July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Now isn't the time to give up
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
It’s been just over a year since the Jayland Revival Movement started and dozens of people have joined into prayer along with several churches and other revival groups, all working together to see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this area.
The potential is as great as the promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 if the 25 churches in Portland and more than 100 in the area agree in prayer.
Now is no time to quit, even though many pastors are discouraged and several churches are pondering closure. When you hear on a national level that 70 percent of all believers are either leaving church or are in a backsliding condition, you begin to wonder what it will take to see revival. In my church, so many are ill, shut-in, or have to work (but it amazes me how many cannot attend the house of God but by noon they are able to go to Walmart).
But now is no time to quit. Along with the prayer for each church, doesn’t it seem right to focus on the part of 2 Chronicles 7:14 where it says for the believers “to turn from their wicked ways”? We need a revival of repentance.
We need to repent if we think our church is the only one going to heaven (I Corinthians 12:14,25).
We need to repent of our church splits. How can we have a revival when the believers are fussing and fighting and if we don’t get our way we’ll just go start our own little group? Why can’t the Pentecostals get together and pray for revival in Portland? Why can’t the Baptists get together and forgive one another and baptize everybody? Why can’t the Nazarenes become noisyrenes again and truly get sanctified and start a revival of holiness? And on and on.
We’re not in competition; we’re supposed to be working together. We need to repent of the gossip and the speaking against pastors and ministers. I was told by Norman Keen in 1997 that I better be strong because Jay County is a “preacher’s graveyard.” The Holy Spirit is vexed when people talk against preachers. First Chronicles 16:22 says, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Pray for the preachers and quit bashing them.
Those believers who have been hurt in church, who have left church, or who just stay home and watch church on TV, I remind you that your church and your pastor need you. God warns us in Hebrews 10:25, do “not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the day (of the Lord) approaching.”
Around 1950 after many years of revivals, healing crusades and hundreds of conversions, the enemy planted a seed of discord in the Tabernacle Revival. Several good people took things in their own hands and decided to start their own church. The Holy Spirit would love to heal problems like this instead of splitting the church and doing damage to the body of Christ.
In my church we have gone back to that particular time and asked Him to forgive us. We took the blame. We want those people here in Portland to forgive us. We must invite the Holy Spirit back into this area. He doesn’t just come to one building. He has a plan to move upon all of us.
Charles Spurgeon once again, “If we have not the Spirit of God, it were better to shut the churches, to nail up the doors … and say, “God have mercy on us. If you preachers have not the Spirit you would better no preach … a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing.”
The days of an old-fashioned revival are not over to those who believe in repentance. It is definitely a prerequisite to a Holy Ghost outpouring.
A journey back to the cross and to Pentecost with deep repentance in our homes and around our altars is the only cure of such disgraceful barrenness.
Sincerely,
Pastor/evangelist Phill
Jellison, Jayland
Movement Revival
Confused
To the editor:
I wish everyone would stop picking on Michelle Bachman. Quit trying to to confuse her with facts or the truth, and stop giving her information so she won’t have to give an informed and intelligent answer to questions asked of her.
Shame on all of you.
Michael S. Kinser
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
It’s been just over a year since the Jayland Revival Movement started and dozens of people have joined into prayer along with several churches and other revival groups, all working together to see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this area.
The potential is as great as the promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 if the 25 churches in Portland and more than 100 in the area agree in prayer.
Now is no time to quit, even though many pastors are discouraged and several churches are pondering closure. When you hear on a national level that 70 percent of all believers are either leaving church or are in a backsliding condition, you begin to wonder what it will take to see revival. In my church, so many are ill, shut-in, or have to work (but it amazes me how many cannot attend the house of God but by noon they are able to go to Walmart).
But now is no time to quit. Along with the prayer for each church, doesn’t it seem right to focus on the part of 2 Chronicles 7:14 where it says for the believers “to turn from their wicked ways”? We need a revival of repentance.
We need to repent if we think our church is the only one going to heaven (I Corinthians 12:14,25).
We need to repent of our church splits. How can we have a revival when the believers are fussing and fighting and if we don’t get our way we’ll just go start our own little group? Why can’t the Pentecostals get together and pray for revival in Portland? Why can’t the Baptists get together and forgive one another and baptize everybody? Why can’t the Nazarenes become noisyrenes again and truly get sanctified and start a revival of holiness? And on and on.
We’re not in competition; we’re supposed to be working together. We need to repent of the gossip and the speaking against pastors and ministers. I was told by Norman Keen in 1997 that I better be strong because Jay County is a “preacher’s graveyard.” The Holy Spirit is vexed when people talk against preachers. First Chronicles 16:22 says, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” Pray for the preachers and quit bashing them.
Those believers who have been hurt in church, who have left church, or who just stay home and watch church on TV, I remind you that your church and your pastor need you. God warns us in Hebrews 10:25, do “not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the day (of the Lord) approaching.”
Around 1950 after many years of revivals, healing crusades and hundreds of conversions, the enemy planted a seed of discord in the Tabernacle Revival. Several good people took things in their own hands and decided to start their own church. The Holy Spirit would love to heal problems like this instead of splitting the church and doing damage to the body of Christ.
In my church we have gone back to that particular time and asked Him to forgive us. We took the blame. We want those people here in Portland to forgive us. We must invite the Holy Spirit back into this area. He doesn’t just come to one building. He has a plan to move upon all of us.
Charles Spurgeon once again, “If we have not the Spirit of God, it were better to shut the churches, to nail up the doors … and say, “God have mercy on us. If you preachers have not the Spirit you would better no preach … a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing.”
The days of an old-fashioned revival are not over to those who believe in repentance. It is definitely a prerequisite to a Holy Ghost outpouring.
A journey back to the cross and to Pentecost with deep repentance in our homes and around our altars is the only cure of such disgraceful barrenness.
Sincerely,
Pastor/evangelist Phill
Jellison, Jayland
Movement Revival
Confused
To the editor:
I wish everyone would stop picking on Michelle Bachman. Quit trying to to confuse her with facts or the truth, and stop giving her information so she won’t have to give an informed and intelligent answer to questions asked of her.
Shame on all of you.
Michael S. Kinser
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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