In the coming weeks The Revival Blog will be no more.

I have posted a top 10 posts for the past year here.  Enjoy it while you can.

It is not goodbye, just good night.

I began the Revival Blog as a place to publicly declare what I thought the Church should become.  It seemed to me that the voice of Pentecost had been overshadowed by fruit collection in the Spirit-Filled Church and I wanted other voices to be heard.

In that time, The Revival Blog has become a gathering place for people who are contending for revival in their fellowships, people walking in revival and want others to do the same, and mockers who want others to reject the Bible as they have done.

Three and a half years ago, I began this journey as a man who had just resigned his position in a church plant, grew as a youth minister, and now find myself a church planter and aspiring itinerant revivalist.

As this latest season is coming more into focus, the last season is fading from view.  And The Revival Blog is part of that season.

I will not say that I won’t post here any more, but at this time I do not plan to.

I have begun a new blog at Carl Thomas http://www.carlthomas.net.  This blog  will be less abstract in theology and more of an account of my life as a “Father, Christian, Preacher, Husband (not necessarily in that order).”

I am going to leave this blog up.  I am not going to edit the content and plan to leave the comments open as is. I have a post or two I still have unpublished but other than that, this is the end.

It is possible that this will come to life again, I just can’t see that time from here.  I have made a handful of genuine friends through this site including David (who I consider my pastor and is on my board), Michael, Mark and others.  I have made a few folks fairly mad.  And hopefully I have encouraged folks though my successes and failures while seeking after God.

I pray that each of you are experiencing the seasons of God and are equally open to lay down something that you love and cherish to follow the call of God on your life.

Thank you each for your friendship and encouragement.

Carl Thomas

No doubt you have noticed that I have not blogged here very frequently as of late.

I would like to promise you that I will begin blogging more frequently but I don’t know that I can keep that promise.

This blog began really as a ministry. It was my goal to shed light on the revival that’s happening across America and across the world.  God is moving today and his spirit is being poured out in America and around the world. I would always hear people talking about their desire for revival yet it was revival that they could control.

I frequently wrote about ministers who declare their desire for revival yet what do everything in their power to keep the Holy Spirit from messing up their service.  Now I find that I’m the one who’s running the service and much to my delight I let the Holy Ghost mess it up all the time. But with this new ministry I have less time to blog about things abstract.  So going forward with the revivalblog, I cannot guarantee you the posting frequency or the direction and the time may come a day may cease posting altogether and starting a new blog about my personal ministry.

If you have any revival related posts you’d ever like to see here on revivalblog feel free to e-mail them to me at revivalblog@gmail.com.

If you have time please consider praying for my ministry and for the people of The Mission at Delray.

• Lookie there, been a week since I have updated my blog.
• Good news, spent lots of that time in prayer.
• have no idea how to summarize the service last night.
• There was a miracle, I preached a three point message
• The Holy ghost dropped in the room at the end of service and people manifested the Holy Ghost for almost an hour.
• Missed that one in the church planting books
• A visitor’s fiance left the service because the God got ahold of her. she said she never experienced that before.
• Pix here, message here

• Wow!  Great service!
• A girl got saved.  That alone made the night awesome.
• Tom Scarrella came and preached our faces off!
• Record number of people.  But half of them were there to see Tom.
• Bryan and his ushering crew did a great job dealing with the guests.
• Worship was off the hook
• How many churches have “ain’t” in a worship song?
• Tom better keep Susie Scarrella off the television because she is a phenomenon waiting to happen.
• Susie spoke a word over the house that was pure Jesus
• Tom spoke prophetic words to some people that I have never heard before.
• The message was really great.  Catch it here.
• Photos here
• Breakthrough!  The room was neither freezing nor sweltering the entire night!
• I am celebrating today by driving 6 hours to my in-laws

Can you stand one more election post? I have several things I want to post about this election but only have time for a few today.  For the record, I believe many of the prophecies that were spoken about this election, unfortunately almost all of them were interpreted wrongly.  That is for another time.  However, there are several posts I would like to highlight from around the web.

My friend Dr. Michael Davis writes,

Third, let the healing begin and inspire him to rise up and be an agent of reconciliation and unity.

The country has great needs and I hope roadblock politics will not categorize the minority policy and that brute force politics will not categorize the majority party. Abortion is a no compromise issue, but there are a lot of other things that we can compromise on and I hope that we do.

Pastor Chris Elrod writes,

Our missioin is still the same today as it was yesterday…reach people far from God with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and lead them into a growing relationship with Him.  My post election thought is this…if we as the Church do what God has called us to do…then it will help to make President Obama’s job a little easier in the days to come!

Hear that church!  We are not a political party.

Pyromaniacs, a blog I never read, writes about the doom and gloom pronouncements if the outcome did not come out right,

I mean: how can we call the Gospel “good news” if we think that somehow the outcome of a human vote can leave us without hope? How good could it be if a mere ideology or ballot process renders it somehow weakened or can overcome it?

Today, God says to His church, “I love you.” And now it is our place to be beloved and act like a beloved people. We should remember that God’s love is a hard act to follow, and that it is where our hope actually lies.

Wade Burleson deals with the fruit of the hate mongering this election.  Pretty Good read.

Eric Redmond writes,

The question for me at this time is this: Can I continue to live Soli Deo Gloria under a President whose moral judgment already is questionable before he takes the oath of office? Yes I can, for I can be obedient to Scripture, praying for the one in authority (1 Tim. 2:1-8), honoring the one in authority (1 Pet. 2:13-18), submitting to the one in authority (Rom. 13:1-7; Tit. 3:1), and seeking righteousness for the entire citizenry (Prov. 14:34). These I will seek to do by grace. I will “honor the good appointment of God.”

