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Pastor At Boshoff - Invade My Heart

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Pastor At Boshoff - Invade My Heart

This sermon from Pastor Advosal of Christian Revival Church calls believers to a profound spiritual revival by surrendering their hearts to God. Instead of relying on worldly success or routine faith, the message emphasizes that before God works in their lives, He must first invade their hearts. The pastor warns against lukewarm Christianity, urging a return to first love and a deep, abiding relationship with Jesus. He teaches that repentance is not about guilt but about returning to Christ, restoring a holy hunger and purpose. The heart must be "rent" or opened through divine intervention, allowing God to enter, cleanse, and refine. The Word of God is presented as a fire and hammer that breaks hardened areas and removes spiritual blockages. True revival requires daily communion, corporate worship, and a passionate, surrendered lifestyle. The message concludes with a powerful call to action: believers are invited to close their eyes, raise their hands, and pray for God’s presence to invade their hearts. The preacher emphasizes that God’s work begins in the individual heart and will then transform their lives, businesses, and communities. This is not about performance but about a deep, personal, and transformative surrender to Christ as the center of all life. The revival promised is not just personal but national, with a call to overcome division and live in unity through the love of Christ.

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Welcome to Christian Revival Church with Pastor Advosal. This message serves to lift the name of Jesus, bring revival to every believer. For more information on CRC, visit CRCChurch.com. Now let's tune in to this week's message. Before God will do, things for us and through us, you need to listen to me this morning. God wants to do things in us. I know you all have dreams and as I said on the last night of the pre-night, we are putting up a whole vision wall. We are putting on wallpaper so you will all write your visions. After I've shared on the invasion of a vision, but this morning I want to talk about your heart. And the message this morning is your cry. Invade my heart. So often we want to come and we want God to shake things in our will. We want God to do things for us. Some of you are trusting God for breakthrough out there. But before God is going to breakthrough out there, God wants to breakthrough in your heart. Because when God controls your heart, God controls your life and your future, the Bible says, "The heart of the king." And by the way, you are a king and a priest through Jesus Christ is in the hand of the Lord. And he turns it which every way he desires. I want to start this year and I want to know that my heart is in the hand of God. I don't want business as usual. I want God at the center of everything. And when I say, "I, I mean you." This is your prayer. This is your plea. So I'm going to talk on your behalf this morning to God. And I'm going to talk to you on God's behalf. What God is saying, I believe, to us to experience this great 2026. Because how we start will determine how we run and how we will finish. Revelation chapter 3 verse 14, the angel of the church, of the La Odysseans, right? These things says they are amen. They faithful and true. Witness the beginning of the creation of God. I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot. A good wish that you were called or hot. Because if somebody is cold, there's hope for them. But for a lukewarm Christian, there's no hope. Because they think they're okay. So then because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot. And I'm not saying that you are lukewarm. But I am saying we can all get closer to Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? We can all get more fire for God in the name of Jesus Christ. This year we are not going to be couch Christians, sideline Christians. This year we are going to be a place with a fire of the Holy Ghost. And we are going to change our world through the love of God in our hearts. Come on, we are going to feed the poor and we are going to close the naked. So God talks to His church. Yes, I would vomit you out of my mouth, strong statement. Because you say I am rich. My business is blessed. I've become wealthy. I have need of nothing. I'm okay. And do not know that you are rich and miserable. Poor, blind the naked. I counsel you to buy from your gold. Refined in the fire. That's not a Krugerrand, by the way. It is gold that stands the taste of time. Gold that is refined by the fire of God. Not the wealth that this world promises you. Yes, God wants you blessed. But before we can talk about God's blessing, we have to talk about God's position in your life. Where does Jesus truly fit in? The picture. It says, I counsel you to buy from a gold refined in the fire that you may be rich. Buy garments that you may be clothed. That you're shame and you're nakedness may not be revealed. And annoyed your eyes with high solve that you may see what? See God. See God's plan for your life like Isaiah did when he saw the Lord high and lifted up and the angel flew from the throne of God with a hot coal and touched his tongue and perched the ways iniquity. And then God called him, God will always purge you first before God assigns you. God will always call you first to a place of