Scribble Thoughts

 02/02/2025

Notebook scribbles from commentary on Old Testament under Dr. Tim Mackey; Reflection on Reading The Price and Power of Revival by Duncan Campbell. 

The Prophets to come: Psalm 1 + 2

meditates = hagah 

whisper, murmur, mutters,

speaks, moan

[Deut 34:10-12, Josh 1:7-8]

Josh 1 + Psalm 1 wants you to see yourself as the one in the narrative

PSALM 2 How blessed The poet asks you a question.

Anointed = mashiach 

Messiah, anointed

"But as for me, I have installed my King

upon Zion, my holy mountain"

"Show discernment"

"Do homage."; "Kiss the Son"

"How blessed are those who take refuge in Him!"

Something really significant!

Psalm 1 + 2 is the window in which I may gaze into the OT and see it is written to me, the reader, and not as a coping skill (Hero example/Theology-Answer book/Inspirational-Heart-Warming/Political Authority)

Power + Price of Revival  Duncan Campbell

"Oh, when shall my soul find her rest? 

My strugglings and wrestlings be o'er,

My heart by my Savior possessed, 

Be fearing and sinning no more?"

Oh, may God create within us a hunger 

"A consciousness of guilt is a vessel into which God wills to pour Hus pardon and Hus recovering grace" (Dr. Stuart Holden)

"But the soul that comes to Jesus through failure, shame, or pain, by His wondrous love and mercy 

may soar as high again."

"There is a cry 

everywhere today

for God to do something."

Baffling + frustrating;

it cannot be done

on human levels

"God is preparing

a vessel. It may

not yet be clean

enough for God"

"Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord"

"There is a hunger, and that is why we are encouraged to believe that revival is near."

Oh God, send the heavens and come down.

"I believe that with all my heart - it is the deep convictions of my soul - that [angels] are ever gazing over the battlements of glory and waiting for a prepared people." But give me a people

on their faces, seeking to be rightly related to 

God,...we will soon know the impact of 

God- realization in our country."

God cannot give us His best gifts unless we

hunger for them. "The greatest thing about 

us all is not what we say, it is not what

we do; the greatest thing about us all is our

unconscious influence, and that unconscious 

influence impregnated by the life of Jesus."

"We are crying 'God send it [revival]; but heaven

cries: 'Is your eye fixed upon Me?'" "Get rightly

related to Me." | "men who feared the Lord, but

they served their own gods." May God lead us into truth

Is there a hunger, is there a cry? How in His 

presence and acknowledge it, and bring that vessel

of honesty, sincerity, and of true seeking after God,

and the promise will be fulfilled: I will pour

water upon him that is thirsty."

If yo want revival, get right with God

Hebrides "God, You

promised revival and

if You do not send it,

how can I trust

You again?" ||| A GREAT CONFIDENCE |||

I hunger and I thirst, 

Jesus, my Manna be

Do we expect what we pray for to happen?

I will pour water upon him that is thirsty 

and floods upon the dry ground. 

I am crucified with Jesus and the Cross

has set me free,

Now I live again in Jesus and

He lives and reigns in me.

REPLENISHING + THE EMPOWERING OF OBEDIENCE

"The greatest reality, the greatest face in life

is just the presence of the LORD Jesus."

And I love Him; that is greater than preaching; 

it is greater than seeing revival. The greatest

thing of all is just to have fellowship with Jesus. 

He gives His Spirit to those who obey. 

Are you going to bring your empty vessel?

If you do, He will fill it. 

ACTS 4:29 - Now, LORD, consider their threats 

and enable your servants to speak Your word

with great boldness. Stretch out Your hand 

to heal and perform signs and wonders

through the name of Your holy servant Jesus. 

After they prayed, the place where they were

meeting was shaken. And they were all 

filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the

word of God boldly. 

