Our readings in this series are from the book, Revived! Here is a brief excerpt from pages 28 and 29:
“First, we must pray. Let our prayers include, besides crying out specifically for revival, submitting to the searching of God’s Word and Spirit, that we might learn our need for revival…We will not seek a different way – a revived way – until we first discover how our current ways have departed from the path God marks out in His Word, how we have drifted out of the slipstream of the Spirit.
“Then we must take up penance for our sin. That is, we must recognize and confess any sins the Lord shows us in ourselves, our churches, and our world; and we must repent of those sins and turn our feet back to the paths of the Lord. Penance is a discipline by which we put legs on confession and repentance…So we must identify those behaviors that will enable us to overcome evil with good, and put those into practice, thus demonstrating to God the sincerity of our repentance and the earnestness of our desire for revival.
“Finally, revival comes as we proclaim the need for, promise of, and hope entailed in revival. We need to proclaim revival to ourselves, until we believe it can happen. Then we will proclaim the promises of revival to our fellow believers, calling them to get in position and take up the work God has appointed for us for revival to happen. And we will proclaim the promise of revival – new life in Jesus Christ – to our unbelieving neighbors, calling them to repent and believe the Good News of forgiveness, life, and hope in Jesus.”
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T. M. Moore
