This was originally posted at a friend’s blog site here.  I wanted to cross-post it for all of you guys too.
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“I want to share with you a story written by Dustin Smith, from World Revival Church in Kansas City, Missouri.

Some of you might have seen the meetings on Friday nights on Daystar of the church with Pastor Steve Gray preaching.

The words of this song are prophetic but one sentence should be leaping at us in the face.

We have rested in God’s arm so long, I think we have fallen asleep.

This is about people who love to sit in Zion singing I shall not be moved! It is the power of deception.  We are deceived to think because we have really powerful worship times, we are somehow really important to what God is doing. Somewhere, we have forget is not about us but it is through us! We have been so internally focused that we have the vision for humanity and are sleeping calling it soaking.

We love to soak and enjoy His presence but sometimes there things to do for the Kingdom.  I am not against soaking and experiencing God. At some point, everyone has to get alone with God but when soaking becomes the focus of your relationship with God, something is wrong.

When His Spirit wants to move, all we want to do is soak.

A lot of people in revival these days are just coming for another impartation, another word from the preacher and another prophetic word that they never intend to walk out.  I know a lot of people that got touched at Brownsville when I did. Most of them are just going from meeting to meeting getting “more anointing.” At some point, you have to do something with all that impartation you have received!

What remains in the house will die in the house!

There is a parable we forget or misunderstand. It is the story of the 10 talents. The story is about 3 people who got touched with revival. Two of them invested their “impartation” into the harvest while the last one just want to sit in the church and sing worship songs. The last one was called a “evil and wicked servant.” Revival has a mission and it is not just to make us more anointed! An anointing without a mission will only lead us into deeper deception and make us more religious like the Pharisees.

I was saved in the Brownsville Revival on July 15, 1996 and I know of a bunch of people who got touched in that same time frame at the revival. Like I said, most of them are running from conference to conference getting an “anointing.” Few of them, I repeat few of them are actually investing their impartation. Most of them would be evil and wicked servants.

So how now shall I live?

How do we live to not be more religious after getting our “anointing?” There is always a mission to revival! Every revival has died because of the lack of mission. I didn’t say the lack of missions but the lack of mission.  Many go into the nations as “missionaries” but they have lost the mission.  Their mission is to build a ministry; not build His ministry.

The only hope for the people going to “revival meetings” to change the tide of revival is to get a vision of mission, not just missions!”

The above message was posted at www.palawanrevival.com by our friend Peter Vandever.
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Let this rock you to the core!  It’s time to stop going to church and start being the church!  We are going to start going out a lot more and recording the things God is doing in and through us and posting it all here.

Jesus came to a point in His life and ministry that He became so fed up with the unbelief of His own people that He stopped the majority of His synagogue-preaching in order to go town to town to spread the Good News amongst people who were unchurched and not religious at all (Mark 6:5-7).

Let that sink in.  Jesus, for the most part, stopped preaching and teaching in the synagogues and made it a point to take His message of love and power onto the streets because He had not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

What are we doing?