Revival or Riots Ministries

September 02, 2010

The Call to Action and Obedience

Jesus is the expressed perfect image of the Father (Hebrews 1:3).

He is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

He has already forgiven the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).

God is no longer counting man’s sins against them (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Jesus’ sacrifice was done once for all (Hebrews 7:27, Hebrews 9:28, Hebrews 10:10)

Jesus never said to cry out for revival.

He told His followers to BE revival by reviving the spiritually dead with the love and power of God (Matthew 10:7-8, Luke 10:8-9, Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:17-18).

As He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17).

Our lives and ministries should not reflect John the Baptist, Elijah, Elisha, Anna, Paul, Peter, Job, or Mary.

Our lives and ministries should reflect Jesus if we really are going to call ourselves “Christians”.

To think that by our gathering a bunch of people together to fast, pray, and ‘cry out to God’, that we will see cities and nations comes to Christ is absolutely ludicrous…simply because Jesus NEVER said to do that!

We don’t need to ask Him to pour out His Spirit like in Joel 2, because He already did that in Acts 2 (Acts 2:16). He never came and scooped it back up.

This video is a true Call to action. It is a Call to obedience. It is a Call to fulfill the Great Commission (not a Polite Suggestion).

This video is not an attack against people or ministries. This video is an attack against a demonic mindset that has ravaged the Body of Christ and placed it in a place of disobedience, laziness, and complacency towards the commands of the Head of the Church, who is Jesus (Eph 5:23).

I love the Church enough to sound an alarm. Awake to righteousness (1 Cor 15:34), and BECOME the answer to the prayers that so many have been praying for decades.

Prayer without action is falsehood and hypocrisy.

I am simply calling the Body of Christ to actually start to do what Jesus said to do and stop focusing on things He never said to focus on.

Please actually take the time to look into these things. The life of a Biblical Christian is one of victory and overcoming the works of darkness (1 John 3:8, Rev. 12:11).

To think we can do enough works to get God to ‘move’ is the height of arrogance. The Head gives the instructions. The Body is what moves.

God is not stuck.

He already poured out His Spirit.

It is time to act accordingly.

Revolution

This is a post from our friend Daniel Silva. I had to repost it.

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“Feel free to pass this along. *Just a side note. This is probably going to be right in your face, but I promise I am not after you. I am after these ways of thinking that are causing people to die. If you are offended by this you will have two choices: Be happy and change the way you think. Or harden your heart to what the Bible says and continue doing what you are doing.*

Okay, so here we go: While the church spends 6 weeks on a series teaching people how to have a successful marriage, people are dying.

There is a REAL war going on outside of your church walls, and it is time to wake up to the reality of it. Church is not for learning how to have good moral standards, if that were it, I could just become a Buddhist and actually learn from people who do what they teach.

Church is for training people how to live like Jesus and do what He did. He did not walk through Jerusalem, see a sick person, smile and say, “Yahweh loves you! Here’s a brochure with Psalm 22 on it. Hope you feel better!” And go home feeling like He just shared God’s love.

That’s nice, but it is not “Christ-like”. If you would argue that, I suggest reading the Gospels to see what Christ was like. This weird, traditional “good deeds” stuff that requires no faith and no demonstration of God’s love or the Spirit’s power needs to stop, now!

I’m not judge, but how many people are actually saved in church today, or think they are saved because they said a prayer? Jesus told us what a believer looks like:

Mark 16:17-18:

“And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

John 14:12:

“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.”

He did not say a believer is someone who says a prayer and tries to live a good life, He said it is someone who does what He did.

I’m not saying you’re not a Christian if you haven’t ever healed a sick person, I am saying that He commanded you to heal sick people (raise the dead and cast out demons), and you need to listen.

Whether you think they will get healed or not is not the issue, the issue is being obedient to what He said to do and setting people free.

If they don’t get healed, at least you listened, and continue praying for people until they get healed. None of this “asking God” to heal people stuff, or “If it be thy will!”. Jesus didn’t do that, He spoke to the problem and told it what to do, it always listened.

I’ve considered myself a Christian for 7 years now. And ever since the beginning I’ve always done the “Yeah! This is war! Yeah! You’re going down Satan! Yeah! I’m in the Army of the Lord!” Then I’d stop and ask God to do everything.

Find me one military group who sits down and cries out to their General to do everything for them. Even in the Bible when God sent armies into battle, He would go before them, but they still went after Him.

They didn’t sit on the sidelines and say, “You started it, you can do the rest too.” It was a cooperative thing.