A question so vital in its issue, so devasting

in its implications: Is the Church we know 

today a light that marks the road that

leads men to the Cross? ||| [Regarding ACTS 4]

"I discover here that a power is placed at the

disposal of the Church that can outmaneuver

and baffle the very strategy of the devil,

and cause death and defeat to vanish

before the presence of the LORD."

Barrenness is made to feel His fertilizing power. 

How is it that revival tarries?

What did the early church have that we do not?

Early believers believed in UNCTION FROM ON HIGH,

AND NOT ENTERTAINMENT FROM MEN.

How did they get the people at Pentecost?

-The people were arrested and drawn together and brought into vital relationship with God, not

by sounds from men, but by sounds from heaven."

||| The early Church put POWER BEFORE INFLUENCE

What do we mean by influence?

"Introduce you to a young woman...she is not

educated... but I have known that young man 

to pray heaven into a community, to pray

power into a meeting. I have known that

young woman to be so caught in the power

of the Holy Spirit that men and women

around her were made to tremble not

influence, but power | Seek power even at 

the expense of influence; never compromise

to accommodate the devil."

Finney: "Away with your milk and water preaching

of the love of Christ that has no holiness

or moral discrimination in it; away with

preaching a Christ not crucified for sin."

We are afraid of disturbing people today.

Who are we to dictate to Almighty God as to

how He is going to work? If God chooses to move 

in that way, if God chooses to convict men and 

women of their sin that they will be about 

to lose their reason, I say, God move on until we can

see again what was witnessed in the Edwards

Revival, in the Finney Revival, in the Fifty-nine

Revival...and praise God, today...moving in

supernatural

reality."

Rev Robert Bars     South Africa "This is what our

age needs, not an easy-moving message, the 

sort of thing that makes the hearers feel

all nice inside, but a message profoundly

disturbing...The Holy Spirit will have

nothing to do with a message or with a 

minister who is afraid of disturbing.

It is fire we want. 

Then the miracle happens.

"Oh, handle the last piece, LORD"

if the fire is to fall, the last piece must be handled. 

only when we submit can we know His mighty power

There is a law in the science of dynamics 

that tells us that all power is measurable 

at the point of its application. Are we 

prepared to apply that principle in the spiritual

realm, to make this profound discover that

when we come to the end of ourselves, we

can reach the beginning of God?"

Obey the law of the Spirit and the 

Spirit of God will respond to you. 

Isle of Lewis: "You made a promise, and I 

want to remind You that we believe that You

are a covenant-keeping God, Your 

honor is at stake."

(In the place of travail) 

When Zion travailed

she brought forth children.

Dr. Inwood Keswick (1924) "Christian men + women, self -

renunciation is the cardinal ethic of the

Christian Church." "Is it not true, too

often our very best moments of yielding +

consecration are mingled with the destructive

element of self-preservation?"

Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?

Who may stand in His Holy place?

The one who has clean hands + a pure heart,

who does not trust in an idol

or swear by a false good.

They will receive blessing from the LORD

and vindication from God their Savior. "

THE GATEWAY OF A FULL AND UNCALCULATING

CONSECRATION |||| The essential nature

of sin is my claim to my right to myself

Consecration is my relinquishing of that claim. 

"God in His wonderful mercy has made provision

by which we can become the possessors of a 

life of purity, a life of power, a life through 

which there flows the blessing of revival,

a life that has all its springs in God."

Is it really possible to know the blessing

of a clean heart?

"Twas most impossible of all

That here sin's reign in me should cease.

Yet shall it be, I know it shall; 

Jesus look to Thy faithfulness!

If nothing is too hard for Thee!

All things are possible for me."

"Thro' all my soul its waters flow,

Thro' all my nature stealing; 

And deep within my heart I know

The consciousness of healing."

"Despair often is the womb from which real faith is born."

Two elderly women pleading one

promise: "I will pour water upon him that

is thirsty, and floods upon the dry grounds"

Heart purity; he shall receive the blessing

of the LORD ||| Are my hands clean, is my heart pure?

Have I a vision of my own desperate need?