Category Archives: spiritual awakening

Make everyday a day of epiphany (and every church a place of epiphany)

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Steve Simms

A Christian’s heart should be full of fountains flowing and wide-open faucets running with rivers of Jesus’ living water. Is yours? If not, this might help: January 6 is called “The Day of Epiphany” by traditional churches. It celebrates the … Continue reading →

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Have you been merry lately?

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Steve Simms

Don’t worry, be merry! To be merry is to be full of grateful cheerfulness and radiating with heart-felt joy. Without a merry heart merriment is just an empty show. Being merry is the rare but glorious condition of a heart … Continue reading →

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Be a Spirit-led Christian not a snooze-controlled one

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Steve Simms

If church would be as careful not to offend God as not to offend attendees, there would be massive spiritual awakening. When church sends people home after a sermon without facilitating heart-to-heart connection and sharing among them, it encourages them … Continue reading →

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If you don’t want to wake up, don’t obey 2 Chronicles 7:14

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Steve Simms

God has much more of His presence and power that He wants to give you right now. All that’s required is that you surrender to His will and continually cry out for His help. In 2 Chronicles 7:14 God states … Continue reading →

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Nodding heads aren’t a sign of spiritual awakening!

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Steve Simms

It’s sad that in most churches spontaneous sleeping is permitted, but spontaneous testifying about the living Jesus isn’t. Perhaps we’ve cultivated the wrong kind of spontaneity. How many nodding heads does it take before we realize that church is putting … Continue reading →

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Words in my heart are my wake-up call

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Steve Simms

I wake up in the morning and Jesus puts words in my heart. I respond by passively pondering and the words come together as individual phrases (and sometimes as poems). These are the words that manifested in my heart this … Continue reading →

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Religion is predictable. The Holy Spirit is unpredictable.

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Steve Simms

As a Pharisee, Nicodemus preferred predictable, programmed, and rigid religion, but Jesus told him that God’s Spirit is unpredictable like the wind. (See John chapter three.) Religiously satisfying the flesh (our human desires and our need to look good before … Continue reading →

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Jesus first! (Avoid “Christian factionalism.”)

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Steve Simms

When Christ-followers allow human opinions, policies, ideas, or governments to divide them and make them hostile toward each other, they abandon the unity of the Spirit. The result is Christian factionalism. Human authority systems are unredeemable because they are operated … Continue reading →

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My heart continually cries out for REVIVAL!!!

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Steve Simms

The way of spiritual awakening is much simpler that we imagine. When Christ-followers humbly gather to expect and experience direct revelation and individual response — to receive the inner prompting of the Holy Spirit and to outwardly proclaim and do … Continue reading →

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Actuation makes the risen Jesus real (to you)

Posted on July 26, 2022 by Steve Simms

got actuation? When you actuate Jesus, His water park breaks out inside you: “Rivers of living water will flow from within,” “A spring of water welling up to eternal life,” “Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in … Continue reading →

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