A RETURN TO GOD'S PROMISE OF RESURRECTION!

Hosea 6:3 'Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge Him.  As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.

At the heart of God's call to return, there is a promise of His Presence, His very Presence that will lead us to personal and corporate revival, just as the winter and spring rains serve to prepare the ground and bring maturity to the harvest.  In this last promise, even as we put to death those very areas of our lives that hinder us from our destiny in God, there is a promise of resurrection onto the higher purpose of seeing God's Church transformed and empowered to fulfil her God-given destiny.

• Pray that we will continue to press on to acknowledge God, that all that we are and all that we do is ultimately about Him and His glory. 
• Pray that we will know that it is in dying that God brings life.  Without a spiritual dying to our self-life, there can be no resurrections or new beginnings.
• Pray, acknowledging that our resurrection is through the power of the Holy Spirit and it is His Spirit that does that transforming work in us, empowering us to fulfil God's destiny for us as individuals and as a church.  'And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.'  Romans 8:11
• Pray that we will be so firmly entrenched on God's promise that 'as surely as the sun rises, He will appear' and grant us spiritual renewal and revival.  Let us persist in seeking Him!