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Do you recall Zechariah 4:6, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts”?
It’s a Good Word for today, dear friends! Zechariah was a priest who had come back with the exiles to Jerusalem, roughly 538 BC. There had been that urgent call to return and build again the temple of God. But great difficulties were encountered in the form of haters of God, haters of the Jews! 20 discouraging years had passed and still no temple.
There were mountains of difficulties you see. Like today when we think of America and how far we have strayed from God, from the Constitution, from the Bill of Rights, and how much hatred of God is parading right in the open. Discouraging.
So in chapter 4 Zechariah sees a lamp stand with 7 lamps each having 7 spouts where the wicks went – that’s 49 lights. That’s a HUGE amount of light! They are fed from a bowl with an plant on either side – the oil will never run out.
So God, in the face of all this discouragement, presents a blaze of glory, and says, “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.” What will happen by His Spirit? That mountain of difficulties, mountain of impossibilities, will become a plain. It will be flattened! And the top stone will be added, meaning the temple WILL be finished. God will bring about the completion – by His Spirit.
Today, don’t say America is doomed, or whatever else you might be tempted to say. Rather, thank God that by His Spirit revival will come to America. He WILL strengthen the Church. There WILL be a mighty revival. We are talking about God, and God never fails.
And for us, as 1 Cor 15:57-58 says, “thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil (to help others COME ALIVE) is NOT in vain in the Lord!
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