humility before God can promote you or exalt you. He says, as many as I love God loves you this morning. God loves you. It's not a message of judgment. It's not a message that is harsh, but it is a message that you need to hear. As many as I love God sees, I repeat, can I chase him? Therefore be zealous and repent. People talk about repentance as if you have to grovel before God. Do you have to feel unworthy? Do you have to feel lower about yourself? No. Repentance does not imply regret. Repentance meets return. Return to Jesus Christ. Return to your first love. Return to that place where it all started. Can you even remember the day when Jesus saved you? When you walked out of that building and you felt cleansed and you felt forgiven? Having loved you were with God like that woman of the well of Samaria. You ran to your friends and you said, I found the Lord. I found the Messiah. I found the Christ, I found what I was looking for. May we return to that place, every one of us, where we are not ashamed of God when we stand in Parliament. We are not ashamed of God when we stand in our schools. We are not ashamed of our Lord and Messiah, our Master, when we stand in our business forums as directors of our companies that we will tell our people, this is God's business, that we will not be ashamed. We will pray over our business. We will exalt the name of Jesus. We will stand for Jesus like we never have come on believer. I know you love God. So get on your feet this morning. We can have a revival in this place. And he says, behold, I stand at the door and knock. Now this is not, this is not God breaking down the door. We spoke about when God rings the heaven, it's a show of force, this is gentle, this is God tapping, very gently, God's not going to force himself into your life. He will not force you into submission, all God will do, he will not do. He will just stand and watch. You can walk away next time you are coming to God's brazen, he is going to knock. No one else can open their door. Your daddy cannot, your mommy cannot, your too many gunny, your womb gunny, your ancestor can't, the only one who can open the door is you. And we quote that scripture often to sinners but really for backsliders because when people walk away from God they close the door. And Jesus comes and he just comes and he knocks. Before he knocks he says you have to return to me, he warns you and he calls you and he urges you to focus on what is important, not this life, not this world, but the world that you are called to, a God that created you, a God who called you to worship him and serve him. And God who says thou shalt have no other gods, not your business, not your ego, not your pride, not your culture, not your tradition, not your pain, not your history. There is place for one name at the center of your heart and his name is Jesus. I stand at the door of the heart and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door. Because that voice is a loving voice, you're not going to come to God and he's going to slam you into the ground, slam dunk you know, you're going to feel that he's merciful, that he's gracious, that he's loving, he's your father, all you have to do is come, all you have to do is respond, all you have to do is open the door. What you have to be is honest, not pretend, not act as if everything is okay but honestly allow God to invade your heart, to take his rightful place, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come to him and dine with him, I will feast with you. I will restore your joy, I will restore your peace, I will heal your pain, I will heal your brokenness, I will remove your captivity, I will eradicate your past and your history, I will put you back on your feet again, I prepare a table before you, in the presence of your enemies, this battle you have fought, you cannot win, you have to open the door and let my presence invade your life because when the presence of God comes those heels and the mountains out there will melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, some of your tired, you are fatigued, you are disappointed, God says I am coming to you this morning, listen to me, to dine with you, to refresh you, to love on you, to heal you, to be merciful to you, to restore you, all you have to do is open your heart and let the king of glory, let the love of God be invade your life, let them be a love revolution, you cry. should be more than for a visitation. You should cry out to God for an invitation. Let your presence come further. Let your glory come. I'm hungry for a move of God. I'm not satisfied with a status quo. I want more of you, Father. Come on in that you this morning. Say amen and give the king of glory a mighty praise. Hallelujah. You are trusting God for a breakthrough in your life. But first God wants to breakthrough in your life. Sound man, watch me please. You need to allow an invasion of love that will heal your deep burns once and for all. That will break those chains off of your life. Remove the burdens. Destroy the yolks of bondage and addiction. Bring restoration. Bring healing. Break down the inner walls. You know, life happens and people build walls around their hearts. I've we've seen people to rehabilitation centers. I've not against it and they've come back and they being worse addicts. Then I've seen people who walk into the presence of God and Jesus touched them and the fire of the Holy Ghost touched them and those chains are broken and those chains are falling