WE REPRODUCE WHAT GOD DID BEFORE
I have been in churches where God has moved mightily on a Sunday, but the problem became that the next week people were trying to conjure up the same experience they had the previous Sunday. God is creative, and just because He painted the picture a certain way one week, doesn’t mean He wants us to put it in a gallery. He’s creating something new!
In revivals throughout time God has emphasized a different “under-emphasized” doctrine. In the 1900s it was the moving of the Holy Spirit (Wales, Azuza). Before that it was holiness. Before that the Word of God and what we believe about it. You could even say today that God is moving in young generations with the issues of social justice (He still cares for the poor, orphans, and widows).
But no matter what you believe about where God is moving right now – we believe that He is doing something fresh. He is doing the job of CREATING. We need to stop doing the job of RE-CREATING, and let Him do His fresh work in us. David in Psalm 51 when he had committed adultery, “CREATE in me a clean heart, O God”. That word is the same word used in the Creation story (bara). It means to create out of nothing. We need to ask God to create something out of the nothingness of our lives.
Because remember what Martin Luther said, “God made the world out of nothing, if we are not yet nothing, God cannot make something out of us.”
I want to be NOTHING on Sunday (and every day), so I can be God’s SOMETHING on Monday (and every day).
We don't hear from God because we don't expect from God. The new generation of believers rarely seeks God like their parents, will we help or hinder their journey? Will we be brave enough to seek out God for our selves? Or will we be content to look fondly at what he's done in the past
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