The author’s approach with this book is NOT Your Traditional Mimosa. This book does not take the expected focus which generally expounds on revivals of our past like the First Great Awakening or the life of Jonathan Edwards that eventually found him as the voice in the forefront of this revival. This book also highlights the regrets of Jonathan Edwards and the years after his full-blown revival. These chapters also deal with how to recognize an emerging revivalist, the heart of the woman at the well, and, the heart of a Muslim man who said of his Muslim faith, “this religion is doing nothing for my heart.” Rejecting his entire religious faith for a few years, he continued to seek God prayerfully and diligently. While the heart is the focus of these chapters, they also deal with what revival is and, is not.
Revival is NOT your traditional mimosa that intoxicates with a whole lot of sensationalism, but rather, an authentic revival rallies to KNOW GOD intimately. His Holy Presence becomes more than enough for the sincere seekers of who He is.
The Holy Spirit power contained within believers when they come to Christ, remains, far-too-often, dormant. A genuine revival will reveal God from the invisible to the visible. Seekers of genuine revivals are not focused on the mystical, or, a frenzy of a lot of hype that generally distracts from the very purpose and that is changing hearts. They are searching for God to reveal Himself with a lasting value - with something the world cannot and does not offer.
An authentic revival will find hearts changed. Obvious and clear life-changes begin to happen, and, those that lead with a supernatural faith know they have been commissioned for such a time – prepared and equipped to lead as they are called by God.
This move of God written about in this book, is a fire that cannot be stopped. It is also a fire monitored by the Holy Spirit Himself - through those leading, and, in order to protect the flock from all that would rob, kill, and destroy – if opportunity arises.
The book begins with a chapter that might seem somewhat out-of-place in a book on revival. But, while understanding the Levitical Priesthood – its’ purpose and its’ weakness, we begin to see that a New World Order of the heart was necessary, and, this new order became a revival in itself, just as the Old World Order of law and practice, was a much-needed revival of laws and boundaries that served its purpose before Jesus came on the scene.
With revivalists in the forefront of our day and time, and, this revival much needed in restoring the heart back to worship of who God is, we learn from our past and from the regrets of those who teach us, like Jonathan Edwards. NOT Your Traditional Mimosa inspires for the much needed change that must begin within the church. The message summed up within these pages, is the much-needed REVIVAL of recovery and restoration back to the Living, Breathing, and Life-changing Word of God.
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