I just received an email today that said the newest stats say that 60% of pastors or those in church leadership, are caught up in some form of addiction to pornography! That broke my heart! How can we expect the Church to be effective if our leaders have been taken captive by sin? Worse yet, how they help set the captives free, when they are in bondage? Seriously...one prisoner can not loose another prisoner!
While we all ache for revival....we need to realise that it requires at return to holiness and righteousness. When it comes, there will be not only conviction of sin...but I believe that there will be exposure of sin too. God is merciful...and He, in his mercy will offer a way of escape BUT eventually there will be a time when in order to answer the cries for revival, that He will have to expose those things that are hindering our prayers!
So..while we pray for the Sleeping Giant to awaken....we'd better take stock in our lives of any places we've compromised with sin. I do not intend for people to become fearful...or become the Holy Spirit police regarding other people and their decision. I do intend to remind us, as prayer people, that we need to keep our hearts pure too...our thoughts...our actions in line with His heart for this world, so that our prayer will not only be fervent, but effective!
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