This morning I was taken back to what I wrote two years ago when the Democrats made great gains in congress,

There is one hope for this country and that is Jesus Christ.  If more churches realized that the only way this country is going to be transformed for His glory is by open revival there would be more fasting and less glad handing.

Preacher, your church needs less voter guides and more prayer meetings.  We don’t need to learn more about the founding fathers, we need to learn more about tarrying at the altar.

The Mission has been meeting in the fellowship hall of a Methodist church since the beginning of August.  We were supposed to have a contract in the first few weeks.  It has now been several months.

In Florida, you cannot get a tax-free certificate for sales tax without a contract.  I think we are paying too much and the cost issue was supposed to be revisited and we want to inquire about getting more space so we can begin to offer childcare.  These are all problems.

I would like to resolve this today.

Would you pray for a breakthrough?

Thanks

Tracey was driving by a church here in town that is selling pumpkins.

My five year old daughter anounced from the back seat

They have halloween stuff at a chuch?  Now that doesn’t make sense!

Amen sister.

I operate in the prophetic but I am not a prophet and as I look at the modern prophetic movement I sometimes wonder if anyone really is.  I could site a million examples but this election season gives a glaring example of what is amiss in this ministry.

The notion that we will get the President we deserve instead of the one we need is patently unbiblical and is founded in false doctrine.  And the thought that the final tally of the electoral college will decide God’s dealing with America is a doctrine of demons.

Let me give a little class on prophetic signs.  The most senior Senator in Congress, a Republican,  was convicted of seven counts of ethics violations exactly a week before the election.  This my friends is a prophetic sign.  God does judge righteousness but He has a special loathing for hypocrisy.  The party that has billed itself as the party of Jesus and family values has truly lost its ways.  If you cannot see this you are either blind or a liar.  God has even given this sign but the Church, in her pride and self righteousness, will not see it.

I subscribe to the theory of three governments.  There is the government of the home, which is lead by the priest of the house.  There is the church government which is lead [on earth] by the elders.  And there is the civil government which is lead by elected, inherited, or self-appointed leaders.  Each is anointed for a specific realm.  Each set of leaders will be judged by how they lead the area they have biblical control over.  By and large, each is to limit their control to the area they have been appointed to by God.

Ever been in a church when the pastors muck around in family affairs?  Ever seen a country where the government exerts control over the church?  Ever been a pastor in a church that is run by a few deacons?  None of these scenarios work.  In fact, I am hard pressed to find good examples of any of them because they are rooted in witchcraft.

But this basic principle is disregarded by the modern church because they would rather exert control by government then take up the God-given responsibility to win the lost and change hearts.

News flash: Born again, spirit-filled, sanctified Christians don’t gamble, get drunk, live their entire lives on welfare and have abortions.  Government is not the answer.  The answer is a revival of religion in the United Sates.  Quit trying to shift our responsibility onto the government.

Under the wicked, christian-murdering government of Rome the Holy Spirit was given and whole nations were turned upside down.  Now we are told that if the government is not righteous God will curse the land.

I just got a word, Bible.  Crack it open, read what it says.  And stop the stupid fear mongering.  Jesus has not come back to Judge the earth through a presidential election.

I did receive a prophetic word that actually has the breath of God on it.  It did not come from a national book tour prophet.  It came from Pastor Theresa Phillips in Chicago.  Read it and be blessed:

In worship Wednesday night 29 October /08 I was taken up by the wings of love …far up above the earth, above the America continent.

I ascended being carried by such love and adoration for mankind.

I could feel the gentle touch of the Presence that escorted me beyond the earthly realm.

I was peering down into the earth when I spotted a ring of fire.

It surrounded the White House .

Then it surrounded the city of Washington DC the Capitol and all the Monuments and the ENTIRE CITY

Instantly coming from behind me was a new wind… in this wind was the American bald eagle he was soaring with great strength

He soared past me not one wing flapping in his eyes were blazes of fire.

He was totally focused on Washington DC. in his beak He carried an olive branch .

This eagle soared all across the DC. area and around the White House. He did this several times.

Then he took off and went north… Moving very fast soaring

The wind of the Spirit was in His Wings and he moved not wing he just soared

It went to Russia ,China, Hungary ,Paraguay , South America ,Cuba Hawaii At one point i saw the Dome of the Rock and I saw Him soar over it three times.

And back to the U.S.A . soaring thru the entire country and landed in Washington DC.On the roof of the White House. Where I last saw him perched on the flag pole.

Then…..

The word of the Lord spoke to me

“This olive branch is what I have placed in the mouth of the prophets I place an OLIVE BRANCH IN THE PROPHETS MOUTH America Prophets .

Prophets of America, prophecy rightly in grace and save the world from destruction.

It will be the fire of the prophets who will change the course of a nation . A holy fire !”

“These nations that were circled are where the nations where many prophets are in hiding.

American prophets prophecy to them courage to speak and have grace ”

“Judgment begins in the house of the Lord not on the land of men I will begin to show great discernment in the House of My Children says the Lord!”

“I have not sent judgment I am sending A Prophetic Grace which will speak to MY church so they will love again.”

For through this OLIVE BRANCH will love be extended by the hand of the King Of Kings across the earth

GOD bless the Mouth of the Prophets