Preparing our Hearts for Revival

Revival is God's quickening visitation among His people, touching their hearts and deepening His work of grace

within their lives.

J.I. Packer

Revival is the sovereign act of God whereby He restores His own backsliding people back to repentance, faith and obedience.

Stephen Olford

Revival is times of refreshing in the presence of the Lord

J. Edwin Orr

Revival is the awakening of God's people to their true nature and purpose.

Robert Coleman

Revival is a community saturated with God.

Duncan Campbell

True revival is when Holy God draws near and people come under terrible conviction of sin.

Henry Blackaby

When I pray for revival, I pray for the most radical thing:
The utter devotion and allegiance of our hearts to Christ. That you would love Him so deeply and long for Him so passionately that His coming would be your great hope, and death would be gain,
and life would be for Christ and His Kingdom.

John Piper

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on, and how little revival has resulted?

I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. A.W. Tozer

Revival is allowing through repentance,
Jesus to live His life through us by the Holy Spirit.

Dr. Ron Lynch

Psalms 85:6

6 Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You? NKJV

Psalms 80:17-19

17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.

18 Then we will not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.

19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be saved! NKJV

Isaiah 57:15

15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
"I dwell in the high and holy place,
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
NKJV

James 4:7-10

Therefore submit to God.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Lament and mourn and weep!
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

1 John 1:9

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NKJV

Joel 2:12-19

"Now, therefore," says the LORD,
"Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning."

13 So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the LORD your God,
For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.

14 Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him — A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly;

16 Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes;
Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber,
And the bride from her dressing room.

17 Let the priests, who minister to the LORD,
Weep between the porch and the altar;
Let them say,
"Spare Your people, O LORD,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

18 Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people.

19 The LORD will answer and say to His people, "Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied by them;
I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations.

Psalms 51:1-12

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,
Blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.

4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight — That You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.

5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.

9 Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. NKJV

Revelation 2:4-5

4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works,
or else I will come to you quickly
and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent.
NKJV

Psalms 119:25-28

My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.

26 I have declared my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes.

27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts; So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.

28 My soul melts from heaviness; Strengthen me according to Your word. NKJV

Psalms 119:37-40

37 Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way.

38 Establish Your word to Your servant, Who is devoted to fearing You.

39 Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your judgments are good.

40 Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. NKJV

Psalms 119:159-160

159 Consider how I love Your precepts;
Revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness.

160 The entirety of Your word is truth,
And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. NKJV

Psalms 143:10-11

10 Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

11 Revive me, O LORD, for Your name's sake!
For Your righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. NKJV