Revival is a wonderful thing. Revival is the reality of the goodness, mercy and love of God touching the hearts and transforming the lives of people. Revival is the preaching of the Word of God with life, power and authority. Revival is signs and wonders following the people who believe. There are people who are searching for revival. The lost need a revival. When revival happens, the Gospel is preached, the broken and sick are healed and the Kingdom of God is expanded.
Jesus demonstrated revival. He was a walking and talking revival. Wherever Jesus was, revival happened. “Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. ” (Luke 5:15–16, NIV84)
Jesus also demonstrated how revival comes. Jesus demonstrated toe source of his words. Jesus demonstrated where power and authority came from. He showed the need for prayer. Prayer is spending time with the Father. Prayer is listening to God, worshipping to God and allowing God to search our hearts. Prayer is allowing God to fill us. Prayer is learning what the will of the Father is so that we can obey and establish the will of God. Prayer empowers us to establish the Kingdom of God first in our hearts and then in the world.
The magnitude of your impact in the world is directly related to the time you spend with your Father in heaven. We are called to be revivalists, every one of us. Therefore we are called to an intimate and growing relationship with God. If we pray we will impact our world.
Could it be that the church is not changing the world, because the individuals in the church lack a life of relationship with God?
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one’s will to God in deep humility. – Charles Finney
Revival is not the discovery of some new truth. It’s the rediscovery of the grand old truth of God’s power in and through the Cross. – Sammy Tippit
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love. – E. M. Bounds
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight. – E. M. Bounds
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