God went before them and they moved in after Him and conquered. God has already gone before us, Jesus said, “It is finished!”

It is our turn to act; to move in and conquer. If you think and say you are in the “Army of the Lord”, it is time to stand up and prove it, or sit down and shut up.

Because I am just now, after 7 years, realizing just how real this war is. People are really dying everywhere, and they are going to hell. Creation is getting more and more frustrated and I would go as far as saying that natural disasters are not God’s judgment on nations, they are the church’s judgment on nations for refusing to accept who they are and act like it (Romans 8:19-21 talks about that).

So now is the time. You are either a believer or you are not.

If you are, get on the battlefield and do something. If you are not, go find something else to do that is not making God out to be a lazy, powerless person who doesn’t feel like doing anything about the world’s condition.

He already dealt with the world’s condition (1 John 2:2).

It is our job to fix what is messed up.

I love you, and you are made for way more than what you are doing!

1 John 4:17:

“…in this world we are like Him.”

Peace, love, joy and freedom!”

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Time to Grow Up!

In high school when I played basketball we started training and got in shape before the season started. We didn’t wait until the first game to start training, and we were in constant contact with our coaches before and during the season. We practiced our plays, worked as a team, and listened to our coaches to be the best we could be. We took note of the tactics and plays of the different teams we would be playing, making sure we knew what was needed to win.

My basketball coaches were not the ones playing the game–we were. They were cheering us on, as God does when we’re doing his will. Christ through us is what gets the job done. And it’s not about focusing on the enemy, but we should know about him and what he does to people so we can shut him down. He is already defeated, so we function out of victory!

Christ lives IN us–we have to exercise our faith like a muscle by doing the Word of God and following the commands of Christ to be the best sons and daughters we can be. We cannot wait until something bad happens, like if someone close to us becomes ill, before we learn how to actually deal with the problem.

There are too many situations where people call on God at the last minute when they really need him, like when someone is dying, and expect their pretty much non-existent relationship with him to fix everything. We need to understand our authority and who God called us to be.

He said, “Go! (Matthew 10:8) YOU heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons, take care of the poor, the homeless, the widows, etc. etc. etc,” (‘You’ is implied, meaning YOU heal the sick with Christ flowing through you!) and the list goes on.

Jesus died for us, saved us, set us free, healed all of our sicknesses, gave us all of him and his authority, so it is NOT okay to let the enemy steal from us just because we are unprepared for battle and don’t even understand how to fight! There are too many people dying out there to be unaware and complacent.

It is essential to be trained by the Holy Spirit and to be in constant communication with God and not talk the talk if you’re not walking the walk.

Calling yourself a Christian doesn’t mean anything unless you actually do something with your faith. Read the Bible, find out what God says about himself, about you, etc., so that you know what your salvation means and what you’re called to do. The Holy Spirit will guide you into all Truth.

If all you do is let people spoon-feed you at church one hour on a Sunday, you will not get it. Babies drink their mother’s milk, mother birds chew and digest the food before they regurgitate it to their young.

Hebrews 5:12-13 says that you should be able to teach people what you know, but you are unskilled in the word of righteousness, making you like a baby who drinks milk, not solid food.

I love babies, don’t get me wrong, but bear with me while I expand on the metaphor: babies are needy, helpless, and incapable of doing anything for themselves. They rely completely on other people for their every need. They whine, they cry, they need to be entertained, and they fall asleep shortly after they eat. The reason babies drink milk and baby birds have to eat previously digested food is because they cannot digest anything more than that.

If you cannot digest the word and only rely on people to spoon-feed you, you will not grow and your spirit will not be able to handle meat–the Word and doing the commands of God. You are only a disciple and friend of God if you do what he commands (John 15:14), and not doing it out of obligation, but because you know and love him as your Father.

If you are born again, you are a new creation living under the New Covenant of Jesus Christ.

When people say things like, “Oh, well I’m not called to missions or praying for the sick…” or “I’m only an intercessor…” or “If God wants me to do that He’ll change my heart,” that’s just a cop-out for being lazy and disobedient.

God’s already created a new heart in you when you decided to partner with Him. Your heart is willing and ready to do God’s will.

The thing that needs renewing is your mind (Romans 12). If your mind is telling you something contrary to Scripture, do not assume God went back on his word or that it’s okay to put it back on Him like He’s holding out on you and didn’t change that particular part of your heart.

He did that already, now you need to draw near to Him and get your mind on track with your heart, the heart of God.

—Laura

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