Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
Week 12: Chapter 11 — Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
Read Chapter 11 of Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (the concluding chapter). Key passages: Acts 3:19; Habakkuk 3:2.
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Cymbala brings the book to its climax with a call to personal and corporate renewal — a final, urgent invitation to stop settling for religious life as we know it and to cry out for fresh wind and fresh fire.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Habakkuk prays, "Lord, I have heard the report about you, and I fear. Revive your work in the midst of the years" (Hab. 3:2). Cymbala uses this prayer as a model. What strikes you about the fact that Habakkuk's prayer for revival begins with fear — reverent awe — rather than confidence in his own standing?
2.Cymbala defines revival not as a series of meetings or an emotional event but as God returning to his church in power after a season of coldness and departure. By that definition, do you think revival is needed today — in your life, your church, your city? Why or why not?
3.Acts 3:19 calls people to "repent and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord." Cymbala argues that repentance — genuine turning — is always the door to renewal. What do you need to repent of to receive fresh wind and fresh fire in your own life?
a.Is there anything you have been holding onto that is keeping the door closed?
b.What would it look like to take that step of repentance this week — not just mentally, but concretely?