Revival Week (Sunday)

1. Pay attention

• If you are not paying attention, you wont even realize that you are under attack. 
• You’ve been lulled into a sense of complacency and now you are under attack. You didn’t see it coming, it came from no where. It just grabs you out of no where
• 2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that his purpose was to make war against Jerusalem,
• What set Hezekiah up for success was that he was aware of the reality that an attack was coming against him. Sennacherib had a purpose. His purpose was to make war
• John 10:10 says the devil comes to seek, kill and destroy
• 1 peter 5:8 says he walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour
• If you are a blood bought child of God, there is a target on your back and chest
• You must pay attention. The devil doesn’t come with a pitch fork. He comes as an angel of Light. 
• The only angels of light I see are Movie Screens, TV Screens, Tablet Screens, Phone Screens. 
• All light. Comes in through your eyes. Changes how you view the world and others. 
• Heb 2:1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
• Give all the more earnest heed to the things you have heard- you’ve heard it- Take heed! 
• How many times do you relisten to the sermon? How often do you do a personal study through the notes? Its up every week. You can dig in even deeper. Apply it even more. I listen to it! 
• You can not be led astray to other things that seek to lead you away from the things of God. 
• Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you.
• Make adjustments as you need to keep you from going from the left and right. 
• New years eve, we dumped all the sweets from the house. Gonzo. Done. No temptation

2. Don’t do it alone 

• I’ve been researching and reading so much about the church. You were created for community
• I have never met a strong Christian who isn’t part of a Church. Not one time. 
• I’ve met a lot of self-righteous prideful individuals that lack humility, but no strong ones. 
• 3 he consulted with his leaders 4 Thus many people gathered together 
• However great King Hezekiah was, he obviously saw that he needed his leaders, commanders and many other people gathered together to fight against the enemy. Not by himself
• Gal 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
• As Christians we are called to be together. We aren’t supposed to fight on our own
• Never understand when people pull back when they are going through it. Go through it here. 
• Verbalize to the brethren that you’re going through it. Give others the gift of walking out the scriptures and being able to carry your burdens. Let them pray for you, help, support etc. 
• Hezekiah couldn’t do it on his own. He needed to have others by his side to be able to help him. 
• Ro 15:1 We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• You remember when our church went through all that stuff back in 2019-2020? I so desperately needed your encouragement and you gave it to me. It sustained me. But what if I left? 
• You can’t help if you’re not in the room. That means you have to be in community
• 1 Thes 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.
• There are times when we are all weak and we need to be upheld. What if you miss your moment? You want someone to be there for you in your time of need, but you wont position yourself in the same way. The church doesn’t work without you here!
• Visting church in AZ- Greet your neighbor time. New people next to us- Greeted!
• Don’t know if they are there, but I did my part that day for the kingdom!

3. Own what you own 

• As much as we need other people, and we need the spirit of God, there’s always a personal component to it. Our agency comes in alignment with the Lord. 
• You have to get out of bed in the morning. No one else is going to do it for you. 
• There is a spiritual reality to a life lived under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, but there is always a human interaction with it. You have to pray, You have to read, You have to reflect, you have to focus, remove the stuff from your life, direct your paths, submit to his will
• 2 chron 32:5 And he strengthened himself
• How exactly, not really laid out in this scripture, but Hezekiah got involved in the process. 
• He realized that he was going to go into battle and he girded up his loins and gets ready for it
• Back in sales days. So repetitive and boring. Sucking air in the car before going in. 
• What do you do to prepare yourself for the day and a day in the Lord’s house?
• 1 Sam 30:6 David strengthened himself in the Lord. 
• Always curious about people that never raise their hands once, never bow the knee once, never fast once, never get drastic with it. Never get involved. “you do it God” instead of “Here I am”
• When I’m here- I maximize the moment. I try to connect with God and receive from him. 
• Hebrews 12:12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
• We need each other, but sometimes you have to find it yourself. No one cares more about you than you. Most people are so self consumed they don’t have time to think about you. 
• Be Honest with yourself. Tell yourself what you know to be true. Go from there. 
• Apply the word of God to your life. Immediately apply what you hear from God.