June 25, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Point of Contact

The Bible talks about points of contact when God enters into the lives of His people. There are specific times, places and experiences that God initiates regarding His purposes and action plans. The Bible dictates what God’s role and our role is in every encounter or point of contact between us.

These points of contact are not to be taken lightly nor ignored. Often I do not realize God’s intervention into my life. He is contacting me and I do not realize His movement or any significance to His contact.

Nevertheless, God is always contacting me. God does not want me ignorant, ill informed, nor ‘blind-sided’ by what He is planning. His love for me is much too great to allow any harm to come upon my surrounds or me.

In Ecclesiastes God makes it quite clear to His timing. Wisdom demands that we understand the movement and activities of God. Take for instance verse four in chapter 3b: “a time to mourn and a time to dance.”

Theologies have often explained this chapter in terms of differences and different behaviors that happen to everyone on the earth. But, this is not really what God is saying in this chapter. What God is stating is that when one behavior is present the other one is present also. These statements are not opposites of behavior but rather are common in results.

“A time to mourn and a time to dance” means that dancing and mourning are meant to be united and joined in common purpose. We are meant to mourn and dance; never to have one without the other.

I continue to emphasize America’s next revival. It is ‘bound-up’ in rejoicing. In fact, without rejoicing (singing, praise, worship, dancing) you will not see it, let alone be part of the next revival. But the interesting aspect of “dancing” (rejoicing like David rejoiced before the Lord) is that we must mourn. Yes, we must mourn like David also.

I mourn, not for myself but for all others that are in trouble. I mourn because of their sin. I mourn because of their oppression. I mourn because of the great ignorance and darkness that surrounds their lives. As the Bible says, “People who sat in darkness saw great light” Luke 1: 67-79.

When we mourn, dancing will come and when we dance, people of mourning we will become. You want revival be prepared to mourn and be prepared to dance. As I have told you before, this next revival will not be like anything any of us have experienced before.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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