( © William H. Anderson, April 8, 2002 )

We are hearing and making cries to God for a Revival in our nation. Those cries are being heard and will be answered in God's Time. 

We wonder why God is waiting to answer these prayers. The answer is as simple as falling on your face. While we cry out for Revival for "Those other people." we fail to cry out for ourselves.

We cry out for another Pentecostal Anointing. We cry out for healings and miracles for the people in our congregation and families.

In essence we are asking God for the "New Wine" of an Anointing by the Holy Ghost. The sweetest and most precious of his gifts. When you were a new Christian you could not get enough of Jesus and His Word. Now, when you hear the scripture or look at the Sunday School Lesson you think, "I've studied this before and don't need to read or hear it again." This is an indication that your wine skin has become hardened and your wine is old and stale.

Before we can receive the New Wine of an "Anointing of the Holy Ghost" we must become as a new wine skin. Flexible and willing to grow with God. There once was a Church that needed a Revival so desperately and prayed so fervently to God to bring a Revival. God did send a small Revival and brought people to the Church. The original congregation celebrated the answer to their prayers. They then continued on as if nothing had changed. Ignoring the need to change and integrate the new workers and leaders into their church. God had answered, but the New Wine was soon wasted and lost. The people wanted a Revival but not the change that comes with it. 

They were an old wine skin that God had put some new wine into. But, because they were still stuck in their ways and had not requested or received a new wine skin the Church cracked and all of the New Wine leaked out returning them to the same condition before God sent them the New Wine. 

God called His People, the Israelites, a "Stiff Necked People." I rather think he would still call today's Christians a "Stiff Necked People."


Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.  (KJV)

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