{"id":721,"date":"2011-09-24T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"a-king-prepares-for-a-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"A King Prepares for a Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chronicles 2 29:1-8, 29:20, 29:25-29, and 29:31-36<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: The 1st thing he did was to open the doors of God&#8217;s house.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The doors were locked and in need of repair.<br \/>\n2. The lamps were out and needed to be lit<br \/>\n3. Incense was not burnt and there was a musty smell.<br \/>\n4. The priest and Levites were moved away and many had turned to farming.<br \/>\n5. All these Hezekiah determined to set in their proper place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong> II: Hezekiah prepares for a Revival.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The groves were cut down and idols in public places were destroyed.<br \/>\n2. The Priest and Levites were called to clean the House of God (16 days).<br \/>\n3. Those who ruled over the people were called to get right with God first. 29:20<br \/>\n4. The musicians and singers were sanctified and set in their place. 29:25-29<br \/>\n5. The congregation came to worship and bring offerings.<br \/>\n6. Letters were writen to people to come to the house of God and worship.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: The Revival came.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. More people brought sacrifices than the priest could handle.<br \/>\n2. There was singing and praising in the house of God.<br \/>\n3. Peace offerings and confessions were made.<br \/>\n4. They took counsel and extended the time of worship another week.<br \/>\n5. Hezekiah gave 100 bullocks, 7,000 sheep, and the princes gave 1,000 bullocks and 10,000 sheep.<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV: The results of the Revival.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The priest and Levite came back to lead the people.<br \/>\n2. The people destroyed the idols and turned to God.<br \/>\n3. The tithes and offerings were piled in mighty heaps.<br \/>\n4. Store houses were erected and men set over them.<br \/>\n5. The priest were taken care of and appointed places to serve.<br \/>\n6. God became real to them, he blessed their farms, protected them from the enemy,<\/p>\n<p>and put a new song in the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronicles 2 29:1-8, 29:20, 29:25-29, and 29:31-36 I: The 1st thing he did was to open the doors of God&#8217;s house. 1. The doors were locked and in need of repair. 2. The lamps were out and needed to be lit 3. Incense was not burnt and there was a musty smell. 4. The priest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}