false all for them. Our grace should be invading my heartless and we my passion has become a routine. We worship has become a form. We learn to sing without surrender. We attend church without hunger. That preacher says something that challenges me. I'm never coming back. No. Those are hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be filled. We are not perfect. We are perfect in Christ. But we're now ready to allow the Word of God to come and cut away everything from our hearts. That God doesn't want us because the Bible says he's word is like a fire that will burn out the hay that shuffles the stubble. He's word is like a hammer that will break those hardened shells around our hearts. So we have to come with humble and hungry hearts before God. And they do a work in me father because I cannot change myself. Let your will be done. We have to ask God to invade our hearts with compassion for the loss that put on the broken as faded. We've been no longer see the pain and the hurt of humanity. We need God to invade us where I claim and I say I love you God. But listen to me this morning but I know trade no longer tremble in your presence. I no longer fear you and I'm not talking about a negative fear. I'm talking about a reverential respect with God is God. When you stand before God you bow. You bow low. You don't stand with your opinions. You bow when God touches you bow. You say yes Lord you humble yourself. It got to move past my words my opinions my past my intelligence the things I still control that God should control. I should cry for an invasion of God's presence. I don't just want a visitation. I want God to revolutionize my life to purify my thoughts my motives my desires and to set the purpose of my life ablaze again that I will live every day with intent and purpose not my will but he's will be turned not my life but God's life not justify my career as my purpose but realize I'm yet to be an ambassador for Christ if I'm an actor if I'm an entertainer if I'm a musician if I'm a doctor I'm one of God's claiming torches I'm one of God's burning ones I'm going to talk about it tonight an invasion of God's presence the fire of God in our hearts my prayer is farther in vain my hidden weakness is that nobody knows about the disappointments of my past stripped them away from me the prayers I no longer pray revive those prayers in me because some of you have prayed but your prayers have become silent you have prayed but you no longer pray with fervency because your heart is despondent this illusion disappointed I God revive you this morning may you hope again this morning may you trust God again this morning may you're falling luck with Jesus again this morning but you know that all things are possible to those who believe but you know that our card is an awesome God our God is a great God and there is nothing that our God cannot do but to think you will change yourself you can't you have tried for years and years and years and to claim you have it all figured out you don't because every time we come into the presence of God we become broken vessels again we allow God to shape us he's the part we are the clay we never claim to have it all together we never put boundaries about this is how we'll serve God this year no no some of you already said I'm gonna take us a baticle this year what are you even implying there is no sabbatical why you want to live you can take us a baticle when you put when we put you in the ground one day you are alive at this hour the breath of God is in you there's a world out there waiting for you there are people hopeless and hungry and lost out there they got invade your hearts of the July can become a force of invasion for those who are lost and dying out there not unto us not unto us but unto thy name we give glory meaning I'm not gonna live for myself I'm gonna live for him a cry of invasion is a cry for surrender to give Jesus his rightful place so let's talk about how to experience this invasion in your heart give genius genius give Jesus stop being a genius because you're sitting on you debating no the bios is received with weakness even if you have for the first time bow we don't like doing that right because we want to be in control we want to shift to what we like you can't it's the word you receive it or you reject it it's not a menu it's not a restaurant where you take something you like and the things you don't like you don't eat you eat the spinach amen you eat the vegetable you eat the cabbage not that you want it amen for us vegetables chicken but we know we can't live on chicken alone and we can't live on steak alone we need the other stuff that that we have to force into our bodies why because it's good for us so God we need the full counsel of God not the parts we like and especially when it comes to our position in him because your position in him will determine your position out there so I have to give Jesus the full ownership of my life not partial surrender that means I have to give him the keys I thought there was a key in this door but there it is you know the story of the young man I've told it so many times but there are so many new people you can listen awesome when you go to sin a rich young ruler like many of you is living in one of the fancy states it's got it all figured out goes to church every now and again but he's facing battles like everybody faces battles one morning there's a gentle knock on his door a front door and he opens the door he doesn't know