God's people cry out to Him for help.

Thank you for joining me as we continue to prepare our hearts for revival. We pray you will join us at the Just Give Me Jesus Revival, led by Anne Graham Lotz, Sept. 21-22, at the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia. Please find us on Facebook, Just Give Me Jesus Augusta, Georgia, to keep up with the latest news. For more information you may go to Just Give Me Jesus Augusta.

“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD,

‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me,

and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me with all your heart.

I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD,

‘and will bring you back from captivity.

I will gather you from all the nations

and places where I have banished you,’ declares the LORD,

‘and will bring you back to the place

from which I carried you into exile.”

Jeremiah 29:11-14

Thank you for joining us once again as we study the seven phases of revival from Henry & Richard Blackaby’s book Fresh Encounter, Experiencing God’s Power for Spiritual Awakening.

·      Phase 1: God is on a mission to redeem a lost world

·      Phase 2: God’s people tend to depart from Him, turning to substitutes for His presence, His purposes, and His ways.

·      Phase 3: God disciplines His people because of His love.

·      Phase 4: God’s people cry out to Him for help.

·      Phase 5: God calls His people to repent and return to Him or perish.

·      Phase 6: God revives His repentant people by restoring them to a right relationship with Him.

·      Phase 7: God exalts His Son, Jesus, among His people and draws unbelievers to saving faith in Him.

Last week we studied in phase 3 that God disciplines His people because of His love. Have you felt God disciplining you for sin in your life? Did you take time to pray and ask God to reveal areas of sin?

There are times when God has to allow bad things to happen to us in order for us to realize our desperate need for him. We are a stubborn people who fall into the sin of the world.

Henry & Richard Blackaby tell us that when we sin we become spiritually ill in our lives, family, church, and nation. When we realize we are spiritually ill we need the help of the Great Physician - God. He will heal our lives, family, church, and nation. It is up to us to ask!

How do we call on Him?

·      Call upon the Lord and pray. However you need to go to him - in the quiet of your room, driving down the road, at the altar of your church, during your morning run. It doesn’t matter how, just that you go to him and he will listen to you!

·      Seek the Lord. Get in His Word, listen to Christian music, go to church, whatever you need to do to feel his presence and listen to him.

·      Go with the Lord. When He tells you to get up and go, GO! He will take you out of the captivity of the sin you are in and move you to a place of fellowship with Him.

Take the time this week to call upon God. Ask Him to give you the strength you need to face the consequences of your sin. Ask Him to give you the strength to follow Him as He brings you back from your place of exile.

Dear Lord, thank you that you know the plans you have for us and that those plans are to prosper us and not harm us. Thank you that when we call on you, you will hear us and answer our prayers. Please give us the strength we need to call on you. May we feel your loving arms wrapped around us as we cry out to you. Fill us with your loving presence.

In Your Name I Pray, Amen.

In His Calm,


Mary