Rise from Sleep

Transcript

Good morning and greetings in Jesus’ name. Welcome to this new morning. Are you ready to allow the Lord to revive you? I can see the Lord releasing a new revival anointing upon your life. There can be areas of your life that are dormant, dead, stagnant or asleep. Today, as you hear the voice of the Lord, those areas are coming back to life. Those areas are going to become fruitful one more time. Those areas are going to receive health and wholeness in the mighty name of Jesus.

Romans 13:11 says, And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

So I’m telling this to you who are listening, that the hour is now; I’m declaring this over your business, your marriage, your education, your failures, your struggles, etc., that the hour is now. This is the time. Revival is not something that you receive in the future. Revival is something that you will experience in the present. In Jesus’ name, let that be clear to you, let that become a revelation to you; that you don’t have to keep hoping for something in the distant future but you can tap into it today. All you need to do is believe and come in agreement with me on this scripture.

Paul is speaking to a church who have been saved, renewed and revived by Jesus but he still finds some areas in their lives where he finds them sleeping. Some aspects of their walk with God was dormant and there were some areas where they had still not experienced victory. If we closely inspect our lives and relationships, there will always be those areas that we don’t want to expose and talk about. When we have not lived up to the mark when it comes to our finances, or our personal purity, our giving, our education, or some promises made unto the Lord that were forgotten or hidden; it really doesn’t matter how bad those failures are, the Lord is telling us, ‘this is the time’ when those who are asleep are rising up again.

Today I’m not here to teach you how to wake up from the sleep. My voice is the prophetic alarm clock that is waking you up right now. As I echo what God is speaking into your life, there’s fresh breadth coming into your nostrils. There’s fresh breadth coming upon that valley of dry bones. There is a coordination happening between one dream that was dead and other aspects and resources of your life. Things are falling into place; they are connecting one to another. The entire body is coming back into fullness of life in the mighty name of Jesus.

Paul says, we know this time, this is a special time because this hour is a ‘now hour’. The hour is now that we rise from sleep. Then he goes on to conclude by saying, ‘for now, our health is nearer than when we first believed. He is saying that there was a health that we received from the Lord when we first believed and when we put our faith and trust in Jesus. We received a portion of health in our body, soul and spirit when we first believed. He says that our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. Let me tell you this carefully without belittling your salvation experience. The truth of the matter is, the encounter that you are about to receive today, is greater, nearer, and more powerful than the encounter that first caused you to believe. Paul says that the encounter that God wants to give now is even more powerful to your final destiny.

I don’t know if you have the faith to believe that this revival grace that you are about to experience today is going to be even more powerful and more beautiful than your salvation experience. If you believe that, may you experience what it looks like when the dormant areas of your life rise back from the sleep in the mighty name of Jesus.