Hope Lost and Found:
Insights on God’s Plan of Salvation, Revival and Restoration

Part 12 —God's Way of Assuring us that His Salvation and Revival is Approaching

by Harvey L. Diamond

In anticipating God's revival, we are charged to maintain just and righteous ways. That includes, first and foremost, setting time for worship and communion with God. God's promise of revival and a relationship with Him transcends social and cultural boundaries. In fact, God knows no such boundaries. He simply seeks open hearts--people open to identifying with Him; people who will receive His love, truth and grace, and enjoin with Him in a relationship--His way.

Thus says the LORD:
"Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil."
Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the LORD
Speak, saying,
"The LORD has utterly separated me from His people";
Nor let the eunuch say,
"Here I am, a dry tree."
For thus says the LORD:
"To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,
Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.
"Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants -
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant --
Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
(Isaiah 56:1-7)

No matter how unqualified or disqualified we may feel, God promises to reveal His righteousness to us! He simply seeks hearts willing to please Him, enjoin with Him, and engage with Him in the place of active prayer; which is not ritual--but a relationship.