Balanced Approach to Revivals
Because of the highly charged nature of revivals, it is common for people to allow themselves to get worked up into a frenzy anticipating a revival, and if the revival doesn’t occur according to their time schedule, deep disillusionment can easily set in.
Relax
Revivals do not come based on a vague or variable timetable set by God. Revivals take place whenever the individual Christian decides. The individual decides when they want to experience a genuine reviving, and it will occur once they:
► Humble themselves
► Pray
► Seek God (above worldly distractions)
► Turn from sinfulness
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
Immediate Revival is Biblically Taught
The believers in the church in Laodicea were spoken to by Jesus, and in His criticism of them He said that spiritually they were
► Lukewarm
► Wretched
► Pitiful
► Poor
► Blind
► Naked
(Rev. 3:14-18)
Jesus then said that they could experience immediate revival and enjoy fellowship with him, if they would simply turn from their sinfulness (Rev. 3:19-20).
Revival for Congregations
Revival for entire congregations, communities, and nations can come in the same manner as a revival comes for the individual.
When there is a significant number of people in a congregation, community, or nation, that turns from their sins and lives obedient lives, they will find that they will immediately be living in a state of revival.
That is a balanced approach to revival. Don’t buy into the myth that revivals are granted by God based on some mysterious reason known only to Him. That myth is making the statement that God wills for His people to slip into states of dormancy, apathy, and sinfulness, and that He mysteriously, for some unknown reason, withholds from them the ability to be revived.
That is blasphemous position to hold, as it accuses God of telling His people to do something yet withholding from them the ability to do it.
