Burdened, a broken prayer is the nerve center
of revival.
As a people, hungry for the reality of
God, a cry out to God in desperation.
But we must ask ourselves, friends, are we
there?
Are we desperate enough for revival?
Are we sick enough of sin?
Are we sad over the condition of our
young people going to hell?
Or are we content with what we have,
with maintaining the status quo in our churches
and continue to play church every Sunday while
the nation sends its way to hell?
We can't have revival if we want it
for the wrong reasons.
All selfish ambition and self-recognition must go
to the wayside.
God is a jealous God, but God is
still a God of revival.
But we must be willing to allow him
all the glory and not share in it.
Revival is not only possible, it is probable,
as long as we are expendable.
We have a generation of young people today
who don't even believe in God or in
the word of God.
They are hell-bent on destroying themselves with
sex and drugs and alcohol, and they have
no morals nor any awareness of sin.
But God in former times has been pleased
to save thousands of young people through spiritual
awakenings in the land.
The Second Great Awakening was instrumental in the
salvation of many young men who would soon
be cut down on the battlefield of the
Civil War.
God in his mercy sent revival before that
war broke out so thousands wouldn't perish into
a Christless eternity.
Our situation today in our nation is bleak
as we live in a country that has
turned away from God and a government that
has legalized sin and legislated God out of
the country.
Our sin-sick society is in a moral
landslide as society spins out of control.
God keeps sending floods and fires among us
to get our attention and to turn us
back to him.
But the churches continue to fail to heed
the warnings, much less recognize them.
This is seen in an example.
Just this week I was driving down the
road right before a hurricane was on its
way to Florida and I passed a church
sign in front of a Florida church that
summed up the sad spiritual situation.
The sign read, Mother Nature is busy.
Stay safe.
Listen, friends, a deadly hurricane is not Mother
Nature.
There's no such thing as Mother Nature.
Rather, God is angry with the sins of
a nation and in his mercy sends us
remedial judgments by way of natural disasters to
turn us back to him.
If a pastor of a church can't read
the handwriting on the wall today in regard
to the activity of God in the land
through his judgments against us, how in the
world can there be any hope for a
godless nation?
Yet God declares in his word of his
willingness to send us revival refreshings.
In Ezekiel we read, I, the Lord, build
the ruined places and plant that which was
desolate.
I will yet for this be inquired of
by the house of Israel to do it
for them.
But we must ask ourselves this burning question.
Are we, as the people of God, inquiring
of God to send us revival?
Or are we so sound asleep on our
pillows of conformity and compromise that we will
drown in our own spiritual vomit?
There must be an agonizing supplication unto God
for revival and a resolute desire on our
part to do what's necessary to have a
breakthrough to heaven, to gain God's ear and
turn his face toward us once again.
But to get that costs everything as true
intercession is a sacrifice.
God is a God who delights in sacrifice.
Did he not sacrifice his only begotten son
on the bloody cross for sin?
But when was the last time we prayed
with broken hearts?
Have any of us had our own personal
Gethsemane?
Are we prostrated upon our faces in intercession
between God and the sins of the land?
Or are we too busy with our sports
and entertainments while souls perish into a burning
hell of torments and fire?
We desperately need the refreshing breath of the
Spirit of God among us today.
We need a God-consciousness in our churches
once again, rather than what we presently have,
which is the stench of death and decay.
This is a call, a call to revival
for the glory of God.
Will you join in on this call and
call upon God in prayer for revival in
our day?
Or will you remain a spectator sitting in
a stadium that is above a sinkhole ready
to give way?
Time is fast running out.
It's revival or ruin.
Let us pray.