One thing that I notice in my new church. People here are friendly. People here are kind. And some people here are only interested in me because I used to live in Prescott. They pick my brain to see what I remember about the early days in the Prescott church. And once they get what they want from me they ignore me.
This ties in to my thoughts on reliving the past. People think that if God did it before, He can do it again. And they spend their lives trying to find the key to what triggered revival in 1970. Here's a key no one wants. Be at the end of your rope and be on the verge of giving up. Be empty and discouraged. Have no success to point to for validation. And then see if someone out of the blue offers you a questionable opportunity that makes no sense. And finally, live in a destructive generation that has lost it's collective mind. See if God will be impressed enough to give you a carbon copy revival.
"I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to all of them. For man also does not know his time: like a fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them." Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
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