a slate or what he opens the door come and lock the door for me please he opens the door and they say Jesus and like a good church member a good Christian you recognize it's the Lord and he says okay Lord Jesus you can come into their house and you can come and stay with me but you're going to stay in this fair bedroom up there so Jesus very politely will only take the portions that you allow him to occupy so the next morning Jesus is up there I don't think he's sleeping but the young man years allowed wrapping on the front door and he thinks oh no who's here early in the morning and he runs down the stairs and he opens the door and there's the devil and he says I've come to take your house and the young man wrestles with a devil he pushes him back with forwards backwards forwards backwards forwards eventually he gets the devil out and the door shut and he stands exhausted and he looks back and there Jesus stands on the landing porch and he says but why Jesus why didn't you help me you are in my life he says well you only gave me this fair bedroom then the young man got clever like some of you no I mean like people watching on television so now got to figure it out okay I'm going to give you more surrender so it gives him the top floor he says I'll move downstairs you could have the top floor what happens the next morning there's a loud rap on the door again the devil and he says oh no no and the young man runs down and he opens the door and there's the devil again this time more ferocious and he's attacked and he wrestles again with a devil he wrestles backwards backwards forwards forwards and eventually he gets the devil out and he slams the door and he stands there exhausted trembling and he and again there's Jesus in the house but not able to do anything why the young man says Jesus I gave you the best part of the house I gave you the upstairs Jesus said you never gave me the key and the young man gets it and he hands Jesus the key key Now Jesus is no longer living with him. He's living with Jesus Christ and the next morning, there's a loud rapping on the door again. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, and the young man lies in his bed and he goes, oh no, oh no, not again, not again. What am I gonna do? And he hears these gentle footsteps go down the staircase and he hears the door swing open and he hears the devil saying, I'm sorry Lord, I'm sorry Lord, I'm at the wrong house, hallelujah. Come on, give the Lord the key to your heart. Give him some praise, hallelujah. Some 24 verse one says the earth is the Lord's and it's fullness. The world and those who dwell in it. One Corinthians six verse nine and says, do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God and you are not your own. You no longer the owner, not of yourself and not of your business. You can say, I know, I mean I'm in. For you were born with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are gods. Your heart is no longer neutral territory. It is redeemed territory. You've been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. You were born with a price child of God. You belong to God. You were created by God and for God. And it's time to surrender all to him. So my heart's Christ should be searched for God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. No longer will I live partially yielded to you. No longer will I serve you selectively from my menu. My menu. But I will serve you according to your menu which is the word of God. This year I open wide the door of my heart and I invite you, King of Glory, to come in. What must I do for this invasion? I have to rent my heart, not my garment. It's not looking for pretence. It's not looking for religious works. It's not looking for the outward adornment where you look good to everybody else but your heart is still mudding his hand. It's looking for a humble heart. He's looking for a hungry person. He's looking for somebody that will come in holy abandonment and that will rent his heart before God and that is risk my brother and my sister where you say, come Lord Jesus, let your presence come Lord Jesus. They will be done Lord Jesus. Raint your heart and not your garment. That's what the Prophet Joel says and that was the focus of this week and our fasting in April. For God to rent the heavens and that word rent means to rip open with force. We want to see a revival. We want to see God rip the heavens open and step into the world. The Prophet Joel says, the condition is you rent your heart and not your garment. You open your heart wide. You allow God to come. You invite Jesus Christ to come and take his rightful place. You humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. Then God will exalt you. You turn back to God with all your heart. I know some of you think this is not applicable to you but the closer you are to God, the more you realize how far you are from God actually. The closer you draw to Him, the more you see your imperfections without guilt. Realizing that you're a work in process and you return there every day. God will put the fire and light the fire in your heart. You need to keep the fire burning. You need to put wood on the fire. Like the priest in Leviticus, the responsibility was to keep the fire burning. God lit the fire. They had to keep the fire burning. That fire is your passionate love for Jesus Christ. The wood is your prey life. Communion with God. Not putting God into an hour and going flat out. You know, but it's dialogue, it's