Thank you for taking the time to listen to one of the recent sermons preached at Wilton Baptist Church. It is our desire as a church to strive together in building a faith, family, and future that honors and glorifies our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If we can be a help to you in any way, please visit our website at wiltonbaptistchurch.com. Psalm chapter 36. Thank you ladies for that song. Psalm 36 and verse seven says, how excellent is thy loving kindness, O God, therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. That's our text in our passage today, as the lady so beautifully sung about the refuge of revival. That's our theme here today. And again, I'm glad you're here with us. Welcome to each one. As we prepare our hearts for the revival meeting, We can self-assess, examine our own lives today. So this morning and in this evening's message, we'll be looking at this Bible theme of revival. There's one son taken to a summer camp, and the little fellow was not so sure he wanted to go. He was gonna leave home for the first time, and the experience of being away from home for a week, but his friends and parents assured him it was a good place and he would enjoy it, so he went to camp. When the parents returned to the campsite, much to their surprise, it was like a Bible camp like we send our campers to, but after five days, much to their surprise, they found their son standing where they had left him, wearing the same exact clothes that he had on when they left him. The mother was kind of perturbed by this and asked, son, there was plenty of other clothes in the bag that we sent with you. Why didn't you change your clothes? He said, well, I wanted to be sure that you didn't miss me. The Bible talks about change, and the fact is Christ is coming for us, but while we're waiting for Christ to come for us, we should change. We should change to be more like Jesus the Christ. God wants you to change Romans 8, 29, for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. God wants you, if you're a Christian today, to be conformed, to be more like Christ. He wants you to look more like Christ in your actions and attitude, your deportment, your demeanor, and what you do in life. I believe all of us should carefully examine this idea of Revival. We need to have a refreshed and a renewed perspective of who God is, of how insignificant, how sinful we are, and everything that God has done about it. We need to have that fresh perspective. Revival could be described like that. My love is cold. My faith is small, my zeal is lacking, doubts appall. My footsteps falter, so oft I stray, and weakness marks me for its prey. O God of revival, hear my plea. Empower, endue, revive, even me. May that be your prayer, just as much as it is mine today. Revival is a safe place to be. We notice in our text there in verse seven that the men are putting, the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. There's safety in the refuge of revival. And so we'll call our message this, the refuge of revival. If we're revived in spirit, if we are drawing closer to God on a daily basis, and we are truly experiencing revival in our lives, the storms will come, the diagnosis will come, the relationship problems will come, the financial difficulties will still be there, but if we are revived, if we're walking close to God, we'll know how to respond. And even though the dangers will all be around, even though it may seem boisterous and difficult, we're still under the watch care of our God. And He protects and provides and cares for us. And we'll sense that. We'll sense it. We'll know it. Because we have this revived spirit. I encourage and challenge each of you today to rekindle your love for God. Examine your life. Is there any idols, or are there rather, any idols in your life? Is there anything that at any given moment throughout this week or this last week that has more priority and is of greater importance to you than your relationship to your God. That could be an idol. Remove any idols from your life as we go through this text in this passage today. Revival has been described as falling in love with Jesus all over again. That's my personal favorite definition of revival, falling in love with Jesus all over again. One person said, the purpose of revival is to make God, not men, famous, to focus the eyes of the people, not upon human leaders, but upon the divine leader, to give glory, not to great men, but to a great savior. we could define revival this way, that revival is making much of Jesus, making much of Jesus every single day. There's a evangelist years ago named Sam Jones, very popular in the South a long time ago, and during the course of a revival meeting, he would designate different nights as different themes, and he always had a quitter's night, a quitter's night, and persons would bring symbols or pictures of their sin. It could have been cards or dice or whiskey bottles or pictures of other men's wives and so forth. People would bring those things and the fiery evangelists would have them come forward and leave their sins at the front. And later on, they would burn all of those things and get rid of them. Well, one lady walked up, and the preacher was surprised. He saw Aunt Sarah walking up, and he said, what are you repenting of, Aunt Sarah? And she replied, I ain't done nothing, and I'm gonna quit. She wanted to start doing something for God. You know, there could be sins in your life that are ones outwardly things you can actually give up and, I mean, material things or activities, and I'll just get rid of that. But sometimes indifference and inactivity in service for God, it's just as much a sin that can be committed and confessed to the Lord. Revival is a safe place to be. In this passage, David is reaffirming his love for God in spite of the adversaries that he was facing. And so with this message in mind of the refuge of revival, let's find a rekindling of our personal love for God, your personal love for God. I can't have revival for you and you can't have it for me. But if you, sir, or you, ma'am, become revived and have just a passion and a fire and a desire for God that will impact your family, It will impact your husband-wife relationship, your parental obligations. It'll affect you as a grandparent. It will affect you in church and in your life and involvement in the church. It will involve your life. It'll change your life if we would draw closer to the Lord in a true spirit of revival. So with that in mind, let's ask the Lord's blessing and his help. Father, we thank you that you're meeting here with us right this very moment. And as we have a revival meeting, We pray that you would prepare our hearts ahead of time, that as the evangelist comes and delivers messages, we would have hearts to hear, to listen, to learn, to receive the messages you have for us, that we would be changed all for your glory. Lord, I pray that you would help as I deliver this message, encourage and challenge each person, convict us, help us to confess where things are wrong, And Lord, we thank you for your grace that things can be made right. We pray that you'd bless now, and we ask it in Jesus' name, amen. So what do we need then as we're looking at revival? Let's understand the refuge, the safety of revival. We can be restored in this refuge. Let's pick up in verse one of chapter 36. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes." As David is beginning to write out this passage of Scripture. God gives him this message and David is considering the lives of those around him, those who are wicked men, those who are in transgression. And as he kind of thinks about them, their transgressions, the Lord said within his heart, he's looking at them and it's very evident and very apparent that there is no fear, of God before his eyes." So here are some people who are sinning openly and blatantly against God, and they have no fear of God in their hearts. And it was evident, as David was pondering this and considering it. I think about how one person said that evangelism affects the other fellow, revival affects me. We need to look at revival and look at our own lives and even the lives of those around us and consider who we are as human beings before a holy, perfect, and a righteous God. Be restored in the refuge. Notice they were not fearing God, but in contrast to that, we should fear God. If you love Jesus, if you're saved, you should be a person who has a great fear of God. Notice how in verse two, for he flattereth himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful. We should hate sin. We should have a hatred for sin. We shouldn't believe lies or flatter ourselves. Verse three, for the words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He hath left off to be wise and to do good. What he's saying is wrong. He diviseth mischief upon his bed. He setteth himself in a way that is not good. he abhorreth not evil. An evildoer doesn't hate sin, he loves it, he clings to it, he runs to it. But in contrast, and we'll find how David then, he starts to magnify the Lord in the next, in the rest of this chapter, he begins by saying, look at the wicked people. And folks, if you think about it, you were one of them. And we still are one of them. But the fact is, if you're saved, you're a sinner, but you're a safe sinner. And thank God for the changes that have been made in you. We can puff ourselves up and self-estimate ourselves so much that we forget we were right where everybody else was. And so David looks at them, and we need to understand to be restored in the refuge, we need to have a fear of God. Well, the ungodly do not have a fear of God. Why should we fear God? Fear of God is a great motivation. Psalm 19, 9, the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Psalm 111, verse 10, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all they that do his commandments, his praise endureth forever. Proverbs 1, 7, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1, 29, for they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord." Proverbs 8, 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, and arrogancy in the evil way. In the froward mouth do I hate. Now, if we were to take all those verses and summarize, we could ask this question, what is fear? What is fear of God? And from those five verses, we know that they had no fear, they had no alarm, They had no fright, if you would. They had no dread or terror. If God were to show up, they would kind of, oh, yeah, God's here. Big deal. The ungodly thinks like that. That's how David says, well, they have no fear in their eyes. There's no fear of God in their eyes. They do not see the hand of God at work. And when confronted with the word of God, well, it's just, you know, I'm not going to listen to that. That's their approach, that's how they're coming across. But considering those five verses, what is a Bible-based fear of God? Well, it would be loving what God loves. That would be a Bible-based fear of God. It would be hating what God hates. It would be learning what God knows and listening to what God says. If we have a fear of God, then those characteristics would be true in our lives. Do you have that type of fear? Next they have lying. Lying. And stop lying