Have you ever been to a revival? I am talking about a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, song-singing, soul-stirring revival. If you have never been to one, you just might need to convene one today. Stop everything you are doing! Cancel your appointments! Turn off the telephone and the television! Lock your doors! Pull down the shades! Kick off your shoes and have a spirit-filled revival in your life! Here's what you have to do.
Call forth all of the things that are testing you, challenging you, pushing and pulling you, knocking you off center, causing you to feel unsettled. Call them by name. Call them by details. Call them into the center of your life. Stomp your feet and say, NO MORE! When a person in a revival gets to stomping their feet, every ungodly thing is going to flee. Then call into being all of the things you long for, the things you believe will lift you up or propel you forward. Call them into your life. When you feel as if these things you long for, the things you believe will lift you up or propel you forward. Call them into your life. When you feel as if these things are real in your mind and your heart, clap your hands, giving thanks for them. Then cast out the things you are ready to release. Drop to your knees and ask for guidance. While you are down there, you might as well offer someone forgiveness. When you are done, jump up. Ask for protection from inner and outer adversaries. While you are jumping, shake off bad habits, bad feelings, bad attitudes, and don't forget people who may have a bad influence. When you are finished jumping, you may be tired. So lie down! Lie down and surrender! Surrender your life to the Divine plan for your life, and stay down until you know in your heart that you have been revived in the spirit.
Until today, you may have been searching for a way to get your life cleaned up and cleared out. Just for today, have a revival. Revive your faith. Revive your strength. Revive you head, heart and spirit.
Today I am devoted to creating a revived and renewed energy in my life!
From Until Today!
by Iyanla Vanzant
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