communion. It's walking with Him. That wood that fuels the fire and keeps us purified and refined and sanctified by the way, it's the Word. Spending time in God's Word, allowing the Word of God to revive us. The third thing is fellowship, church, corporate worship. Because no fire, no ember, you all are pretty honest and said, "Everybody will like to bribe." Right? bri, young bri. You know, you must offer them to bri. Now, you can eat and cool the egg fatten on the acid and then you're going to freeze bri. So what happens? You people that don't know how to make a fire, yeah, I think I spend you all do. When you use those goals and the heat gets less, what do you do? You put the goals closer together. Right? And what do you do? You fan. Stand up and you go around and you come. Or if you blast bulk, or some of the more clever people like my David's father-in-law, they've got a machine like blower. You know, he's an impatient man, that one. So he starts a fire. He doesn't let the fire just start by itself. Now, when he lights the fire, then he puts a wind on that fire at 100 miles an hour and within 10 minutes, the goals are right, okay? I think some of you need that. You need the fire of the fire of the Holy Ghost. You need the breath of God. You need the wind of God. You need a tornado from God just to come and ignite that fire in you and breathe fresh life in you. Come on church in the name of Jesus. So I want God to take his place. I want to live in a place of repentance, which is not in a place of loneliness, which is in a place of returning, returning again and again and again. Every time I open the Bible, it's an act of repentance. I'm returning to God. Every time I pray, I pray, I'm returning to God. Every time I come to church, I'm returning to God. I do what is the right thing to do. I put God at the center where I feel I could or not, 'cause God's not looking for a performance. He's not looking for noise. Yes, I'm a preacher, but listen beyond the noise and listen to the whispers of the Holy Ghost in your heart this morning. Just return. Without saying, I first have to fix this or I first have to do that. Return. Return with all your heart. God can't help us when we justify ourselves where we are and why we are. Justify our pain, our past South Africa. Repentance means let go of the past South Africa and take hold of the future South Africa. Let's get healed from our past South Africa and let's take this glorious future that God has for us as a nation in the name of Jesus because that's what God says in 2nd Chronicles 7 verse 14. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and seek my face and pray and turn from the wicked ways I, your God will hear from heaven. I will forgive your sin and I will heal your land. Stop blaming the black man and stop blaming the white man. Stop the division. Let the people of God bow before the throne of God. Let the people of God forsake the wicked ways of racism and prejudice and anger and let the church of Jesus rise up in South Africa, black and white and colorination and let us bow before the throne of God and let there be an invasion of love upon the land of South Africa and say, "Heal our land father." Heal our land father. Go past legislation. Go past the barriers of man. Pour out your spirit, we pray. We cry to you father. Heal our land and God will hear our praise and God will heal our land and God will have his way throughout Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Malawi, Mozambique, wherever there is turmoil, the nations are being shaken, but I want to tell you how part is an awesome God and how God is ready to move through the nations and move through the land. This is our year, South Africa, to see a move of God. You can say amen to Jesus. So I can no longer be part of divisive talk. I can no longer be part of hatred. When God's love invades me, I don't see a black man, I see a brother, I don't see a white man, I see a brother. I refuse to call a code other than the blood of Jesus. Hallelujah. Oh come on when God looks at us. He sees us covered and washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. So my prayer is father removed from your heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh. A heart that will serve you. Let your words revive me so I'm 119, I have to finish. Verse 25, "Let your words cut and remove the things that are displeasing to you from my life." Hebrews 4 verse 12 for the word of God is loving and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the division of soul and spirit. Joins and Barrow, and he said, "The Son of the thoughts and intents of heart." So I'm gonna ask God, Lord, cut deeper than my excuses. Can you do that? Cut deeper than my excuses. I can't go to the doctor and he says, "We need to work on your heart and I said, 'No, no, no, no, excuse me now. You're not touching this, vain, and you're not touching this, and you're not touching that.' What are those veins? The blockages to our hearts, a veins, bitterness, anger, resentment, guilt, pain, frustration, doubt, unbelief, the blocks, the life, from flowing. So we need to put it ourselves on the surgeon's table, surgeon Jesus I'm talking about, and we need him to perform precision surgery and cut away and remove all the things that are blocking and stopping us from flowing in a relationship with God, from living this life in righteousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Spirit. Jeremiah 20 verse 9, the Bible says his word was in