in verse two. He flattereth himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful. So if we want to be restored in this refuge of God, have a fear of God, stop lying to yourself. Pride is believing a lie about yourself. That could be something as simple as, I'm better looking than I really am. I'm stronger than I really am. I'm a lot smarter than I really am. That's believing a lie about yourself, that's pride. You could apply that definition to any other area of your life. The wicked man flatters himself and loves his sin until he finds out that sin is really his enemy. Look at the last part of this verse. Even until, or until his iniquity, that's his sin, be found to be hateful. That word hateful means to be hateful personally against and to be odious. And that's what the word hateful means there. Here's the man, he's sinning. I love my sin. Hey, this is really great. And then he starts to, something really stinks around here. Something doesn't smell too good. Something's wrong around here. And he's starting to feel some of the effects then of his sin. He starts to recognize, hey, there's something wrong here. And the whole time, the whole time, it was the sin that he so loved in his life. Now, most of the time, people find out how how destructive sin is too late. Too late. Sometimes it's right on the brink of death. I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have been there. Shouldn't have been a part of that. Folks, I challenge you with this truth. Don't wait to get right with God. Get it right today. You can't play with your sin. Well, it's just a little bit of pride. It won't hurt anybody else. It hurts you. It hurts other people. It hurts your relationship with God. Your personal sin, whatever it is, destroying yourself. It's against you, and it's out to get you. Here's this wicked man. He's flattering himself. This sin is good. He's lying to himself. Oh, this is really good. It's benefiting me. I can do whatever I want to do. I'll think however I want to think, and it won't hurt me. It won't bother me. But then he gets near the end when that sin starts to show its ugly head for what it really is. And he starts to believe, wow, I've been wrong all this time. Stop believing the lies that pride James 115, when lust hath conceived that bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. One preacher said that's revival and the exclusive love of comfortable truths are bitter enemies. Well, I'm comfortable. I'm just gonna listen to comfortable truths. If you wanna live like that, you can, but that's a bitter enemy against revival. We should desire revival, a refreshed and renewed relationship, love with our God. And so revival and exclusive love of comfortable truths are bitter enemies. When truth is spoken, listen to it, respond to it. Number three, verse three, we see talking good. the words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, he hath left off to be wise and to do good." We should be people who, in contrast to this wicked man, who speak right words. We should be able to confess our iniquity and our wrong, to confess our deceit, to cling then to wisdom, and to choose to do right with your words. That last phrase there, to do good, is in context of, with his words, with what he says, He's going to start doing good. Not just his actions. That's not the phrase do good there. It means he's going to do good with what he says. And the wicked don't care for that, but a godly man should. How about hating evil? In verse 4, if you want to have revival, this refuge of revival hates evil. The wicked man plans each night for evil the next day. Now we don't know if we'll get another day. We don't know what a day will bring forth. Post not thyself of tomorrow according to Proverbs 27 1. You may not get another day, but in the meantime, we should start to hate what is evil. Lord, there's some sin in my life right now. You hate it. God help me. I want to hate it too. I can't keep clinging to it and holding on to it and loving it. And folks, don't just stop at hating evil. Replace those evil thoughts. Replace those evil deeds and those sins with Bible truth, with the Word of God. Replace it with doing good and being the right person that God wants for you to be. David, following his sin and adultery and this cover-up and having Uriah killed, all that took place. He said in Psalm 51, 12, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free spirit. And so you can have that joy, rekindle it today. Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player who became a preacher, Billy Sunday. And he said this about revival. He became a preacher, he would travel around, hold revival meetings, He said, they tell me a revival is only temporary, so is a bath, but it does you some good. You know, a revival meeting may be a temporary thing, but it can do some good. Revival in your heart today may be just something that lasts for a day, a week, several months, or maybe years. It may seem like, well, my love for God will kind of go up and down and up and down. It doesn't have to be like that, by the way. It may seem temporary for a little bit. Well, I failed at what I've committed to God. I stopped reading the Bible or I missed a church service. And I'm just going to give up on trying to be closer to God. You know, I didn't head out of track. I was going to and I was going to go on a visitation. I messed up and just kind of give up and quit. Don't be like that. Just say, I'm going to start wherever I'm at and keep going. It may be temporary. but keep going, it'll do you some good. Be restored in the refuge. Number two, be refreshed in the refuge. Look in verse five and verse six. Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains. Thy judgments are a great deep. O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. He turns from looking at the sin and the wrong, and he lifts his eyes up to God and starts to magnify the Lord. And he considers the fresh mercy of God. We need to be refreshed in the refuge. There's fresh mercy. And the same preacher, Billy Sunday, he said, some preachers don't believe in revivals. Did you know that some churches don't hold revival meetings? They don't see the... Maybe they'll call it something else, or maybe they don't have it all together. I believe it's important that we take some time to self-evaluate in light of the Bible. But Billy Sunday said this, he said that some preachers don't believe in revivals, neither does the devil. He doesn't want you to get right with God. He doesn't want you to turn off the TV, get off the radio, turn off the internet, and come to church and be confronted with the Bible. He doesn't want that. He doesn't want you to get off work early, to leave some parties early, to get away from this, to get away from that, and to set aside some time to meet exclusively with God to examine your heart. Satan doesn't want that. He'll put some distractions in your way. He'll say, no, it's not that important. But we need to be refreshed in the refuge. There's fresh mercy in verse five. Mercy is not getting what I deserve. In contrast to that, we have the loving kindness of God. The loving kindness of God. We don't get what we deserve. What does God give us? His loving kindness. Mercy is something that's new every day. According to Lamentations chapter three, verses 22 and 23, it is of thy mercies, the Lord's mercies, that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not. They, speaking of the mercies, they are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. We have fresh mercy, we have fresh faithfulness, God's faithfulness. The word means moral fidelity or steady truth. Friends, God never changes. He's always here with you. The promises in the Bible, they're true every single time. There'll be times when you feel alone. There'll be times when you doubt, but God's never changed. He said, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. And Christian, whenever we stray from God, it's us straying from God, but he's always with us. He's always right there with us. You may feel alone today. but you are not alone. As David is writing out this passage of scripture, he feels the heat, if you would, the danger, he feels the angst and the anger of those who are against him. There were some enemies, but he knew something. He knew that his God is much greater. There are circumstances against you today. You can know this, my God is greater. Great is His faithfulness. There's fresh righteousness. He mentions the righteousness of God, moral virtue, justice, rightness. Righteousness is rightness. And he says that it's like great mountains. We have some beautiful mountains here. A lot of you like to go hike those mountains, and you've done so recently. And they're beautiful. And it's like a great mountain, this righteousness of God. Just look at that, it's amazing, it's incredible. Some mountains are unfathomable almost. Think about then the next phrase, he talks about judgments. There are fresh judgments we need to understand. Judgments means divine law or action. A suit, crime, a penalty. All of that's included in the judgments of God. Think about this. God assigned the penalty for your sin. The wages of sin is, what is it? That's the penalty that God has already assigned. And Jesus paid the price for your sin. He died in your place as the perfect sacrifice. At the same time, attorney Jesus, if you would, he's our advocate. Attorney Jesus is advocating on your behalf. God assigned the penalty. Jesus paid for the penalty. And now He's saying, here's why this person is allowed into heaven. It's because He accepted what I did on the cross. He believed in the resurrection. Jesus is involved in every part of that. God's involved in all of that. And this is the judgment of God. God has it all figured out. Now, it likens it to the deep. This, what I just described to you, he likens it to the deep, the judgments of God. The word deep means an underway, underwater abyss or an underground water supply. Folks, we cannot search out the judgments of God. We think about a water supply and the depths of God, think about that at the same time. If we could totally understand that God, we can't by the way, if we could totally understand God, wouldn't we be like God? Well, he would be. He would not be God. We can't understand everything about him. We are finite, and he is infinite. And so it's like the deep, who can search that out? I mean, who can know all of those things? We should keep growing in knowledge of God, but who can know everything? It's a good question to ask, the fresh judgments of God. Be refreshed in these amazing truths. As we continue on as a church, as we continue on to give out the gospel, I think about an Old Testament passage where the Bible says, revive thy work in the midst of the years. Revive thy work in the midst of the years. We need revival in our lives. Thy workers' hearts are filled with dread. Thy lost are left, thy sheep unfed. Thine enemies thy work defy, and things are weak, ready to die. God of revival, now we pray, visit thy work in this, our day. Be restored in the refuge, be refreshed, number three, be renewed in the refuge. Notice the remainder of this passage, beginning in verse seven. How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God. Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life. In thy light shall we see light. O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. There are the workers of iniquity fallen. They are cast down and shall not be able to rise. Be renewed in the refuge. In verse eight, there's a new satisfaction. A new satisfaction. Notice how it comes about abundantly. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. The word abundantly means to bathe or to be soaked in. It's not talking about a cup of water. And I like this cup of water. I think Rioga put that out probably. Thank you for that. I'm trying to hydrate more so I don't cough as much. Think about a bottle of water or a glass of water. That's not what it's talking about. It's talking about a pool, a river, a reservoir, a lake, a gigantic pond. I mean, More than enough water. More than enough water than what you would ever need. There's a new satisfaction, folks, that only comes from God. Well, I got my little water bottle here. God has a lot more for you, spiritually speaking. He has a lot more. You have a lot more satisfaction in Christ. Notice with the fatness of thy house, the abundance of thy house, the health of thy house. And notice how he mentions thy house in particular. In the Old Testament, the house of God, it's wherever God is. Just know that as a basic truth. Wherever the house of God is, that's wherever God is at. And so thy house in the Old Testament, they erected a tabernacle and God's presence would be descended upon that and would be evident. And God's presence was also in heaven in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, of course, God is in heaven. But at the same time, he's in the believer's heart. He's right here. You, your body is a tabernacle of the living God. If you're a Christian today, he's right here in your heart. and in your life, there's a new satisfaction, a contentment, a peace, a joy, a satisfaction that belongs to the person who is completely trusting the Lord, living in the shadow of God. That's the refuge of revival in verse seven. The men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. What's the result of that? It's the satisfaction of verse eight. I'm just totally walking through life, relying on God. I'm gonna believe God, I'm gonna trust God. When the storms come, when assaults come, when people are unkind, when things don't seem to be working out, I'm gonna keep trusting God. And notice how it's very particular, their trust, very personal. It's their trust to those who are trusting the Lord. They're fleeing for protection. There's hope, if you would, with our God when we run under the shadow of his wings. And there's a revival, if you would. Revival renews hope. Revival and hope coincide. They go together on a daily basis in our lives. And so a new satisfaction, there's a new provision in verse nine. For with thee is the fountain of life, in thy light shall we see light." The fountain of life. The word fountain means something that's dug out. Something that's dug out. The source of life is Jesus. He did the work on the cross. He is the water of life. Now, not only is Jesus the water of life, notice the light for life. The light that's described here in verse nine, with thy light or in thy light shall we see light. We use flashlights, you have headlamps on your cars so that you can have illumination or navigation. Now I can see where I'm going. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Now I have navigating abilities. Now I can know where to go. I have directions, if you would, for life. Jesus is our light. He said, I am the light of the world. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. And folks, he turned it back towards us. And later on, he said, ye are the light of the world. That's Matthew 5.14. Again, in Ephesians 5.8, for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. Friends, let me encourage you with this amazing truth as we're near the end of our message today. Some of our lights are kind of dim. Some of our lights are kind of dim. Spiritually speaking, we're not the witness, we're not the Christian that we need to be, that God wants us to be. Our lights are kind of dim. Think about a battery on a flashlight, and the flashlight battery is getting weaker and weaker. Here's what happens to us. the battery of our life, if you would, it gets weakened because of sin. Sin. Well, I'm running after sin, so I can't run after God with the same energy. I can't commit this much time to serving God because I'm running after sin in some other area of my life. And some of our lights are kind of dim. Folks, don't let sin drain your battery. Renew your lights, be brighter for the Lord Jesus Christ and find a new purpose in verse 10. Oh, continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee and thy righteousness, that's the rightness, to the upright in heart. This is God's response to us and folks that gives us purpose. I want to be the Christian that God wants me to be. I want to have the righteous life that God wants me to live. I want to be the light and the testimony that God wants me to have. over in Rochester, New York, under the labors of Charles Finney, began a revival. That revival spread this direction towards New England, and then later on to Great Britain. It started where many of you have driven through or been at different times, in Rochester, New York. He said the key to revival that we found to be the key is prayer. When God's people would spend time with God in prayer, The great revival of 1859 began in the United States, began in prayer, and he said it's carried on by prayer more than anything