Change requires change. Change is one of the few things that begins with itself. If we want to experience change we must be willing to change or at least begin changing things around us. Every Israelite king that wanted to see their nation transformed understood this reality. If the nation was to return to God, there had to be changes; immediate changes. High places had to be removed. Idols had to be thrown in the trash. False prophecy had to be chased out from the land. The people had to repent, which required not only a change of mind and heart, but a change in action.
Could it be that the change that we desire to see in our ministries hinges on the changes that we are afraid to make? We desire to see God move in our communities and cities in the way that He’s moving in others. We want to see that same kind of “fire from heaven” type revival where unbelievers are coming to Christ, backsliders are returning, families are being restored, unmotivated people are becoming excited about the kingdom, and church is being influential. Yet, when we are exposed to changes that are necessary to accomplish those things, there’s serious pushback. Many a times, the push back comes from our own hearts. Our unwillingness to change leads to us becoming an antagonist against the very change that we want to see! We become critical and skeptical, instead of open and revolutionary. Now all of a sudden the church that begins to experience the change we want to see is a fadish, shallow cult experiencing false conversions. The leader that had the guts to make the hard decisions that we refuse to make is an arrogant, false prophet that needs to repent for leading hundreds and thousands of young people down the paths of destruction. We allow our hearts to become callous against the move of God and we become Pharisaic. The best favor we can do for ourselves is to simply change.
