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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'

Revival In Us

Whether or not we are currently in a revival that is happeining around us, it is exciting and encouraging to know that revival can be in us. If we’re in a revival we may well see some amazing things, but unless the revival is within us, those more dramatic happenings will stop when the revival fires subside. The question we must ask ourselves is this: 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. If, like me, this is the desire of your heart, I invite you to join me in a moment, as we open our hearts afresh together to receive the blessed Holy Spirit: Heavenly Father, we come to you with hunger in our hearts to be filled afresh with Your life-giving Holy Spirit. Fill us, we pray, to overflowing, that Your supernatural love and power will move in us and through us to extend Your Kingdom here on earth. May our lives be beacons of light in the darkness of this world, and may others be drawn closer to You through our witness. Amen