Revival, I believe, touches three spheres of life: 1) National, like in Psa. 85:6, "Revive US"; 2) Institutional, as in Hab.3:2, "Revive thy WORK"; and 3) Individual, found in Psa. 138:7, "Revive ME." Many are praying for the first two, but if they're to come at all, it will only be when the third is true in our lives. It is the one live coal that sparks the other two. The gospel song could be applied to our need of personal revival, "It's not my brother, nor my sister, but it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of...[revival]."
The word revival, as found in scripture, has to do with a coming alive. When Jacob heard Joseph was yet alive, we are told "the spirit of Jacob...revived." Revival then, in the true meaning of the word, as someone else has said, is a "rediscovery of Jesus Christ." How many a sad saint's spirit has come alive, as the two disciples on the Emmaus Road, when reminded, "HE'S ALIVE."
The resurrection of Christ is the foundation stone of Christianity!
When Jesus ceases to be a living reality in a Christian's mind and heart, then all surety flees away, leaving him or her like the worldling, with a sandcastle life!
“You can have a revival anywhere, even in a graveyard-ask Ezekiel!”~ rds (read Ezk. 37
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Prayers focused on a collective body instead of individual repentance and obedience is a sneaky yet lofty way to say, "Lord, I am not the problem", and then command, "God, do something to fix the mess." To way too many, Christ is rather a servant than the Risen King.