More of What???

Why is it that you can find a church on every corner, a conference of some type every weekend and yet folks don’t appear to stand any better today than they did this time last year? I continue to meet and talk with people who want more. They bounce from church to church looking for more. What is the “More” they are looking for? Is it more of God, more out of Worship, more power within their lives?
It seems to me that what is lacking…is a true biblical understanding and or belief in the scriptures, and the discipline to apply it in their daily lives. People attend church like it’s a fix all to the problems they faced over the past week and desperately looking for the “magic” that will get them through the next week. It’s this mentality that has folks so interested in chasing signs and wonders. I would love just once to have someone…ANYONE who walks around boasting of how prophetic their church/pastor is to have enough understanding of what they are talking about; to have the ability to give a clear scriptural and biblically sound reference to support that which they are speaking of. How do you justify a modern day Prophet? When was the last time someone was called out on a false prophesy? People run around talking about revival...Pastors are calling for greater commitment of prayer, commitment to serving within the church…”we need revival in the land”…etc. Are we to understand that revival is that which is going to bring the “more” everyone seems to be looking for?
How about REPENTANCE! How about taking a stand and calling out one another to live in holiness and Godliness…setting an example to the unbeliever. Revival will never occur in a selfishly stained church.
Did it ever occur to anyone that revival must begin with repentance from within? That all these folks that fail to live out their lives separated from the world can pray until carpets are warn, and serve in every ministry the church has to offer; but without Holiness and Godliness their prayers for revival go unheard. The time is long overdue to throw away the spotlights, and uncover the cross.
You want drama…follow me into the streets and witness to the addicts, drunks, and spiritually dead. Send the band back into the pews and let’s learn to WORSHIP God by glorifying Him in song and praise rather than mimic the top ten of what God can do for us as heard on the local radio station. You have an alcohol problem...REPENT and apply God’s Word in life. You have a drug problem REPENT and apply God’s Word in your life…Is your marriage falling apart… REPENT and apply God’s Word in your life. Finance’s a mess… REPENT and apply God’s Word in your life.
The only way anyone is going to find more is to seek less of anything outside God’s written and Holy Scripture. REPENT…Submit to Christ as both Lord and Savior…only then will one find the “More” they are so desperately seeking.