[revival-fire] A big word these days: discernment

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Hi from Oklahoma City (All Nations Fellowship--a revival seeking org):
I've been hearing a lot about discernment these days (in the Spirit, actually). That is, I think I've been led to study it. The subject pops up everywhere. Why? I think because a lack of it is hurting the Church, in this sense: Many of us tend to not know revival when it is at the door. We need to know when God is trying to do something. How?

Well, we have a "hub" where we are trying to deal with this and get it out. It's sort of a way of speaking of revival in "languages" people will get hold of. Here is something from that site bringing together revival and physics.  (the address if you are interested: www.hubpages.com/hub/oklahomacitychurches ).

How to Get It Done: e equals m times c squared

For mere mortals like ourselves, having really successful local pods (what we call churches) of the BIG CHURCH in heaven is a tricky business. For to really be successful, we have to do what we are doing God's way. In the end, something we build mostly via the world's way will collapse in upon itself like a black hole.

Speaking of physics, maybe we can see what we are dealing with here a little more clearly by finding a parallel in modern physics. MAYBE MUCH MORE CLEARLY.

Why is it that the past century had the most technological progress of any century? It wasn't that people worked harder in factories, if they did work harder. It wasn't that our food got better (which it probably did not for most people). It happened because theorists/researchers like Einstein and many others made discoveries about the way the universe works. Principles. Nuclear power (very dangerous progress), cutting edge electronics, spaceships, etc., etc. were not made of matter really (though, of course, technically they were constructed of stuff we got from the earth). No, they were made of ideas.

So what do we need to make these earthpods of the Big Church operate as God intended--as churning dynamos of God's power to heal the world? Ideas. But really good ones. Ideas of God. Principles of God. Ideas of the world (Col. 2:9) won't work well enough--really not at all in the long run. And then fter we get God's ideas, we have to apply these ideas. Applied research.

How do we get God's principles? Prayer, study of the Word, open hearts to the voice of God. Not content with unproven and broken theory of the past, or worldly thought and gimmicks of the present, we press on into reality--WHAT GOD HIMSELF ACTUALLY THINKS. Not content to merely criticize certain researchers (preachers, teachers) of the present or the past because of idiosyncrasies (hairstyles, mannerisms, etc.), we press on to examine in a spiritual way whether WHAT THEY ACTUALLY TEACH OR TAUGHT is true. We become seekers of the actual truth. Then we apply that truth. God's truth is not static. It transforms.

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