise and thankfulness.

03/11/2016

Man is not called to play God, but to become Christ.
Man is not made for the pedestal, but for the pulpit.
Man is not called to be exalted, but to go down on the knee and serve.
As a result, God exalts, as He exalted the king of servants to be the King of kings.