my heart, is like a burning fire. You read the word of God, it's a beautiful thing. God washes you, you're sanctified through the word. Jeremiah 23 verse 29 says, 'He's not my word like a fire, says the Lord, like a hammer that breaks the rocking pieces, those hardened areas in your life that you not even know about, God will deal with them.' The things you're not even asking God to do, God will do those things in you, and He will restore to you the joy of your salvation. So we cry out before God, 'Lord, awaken me, revive me again.' That your people may rejoice in you. Isaiah 40 verse 3, 'God says I will pour out my Spirit on Him who is thirsty, and I will pour floods on dry ground.' Sometimes people are dry and they don't even realize it. We just need to come and allow God to breathe upon the dry dead areas in their lives that we actually think are okay. Then finally we have to pray, 'Lord, restore to me the joy of your salvation when that the serving God becomes so burdensome.' And so heavy, no. It's because we are falling out of love with Jesus Christ. If you're in love with Jesus Christ, you cannot get enough of God, enough of church, enough of homeschooling, enough of the primitives. That's how we started. We were judged Sunday morning, Sunday evening, early prayer. You could not get enough of God. Now I understand that you have a busy schedule. I get all of that. I understand the meetings that need your attention. God understands all of that as well. Life is busy. Sometimes you have to work every night, sometimes unfortunately you have to work on a Sunday. I get that. We're not talking about that. We're not talking about works. We're talking about where your heart is at. Where he truly is your pursuit. I stand at the door of knock to another church he writes, church inevitably says, 'I know your works, your patience, I know everything. I have one thing against you.' And they were as perfect as they could be. He says, 'You've left your first love.' Just listen. We love him the way we loved him. When we first met him, that's the love he wants. He says, 'Repent and do the first work. First, which is to love him as he loves you.' God's not angry. He wants to dine with you. Open the door of your heart in Jesus' name. Come on. We can be so busy with the things of God that we neglect the God of the things. And I'm not going to be religious now, because we are going to do great things for God. We have a lot of things we're going to do this year, which I'm not going to share. It's not relevant for this now, because actually when you spend time in God's presence, he's supercharged as your spirit. You don't spend time with God and you fall into a coma. You spend time with God. It's like your heart is like, 'You just want to run.' Because it's like as I, he's in God's presence, then he hears the cry of God. He says, 'You're in God's presence. You're in God's presence.' He fills you. He ignites a passion like you've never known. But when serving, I'm not saying it's the case, because you're beautiful, I can use your examiner. When coming to the music practice becomes a burden. When coming to children's church to rehearse becomes a burden. When serving Christ becomes a burden. It's not because of time constraints. It's because of a heart, a heart. And I'm going to share this with you. I'm going to share this with you. I am going to share this with you. But this is the most amazing thing about God. It's like, 'You can run away from God. The minute you come back, God's day.' But now listen to me very carefully. There are times when God comes to you. And I'm going to talk about that tonight, like Moses. This, for many of you, is a gyrous moment. God's talking to you. There are times you seek God. And he says, 'You will seek me with all your odd Jeremiah 33, and you will find me if you search for me with all your heart.' But then there are times that God comes to us, like in these churches. He comes to the church. He comes to the person. He comes to the people. And this is something is wrong. You were gold. I saved you. That you were on fire. But now somehow, you're doing all the things, the works, and you look all. To other church, it comes. He says, 'I know your works. Both of them works. They're great works.' And Paul writes, and he says, 'Be careful. We have to maintain good works.' Which is Christian works. Right services serving our community. And this says, 'I know your patience, how you've labored, how you've stood against those who are against the name of Christ.' So they're great people. He says, 'But you have left your first love.' If any man loves father and mother, et cetera, more than me, he's not worthy of me. That's a tall order. That's a very tall order. Because sometimes people get into a relationship with somebody that doesn't love God, and the love that they have for God is challenged. Now what? You can allow your loneliness to take you away from God. Or you can draw closer to God. And if that person doesn't want to draw closer to God, you cut that person. Because God's word will cut that person from your life. You let that person go. You have to allow yourself to make Jesus the pre-eminence in your life. Talking about dating, what I said there was about dating. Because we watch young people, they on fire, they date somebody, sits in church with them for three weeks. Then you say, 'Where's that person? Where's that person now?' They fell in love with another, and they fell out of love with Jesus. He's all I need. He's everything. He's the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. This morning, I don't know who you are, but I know this word is for many of you this morning. Not to judge you, but to caution you. And to bring you back to reality. Heaven's reality. Perspective. Not this world's perspective. Because I know you all want me to start this year with, and I'm a preacher like that. We're going to take the world. We're not going to take the world. But we're going to do it right away. Not in our strength, not by power, not by might, but by the Holy Spirit. And we're going to position ourselves right before God and be right with God. And this will be God working through you in your business. Your business will thrive. But God will thrive through you. Your mind, your emotions, everything will thrive, but it will be God in you. I stand at the door and knock. If you open up, come on. Every head, about every eye closed. No one moving now. Please forget the people around you. Just a few moments. You're sitting here this morning. You're so fast to this word is for me. I need to return. It doesn't mean you've been a bad person. It means there's a gentle whisper in your heart this morning. And God is calling you back. This morning, there's a stirring in your heart. Maybe not in your wife's heart. Maybe not in your husband's heart. It doesn't matter. It's God working at you. Calling you to come back. You're sitting here this morning while every head is about every eye closed. They're in Blumphantain. Watching on television livestream. Wherever you are this morning and you're so fast to that's me. I want to start this year right. I want to give Jesus pre-eminence. I've drifted away, but this morning I've heard you. I want to open wide the door of my heart and I want Jesus to come and take his first place. I want to come and return to my first love. I don't care what people think, but I have a hunger. I'm desperate for God in my life. If that's you this morning, let me pray with you before we close. Please. there's a stirring in your heart that's the Holy Spirit. There's a whisper in your heart that's the Holy Spirit. There's a gentle knocking in your heart. That's the Holy Spirit. The smarting you come and all you have to do is open the door of your heart and you will come. Every head bowed every eye closed you say that's me this morning. I want to surrender all to him. I want to come back. I want to return. I want to fresh start with God. If that's your desire quietly wherever you are just raise your hand please. I want to say a prayer for you all over this place. Lift your hand up high quickly. Slip it up all over this place. Raise it high in Jesus name. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Raise it up high. Hi. Hi. Slip it up. Say thank yes. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Amen family. We want to say to every single one of you that made this decision to come forward today is the day that your life is going to change. It's one moment all you need to do is call upon the name of the Lord and you will be saved. And today he is going to save you. And today is the day when your journey starts and it begins with him and he is going to come in and he will invade your heart. So what I'm going to ask you to do right here they're in Blinford, thank you. Put your one hand on your heart. Raise your other hand to heaven and just close your eyes right now. Just fill his love. Just fill his presence and just repeat this prayer after me. Say Heavenly Father. Thank you for sending Jesus Christ your one and only son to die on the cross for all of my sins. And today I believe that Jesus rose after the third day. So right now I come to Jesus and I ask you to come and invade my heart. Thank you that you will change me. And today you will forgive me of all of my sins and thank you that my past will be forgotten. Thank you for that from today. I am a new creation. Thank you Jesus for saving me. Thank you Jesus for loving me and from today I know that you will come and invade my heart. I love you Jesus. And all God's people says amen and amen. If you just set the prayer in the end we want to celebrate this miracle with you. Also if you're interested in visiting one of our many churches across the country visit our website at crcchurch.com. Bye for now.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The sermon calls believers to surrender their hearts to God, emphasizing that true revival begins with a personal, heartfelt invasion of God’s presence.
  2. God desires to break down spiritual complacency and replace lukewarm faith with a passionate, holy devotion rooted in Christ’s first love.
  3. Repentance is not about shame or guilt, but about returning to a place of humility and recommitment to Jesus as the center of life.
  4. The heart must be “rent” or opened through divine intervention—just as in Joel’s prophecy—so that God can enter, cleanse, and transform.
  5. A fire of the Holy Spirit is needed to ignite spiritual revival, requiring daily communion, worship, and accountability.
  6. The believer is called to renounce self-centeredness and give God full ownership of life, including time, purpose, and decisions.
  7. God will remove spiritual blockages such as bitterness, guilt, and unbelief, using His Word as both a refining fire and a healing hammer.
  8. The message concludes with a collective cry for revival, urging all to open their hearts, surrender, and invite Christ to take full ownership.

Summary:

This sermon from Pastor Advosal of Christian Revival Church calls believers to a profound spiritual revival by surrendering their hearts to God. Instead of relying on worldly success or routine faith, the message emphasizes that before God works in their lives, He must first invade their hearts. The pastor warns against lukewarm Christianity, urging a return to first love and a deep, abiding relationship with Jesus.

He teaches that repentance is not about guilt but about returning to Christ, restoring a holy hunger and purpose. The heart must be "rent" or opened through divine intervention, allowing God to enter, cleanse, and refine. The Word of God is presented as a fire and hammer that breaks hardened areas and removes spiritual blockages.

True revival requires daily communion, corporate worship, and a passionate, surrendered lifestyle. The message concludes with a powerful call to action: believers are invited to close their eyes, raise their hands, and pray for God’s presence to invade their hearts. The preacher emphasizes that God’s work begins in the individual heart and will then transform their lives, businesses, and communities.

This is not about performance but about a deep, personal, and transformative surrender to Christ as the center of all life. The revival promised is not just personal but national, with a call to overcome division and live in unity through the love of Christ.

FAQs

It means allowing God to fully enter and transform your life, breaking down spiritual barriers and replacing them with His love, power, and presence.

God controls our future through our hearts. When He takes ownership of your heart, He takes control of your life and destiny, as the Bible teaches that the heart is where God works.

Returning to first love means rekindling the passion and devotion you had when you first encountered Jesus, restoring your relationship with Him and living for Him rather than for the world.

It means giving up control of your heart, mind, and life to God, recognizing that you are not your own but a redeemed creation owned by Him through the blood of Jesus.

Repentance is not about guilt, but about returning to Jesus. It means turning away from sin and returning to a life of obedience and devotion to Him.

The Word of God acts like fire and a hammer, cutting away sin, bitterness, and spiritual blockages to purify and refine the heart and restore a deeper relationship with God.

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