September 2014
(Note: Pastor's Pen is published on a monthly basis)
Revival
Let’s start praying for a spirit of revival and a soul saving campaign to break
forth at Northwest! Every church body needs more than a calendared revival which
is just a series of scheduled services. What is needed is an old fashion
outpouring of the Holy Spirit and that only comes by fasting, praying and crying
out to God for lost souls and needs in the body and surrounding communities. I
believe people hungered for a revival of sanctification in 1886, 1896 and until
1906 when the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was poured out in the foothills of
Tennessee, North Carolina and California. God wants to bless a people who will
hunger and thirst after righteousness. When revival came to the Church of God in
1896 it was recorded “Lives that had been disorderly became upright; men who had
been violent became meek; drunkards quit their drinking and gamblers their
gambling.” NW and all Bible believing churches need that kind of revival! I
encourage you during the month of September pick a day to fast, pray, and call
out to God for a mighty move that will stir the heart of “Casual Church
Attendees, Pew Warmers, Non-tithers, Seekers of Fellowship instead of Seekers of
God, and Lost souls above all else.” I capitalize their names for surely they
are classified as nouns and have distinctive names. Let’s bind together and
bathe September with Prayer; I love you. You are welcome to attend Tuesday
Morning Prayer at 10:00 in the Church Atrium. You are covered with my prayers.
Love and prayers,
~ Pastor Roberts
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