else. Jonathan Edwards saw a revival in his day, in his time. It impacted thousands and thousands, maybe millions of people in the 18th century. And it all started with a call to prayer, a call to prayer. Notice how, as David is crying out to God, he says, Lord, would you continue your loving kindness to them? This is a prayer. He's expressing praise and prayer to God. Loving kindness, it's the same word for mercy that we found earlier, and righteousness, of course, means rightness. During the Welsh Revival, this is back in 1904 and 1905, when we say a great revival like that, we're talking about, it started in a place like this. but just regular people like you and me. And it impacted entire counties, not just cities, counties, states, nations, and continents. These revivals were like that. Back in this Welsh revival, a village doctor remarked to a friend and said, well, the revival It's doing me some good. You mean you have more patients, the friend asked. He said, no, not at all. The doctor said, all the debts and all the IOUs that people had said they would pay, they're starting to pay them now. They're starting to get things right with God and get things right with other people. Notice the new protection in verse 11 and 12. Let not the foot of pride come against me. Let not the hand of the wicked remove me. I think about this foot of pride, this phrase here, and this would be self-inflicted problems. You could take yourself with your feet to the wrong place to conduct yourself and to do the wrong things. The foot of pride is self. How about the hand of the wicked? Well, they may have a foot of pride that takes them somewhere, but then they're raising up their hands to do evil things against you, and that may be other people. The hand of the wicked is others. He says, let not their hand touch me like that. Oh, friends, let's live in a constant state of revival, loving Jesus, yielding to the Spirit, constantly reading and obeying the Bible. It does not come easy. There are enemies, enemy self, enemy self, your flesh, enemy self, and then enemy others. There's the world and there's the devil. That's the other two enemies there. So the foot of pride, the hand of the wicked. Now notice the title, if you would, of Psalm 36. Notice it says, to the chief musician, a Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord. Now, some people serve their sin. They run after their iniquity. They serve it. They're wholeheartedly after their sin. They're living self-righteously or sinning selfishly. They're living like that. But notice that inscription, David, the servant of the Lord. God is the one who ascribed him that title or that name. It took place in 2 Samuel 3, verse 18. Now then do it, for the Lord hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines and out of the hand of all their enemies. Psalm 36, David said, look at these enemies. Look at these adversaries that I have. And I looked at them for just several verses, but let me tell you something. I'm looking at God. Look at how great God is. And folks, that is revival. Life is tough. Sin is terrible. Enemies are unkind. But David said, it doesn't matter what these other people are doing. I am going to love you above everything else. No matter what other people do, I will love my God. May this be our prayer. Humbly now, O Lord, I pray. Send revival here today. All my coldness, all my sin, all my doubtings deep within, forgive them, Lord, and cleanse away. Oh, send revival here today. Humbly, Lord, I ask of Thee, send this awakening through me, emptied out of self and pride, thy light no longer will I hide. And oh, dear Lord, use me, I pray, to bring revival here today. I hope that's the prayer of your heart today. Let's bow together and seek the Lord in a time that we call invitation. Be restored in the refuge and refreshed and renewed in the refuge of God. Folks, you can tell revival is a safe place to be. To be the Christian, to do, to live, to act, to think the way that God would have you. Purpose today to rekindle your love for God. If there's any idol, if there's any idol, confess that to the Lord. Get it right with him today. Maybe there's a friend here this morning and you need salvation. You can't have revival because you've not been revived yet, you haven't had new life yet. You need to trust Jesus Christ for salvation. You say, I have a doubt about eternity. I don't know if my sins are forgiven. I'd like to know more about that. Just in this personal time, I'm going to look and I want to pray with you. It's a personal time. No one else is looking. Private time. You say, I would like to know more about salvation. How for sure I can know my sins are forgiven. I'd like to know more about that. Would you raise your hand quickly? Just wave it at me. Anyone at all. Just raise it up quickly. All right. Maybe there's a Christian friend who would say this, Lord, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Maybe you've been distracted. Maybe you say, you would actually say this, maybe, and I think we should if there are, Lord, there's been some idols. There's been some things in my life that have been more important than you. Would you forgive me of that? Maybe there's specific sins that have crept into your life. Would you confess those to God today? and get those right. Our last question is this, Lord, may I live in a state of revival? Would you help me to have a restored and refreshed and renewed outlook on life? Lord, with your help, help me to live out your word each day, to humbly respond to your Holy Spirit each moment. If that's your prayer, would you testify? Just raise your hand, I wanna thank God