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 The Key to Revival



(This is a guest post by Pastor Edelbert Kharsyntiew who wrote this
article for HiWay magazine in 2006 June issue, just before the Great
Revival hit Shillong. Believe God for a revival in your life as you
read this post.)
“If My people who are called by My name, will humble themselves and
pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I
hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land”
(2 Chron 7:14).
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Here are four observations from this verse:

1. POVERTY OF SPIRIT..humble themselves
2. PRAYER …and pray
3. PURSUIT OF GOD….and seek my face
4. REPENTANCE…and turn from their wicked ways
Poverty of spirit, prayer and pursuit of God are all interconnected.
When we are poor in spirit, it drives us to God in prayer. Not just
prayer as a ritual, but a desperate prayer – a hot pursuit of God.
The kind of prayer that lays hold on God; that says “show Yourself
Lord”; “speak Lord”. Whatever the expression, it is a desperate cry
giving expression to a deep yearning, an unquenchable thirst for God.
Jabez prayed; Jacob prayed; Daniel prayed.
Moses prayed, “Blot out my name for their sake Lord.”
John Knox prayed, “Give me Scotland or I die.”
For revival to come, the desperation level of God’s people must reach
its boiling point. After all, desperate people do desperate things.
They can go to extremes. They are beside themselves. Their desperation
reaches feverish pitch. It affects their brains, their wallets, their
ways of doing things. They begin to act unusual and talk the unusual.
They are focused. They cannot be pacified except through the very
thing that drives them “mad”.
When the Church reaches a desperation level, it behaves unpredictably.
Gone is the ostentatious sophistication, the self-focused rhetorical
prayers, the hollow and starchy rituals and mere cerebral worship. It
creeps out of the rags of traditions and tears apart the chains of
formalism. It stretches out to touch reality; to touch God. It stops
being held back by man’s opinions. It cries for freedom, for
connection; for God. It wails. It screams out loud or sobs gently but
it does not stop begging, appealing, knocking and asking.
It stops looking at the watch and begins to do things at odd timings –
through the night, all day, through the week, through chain prayers or
unlimited 12 hour or 24 hour, 7 days or more of non-stop prayer or
praise. Such desperation is the key that opens the door to revival!
Then comes repentance. It is not strange that repentance comes after
desperation. No one repents unless they are desperate for God. When
one becomes desperate for God, only then he repents. Whatever it
takes, however it costs – is the true spirit of repentance. It is
willing to take upon itself not only the responsibility for its own
sins but even the sins of others. The latter could even include the
sins of the past generations.
There can be no revival in the land unless there are people who have
moved into this advanced stage of repentance. These are the true
prophets – the watchmen -those who stand in the breach along the wall;
the true intercessors from the stock of Abraham, Moses, Nehemiah and
Daniel. Oh, how much the Church today needs this kind of warriors.
There has to be such people before the Church sees revival. And they
are worth more than all the legislators put together because their act
determines the destiny of the nation.
The good news is that anyone can be counted if only he or she is
desperate enough, and that’s the key!
Question: How desperate are you to see God visit this generation?


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 2011/7/18 22:09Profile
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 Re: The Key to Revival

Thank you Greg for posting this, I was greatly encouraged and renewed by it. I passed it along to some of the men at my church. Oh Lord, please give us this kind of desperation for you. May we come to our boiling point!


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Brother Kevin

 2011/7/19 10:28Profile
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 Re: The Key to Revival

"When we are poor in spirit, it drives us to God in prayer. Not just prayer as a ritual, but a desperate prayer – a hot pursuit of God.The kind of prayer that lays hold on God; that says “show Yourself Lord”; “speak Lord”. Whatever the expression, it is a desperate cry giving expression to a deep yearning, an unquenchable thirst for God."

This hunger and thirst for God, becoming desperate for God's presence in our own lives as well as in the Church is a key to having a visitation of God both individually and corporately.

The absense of revival is a sure sign that much of the church is satisfied with the little that they have and have fallen asleep, not knowing their true spiritual condition before God.

Mike


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Mike

 2011/7/19 12:39Profile
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 The Key to Revival

It's a good word Greg.

Take the widow of Luke 18 - Nothing but the Judges help could bring any change to her state. Her own power was worthless. She was driven to the Judge again and again as only he had the power she needed.

All power is in the hand of Jesus Christ - let that drive us to Him day and night in earnest importunity. The alternative to this is unthinkable.


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David Farlow

 2011/7/30 5:23Profile
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 Re: The Key to Revival

Hi Greg,

This is an article from www.shyjumathew.com.

Every article though free to be posted , has to be governed by the below condition.

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I don't see a citation. Please do so.


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