Sermon
The Preparation for Personal Revival
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
January 6, 2025 · 36 min
Summary
Drawing from Proverbs 1:7, the sermon teaches that the fear of the Lord—a reverent awareness of God's presence, knowledge, and control—is the foundational beginning of personal revival. The pastor challenges listeners to actively humble themselves under God's authority rather than despise His instruction, warning that there is no middle ground between submission and resistance.
Highlights
To fear the Lord means that I know that God sees all, knows all, and controls all. And based on that, I fear the Lord by adjusting my life accordingly.
You can humble yourself under the authority of God, or you can arrogantly fight against it. Those are the two options for how you can live your life. There is no middle ground.
Revival begins when you draw a circle around yourself and you say, 'Lord, would you move inside the circle?'