If you guys have been keeping up with the reading, we are in chapter 3. Here, the author focuses on having a need in your personal life for spiritual awakening and the need for recognizing it if we truly want a spiritual awakening. I think this chapter is very practical, at least for me in my life... on page 45 he says, "The first step, the initial prerequisite to revival. If a person really sees the need for revival, then he or she will be motivated to do something about it, beginning to pray and taking the first steps of faith." Revival starts with us, are we praying? Does God truly see our hearts for a longing to see lives turned from death to life? Not just in a few small numbers, but in numbers that you read in this book. On page 46 the question that really hit me was, "What makes you weep and pound the table?" I know that for me, it is to see students wasting their lives with things that are meaningless. I remember hearing a story about a retired couple in Florida, they lived to golf and find new recipes they could make together, also they would collect shells on the beach as the sun was setting. Now lets fast forward as they approach the Lord in the heaven, and the Lord asks them, what have you done with what I have given you? And they reply, "Look at the shells I collected!" That's all she/he had to show for. Where are our hearts in crying out to God in our personal lives for revival, for lives changed on our campus? What are WE doing with what the Lord has given us? I want you to re-read the last 2 paragraphs of the chapter, and really reflect on them. Once again, let me know what you're thinking, thoughts, comments, etc! Keep on reading and praying for the Lord to open your eyes up to see things in the book and to show you Him and what HE wants for your life.
-God Bless!
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