Movement or Mindset?

a question i have been going back in forth in my head is revival just a movement or is it something that has to come from our hearts? I think that it is something that starts in our hearts and leads to a movement. So often we are hindered from having the revival mindset and that is why it has been just talk. This is something i have been asking the Lord to reveal to me so i can operate out of this revival mentality. I have been on a 3 week long journey of weeding things out and asking the Lord to reveal what i need maturity in, healing in and to weed out the stuff that fog my vision. This is what i came up with. 

What hinders us from Revival?

what hinders us from revival is all the things that fog up the lens we look through. All our hurts, heartache, annoyances, distractions, not knowing our identity, and addictions. 

So how do we clear that? we change our mindset and operate out of the kingdom perspective and mindset. We take hold of what the Lord has spoken to us and take that as our identity. We fall more in love with Jesus everyday because we get a greater understanding of who he is. We recognize that he made us for bigger things than we could ever dream. 

We have to understand that is does not always come in the package that we think it will come in either. Our mindsets are locked into their own specific pattern that we do not recognize what the Lord is saying because it doesn't fit our mindset. The Pharisees and the Sadducees in their blindness did not recognize the Messiah when He was standing in front of them because the box that they out Him in did not line up with what they thought. It did not go against what the prophets said, it was just different than what they expected. 

So, we need to recognize that revival is not only a movement, it is a mindset. To understand the will of the Lord and the call and take it on. Once we have revival in our hearts then we can start to see the movement of revival. But, to see revival in our hearts we have to seek after intimacy with Jesus and understand His love to operate out of the simple gospel and the ecclesia mindset. To really work out of the concept of just jesus and being fully satisfied with him.  People ask all the time How I can do what I do? Being away from my family, having no money and ultimately no idea what i am doing with the future. and my response has to be i understand who jesus is and the call on my life and what he created me for and i trust him enough to work it out. through 2 years of learning what the Lord has to say about me and what he created me for i have learned that he is more committed to providing for me and my future than i ever could be. How would he not provide and give guidance for the future, to let me chase after the desires of my heart and see me succeed in what he has called me into. 

The word is Ekballo. Lou Engle spoke on the call of God and it has turn into a movement amongst missionaries to recognize the call that they have on their lives and understanding what they are doing in the kingdom and on earth. What is Ekballo?

Ekballo

ek-bal'-lo

Greek origin

1. to cast out, drive out, to send out with great force

2. to cause a thing to move straight to it's intended goal

3. so employed in rapid motion of the one going is transferred to the one sending forth

Ekballo is a violent sending out to revive the saved and save the lost. So, how will this happen if this is not the lens i look through. Something i learned was, We are responsible for the revelation that we receive, so how could i ever go back to the normalcy of life. Jesus is king and there is lots to be done before his return. I have to operate out of the mindset of revival and seek the kingdom perspective first. We have to understand that revival starts in our hearts and once we understand it there then we will operate out of it in our daily lives. We will have this Ekballo perspective and have a focus that will be moving towards the end goal; which is Jesus receiving all the glory from every tribe, tongue and nation.

This will be the new mindset and we will see revival break out on the earth. 

THE TIME IS NOW.