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We are definitely in a season of personal revival. I wrote up a little ditty about it last Saturday on Facebook. I’ve included a snippet for those of you who missed it.

I’m in this fiery revival right now, and I’m sure you’re in it as well. What I want to say today though is, it’s also a time to go low.

I believe God is brining a wave of humility in this season as well. In order to partner with this revival, we must be able to look at ourselves truthfully, but also maintain the understanding of who we are in Christ, and who He created us to be.

It’s easy for the enemy to take us down if we don’t walk in humility. This goes for each and every one of us. So many want to stay on the upper level and fight, the level called pride, but that’s opening ourselves up even wider to the enemy, and giving the enemy easy access.

We MUST go low!! It’s time to humble ourselves and enter into a place of rest. It’s in that place of rest where we are able to put together a sound strategy to defeat all the enemy throws at us. We are able to regroup, to gather ourselves together, and think clearly.

Part of being humble is to see ourselves the way God sees us, to walk in that understanding, and to not allow the enemy to rob us of our identity. In other words – it’s knowing who we are and walking in it despite what anyone else may say or think about us.

This reminds me of King Nebuchadnezzar who thought the kingdom he built was his doing – that he built it by his own “mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty,” Daniel 4. He refused to go low on his own, and to acknowledge that everything he had accomplished was at the hand of God, and because of God’s might, and God’s power, so God had to bring him low. Nebuchadnezzar actually lost his kingdom for a time, but the Lord held onto it for him. He went through a tremendous, painful season of humbling, but when it was over, God restored his kingdom to him and it says in verse 36 “still more greatness was added to me.”

It’s so much easier to humble ourselves and save ourselves all the trouble, and all the battles, than to be humbled by the Lord. However, when we come out of that season, we are so much greater than before, and all the glory and honor go to the appropriate place – to God be all the glory, and honor, and praise.

“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is ale to humble.” Daniel 4:37