We don't need Revival... WHAT?????

Good Morning!

I try really hard to just mind my own business and let people have their own opinions, and in the times we live in that is not always easy, now I am not talking about things that are obviously sinful, there is no room for opinion there right is right and wrong is wrong period end of discussion. The issue at hand for me is the issue of REVIVAL everyday I hear some one say "the only answer for the Church is revival, we need to get back to some old fashioned, Holy Ghost revival in the church" and then all the people listening to them will shout and yell and run and then next Sunday they come back to church and hear the same thing and they shout over the same thing and nothing ever changes.

As a man who has been around the ministry all of my life (my mother went into labor with me while she was preaching) in the active ministry for 20 years and a full time pastor for 12 years this December. I have seen some very powerful moves of God, I have seen meetings that lasted 6, 8 or even 12 weeks, I have seen scores of miracles, blind eyes opened, deaf ears opened, people getting out of wheelchairs was a regular occurrence there was one period of time when I was a assistant pastor where we saw two verified cases of cancer healed and other undeniable miracles that I could go on and on about. These things were great and in the midst of all these physical miracles was the greats miracle of all people were being saved in every service, people were being filled with the Holy Spirit in every service it was an amazing atmosphere. It was not too long after this that I attended two major revivals Florida and Missouri, in both of these places the presence of God noticeably present and I left both feeling refreshed and rejuvenated, but here is my point I did not feel that was unusual it is what should happen when we are in church.

What many are seeking and calling revival the Bible calls normal operating procedure for the church. People will go to a church where the gifts of the Spirit are in operation and the power of God is flowing and they will leave and say "That church is in revival" no that church is operating as a New Testament church should in a New Testament church there should be healings and miracles, tongues and interpretation of tongues, prophecy, word of wisdom etc. These things should be normal in the church, they are the status quo according to the Word. No where in the New Testament are we told that these things are a sign of a new move of God, we are told these things should be going on in our churches on a regular basis not every six months or every other year.

If we as pastors would take as much time getting the plan of God for our churches as we do seeking after a supposed revival we would not only be father along than we are, we would see far more moving of the Holy Spirit than we do. It is not tears and shaking and people screaming that denotes revival, yet that is what many point to in order to prove that they are in revival and unfortunately if you go back to that church in 6 months those people who were shaking and screaming are placid and reserved if they are there at all because once the emotion wears off there is nothing left, and after six months the pastor will again be saying "we need a revival like the days of old" the proble with that is they never had to be revived... they never died.

Building Faith
Pastor Steele