We will look at this from two perspectives. Firstly, we will see how revival itself is rooted in prayer. The promise for revival for a dead and backward people of God actually comes from God answering a worshipper's prayer for this promise. We can find this story in 2 Chronicles 6 and 7.
Secondly, we will see how prayer and several other things are prerequisites to revival. When we speak of revival, we are not talking about annual evangelistic meetings but grand movements of God among His people that greatly affect the church and the world. These movements are orchestrated by God to do amazing amount of His holy work in a short period of time.
Most people are not conscious of breathing. Usually only when a person loses his breath or has held his breath does he become alert to the breathing process. The same is true with revival. Most Christians are not conscious of their spiritual lives. However, when God brings revival to His people then tremendous attention is given to Christian living and all of its ramifications.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Most Christians have heard of 2 Chronicles 7:14 when things with the church start to go very bad. There is an outbreak of evil throughout the nation. Or perhaps someone declares a simple observation about the churches that everyone is thoroughly convicted of. This might be with the lack of prayer, immorality among God's people, widespread worldliness, etc. Days before the situation was the same but now somehow, God's people are convicted. In such cases, we desperately search through the scriptures for some insight about our certain needs, and usually somehow end up at 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Many people are ignorant where this promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 actually came from. We would like to take you on a study through 2 Chonicles 6 and 7 that highlight why people end up at these words in this obscure book. We will be astonished to see the origin of this promise. Such great care and insight was at the formation of this promise by God. Some noble action of a certain man brought God to issue forth a promise that would shape the way He would respond to a people who acted on these words.
A promise of God is when God Himself vows to do something because of what a man has done in faith according to His words. Magic is when man through tricks and mechanical words manipulate the surrounding world into conformity to his wishes. The promises of God are the opposite. This is when God makes Himself available to help men if they would in faith avail themselves to God according to the specific requirements of His Word.
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Want to know why revival tarries?
I'll tell you why.
It's because revival is waiting on me.
I'm the one to blame. The Lord's just waiting on me, and then He'll release revival. To my family. To my friends. To my neighbors, my city, my province, my country, my hemisphere, and ultimately, to my world. Revival is waiting on me, and that's why revival tarries.
I know that sounds like a pretty arrogant statement, (and I do say it jokingly), but there is an element of truth in it.
I think this great revival that all us Christians are waiting for is a lot more dependant on us than we realize.
So often, our prayers for revival consist of us asking the Lord to change everyone else so that revival will come. And, don't get me wrong, those are fantastic and needed prayers, as for revival to truly happen other people do need to be changed.
But there's something that keeps nagging at me. Something in the back of my mind; a fleeting thought or vapor of sorts. A glimpse of truth that nags at my conscience, as the Lord's Holy Spirit brings it into the light. It's the idea that revival - this big, huge wave of change where people turn back to the Lord uncompromisingly and permanently - starts with me. That it starts with you. That it starts with us, . That revival has to come to us as individuals before it can (or will) ever touch others.
I feel that before revival will ever touch anything around us it needs to touch us first. If I, if you, if we, entered into a personal revival first and foremost (a "revival of one") - it would change things around us. It would have to. If each of us decided to follow after the Lord with a passion to where our actions, attitudes, and appetites were changed - to where we actually follow and chase after God instead of just talking about it - the world would change.
At the very least, with each of us taking responsibility for bringing revival into our own lives, it would change and prime the atmosphere to the place where the Lord might release revival in our land. If each of us were to become even a little closer to the Lord, the fires of revival would burn that much brighter.
But, so often, I find that my focus seems to be on how the Lord needs to change others for revival to come. Honestly though, I think it's a lot closer to the truth that I need to be asking the Lord to bring revival to me - to ignite a fresh new passion for more of Him in my life - rather than focusing on how everyone around me needs to change.
There are a lot of other factors that contribute to whether or not revival actually comes, but as I've prayed about it, I've come to see that revival is a lot more likely to come to the world around me if I were to be wrapped up in an all-consuming love and desire for my Savior Jesus Christ.
Revival has to start somewhere. And I believe that the best place for it to start is with me. And you, . With us. Where our personal revival spills over into the lives of those around us, until the whole world comes to the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea (Hab 2:14).
That's one of the reasons, I believe, why revival tarries.
Every great revival of man always starts in the heart of man, revaival of God strats in the heart of God giving to the heart of man. Man must be willling to change his cheart toward God before there can be a revival (renewing) This is the only way god will support a revivall. When God sent a revival it was the day of Pentecost, and God did the changing of the hearts through the outpouring of His Holy Spirit.
Now if believers want a revival they must change their hearts and show the outpouring of their love for Christ and Hsi word, and toward others in the church. No one helps each others in the church or community, and no one is out on the streets preaching and teaching the gospel of Jesus, and no one is caring for the needs of the poor and needy as they should. no one spend quality time in God's word day and night, no one is sharing God's word with the lost or the poor teaching the gospel. And as Jesus said, in that great day God is going to tell the sheep to get on His right, and the goats to get on His left, and He will let them know why they are on the side of the Goats and theSsheep. Revival starts when there is joy in the heart of accomplishment in Christ, there is much to rejoice about. Why celebrate (revival) when you havene't done nothing to rejoice about..
For got my scripture. Matthew chapter 25, is the key for the start of a revival. And this is done in one according all across America and the world, there will be a world revival. When this is done just in your own city among the churhces and all those who prfofess and confess Jesus Christ, this will be the start of a coit wide revival.... sad thing, no one is willing to do what God has spoken, yet they claim to be such high stock Christans, and soooo in love with Jesss- uss!
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
There is volumes of truth on this topic in these scriptutes.
We are approaching in this country, what has continually called a lie on this forum, the coming together of the former and latter rain, for the final harvest.
But many have even said that is a sign of the false miracles and signs.
