If, when talking about God’s provision, healing, etc., you say “I know God can, but…” , you’ve already admitted that you don’t actually trust God.
Faith is choosing to trust God’s promises and counting Him faithful. He is provider, healer, etc…it’s His nature.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
-Romans 12:2
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” - John 10:10
Jesus paid for sin and everything that came with it, so if your life isn’t looking like Jesus paid for it, it’s because something is trying to lie to you and steal from you.
If a thief comes into your house, do you just let him roam around and take and destroy whatever he wants and chalk it up to God’s will? 
In the same way, do not be complacent or tolerant of that in your daily life (mind, soul, body, finances…your life in general).
God gave you dominion over the earth (Gen. 1:26-28). You have authority and power to be like Jesus on this earth (Luke 10:19, 1 John 2:3-6, 1 John 4:17).
Do something with what you have.
Repent means to change the way you think. Renewing your mind is similar…renew your mind to the things of God (Romans 12:1-2), not the things of man.
Human logic can only get you so far. Our God is a God of miracles and making the impossible, possible.
Make a conscious internal decision to change the way you think, because the truth will set you free.
The more people stay complacent and tolerant of the things of the devil (and a lot of people attribute the things of the devil to God because they don’t know any better [Hos. 4:6]), the more they will see destruction in their lives and the lives of the people they love.
So, all this to say: Be empowered, trust God, do something.
You have Christ and the Holy Spirit that raised him from the dead dwelling inside you!
- Laura
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You probably do not know me.
I offer you eyes to see and ears to hear what many are too afraid to see and listen to. 
Though this message is long, I assure you that if you have a heart to see the nations impacted for the glory and Kingdom of God, your life will never be the same if you put into practice what I have presented to you.
What I have compiled here is simply information from the Word of God—information that is not put into practice will lead to stagnation and deception (James 1:22).
Information that is put into practice through the renewing of the mind will bring transformation (Romans 12:1-2).
The reason I am contacting you is because I know that you have a heart to see the nations of this world become gripped with tangible demonstrations of the Presence and power of God through Jesus Christ.
I know that you would not be affiliated with the organizations that you are with and doing what you are doing if you did not have a desire to see Jesus get His full reward and for the transformational power of the resurrected Christ to destroy the strongholds of darkness that have so ensnared the minds of this generation.
The realities that are presented in this message are, as you will soon find, in direct conflict with a majority of what people have been taught is the ‘route to revival’ today.
However, I assure you that if you have a heart for Truth and if you set aside the initial offenses that will undoubtedly come and look into the Scriptures for yourself, you will find that what I am offering to you is the Truth–nothing more.
I have gone out on a limb by contacting you—but my heart is only to see captives set free—both those inside the church and those outside.
This message has contained within it the keys you need to see ‘revival’ break out everywhere you go.
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“An Appeal to Those Seeking Revival”
By Ryan Rhoades
(www.RevivalOrRiots.org)
Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting a different result.
Let me ask you a question—how much “praying for revival” have you done, and how much “revival” have you seen and experienced?
And again—can you think of a single place in the New Testament where Jesus instructed the disciples to take years and years of their lives to commit to extended fasting and prayer before they were sent into the cities they impacted with the Gospel of the Kingdom?
Or did they simply obey and believe in faith that Jesus had sent them to accomplish a mission that would produce results (healing, deliverance, freedom from oppression, salvation) and they acted on what they believed?
Am I even remotely suggesting prayer and intercession are a bad thing? No, of course not.
What I am saying is that much of what is considered prayer and intercession today is not producing the fruit that many boast of—and that there are better ways to pray that will accomplish the end which so many seek and are crying out for.
What I am offering here is precisely that.
I once was where you are. I once was one to spend hours ‘contending’ for revival.
I once was one who spent extended periods of time fasting and praying, “crying out” for God to pour out His Spirit.
It was not until the things that are contained in this message were presented to me that I realized a lot of what I had been taught was simply not true in the light of Scripture and the life of Christ and His finished work on the cross.
It never really occurred to me that despite my own lack of seeing results and answered prayer, that I could potentially have been the one that was in the way of seeing God “show up”.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
As you will find if you choose to look through the material that I am presenting you with, God has already answered and fulfilled the prophecy of Joel 2 to pour out His Spirit on all flesh (Acts 2:16, 2:33) and now the resurrected Christ lives inside each and every born-again believer (Gal. 2:20) and we have indeed been blessed with everything we will ever need to see our world transformed with the power of God (Eph. 1:3, 2 Peter 1:3).
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You will find that we have already received the fullness of the Spirit through Christ (John 1:16, Col. 2:8-10) and Jesus really meant it when He said “it is finished” (John 19:30).
The Truths that I am presenting to you will, if you let them, awaken you to the reality that the mystery of the Gospel has already been revealed–and it is Christ-in-you, the hope of glory (Col. 1:26-27).
They will open your eyes to the fact that Jesus Christ took the penalty for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2) and that God is no longer holding people’s sins against them (2 Cor. 5:19).
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This does not mean it is okay to sin. There are consequences to sin, surely. But what it does mean is that God is not going to punish the world or judge our nation for sin.
Jesus Christ became sin for us so that we could become the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Cor. 5:21).
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Jesus ‘stood in the gap’ for us. He bridged the gap between the sinfulness of man and the wrath of God towards sin. He offered Himself as a sacrifice, once for all men and all time (Heb. 10:12) and is now seated at the right hand of the Father waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool (Heb. 10:13) because He has now made us perfect through His sacrifice (Heb. 10:14).
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God crushes His enemies under OUR feet (Rom. 16:20)
Because we are in Christ, God no longer remembers our sins (Heb. 8:12, Heb. 10:17).
This does not mean I am even remotely implying that all people are “saved” or “going to heaven”.
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What it does mean is that God is not going to wipe out our nation unless we fast and pray and ‘cry out’ enough.
It means that Jesus Christ took all the sins of the entire world upon Himself, past, present and future, and that we must appropriate His sacrifice to our lives, by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9)
IMAGINE THIS
The picture I want to paint for you is simply as follows:
- What would it look like if instead of believing that God is still angry and needs His wrath appeased by all of our meetings and sacrifices and constant repentance, that we accepted the reality that God is good, in a good mood, and has already had His wrath towards sin satisfied through the blood sacrifice of His Son?
. - What would it look like if instead of believing that in order to see “revival” that we must get untold millions of people fasting and praying, pleading with God to pour out His Spirit (which He already did – Acts 2:16, 2:33), as if we are wanting to see “revival” more than He does and that we must now convince Him to answer our pleadings and our works by rewarding us with “revival” and a “fresh outpouring”—if instead of all that, if we simply acknowledged every good thing that is in us through Christ (Philemon 1:6) and acted like the powerful people and royalty He has made us to be and set the captives free everywhere we went?
. - What would it look like, if instead of gathering together for a 24 hour prayer meeting every week, crying out TO God, if the people of God (who already have Christ living in them) rose up and realized that there is a world around them already who is crying out FOR a DEMONSTRATION of the goodness of God that will lead them to repentance (Rom. 2:4), and that it is our responsibility as Christians (those who emulate Christ – 1 John 2:3-6) to do so and be faithful with the commission we have been given already (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15-18, John 20:21)? What if we spent a few hours in prayer and worship and then took this Good News Gospel out and set people free on a consistent basis? What if we would just thank God that He has empowered us to do what He’s called us to and took that joy OUT of the building?
. - What would it look like if the thousands and thousands of people all over the world who are praying for revival realized that they themselves are the very answers to the prayers they are praying?
. - What would it look like if instead of spending millions of dollars advertising and renting stadiums for events where multiple thousands of Christians can gather to “seek God” (who already lives in them), if those Christians went into the cities in which they live (or even a specific city for an organized ‘strike’ against the works of darkness) and set captives free by healing the sick, preaching the Gospel, casting out demons, and demonstrating the love and character of Christ in all that they do (Matthew 10:7-8, Luke 10:8-9)?
I think it would look like worldwide ‘revival’.
The reality is that most Christians have been spoon-fed a destructive mixture of law and grace, old covenant principles with New Covenant truths. Jesus said putting new wine into an old wineskin would cause both to burst (Mark 2:22).
The reality is that most of our ‘worship’ songs and most of our ‘prayers’ in the church are asking God to do things that He has already done, or asking Him to do things He told us to do, or pleading with Him not to do things that He will not do because of the sacrifice of His Son.
If you are not living a victorious, overcoming Christian life, then you have probably been taught and bought into something that is preventing you from doing so.
IT’S ALL ABOUT JESUS
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As Jesus is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17).
Our responsibility is to demonstrate and re-present Jesus to everyone around us. That is why we call ourselves “Christians”.
For us to emulate the life and ministry of any other person in the Bible other than Christ (John the Baptist, Elijah, David, Anna, Peter, Paul, etc.) is an affront to what God intended for us to do—Jesus said among those born of women, none are greater than John the Baptist—but that those who are least in the Kingdom of God (us, now, because we are born again) are greater than John.
Why? None of the saints who served God before the crucifixion and resurrection were born again. Their spirits were not one with God as ours are now (1 Cor. 6:17). They were not new creations in Christ (2 Cor. 5).
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They were not the temple of the Holy Spirit, as you are right now if you are in Christ (1 Cor. 3:16, 1 Cor. 6:19).
That means that you are not seeking to dwell in His temple (as David wrote in Psalm 27 under the Old Covenant). That means that YOU are now His temple. That should change everything about how you look at life. God goes where you go! He lives in you! This is almost-too-good-to-be-true news!
God does not need to “come”. He does not need to pour out His Spirit. He lives in you. You need to pour out your life and help the world around you if you want to see God “show up”.
In the past, God spoke through the prophets and in various ways. In these last days, He speaks through His Son, Jesus Christ (Heb. 1:1-3).
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Jesus is the expressed perfect image and will of the Father on earth, right now. Any revelation or understanding about the character and nature of God that you do not see in the person of Jesus is one you should seriously question.
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SO, NOW WHAT?
I know that a lot of what I have said is pretty much diametrically the opposite of what you have been taught or heard before.
