A revival is a spiritual reawakening from slumber or stagnation or a state of dormancy to true spirituality, righteousness, and submission to the authority of Jesus Christ. God’s end-time agenda is threefold, the revival of individuals, the body of Christ/church and territorial or global revival. 

Revival is intended for believers as non-believers need salvation. It is a restoration to life and God’s consciousness. The revival of an individual begins with true repentance; denouncing and desisting sin and returning to God. Ephesians 5:14-17 speaks of the awakening of the spirit to God’s will. When we are restored as individuals, our prayer life and hunger for the things of God is reignited and we increase in the knowledge of Him. We are in the “end times” and final dispensation before the day of the Lord occurs. In 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul warns of the last days and how some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits while 2 Timothy 3 provides details of specific pitfalls to look out for. 

Our prayer today is focused on self-introspection, a deep review of the inner man and examining if we may have picked up on any of the attributes described in 2 Tim 3:2 ^“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy”

The church is revived as the people are revived. As God brings individuals to a point of repentance and genuine brokenness, realigning us to His will and purpose, we become the salt and light of the earth. When individuals increase in passion for the things of God, the fire for Jesus is reborn, hence, the church as a corporate body is revived. In Ezekiel 37:1-14, God sends a Prophet to revive and restore the Israelites. “I will put my spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land.”  

From the individual to the church to territories across nations, God has promised to show His greatness and holiness and to make Himself known to many nations (Ezekiel 38:23; Psalms 22:27). In Psalms 85:6-8, the Psalmist brings a patriotic petition before God for his afflicted country – a prayer of repentance and plea for revival, appealing to God’s mercy and track record and reminding Him that He has done this before. “Will you not revive us again?”

Joel 2:28 – a Prophecy of the last days. God promises to pour out His Spirit on all people. 

Habakkuk 2:14, “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea”. 

Isaiah 11:9, “They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” 

Prayer points:

• Pray for the forgiveness of sin, and ask God to purge you from the inside out, for without holiness no one will see God. (Psalms 51; Hebrews 12:14).
• Ask God to awaken your spirit again and renew your love, passion, and commitment to Him, so that you may become the place where the Spirit of God can dwell.
• Ask God to grant you the grace to work out your salvation with fear and trembling to the very end. (Phill 2:12)
• Pray for a fresh fire like the day of Pentecost and for God to pour out His spirit on you like He did on that day (Acts 2:1; Joel 2:28).
• Ask God to help you (grant you the grace) in these last terrible days, so that you and your family will not be deceived or abandon the faith, and that your faith will not fail. (Rev 20:7; Jeremiah 30:7; 2 Tim 3:13)
• Pray for the salvation of your children, born and yet unborn and their children, that by God’s mercy and grace, they will be saved. 
• Pray for Solid Rock and the body of Christ to be revived again with a fresh wind. pray for God to show us mercy and grant us salvation. Pray that He may pour His spirit on His church and endue us with His power from on high. (Psalms 85:6-8; Luke 24:49).
• Pray for global revival, for all corners of the earth, that the Lord will show us mercy and grant the world salvation, that the world will come into the knowledge of Him. 
• Pray for a global harvest and to raise global labourers and kingdom financiers (Math 9:37-38). 
• Pray that God would open the hearts of many, that they may receive the gospel of salvation (Acts 16:14)