We Don'T Want Revival

Recently, I've reached out to two local pastors in my community to see if they wanted to meet and talk about revival. I said I would come to their church at their convenience to pray or talk about the subject of revival. Neither one of them responded back to me.

We live in a strange time in that we need revival the more than we ever have before, but we don't want it. We are enjoying the status quo and we like the way things are in our churches where we are self-satisfied and happy and see no need for a disruption from heaven in the form of a revival. Why rock the boat? But we fail to realize our boat has a leak in it that if left unplugged it will surely sink us.

The churches in the land lay in a spiritual stupor of self-preservation and self-reliance and see no need of the Holy Ghost to assist them in their labors. More can be accomplished, we think, with money and manpower. Who needs God anyhow? Today our communities grow more wicked and our families go to the devil by being in an atmosphere of cornality and religious traditions.

Instead of the living reality of God in our midst, it is just deadness and dullness everywhere. All of our energy goes to the worship service, which is only fleshly entertainment and glorifies man and not God. In Jeremiah 6 and verse 16 we read, Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way? And walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

But they said we will not walk therein. We are telling God today we don't want revival by our attitude and actions in our churches throughout the land. I believe a nation can go so far away from God that the country becomes stone cold dead.

This has happened to England. This has happened to America. When the people who go by the name of Christian don't act like ones and fight the God of the Bible, then it's a spiritual decay that only leads to two things, revival or destruction.

If we refuse to align ourselves back to the living God of the Bible and humble ourselves and seek his face in prayer and turn from our wicked ways, then destruction will surely visit us like a ton of falling bricks. The five tell-tale signs that prove we don't want revival are as follows. Number one, the spiritual leaders are not burdened and broken and desperate to see God move in revival.

There's a vast difference, friends, between saying we want revival and giving an only casual lip service and casual prayer and getting serious with God for revival, but calling asylum assembly in our churches, as in Joel chapter 1, which states, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God and cry unto the Lord. I can prove your church doesn't want revival because the carpet in your sanctuary isn't wet with the tears of broken-hearted saints crying out to God in holy desperation for an invasion from heaven. Secondly, most protestant congregations today behave like Catholics in that they only rely on what the priest tells them is so without an investigation of their Bible on their own.

We are the most biblically illiterate generation in decades. We spend all our leisure time in our hobbies and entertainments and not on our knees and in our Bibles. A congregation that does not soak itself in the Word of God throughout the week will not desire a heaven-sent revival.

Thirdly, we are prayerless people. We don't know what it's like to give ourselves unto God in intercessory prayer. We replace the weekly prayer meeting in our churches with cell groups and Bible studies and self-help groups, and we are completely powerless to pull down the satanic strongholds in our communities, let alone drive the devil out of our homes.

Fourth, we have no longing after holiness. We are carnal and not spiritual. We love our Hollywood movies.

We love our professional sports teams. But we don't love a holy God or fear Him enough to live a life of holiness unto Him. There is no power of God in our churches because we do not have power with God through lives of surrender.

And lastly, we are lacking in faith. There is no measure of faith in us that the pagan world can see. We have no faith to pray a thing into being.

We act like we serve an impotent God who is unable to break through in our lives with his wondrous works. Our lack of faith hinders God's work among us and shuts heaven to us in that we see no need for revival because we feel we don't need it, because we're fine just the way we are. Our faith is no bigger than a flea, and we are a daily demonstration to our family members that we don't believe in the God of heaven.

We need revival, friends, because our lives are abnormal. Revival will lift us up to normal biblical Christianity once again, where we are on fire for God and burning lights that bring illumination into our spiritually dark communities, where we have power with God and man and are able to witness the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit to a dying world with tears streaming down our faces from a burden for souls. Oh great God, have mercy upon our dryness and deadness and formalism and break into our midst with the living reality of your manifest presence and power and revive your church once again for your namesake and for your glory in the salvation of souls.

Set our hearts on fire, Lord, in the strong name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.