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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“I shall not hesitate also to put into ordered form for you, along with the interpretations, everything I learned carefully in the past from the elders and noted down carefully, for the truth of which I vouch. For unlike most people, I took no pleasure in those who told many different stories, but only in those who taught the truth. Nor did I take pleasure in those who reported their memory of someone else’s commandments, but only in those who reported their memory of the commandments given by the Lord to the faith and proceeding from the Truth itself. And if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders arrived, I made enquiries about the words of the elders—what Andrew or Peter had said, or Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord’s disciples, and whatever Aristion and John the Elder, the Lord’s disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice.
~ Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130 AD) From the Preface to his lost ‘Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord’
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

Personal Revival

A lifestyle?

What part would you like to play in revival? Times of revival can be exciting, and there is a blessing in being part of such a move. We may attend revival events, experience revival phenomena, and perhaps witness the miraculous and supernatural expressions of revival. But why be content with simply having been there? Why not become a carrier of revival? It’s a simple choice facing every disciple of Christ. To choose to be filled with the Holy Spirit as we daily walk and talk with Jesus, is to choose a life of personal revival. We may or may not be living in a time of revival, but it’s exciting and encouraging to know that revival can be in us. If we’re in a revival we may see amazing things, but unless the revival is in us, such things will cease when the revival fires subside. The question to ask ourselves is: Why not live in personal revival every day? It’s there for us if we want it. But we will have to pay the price, which is continuing prayer and a daily fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit.