It Starts From Within

 

It all comes down to the individual.  If we want a better country, better churches and better homes, then each of us as men, must take personal responsibility for the condition of our own heart before God.

When you study Psalm 51, you see the conversation of a man who is focused on the issues relating to one man – himself. David is coming clean before God.  His is dealing with his own “stuff”.  He is not blaming his family,  his friends, or his environment.  He is just putting the sin, his own sin, out on the table, and claiming the cleansing and forgiveness that God Almighty freely offers to anyone who will be honest and humble with God.

Hosea 10:12 issues an urgent call and a promise, “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you”.

God will heal.  God will forgive. God will restore and revive.  It’s up to us to do our part.

We all know the need for a massive, soul-shaking revival and spiritual awakening in our land, but without a return to personal godliness (especially among men), we won’t see what we all know we need; change in our country, change in our churches, change in our homes.

If you absolutely had to get a prayer through right now, could you do it?  Let us search our hearts.  Let us deal with our own “stuff”. Let us pursue power in prayer. Let’s go to the next level with God in our prayer life!


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Pastor Bruce Freeman

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