Power, Passion & Revival

I’ve been catching some of the recent Todd Bentley healing meetings on God TV over the past couple of weeks. What really shocked me was my cynical reaction to it all. This was especially compounded when I thought back to the Vineyard meetings of 15, 20 years ago, where this stuff happened every week (even locally, never mind conferences). Regardless of what we think of the style or method, people are getting healed, saved and blessed. For whatever reason, in our movement, as time went on, these kind of genuinely powerful outpourings became less and less. Perhaps we just got used to it? No, I don’t think so. I think it was because the Lord needed to teach us to be Outward Focussed before He’d release it to such a degree again. If we are just soaking for meeting after meeting, but not taking it into the marketplace, feeding the poor, comforting the widow and passing on the blessing then its pointless. That said we need to remain hungry for this stuff, its what Wimber called, “Power Evangelism”. The gospel is spread with both the Word & the Works, its all the Kingdom of God.

Sometimes I think we try to be cool and relevant (when we’re really not), instead of just being real and ourselves. We should never dumb down the supernatural, or write it off with our cynicism. Likewise, when God pours it out, we should be running out of the doors to give it away. It was never just for us, we get to give away!