Last weekend's revival lit the fire... but from the looks (and sound) of things, it has in no way been unattended and left to dwindle back down to embers. It appears that those who were hungry for revival ran from the outer court, jumped into the EPICENTER of revival fire, and fully intend to remain there, continuing in their personal lives to stoke the flames, of prayer, of praise, of reading the word, of drawing closer to God and farther from the world... because you don't have to prime the well of revival in a church that's been drawing from that well all week long! The well water was flowing already when the Sunday morning service began- with never the slightest hint of running dry. The prayer ministry portion of exceptionally powerful, with testimonies of recent miraculous healings, and several prayer recipients being overcome by the Spirit of God, young people in the alters seeking God, a palpable excitement and expectancy in the air...nowhere but up from here for CFWC!!
Pastor Cheek took his text from Leviticus 9:23-24 & 2 Chronicles 7:1-2, the message entitled "His Presence, Your Response". The Spirit of God is moving in this world SO powerfully in these last days, and He desires these encounters with us to affect us far more than what we allow most times. When He pours His Spirit out on us, are we responding to Him like a sponge? Soaking up every bit of Him until we are saturated...or do we give him such limited access to our hearts, that we respond as if we're a rock? Our flesh coming momentarily into contact with His presence, but no lasting effect ever making it to the inside...How are we responding to Him- only temporary outward emotion, or eternal inward change?
