Honesty

Seeking God for personal revival requires a level of honesty that, at first, may seem quite threatening. Covering up our faults and failures is an involuntary reflex. At first glance, it often seems like the best option. We want others to think the best of us. However humility-one of the first prerequisites for revival-requires the willingness to be honest with God and others about our true spiritual condition.

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How Honesty Saved My Job
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Wed, May 30, 2007
Dan Jarvis
God at Work

How Honesty Saved My Job

When Life Action's revival team arrived in his Texas church, Rick Lawson had no idea what God had in store for him. “I was an engineering supervisor with one of the largest defense contractors for the U.S. government. In that role, I had top-level security clearance,” Rick explains.   “During revival meetings at my church, God began to convict me about being dishonest years earlier when I had filled out my security clearance forms.” Rick had falsely checked “No” regarding pre-application drug use. “I had used drugs repeatedly while I was in college and on a few isolated occasions ...

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