A CRY FOR REVIVAL It is time to end our journey together as the “Revive Me” Conference quickly approaches. This will be my last issue as I will be leaving for California on Wednesday, excited to see what God has for each one of us. We have spent months...
Read moreA LOVE FOR THE WORD Consider how I love Your precepts;Revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness. Psalm 119:159 TAKING IT IN During his courtship with a young woman named Julia Dent, Ulysses S. Grant once took her out for a buggy ride. Coming to a flooded creek...
Read moreA CONCERT OF MERCY Great are Your tender mercies, O Lord;Revive me according to Your judgments. Psalm 119:156 TAKING IT IN Picture a bike without air in its tires, a river bed without water, or a car without gas. Sometimes our spiritual lives are just like that, lacking power,...
Read moreSILENCING THE ACCUSER Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me according to Your word. Psalm 119:154 TAKING IT IN A soul hard pressed by the accuser; that is the focus of Psalm 119:154. Though the author of Psalm 119 is not mentioned, older commentators almost all agree that...
Read moreWHERE LOVE AND JUSTICE MEET Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness;O Lord, revive me according to Your justice. Psalm 119:149 TAKING IT IN Have your thoughts ever gotten the best of you in the middle of the night, causing you to toss and turn? Maybe there were situations that...
Read more“Job” Moments I am afflicted very much; Revive me, O LORD, according to Your word Psalm 119:107 TAKING IT IN And now my soul is poured out because of my plight; the days of affliction take hold of me. Job 30:16 Job was not a stranger to affliction and...
Read moreSpiritual Hunger Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. Psalm 119:40 TAKING IT IN Are you tired of dealing with sin? I am. If living in a fallen world doesn’t wear us down, the battle with our flesh causes us at times to cry out...
Read moreWorthless Things Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way. Psalm 119:37 TAKING IT IN We live in the midst of a “visual” culture. Have you ever considered the time your “eyes” spend looking at worthless things? The word worthless is rendered vanity...
Read moreRevive Me! My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to Your word. Psalm 119:25 TAKING IT IN I lie defeated in the dust… I am laid low in the dust… I lie in the dust, completely discouraged… I am about to die… I am at the point...
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