April 26, 2009 · 2 Kings 23:25

2 Kings 22-23 Josiah

“Where are you now? Are you in the state of revival? Or just like spiritual survival? Or are you actually becoming like spiritual rivals of God allowing things to grow into your life that are getting in front of God? Maybe idols, like money, power, sex, pleasure, popularity, respect, TV, entertainment, things, music. All these are American idols that blot out God on our landscape. So let us rise up like Josiah and cast them from our presence. Anything that separates us from God must not stand. And no, everything might not be hunky-dory or peachy-keen and the king might die in the middle of his revival. That's why it's that much important that he's in the middle of it. And we might see our faithful family members stricken with disease or death, and we might see our families torn up by divorce and decay and discord. … The joy of the Lord comes in the following, not in the outcome. The Spirit of joy is there the whole time. The peace is there in the trial.”