Bring the Soul Back

Sitting here, I am overwhelmed. Consumed, saturated, and kindled with a fresh passion. Considering all that God is doing in the Church and in my own life lately, I can't help but to be taken back to I Kings 17:17-22 in a story where Elijah was commanded to go to Zarephath where a widow would sustain him. Suddenly, the son of the woman fell sick and Scripture reads of his condition, "there was no breath left in him". Elijah took the boy and he prayed a simple, earnest, but powerful prayer...."Oh Lord my God, let this child's soul come into him again". The next verse says that the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. What we need is a revival. Sinners and ministers alike. Sinners from the guilt and shame that plagues them when Christ is offering them freedom. Ministers from doubt that the same Christ will not perform what He has promised. As a believer, it is easy to feel like "there's no breath left" sometimes. It gets hard to breathe as we are suffocated by schedules and things that are quite frankly, non-eternal. The answer is simple....Call out to God asking Him to bring the soul back into you, and as I Kings 17:22 reads, the soul of the child came back into him again, and he was revived. Let's admit that we get the breath knocked out of us sometimes, let's cry out to God, lets have revival. Brothers and sisters, Let's bring the soul back. God Bless you.....Shaun William Capps