"REVIVAL"

Let me start by saying Happy New Year to all of you wonderful precious women out there may God continue to bless and use you for this new year 2022. I want to share what I hear in my spirit today concerning revival! We desperately need to be revived in 2022! You might ask why? We have been through so much in the past two years in regards to the Covid pandemic that it has literally robbed us and our families from living each day freely! Here is a new year 2022 and now it seems that they are wanting and throwing it at us again with more fear and mandates. Jesus said these words to his disciples; John 14;27-28 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid…

We have been so conditioned mentally in the past two years due to this pandemic and the demands that were put on us as women and our families. I love this verse Jesus spoke the words of peace not what this world has to offer us but it can only come from Him alone Jesus! We need a revival in our life that will bring us to life again, bring our spirits to life again, our faith to life again, our hope to life again! When something dies it can only come back to life if it is revived! So as I ponder on this today I hear the Holy Spirit saying this word to me "REVIVAL"! My dear friend it's time to be revived its time to stop allowing ourselves to be mentally and emotionally conditioned by this deadly and hopeless environment around us. As we seek the Lord's face and seek His presence for this new year 2022 we need to allow ourselves to be "REVIVED" by His Holy Spirit! He is our spiritual breath, just as we need oxygen to breathe in the natural we cannot live without His Holy Spirit breathing inside of us! The problem so many face today is that they are trying to live spiritual lives and their holding on to their breath!

How does this happen to us? I believe that many of us fall into the trap of letting all the hopelessness around us come and take from us the very breath of life! Panic and anxiety comes in and suddenly we can't breathe anymore! That seems to be one of the symptoms that this covid has.

More than ever today we need the breath of the Holy Spirit to come into us and revive us totally from this pandemic and this lifeless environment! We cannot live on the breath we had yesterday or last week in church or in the natural realm. We need new oxygen every minute we breathe so it is with the spiritual Every day we need the Holy Spirit to refresh us breathe on us and "REVIVE" us! The word of God which is the Scriptures it is known as the Living Word! It is said to be breathed by God, so if you are wondering how to breathe spiritually, one undeniable way is to open the Word of God and read it. Breathe deeply the breath of God on the page! You will be "REVIVED" and life will be renewed daily, hope and peace and joy! You will be a new person your family will be transformed daily!

This makes me think of the "Valley Of The Dry Bones" in the scriptures that Ezekiel was challenged with, God wanted to give Ezekiel hope by giving him a vision of what will be one day! It's very fitting for what we are facing today with this pandemic!

Ezekiel 37-1-6

37 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath[a] enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Let us breathe in the Word and let us declare this over our life everyday by breathing in the Holy Spirit and declaring this daily over our life and our families! Life "REVIVED" by the Lord and His power the same power that raised Jesus from the grave is available to me and you today!

Pastor Mary Di Paolo Nero