The Price of Revival is Sacrifice
Taken extensively from an old memory from about ten years ago, this moved my heart today, and I hope it moves your heart too.
If you are hungry for Revival, then hear The Word of The LORD!
“Fire doesn’t fall on empty Altars!
There has to be a sacrifice on The Altar for The Fire to fall.
If you want The Fire of God, then you must become the fuel of God.
Jesus sacrificed Himself for our salvation, but He has called each and every person who wants to follow Him to do what?
To lay down their lives and take up their cross — and follow Him!”
What a concept in today’s Church!
We live in an entitlement society today where everything is either given to you or done for you.
God calls us, His faithful Remnant, to do the opposite!
To do the doing, and to earn the rewards! Imagine that!
Elijah didn’t ask for God’s Fire to fall down on The Altar until he had loaded it with fuel and a worthy sacrifice.
We’ve been praying for The Fire to fall — but there’s nothing on The Altar!
We’ve been calling for Revival — but with little or no sacrifice on The Altar of our Hearts — and even less fuel to ignite it!
If you are hungry for The Fire to fall in your Church, then you need to put yourself onto The Altar and say, “LORD, whatever it takes! I lay myself on Your Altar and ask you to consume me with Your Fire, LORD!”
As John Wesley said, “I set myself on fire, and people come to see me burn!”
- What are you willing to sacrifice in order for God to answer with Fire?
- Will you lay on the altar?
- Will you be the sacrifice and the fuel?
The price will be too high for many, but The LORD will honour the few with a Revival Fire that we’ve only ever imagined, dreamed of, or read about!
The coming Revival Fire will be greater than anything we’ve seen or heard about before — even bigger than we’ve imagined — because this is what The LORD has promised through His prophets.
It’s time to prepare our altars with both sacrifice and fuel.
THEN we can call, as did Elijah, “LORD, send Your Fire!”
~ Chris G. Bennett
Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.
There is a reason why people at the frontline of revival movements don’t emphasize this. Who among them is willing to put their Isaac on the altar for the sake of revival let alone their own egos. Draw up close and personal they look more like Eli and his sons. I am grieved to write this but this is my take. When it comes time for a sacrifice to be put up, I have seen the big names push the little ones up on the altar
Just read the following last night in: God’s Tsunami – Understanding Israel and End-time Prophecy
by Peter Tsukahira
Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. 1 Kings 18:30
We restore the altar of the Lord when we make our own lives a meeting place for God. It is here that we can bring Him every weak and worthless thing— every idle and critical word, every selfish motive, every lustful thought, every cruel remark or deed, everything that is cowardly, every pain, affliction, and hurt.
We must also bring to that altar every noble and good thing about us as an offering to God—our talents, our gifts, our future plans, our dreams. We bring them all to the Master as an irrevocable, nonreturnable offering, and we let Him make of our entire lives what He desires —His good and perfect, eternal will. This is the place where true revival begins.