Revive Me, O God!!

"You will experience spiritual warfare. Satan will fight you at every turn as you draw near to Me. The last thing he wants is that you seek to draw near to the Lord your God. For, by doing so, it weakens his power in your life, your family, your circle, and it will cause a powerful bond between you and Me."

My desire is to be revived by the Lord again and again. Why? Because our hearts grow cold too easily. We all desire - and need - to be revived. This is not for God to revive spiritual gifts within us, though that will happen. It is not so we get fired up and perform better in life, business, ministry, etc. Rather, it is so that our hearts will burn with passion for Jesus, desiring Him above all others, above anything else. It is to fulfill the desire on the heart of the Lord Himself - that His Bride would look away from the din of this world and catch even a glimpse of His stunning beauty, to behold the most desirable One in the universe. Seeking the Lord in His glory through the eyes of faith - revealed by the Holy Spirit to our hearts - will cause us to respond to His overtures to draw very near, to learn of Him, to understand His compassion for the multitides. This kind of revival pleads for the Lord to bless and multiply the creative ideas in our hearts to carry out the strategy the Holy Spirit gives us to perform His will in and through us in the earth. All for the glory of Jesus...


Corporate revival mobilizes a willing army, outfitted, cleansed, working together as a well-practiced unit of soldiers. It is hearing the battle cry given by the Holy Spirit of God to "snatch" them from the fires - quickly. Revival stirs us to awaken out of a coma of complacency and compromise. The Holy Spirit infuses within us a fiery love for Jesus that not only motivates us to move in His power, but to demonstrate the power of God through His gifts to people who are spiritually dead.


Revival is also very personal. It is a personal awakening to our first love - Jesus returning us to that place where He first found us, when the newness of our love for Him caused us to be much more reponsive to His word, His touch, His presence. We were explosive in praise, radical with eliminating sin from our life, and eager to sell everything we owned and follow Him to the ends of the earth.

So, we ask ourselves today: "Where did we go off and become hard-hearted, indifferent, and lose our love for Jesus and His Word?" The answer? One step of compromise at a time. It could be ignoring a clear command God gave us - "Write that letter!!" which seemed rather insignificant at the time, but the urgency of it never ever went away. Even today, the guilt of our disobedience to the prompting of the Holy Spirit fills us with shame. Over time, each disobedient act causes a deafening of our spiritual ears, dulling us with an inability to hear the Holy Spirit, causing us to become more and more cold-hearted towards the things of God and His kingdom. Our passion for Jesus then begins to wane and we fill that hunger for Him with substitutionary obsession-compulsions from the world, or take on some other lesser spiritually demanding task-oriented exercise, deceiving ourselves to be "okay" with God. In our heart of hearts, however, when we are quite alone, we know we are far from okay. Our hearts of filled with fear and dread, and pride will keep us separated from the Lover of our souls...if we let it.

And, all the while, God has not looked away from gazing at us. Not once. His longing for our impassioned hearts set aflame for Him has never waned. The prayer of my heart every moment is "Revive me, O God!"