Revival is such a great thing. Growing up, it really wasn't, so much. It meant going to church 6 times a week instead of 3. For a 10 year old, that's not necessarily great news. But revival has come to mean something different. It means people I see have a twinkle in their eye. It means life is spoken, not death. It means there is always hope.
Find a church that is having a 'revival', and ask a member how it's going. You might hear some different answers. "Well, we had 2 people healed!" Or, "we had 12 people confess their sin and repent." Hallelujah! That's all great stuff. But is that how we are defining revival?
Does revival depend on sin? Is sickness a prerequisite for revival? What if nobody at the meeting had needed to confess? What if everyone had been healthy? No revival?
Revival, by definition, means to bring into a state of living from a state of unresponsiveness. Ideally, a spirit-filled life should experience revival one time, and then continue perpetually in a state of Spirit-filled life. Ideally. It's no easy task when the enemy has your number.
That's why Jude told us to pursue the faith. Contend. Battle for it with the knowledge that the enemy wants to rip down what you have built.
Jud 1:3 LITV
(3) Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Living in revival means we have to be purposeful about placing ourselves in a position to receive spiritual nourishment. What does that mean for you?
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