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S o see to it that you do not suming fire (Hebrews 12:25-29). read in James 5:16b: “The prayer of ¦ Count Zinzendorf and the
reject Him or refuse to listen God is shaking everything that can a righteous person is powerful and Moravians - Their dedication to
prayer and the Sermon on the Mount
That which is true and effective.”
to and heed Him Who is be shaken.
speaking [to you now]. For if they righteous will remain. He is awake- This is an important verse especially lifestyle led to a 100-year prayer
[the Israelites] did not escape when ning us out of slumber and apathy, for intercessors. We must walk in meeting and a worldwide mission's
they refused to listen and heed and challenging us to a radically obedience and righteousness if we movement.
Him Who warned and divinely obedient lifestyle. There is not one of want a powerful prayer life. ¦ The Welsh Revival - Evan
instructed them [here] on earth us who does not struggle in our Roberts, the young man who was
[revealing with heavenly warnings Christian walk with the reality of THE SERMON ON THE used so powerfully by God in the
His will], how much less shall we radical obedience. We may obey in MOUNT LIFESTYLE Welsh Revival of 1904, prayed
escape if we reject and turn our the big issues of life, but when it “In every detail of their lives - in passionately that God would purify
backs on Him Who cautions and comes down to every single detail business, pleasure, in Christian and bend the Church.
admonishes [us] from heaven? every day, we find it difficult. It is service, in civil duties - they took the Evan Roberts prayed that God would
Then [at Mount Sinai] His Voice just too hard, but Jesus tells us in the Sermon on the Mount as a lamp to break his own heart over the con-
shook the earth, but now He has Sermon on the Mount that we must their feet.” (Referring to Count dition of mankind. His heart was set
given a promise: Yet once more I be perfect in our obedience just as Zinzendorf and the Moravians). on obedience, and agonizing prayer
will shake and make tremble not our Father is in heaven (Matthew The Sermon on the Mount is the was his daily lifestyle. He believed
only the earth but also the [starry] 5:48). greatest evaluation of an obedient and preached perfect obedience.
heavens. How can this be possible? We know lifestyle. It gets down to the nitty- “Evan Roberts captured the spirit of
Now this expression, Yet once we cannot attain perfection in this gritty issues of daily life and of the whole Revival with the theme:
more, indicates the final removal life, but we can do this by seeking to whether we are walking in obedience Bend the Church and Save the
and transformation of all [that can walk in all the light that the Spirit or not. The Sermon on the Mount is World. James E. Stewart claimed
be] shaken - that is, of that which gives us in every season of our life. the core values of the Kingdom. It is that this is the secret of every true
has been created - in order that Let's make this our primary goal in the acid test to accurately measure awakening. Christians must humble
what cannot be shaken may life: To walk in all the light we have our spiritual development and themselves and get right with God so
remain and continue. and to live radically obedient for ministry impact. that the Spirit can break through in
Let us therefore, receiving a king- God! The Sermon on the Mount was converting power upon the unsaved.
dom that is firm and stable and If we look back in history, there are central for the prayer movements and There must be no hypocrisy. The
cannot be shaken, offer to God several instances where we see how for the revivals. Two examples in Christian must bend to all the will of
pleasing service and acceptable God moved powerfully when His history where the practice of a God for his or her life - in perfect
worship, with modesty and pious people walked in radical obedience. Sermon on the Mount lifestyle obedience - before the Spirit of God
care and godly fear and awe; An obedient lifestyle is key to those brought great results in the spiritual is released. When we are bent to the
Continued on p. 8
For our God [is indeed] a con- who want a powerful prayer life. We realm were: Continued on p. 8