The Alliance For Christian Fellowship International was founded in 2003 through a major grant from a Christian businessman in the state of Texas. Because of this major grant, the Alliance is able to develop and distribute our resources free of charge. There are no membership fees or other obligations for your ministry to participate with the Alliance.

It is free because we seek revival of God’s people!
We all know that personal revival is necessary for revival in the Church, but what is the key to personal revival? When you think about it, I think you will agree that personal revival is a willingness to revive that loving relationship with our Lord that began when we were born again. Repentance humbled all of us in our salvation experience and we were willing to personally receive His loving forgiveness. But after salvation, the humility tends to fade and we experience a resurgence of pride--a pride that becomes so sophisticated that it adapts itself to the Christian life in ways that we cannot see without the conviction of the Holy Spirit. So we justify our pride in various ways and even spiritualize it not realizing that God “resists the proud but gives grace to the humble”. We become so blind to our own pride that we do not see a need to obey the scriptural command to humble ourselves (1Pet. 5:5 & 6). We need humility so that we can genuinely receive the love that others offer us. Pride does not allow us to be submissive enough to genuinely receive anything from others--especially the gift of love. That is why we are not willing to receive God’s love and love Him in return--to have a real personal relationship with Him. We must choose between pride and our heavenly Father’s purpose for our lives--He wants to prepare us to live with Him now and forever. We must see in our heart that we cannot be prepared to live with God unless we give up pride and enter into a close personal relationship with Him. Relationship is spoken of in many ways all through the scripture--it is a continuous theme in the Bible and especially in the teaching of our Lord--it is the way we can receive guidance concerning God’s purpose for our lives. We are admonished to receive God’s love and love Him in return--to abide in His love--to actually come into union with Him as we return His love (15th chapter of John). This loving relationship with our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ our Lord is the very definition of Christianity.

Jesus brought home this truth about relationship when he said that the greatest commandment is to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind” (Matt. 22:37). If we are not actively seeking to obey this command, we are not only disobedient, but we will be spiritually unprepared, retarded and incomplete when we go to be with Him. It is through a loving relationship that we can become complete in our Lord, but pride is always there to keep that from happening. It is vital that we find out where our pride is “dug in” and get forgiveness and cleansing for this sin that so easily besets us (1 John 1:9). To do that we need the conviction of the Holy Spirit because pride hides itself in various corners of our lives. But we will not receive that conviction unless we desire it in our hearts. Without that desire, we are never willing to receive the conviction we need and pride continues to block the receiving of God’s love. It is plain from the scripture that we are responsible for the desires of our hearts. It is up to us to become aware that pride is the manifestation of that part of us that is separated from God. Then when we honestly look at ourselves and see how pride separates us from Him, we will desire in our hearts to be rid of it. That is when Christians open themselves and actually pray for the great blessing of God--the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Then, as we respond to that conviction, the way is opened for us to receive all the other blessings of God including a loving relationship that leads to revival.

All of us want to see revival in the Church, but we do not want to start where real revival begins. The beginning takes place when we individually prepare our hearts, humble ourselves, begin to receive God’s love and love Him in return. The relationship that follows is the key that unlocks revival. We do not have the strength to obey the command to love God unless we receive His love first. When we receive His love, we receive Him because He is love. It is precisely here that we receive the fullness of His Holy Spirit who then gives us the power to love Him with all out heart, soul and mind. It is here that we can “abide” in Jesus or come into “union with Him as He is in union with the Father”--union through an exchange of love. It is here that genuine revival begins--not emotionalism, but genuine revival that has a lasting affect on God’s people.