for that. Anyone at all, my hand's included because I need that as well. God bless you, good, thank you. However God's leading you, would you respond? Many times folks walk to the front, they can kneel, there's seats, you can sit down and confess to God. If there's a sin, if there's an idol, get it right. If there's other needs in your life, get that right with God today. Father, we pray that you would bless, continue to challenge our hearts as we have these few moments that have been dedicated so that we can respond to you and your leading in our life. We ask for your help as we respond, in Jesus' name, amen. Would you please stand, just quietly stand there, the pianist will be playing. However God's challenge worked in your heart, maybe you want to pray for a revival in your life. Perhaps you want to pray for God to get a hold of your family, to work in your home. Take a moment with him, pray about it right now. Maybe you want to pray for a revival in the church, that our church would be on fire for God with a zeal and a passion like never before. Would you respond? Let's pray like that. Lord, help me, help my family, and our church, this local church, to fall in love with you all over again. Candice will play through one more verse. Heavenly Father, we do come before you confessing and admitting just who we really are. We're sinners, and we do say thank you for forgiveness through Christ that we could be saved sinners. As Christians here, we pray that you would continue to challenge us to draw closer to you. Let the truth of this message and this passage today resonate in our hearts as we go, that you would continue to work and move us to a closer relationship and walk with you, that the fellowship would be sweeter, and Lord, that we would respond with a renewed outlook and a fresh perspective of life as we get closer to you. Bless each one, all the different decisions made here today, and we do ask for your safety as we travel from this place, and we do commit this week that we would have a week of pondering these truths, and we look forward to what you'll do in this revival meeting. Help us to have prepared hearts, we ask in Jesus' name, amen. Well, thank you so much for being a part of our service today. We have just a couple of announcements before we're dismissed, thank you. This morning in our Sunday school hour, it was the second of the series that they're going through. It's the Real Relationships and Broken Vessels. If you'd like to join them, next week is the third week of doing that. And it's a great series, great study at 10 o'clock. So adults meet here in the Sunday school in the auditorium, and then the children and the teenagers meets elsewhere. Next Sunday, I should actually say, will not be that because Brother Self and Brother Young will be here. So we'll all be in here together. So teenagers and adults will be in here as well. If you haven't seen this on Facebook, we're trying to get out and get some more Facebook presence, if that makes sense. This week we went over a thousand likes, which was a goal of mine. And so I was happy to see that. But if you can, just when you come in or those kind of things, if you want to check in or just like us on Facebook, we try to put some things out on a regular basis as well, just to remind you of things. And so if you like us, you'll help be able to see all of those things. So just be aware of that and just search the church and it'll be right there for you. Next Monday, we do have our Labor Day picnic. We have a full slate of things. If you'd like to sign up for volleyball or cornhole, you can do that as well. We'll have the hike up to the waterfall and all the way up to the lookout as well. So if you'd like to join us for that, we will have the tent and we'll have the bounce house as well. So plan on a great day of fun and enjoyment for there. And then in just a couple of weeks, we will be having a table baby shower for some of our newer members, Greg and Ariel Moore, and they are expecting another one on the way. And so if you'd like to be a blessing to them, you can bring some things there bring some gifts for them, and I can guarantee you that any parent that has children, one thing that would be very, very helpful would be diapers and wipes and those kind of things. So if you want to ask her or him what they prefer, that would probably be a great blessing to be able to bring and maybe see if they could use anything else. One other announcement before we are dismissed and we sing our last song, I didn't have a slide for it, but because of the influx of the school, we've had to purchase some new things. We needed new lockers. We needed some new desks and we needed some new chairs. And so last week we put out to you in the bulletin and in the evening service that we needed a backpack blower and a weed eater, a trimmer. And we were able to have those things provided for. And if you, I had a few people say, Hey, I'd like to help. But that was, that need was already taken care of. And so if you'd like to help in this kind of way, you can see pastor myself. We'd be glad to let you know what those needs are, but we did have a few things we needed to purchase. So if you're willing to help. and to be glad to help, but just let us know when we help you to help you out and tell you exactly what those needs are. All right, let's sing our closing song. What a day, glorious day that will be. What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see, and I look upon His face, the one who saved me by His grace. When He takes me by the hand and leads me through the promised land, what a day, glorious day, that will be. So,