The Greatest Enemy of Revival
The greatest enemy to the frontier is the familiar! I woke this morning with the above phrase on my mind. As my eyes look at our nation of Wales, and I reminisce over my life here before I moved to America in 2007, I am awakened to the reality that nostalgia is no longer my friend. Before I left for America I wanted another 1904 Welsh Revival. Now, being back in Wales, I want what God has always wanted to do! Have we become too rigid in our expectations, in our religiousity, and in our flat out fear to give up control of what we have built? We need to let God be God. Pioneers of heavenly frontiers, for the things that God wills to manifest on earthly plains, must let go of the familiar and follow the Holy Spirit There is a verse in the New Testament that I love, and whenever I read it I let my thoughts wander to the "what ifs" and the "whys?", "But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a ...