Our Lord Jesus has called all of us to worship Him "in spirit and in truth." He goes on to say in that passage "...for such people the Father seeks to be His worshippers." (John 4:23). These quotes about worship come from godly men and women, worship leaders, scholars, etc. May they stir us all to be the worshippers Father delights in.

These are passages re: Israel’s future. The great majority of them proclaim her future spiritual revival and land restoration. A few seem to proclaim that God is done with her (see towards the end). I will continue to add to this as I come across pertinent passages.

One of the ways God chooses to bless and minister to people is through our words of blessing. Our words have power especially when spoken in faith and when spoken by the leading and power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit had men record these for a reason.

I want to say this morning that things are not always as they seem. Much more is going on for the kingdom of Christ in this State than is readily evident. And I have every reason to believe it is going to continue and increase.

As I’ve read through this book over the years certain themes have begun to stand out to me. One of them is Israel’s forsaking God and forsaking their call to know and walk with Him and listen to His voice. This may be Israel’s greatest sin, and probably is ours as well.

Now we know Jesus did not literally intend for His disciples at that time to drink His blood. But He did literally mean for us to base our whole earthly existence and eternal hope on His precious blood. Christianity is meaningless and worthless apart from the blood of Christ.

When I realized that the 1st and last chapter of I Timothy is the only place in the New Testament where God is described as “blessed” from the greek word “makarios” meaning happy, and I began to reflect on the significance of the Holy Spirit choosing to bookend this most important book with this attribute of God, I realized we cannot do church, must less lead it, if we do not know God as “happy” and if we do not become more like this “happy” God.

Sadly in our society today, seemingly more and more people would say the value of animals equals or even exceeds that of humans. We saw that most graphically and perhaps most recently when the boy fell into the gorilla compound of the Cincinnatti Zoo, and the Zoo officials decided to kill the gorilla to protect the boy. The outrage over the killed gorilla far outweighed the relief that the young boy was not killed or gravely injured by the gorilla.

Why was my hope renewed yesterday morning? First because of the works of the devil that Jesus Christ has destroyed in the life of my cousin. You would have to hear her story to know just how close she came to being one of his many victims.

The only true hope for our nation and the nations is a God sent revival and awakening like the world has never seen before. For the church to be ready for such, she needs to understand what revival is, what is not (e.g. planned "revival" meetings), what it looks like, etc. The following quotes are given for that reason.