The Issues of Revival

God wants to do something in our midst that we could never imagine. Let’s get the worldly things off our minds, and let God move. If we continue in our sin, it will hinder our revival. Repentance is commanded if we want to see heaven move. 

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What is wrong with us?

We have a church on every street corner. We have more Biblical resources available to us, and yet people only read and hear God’s word on Sunday morning. If we only ate food once a week, we would be in pretty poor health.

We need revival.

We need God himself to come down. Isaiah 63:15 says, “Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?”. Isaiah is asking God where he is, but he follows it in verse 16 with, “thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting”. When we feel abandoned, call on God. Praise Him. Call on your father, your redeemer. 

Isaiah admits that they have failed God and asks God to return for his servant’s sake (Isaiah 17-18).

In Isaiah 63:15, Isaiah is asking God to look down. In Isaiah 64:1, he asks God to come down. 

Three things that hinder revival: Sin, self righteousness, and not having a prayer life.

Revival doesn’t come if we don’t ask for it.

2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

We pray that God will use us as vessels for revival.

Isaiah 64:1-4
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.