“Will you not revive us again,
that your people may rejoice in you?”
– Psalm 85:6
Revival is a quickening of our spirit and a renewal of our love and zeal for God. It takes us from lukewarm faith and limited obedience to blazing hot love and imitation of Christ. Revival shakes the people of God out of the spiritual sleepwalking that easily overtakes us in the busyness of life. Revival is a work of God and is desperately needed in churches throughout this land!
When revival breaks out, the people of God burn with a love for God and His Kingdom that’s almost unimaginable from the perspective of our ordinary lives. Suddenly the restraints we feel regarding what looks respectable and feels safe fall away and we’re ready to simply praise, worship, and serve the Lord. We see God as truly greater than all the other good things that fill our lives.
Let us pray for revival! Pray for God to move the hearts and souls of His people to renewed rejoicing in the Lord, to profound worship, and to powerful evangelism that flows out of joy. Pray for a movement of God’s Spirit to refine those within His churches and to awaken those outside His church. If you’re not currently feeling the deep and endless joy of the Lord, pray too for your personal revival, that you may rejoice in the Lord!