Our society today is almost like the wild west. Part of a news headline today reads: 'Almost Like the Wild West'. The rest of the headline goes like this: School Bus Fight Between Students Ends in Deadly Shooting Between Mothers.
Two moms became involved in their daughters squabble, and they decided to take up the fight! These two mothers allow this quarrel to escalate to the point of setting a time to meet at the O K Corral. Almost like the wild west!
After a series of events, the news reported that one of the women was killed by a shot to the chest. Almost like the wild west! Two women at the O K Corral?
Research shows that at the real O K Corral, the entire gunfight lasted approximately 30 seconds. The following day, the headline in the 'Tombstone Epitaph' newspaper read, “Three Men Hurled into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment.”
I don't know how long the two women of Mercer County, West Virginia spewed and sparred at their designated place of meeting - but I do know at the end of the scuffle, one of the women lay dead. One of the two daughters is now without a mom. All because of an argument on the school bus.
Have we succumbed to this in America? Are we quickly approaching the days of wearing a holster and gun, just like Annie Oakley? We are seeing the results of a godless society. We are watching a lawless society in action. People are angry. Tension is high.
There is a demonstration of the flesh in our country by people that exceeds anything I've seen in my lifetime. Anything goes. If you are angry, then by all means, lash out! Throw restraint to the wind.
You say, "We are civilized. These things can't happen in America!" May I tell you: These things are happening in America!
When God is rejected and pushed out of every facet of life and treated with such disdain in a nation, you can count on it...the least provocation will unleash a pent up rage inside every human. It did so for the two mothers who recently vowed to continue the fight started between their girls.
We are in need of a great revival. A soul-stirring, soul-shaking revival. A revival seeped in conviction. A revival rich in anointing. A revival power-packed with the move of the Holy Spirit. A revival that transforms lives.
The depth of a revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.
"The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire from on high,
A purifying passion and a forsaking of our stubborn pride.
We need a vision of eternity, of Hell and the Judgment Day,
A fervent love for our Savior, that will gladly serve and obey.
We need a Pentecostal purging and a breaking deep within,
A vision of God Almighty and a river of tears for our nations sin.
We need a Heaven-sent revival, a burning fire set ablaze.
Yet, we'll never see such glory, until the Church begins to pray." - David Smithers
“Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.” –Daniel 9:3-5
God, send Revival to America once again!
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