Ablaze: Preparing the Heart for Personal and Corporate Revival Utilizing the Actions in 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Lemley, Kristi Ann
Tennant, Carolyn
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
2020
301 p.
D.Min.
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
2020
Out of the heart flows life (Prov 4:23). If life is not flowing in a believer of Christ, then God is not at the center. Revival is the means God uses to renew life to His people. There are multiple reasons why peoples' hearts are not prepared for revival, preventing them from possessing a willing and surrendered heart before the Lord. These reasons include wanting control of their own life, lack of focus, complacency, and love of the world. The purpose of this project was to prepare people's hearts for personal and corporate revival in order to walk in the power and purpose resembling the Book of Acts. The method of this project was a six-hour conference presenting the pattern of believers turning their hearts from the Lord and God then responding with revival, characteristics of biblical and contemporary revival, and laying out the actions called for in 2 Chronicles 7:14. When given this information and time for personal reflection and prayer, hearts changed. The results revealed three people rededicating their hearts to the Lord, deliverance from the enemy and his lies, repentance, physical healing, new life and energy to seek after God, and witnessing the transforming power of the Spirit. This project has the potential to prepare the hearts of God's people to experience revival, provide biblical teaching on revival, and stir the Church to the purpose of completing the command of Jesus in the Great Commission.