A Dance in the Dark - Paperback

by B. J. Isaacs (Author)

What are the ways of God in revival? The Scriptures and history are filled with them. The problem is, we are disoriented to them. We do not even know the markers, the memorial stones that God has left to show us the way. We do not even hear all of heaven crying out, "Repent and return " Heaven's cry is drowned out by the cacophony of the world. Revival: The Consistency of God is meant to be a series of smaller books written with the goal of reorienting the church to the ways of God in revival so that we will join Him. These writings are meant to help us become clay in the Potter's hands, so that we might be molded into vessels fit for the Master's use, to draw the Spirit of God into our day, our culture and our time. Every snowflake has characteristics that make it a snowflake, yet each one is unique in its beauty and form. This is true also in revival. Revival: The Consistency of God depicts consistencies that can be found in revival works of God. What does it look like when a nation or people group abandon God and His ways? Book One describes how this Dance in the Dark occurs and what it looks like. Book Two (not yet in print) is addressed to serious followers of Christ Jesus who have asked, "Is there any hope for a spiritual awakening- a revival?" What does Twilight look like in this context? When Daylight comes and revival occurs, there are many manifestations that characterize a genuine move of God. How can one discern whether what is happening is of God or not? Book Three (not yet available) is intended to help us recognize the consistency of God when His Spirit descends as a Manifest Presence.

Author Biography

B.J. Isaacs has been serving the Lord for over forty years with a passion to see the lost come to Jesus and for God's Kingdom purposes to be established on the earth. He has served in various positions at pastoral and ministerial levels, fellowshipped in several denominations, pioneered an interdenominational church, and taught in several schools ranging from junior high through Bible college. He has enjoyed the privilege of participating in several short term mission trips and has carried the gospel from the public square to prison, from "barrio" to mission, from pulpit to house church, from gospel tent to the streets. But after the events of "911", his ministry focus and research became dedicated to the pursuit of revival: "I was raised in a Southern Baptist background. I am also an ordained SBC pastor, and have walked in both Baptist and Pentecostal / Charismatic circles. I grew up understanding revival to be a series of meetings. However, over the years I began to question why we weren't changing our culture. I also was taking a hard look at things going on in my own life and ministry. I was becoming more and more ashamed of some of the things that I had been doing, as well as things occurring in popular Charismatic / Pentecostal services that were passing for 'the power of God'. I began to realize how powerless I was... and am. This created in me a hunger to cry out to God for a genuine revival. I began to read on the Old Time Revivals and moves of God. And as I studied bits and pieces of revival history, I saw there were consistent patterns on what happened when God came in revival power. And although there have been many dark periods in the world that could cause one to lose hope, when I began to see what God has done again and again, it brought me great hope." B.J. now is committed the most vital task that God has ever burdened his heart with... that of carrying forth the message of our desperate and urgent need for revival. His soul cries out to God as did the Prophet Isaiah "Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down!" (Isaiah 64:1).