To Carry Revival: Leaders are Readers

This coming generation of revivalists must be a people who are continually climbing higher. We must be a people doing things no one has ever heard of and seeing things no one has ever seen. This lifestyle requires an unquenchable yearning for learning.

There are realms of life experiences that no one has ever tapped into. When Moses came off the mountain, he has to veil his face because the glory of the Lord was radiating from his face so intensely. This was under the Old Covenant. We are under the New Covenant.

But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
- 1 Corinthians 3:7-9

What this tells me is that since we are not experiencing this as ministers of the Gospel, there must be more. My point here is that there is always more. God is infinite. Because of this, we must always be seeking to learn as much as we can from the Holy Spirit.

I significant portion of this learning will come from an insatiable hunger for the word of God. We must read it. We must study it. We must devour it. We must allow it to become who we are. The supernatural goes so far beyond our human reason that if the word of God hasn't taken root and become who we are, we will either deny the power of God out of fear of deception or we will begin to glorify the signs instead of the One to Whom the signs direct us. In addition to this, we must seek to learn all we can from those who came before us and those who are currently reaching higher levels of God's glory. This means studying their lives, learning how they lived, and learning from their shortcomings. Leaders are readers. People who are to carry the coming revival must be readers. They must be learners. They (we) must never spend two consecutive days in the same plane of knowledge and supernatural experience. We must be learning until the day we die.

Study to show yourself approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.
- 2 Timothy 2:15

Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
- Psalm 119:105