Florida – Revival or Renewal?

This is not something to get all in a bind about. It just allows us to set our expectations.

Definitions:
Renewal – Generally an internal work on the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. It is inward facing, the body of Christ being touched, filled, overcome by the Father’s move. Expressed in an outpouring of His Spirit. May focus on particular expression of the Father bringing different aspects of the Father into focus and re-release. Examples would be the Reformation with “Justified by grace”, Azusa Street with Holy Spirit, Healing moves in this century, release of Prophets and Apostles, etc… Focus is to establish fuller presence of Kingdom (reign) of God in His church, in His body.

Revival – Generally an external work through the power of the Holy Spirit touching the unsaved. It is outward facing to reach outside the walls to those who don’t know Him in order to bring the Kingdom on them. Examples would be the Welsh revival, etc. Focus is to bring the presence of Kingdom (reign) of God to those who don’t know Jesus.

I believe the current happenings in Florida and spreading through the rest of the world are basically Renewal leading to Revival. Todd Bentley has multiple times spoken that one of the purposes he sees for what is happening is for people to come from everywhere and receive an impartation to carry back to their homes, their cities, their churches. The Father is pouring out a new anointing manifested by impartation. This, I believe, is the focus of what the Father is doing right now. The signs and wonders are to pull and attract the church to seek the Lord and receive impartation. The people who are coming to the Lord via the current move are a side effect of anytime that the Father moves but in this move they are not the primary purpose of His outpouring.

The primary purpose of this move is to impart the Father’s love, Kingdom rule, presence, encouragement, empowerment, raise up… in order for the body to move among the people. Then when the revival comes it will be His body going out to the fields with the Father’s love, Kingdom, power. And it may have many stadiums and places filled with people but the ministry will be individual. It will be poured out on men and women and sons and daughters who will in turn bring the Kingdom (reign) of the one they Love to the streets, to their neighbor, to the Wal-Mart, the McDonalds, the Mall.

The days are going to come, declares the LORD, when the one who plows will catch up to the one who harvests, and the one who stomps on grapes will catch up to the one who plants. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills.

Amos 9:13