We Need to Look to God for Revival

Revival is a time to refocus, to get re-energized, reinvigorated, shaken up so we can go out and live in the way that God desires for us.
We have so many things that are really testing us!!!
- Economy is in shambles - Recession seems like it will never end - Debt ceiling crisis is frustrating - So many businesses are failing and laying people off - Jobs are hard to come by - Marriages are under attack
There is so much uncertainty in our lives!
Because of all of this if we are not careful we can easily buy in to all news of doom and gloom. If we are not careful we can allow our spirits to marinate in pool of negativity and pessimism. If we are not careful we will start walking around defeated....
In the book of Acts chapter 3 there was a lame man, a beggar who was laid at the gate of the temple called Beautiful. If you have ever seen a beggar begging, one of the first things they do is make eye contact with you. Instead of the beggar looking at Peter and John, Peter had to tell him to "Look at us".
It would seem that the beggar had in a sense given up. He was not on the prowl. He was a professional beggar that had been disarmed of his greatest weapon. His spirit was broken, he had settled into a spirit of complacency and was resigned to get whatever came to him rather than to make something happen. I wonder if that is how many of us have become like this beggar man.
We have been going to the same gate and doing the same thing over and over again with the mindset that thinks, "If I get something out of it fine.... But I'm not expecting much."
But rejection started beating down upon us, complacency has set in and we feel like we are going in circles and not accomplishing anything. So we put our heads down and say why bother... giving more, doing more, sacrificing, more, risking more? Why Bother??!!!!
And so you put your hand out and say half-heartedly... Lord Please Bless Me... But you don't expect it.. You don't really seek it..
You ask cause you know you should..But friends God wants us to LOOK UP!!!
Look Up for help, Look up for hope, Look up for guidance.
The Psalmist says:
Psa 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Psa 121:2 My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
Psa 121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
God is not asleep.. He is not overlooking you...
1Pe 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
1Pe 3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
God Knows, He See's, He Watches, He Cares and He Wants us his children to know where and who to go to!!
Look Up To God Who Cares and desires to Revive Us!