#CodeOrangeRevival Night#10 - The REMAINS of REVIVAL

Well, it is here, it has finally come, the close to Code Orange Revival.  What an incredible journey these past 10 days have taken us on!

Night 1 - Steven Furtick - THE RHYTHM OF REVIVAL
God is trying to get His people to move in Sync with His Rhythm.  Release praise - Receive His word - Respond to the word you're given - Repeat the process.  You can't have a beat if you don't repeat!

Night 2 - John Gray - THE SOUND OF REVIVAL
God never wastes words, so we should choose ours carefully.  The password to your miracle is the Sound of your Praise.  Would you praise if your breakthrough was on the other side of your sound?

Night 3 - Christine Caine - THE TIME OF REVIVAL
Yesterday you said tomorrow.  You have to make what God says about you, bigger than what happened to you.  Your destiny is greater than your history!  On a side note, I'm a huge supporter of Chris' A21 campaign, there's still 3wks left to donate to her birthday fundraiser for the walk for freedom, click here if you'd like to donate.

Night 4 - Joyce Meyer - THE TEST OF REVIVAL
It's more important to have revival in you than to just go to one.  Don't be in such a hurry to get to where you're going that you don't have what you need to stay there - There is value in experience.  What you are going through doesn't determine the outcome, but how you go through it will.

Night 5 - Craig Groeschel - THE LANGUAGE OF REVIVAL
Encourage others daily - if you think something nice, say it.  Encourage others spiritually.  Encourage yourself in the Lord

Night 6 - Levi Lusko - THE COST OF REVIVAL
Don't pray for what you won't pay for.  God can do the impossible but He often calls us to do the impractical - He's looking for faith and trust.  When we keep what we have, that's all we will ever have, but when we pour it out, God can multiply it.

Night 7 - Louie Giglio - THE PLACE OF REVIVAL
The place of revival is most likely in the middle of the battle we are currently in.  Don't give the enemy a seat at your table! 

Night 8 - Elevation Worship - EXPERIENCE THE WORSHIP OF REVIVAL
Worship music has the power to change, the power to heal, the power to restore, the power to comfort, it can bring hope to the hopeless and joy to the disheartened.  Worship music disengages the head and engages the heart, bringing us before the Lord with a thankful heart of love and praise.

Night 9 - Dharius Daniels - THE ROLE OF REVIVAL
A season and space  of reintroductions: 1st God to us; 2nd Us to ourselves.  Our greatest lessons come out of our most difficult seasons - And just because you don't hear God answer, it doesn't mean He isn't working on the problem.  Are you a grasshopper or a giant?

Day 10 - Carl Lentz - THE MOMENT OF REVIVAL
Fight the temptation to go through the motions, rather live to maximize the moments.  God glorifies the work in progress.  When it comes to reaching people, have the faith to take a moment, because God might just turn it into a movement.  God just wants to use you, flaws and all!

...and that brings us to Night 10, Pastor Steven Furtick back at the helm with a final charge if you will, THE REMAINS OF REVIVAL.

I want to try and keep this almost as short as the recaps.  I got so much out of Pastor Steven's sermon, but really what it boiled down to were these couple of things.

 

Don't let the revival in you end, when the revival at Elevation Church does.  Take it with you, back to your local church, back to your school, back to your work, back to your family and friends.  Don't let what happened during Code Orange Revival, die when you go home!

The time of attack doesn't come during the sowing season.  The enemy doesn't mind you learning new things, he doesn't even mind you 'working the seed' so to speak.  The time of attack usually comes when you apply what you've learned, (during harvest time).  Work the word, so you know what to do when the enemy attacks, and don't be surprised when it happens.  The enemy is kind of predictable that way, if you're on the verge of a breakthrough, he's usually lurking nearby.

Thank you so much to Elevation Church, Pastor Steven, the Furtick family, and all of the countless nameless volunteers that made #CODEORANGEREVIVAL so fantastic!  I am so grateful that even from my home in Indiana, I could still participate, I could still learn and worship, and our amazing God met me right where I was, in front of a computer screen.  I have had so much fun writing about the conference on here, but also sharing it with my family, friends and local church family.  I am excited to see what God can do through me in the coming months as the seasons begin to change.  The biggest thing that I have learned over these 10 days was that I didn't need to change, or achieve some higher level of faith for God to use me.  All God wanted was my, YES!

Thank you to everyone who has been reading these posts throughout the revival.  I hope that you have got as much out of each night as I have!! 

So until next time, God bless you guys,

P.S.

#CodeOrangeRevival Night 8 - A WORSHIP EXPERIENCE

Friday night was Worship night at Elevation Church.  But it wasn't just any old worship night, Elevation Worship was live recording a new album, set to release Spring 2017

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I CAN'T WAIT!!!

I wasn't going to write a post about night 8 of #CodeOrangeRevival, but I felt the Lord say, 'I have a purpose for each one of these nights, and that includes tonight.'  So I promised to be obedient and play my role in His purpose for night 8.

Leading up to tonight and during the service, I had been thinking about music.  About the power and freedom that can come by singing a single song, a single verse, recalling a single lyric in a particular moment.  Songs and music evoke a change in atmosphere, a change in attitude.  But Worship music, Worship music has the power to change, the power to restore, the power to heal, the power to comfort, the ability to bring hope to the hopeless, and joy to the disheartened.

Sometimes we don't even know what we're feeling or what we want to say to, God.  But the power that lays in a Worship song is to draw out of us those things that we didn't even know were there or had the words to express.  And when we Worship together corporately, when we join with like-minded people at Church, at a conference, or at a bible study in someone's home; we are transported to the throne room of God, worshiping our Father amongst the heavenly hosts.

There is no substitute for reading your bible, but I can appreciate the impact that a song has.  When I first got saved, I didn't know a lot of scripture, but I had a knack for retaining songs.  So when I didn't know what God said about me, or I didn't know what to pray or how to pray to God, I would sing.  I would sing over my circumstances, I would close my eyes and worship Him in song, and be transported before my King.  "Worthy is the lamb",  "Shout to the Lord", "Jesus, lover of my soul", "I give you my heart", "Christ is enough", "You never fail", "What the Lord has done in me", "You said", "My hope is in you", "I can only imagine", "Word of God speak", "Awesome God", "No longer slaves", "Letting Go", "Forever", "Good good Father", "Holy Spirit", "Trust in you", "O come to the Altar", "Resurrecting", "Do it again".  Which if you want to listen to any of these songs you can click below.  

WORSHIP 1 PLAYLIST - CLICK HERE

Some of these are older, some are new, and they are but a small snippet of what I worship to, but they all achieve one thing;  They disengage my head and engage my heart, falling on my knees before the Lord with an attitude of love, praise, and thankfulness.  
Tonight as I sat in my bedroom in Indiana, behind a computer screen, I joined in worship with thousands of other people, from all around the world - All singing in one unified voice, with a unified focus - Our Father, who art in heaven.  I can imagine the smile on His face as the sound lifted high above the earth, and filled the halls of heaven.

Elevation Worship Team - #CodeOrangeRevival 2016

Well, there are only 2 more days of Code Orange left.  I hope you've been enjoying these posts as much as I have been enjoying writing them.  I can't wait to see what God's going to do on night #nine!!  So until then, God bless you guys,

Psalms 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

Psalms 29:2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.

Psalms 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!

Psalms 99:5 Exalt the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Exodus 15:20-21Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. And Miriam sang to them:  “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalms 63:3-4 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Psalms 66:4  All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah

Psalms 150 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!