I assure you that this message does not make one popular in mainstream circles.
But it is the one that will revolutionize the face of and expression of Christianity in one generation who embraces the reality of God living and dwelling in and through them.
There is no “coming revival”.
There is no “coming harvest”.
The harvest is ripe now. It always has been. (John 4:34-35)
It is our job to reap it.
If what I have said has sparked a fire inside of you, and even if it sparked anger and offense, I would humbly request that you prayerfully look through the links posted below.
If you really want to see ‘revival’ and transformation in your life and in your city, I have given you everything you need to start seeing it happen.
If you are interested in learning more, feel free to check out our group on Facebook by clicking here.
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You can connect with people who have, “woken up“, so to speak, from the slumber that religious, man-made traditions had put on them.
A GIFT TO YOU
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Below are links to free resources and teachings that will radically transform your life and the lives of those around you.
If you can get past some of the initial offenses that will rail against what you have been taught most of your life, nothing will ever be the same.
- You will be empowered to disciple nations, set captives free, preach the Good-News of the Gospel, heal the sick, cast out demons, understand your sin nature is dead (Gal. 5:24, Col. 2:11, Rom. 6:2-11), and you will learn how to BE revival to those who need to be revived by the power of the indwelling, resurrected Christ-in-you (spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically).
. - You will learn better ways to pray; you will learn what intercession is and what it is not, you will learn how undeniably, amazingly and awesomely GOOD our Father is who sent His Son to stand in the gap on our behalf, to do what we could never do in our own strength and in the power of His love and His grace.
. - You will learn that God is not angry with you and not disappointed in you-–that He doesn’t just love you, but that He actually does LIKE you too. You will learn that God is not going to punish you for making mistakes (Isaiah 54:9).
. - You will learn how to see this planet impacted with the power and love of God like never before.
Are you willing to embrace a lifestyle that bucks the status quo of religion today?
Are you willing to go against the grain of what the masses have been taught and stand up for the goodness of God and demonstrate who Jesus is by living a life that reflects Him and His nature in all that you do?
The ball is in your court.
The resources are below.
I look forward to seeing you on the front lines.
Warmest Regards and With Deepest Love for Christ and His Church,
Ryan Rhoades
www.RevivalOrRiots.org
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RESOURCES
- A common practice today is ‘identificational repentance’, or as it is commonly called, “standing in the gap” prayer. What most people don’t realize is that you, in reality, cannot repent on behalf of someone else, or a nation, as it was done under the Old Covenant. The idea is that unless enough people ‘repent’, God will send judgment for all the sin in the land. Jesus stood in the gap for us to satisfy the wrath of God towards sin. Check out this video to see more of what we’re getting at.
“Prayer is something that every Christian knows they need to do but very few Christians feel like they have a successful prayer life. There are many reasons for that. It may surprise you to find that one of the big reasons believers struggle with prayer is because of all the wrong teaching they’ve received about it. In this series, Andrew counters many modern religious traditions about prayer and establishes a foundation upon which a rewarding and effective prayer life can be built upon.”
Sample videos from this series:
“There have been many wars throughout history, and more are yet to come. However, the most important one is over, and most Christians don’t even know it. Which war could that be? Listen as Andrew explains; it will change the way you relate to God forever.”
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- This is an article I wrote to deal with the trend of praying for revival as an excuse to not do what Jesus said to do.
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.- As popular as it is, 2 Chronicles 7:14 is probably one of the most widely-quoted scriptures used to hammer people over the head that they need to get on their faces and grovel before God before He’ll do anything…but do you know how out-of-context it is and that it doesn’t apply to you after the cross of Christ?
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- This is a small article I wrote as well as a great video/audio teaching by Roberts Liardon that undeniably deals with the issue of “God’s judgment”.
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Now go.
Speak up.
Ask questions that demand answers.
Do not bow to religious control.
Set captives free.
Change the world for the Kingdom of God!
We highly, highly recommend this teaching series for anyone who has even a slight interest in the ministry of healing or questions about why more people aren’t healed, etc. It gives a lot of practical concepts on how to see the sick set free from their infirmities on a consistent basis.
It is very militant, very aggressive, and very authoritative…so do not be surprised to find yourself questioning a lot of the doctrines that you probably grew up with and have believed most of your Christian life. Our prayer is that all would listen to Curry’s teachings with an open heart and an open mind to receive the revelations of truth that resound through these messages, and to ACT on the Word of God after recognizing that the only thing stopping the healing God has for all mankind is the people He has commissioned to release it.
Be blessed, be challenged, and be empowered!
Click here to go to the download site.
Curry Blake’s official website can be found here (www.jglm.org).
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- Decisions that Define Us – Graham Cooke 11/23/2011 Brandon
- Incomplete Vs. Complete Forgiveness 11/25/2011
- 20 Rob Rufus Quotes On Law vs. Grace 11/23/2011
- Organic Church Introduction 01/30/2012
- Dead to Sin and Alive to God! 11/10/2011
- Five Ways Jesus Revealed Grace 02/01/2012
- Do Everything Jesus Said? 01/29/2012
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