Revival

Revival comes from the word revive, which in turn comes from the Latin word Riviere. And in the fifteenth century, it was it is seen in the word Riviere, means to regain consciousness or to recover health. And in the sixteen fifties, the word revival used to mean the act of reviving either decline or discontinuance. But it's also worth noting that revival has the forming element, RE, RE. This takes us takes what follows back to its original place. Think of the word return. [00:04:01] (46 seconds)  #RevivalMeansReturn

If you are returning something to its sender, you are sending it back to its original place. In a Christian sense, I would argue that the word revival describes a return to God, an increase on his kingdom on earth. You know, revivals have happened before. They happened in the world. They happened in The UK. I believe that a revival, returning to Christ, a returning to God for a nation, for a region can happen at any level. It can happen nationally. It can happen regionally. [00:04:47] (44 seconds)  #RevivalIsReturnToGod

It can happen in local communities, and it can happen in a church. And some people may be sitting here and thinking, can we manufacture revival? Is it wrong for us to want to see revival again? And what what is it that we want to return to? As I hinted at before, revival is about returning to God. And as I was praying and preparing and thinking about the message again this for this morning, I just thought that, you know, the the most perfect time humanity had with God was in the Garden Of Eden before the fall. [00:05:31] (45 seconds)  #QuestioningRevival

That is the perfect model. Adam and Eve. God communion, walking with them in the Garden of Eden. Eden? Eden. That is really if if that was that is what we want to return to. And that is what revival if revival happened I believe in its purest form, the whole world revert back to that time. Now we know for the fall and all of those kind of things that that's not how it's gonna work until Jesus returns. [00:06:17] (34 seconds)  #EdenModelRevival

But it isn't wrong for us to long and to pray and to seek for revival, to seek for more and more people, more and more towns, more and more cities, more and more nations to return to God. One of the verses that has spoken to me so much over the last six or seven months, and if you've been on any of the prayer meetings, you will have heard me read it. Habakkuk three verse two. And here the the prophet, Habakkuk, is is just addressing God. [00:06:51] (35 seconds)  #LongingForRevival

And he says, Lord, I have heard of your fame. I stand in all of your deeds. Lord, repeat them in our day. In our time, make them known. In wrath, remember mercy. Have a good one to see God come again and move powerfully in his time. This is Old Testament times. And I believe that we can have the same prayer. Should have the same prayer. [00:07:26] (32 seconds)  #Habakkuk3Prayer

Habakkuk had heard of what God had done in the previous generations and he wanted to see it happen again. We have heard of what God has done and he's doing in generations and around us. A lot of if you've been watching any of the news over the last few months, there's been little articles about a quiet revival breaking out in The UK where they're saying more and more people are coming back to church or are spiritually open. [00:07:58] (28 seconds)  #QuietRevivalUK

We were in the town center last week handing out invitations to church And Dorcas got into a great conversation with a couple of young men, I would guess they were 17, 18. And it's that generation that especially are thinking that there is more to life. And they said that they were that they they believed. They took a gospel of Mark each and we hope that they will go go to a church. I hope they'll come here or they'll they'll connect with a church local to where they live. [00:08:25] (37 seconds)  #YouthSeekingFaith