Peter would have been history were I in Jesus’s sandals. What an utter failure Peter proved to be when Jesus (in human terms) most needed Peter to be the leader he was called to be. Did we not have the rest of the New Testament we would have to deduct that Jesus’s investment in Peter was not one of His better ones.

But what sobers me is - how we will steward this rapid growth? What will our focus and response be to standing room only in our buildings? Perhaps one of the sad aspects of the history of the great revivals and awakenings is – they eventually dissipate. Some quicker than others. One of the reasons for that is the lack of effective and focused discipleship.

None of us nor anyone we have ever known (in the U.S.A. at least) have experienced a true revival or awakening of the sorts experienced in the 17 and 1800's and in 1904/1905. Thus it is critical that we acquaint ourselves with this work and way of God for us to be useable in His hands as instruments of revival and awakening.

One of the great snares in church life is being content to just have a “successful” and active, busy, seemingly happy church, and not being focused on making every man, woman, young person and child an ever more devoted disciple of Jesus.

John experienced an intimacy and closeness with the Lord Jesus that all of my readers probably long for. And one of the reasons he did is because when he blew it, he received Jesus’s correction, he learned from his mistakes, and he embraced everything Jesus ever taught him. In a nutshell he valued every morsel of truth that came from Jesus’s lips even if it crossed the way he had seen and felt about things previously.

So I want to spend some time in this article exploring the “goodness” of man and I want to begin our discussion by establishing first the goodness of God. Only when we see what true goodness is can we then determine if it is inherently in man. Thankfully it is inherently in God.

My last personal update was in early January, so since that was fairly thorough and some of those things have not changed, I’ll try to cover some other things in this one.

Walking in faith and childlike trust in our wonderful God and Father – especially for those of us who have known Him for a while - is the normal and expected path for every child of God. Walking in faith and childlike trust in our heavenly Father brings Him glory and makes His fragrance in us stronger and more compelling to those watching us.

Good morning everyone and Happy Tuesday. We wanted you to know (and please tell others) that android phone users can now download the Kingdomstreams app (free of course). God bless you and keep you today! Randy

The principle – Only those who seek hard after God will find Him – is an eternal principle fixed in the heavens. There are no exceptions to it.