"The Lord says: "These people come near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is based on merely human rules they have been taught"- Isaiah 29:13 (NIV).
Richard J. Foster said, "God desires authentic dialogue...what is on our hearts." A church bulletin is handed out to each congregationalist as they enter for worship...referred to as the "order of worship." It's an agenda; for some...a checkoff list, repeated every Sunday. The songs change, their may be a solo or quartet variation to the music, but the order has been the same from generation to generation. There are churches that repeat the same words, as a congregation, every Sunday: doxologies, call/responses, even prayers. To God the Father, they are words of worship from those who repeat them from their heart, but ring hollow from uncommitted lips. Our churches need revival and it must begin in our hearts! The revival doesn't come from us, but from God, by supernatural power. Show us what You are able to do, Lord, and raise your servants to new heights...a Holy quest for revival, which begins with authentic dialogue with You.
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