WORD POWER: Revival – when the spiritually poor, the Lukewarm Church, are brought back to vitality and power after a time of anxiety, trouble or complacency.

INTRO: Signs of the End!

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.Jude 1:17-19

1. Mockers
2. Ungodly Lusts
3. Divisions
4. Sensual (Worldly) People
5. Devoid of the Spirit

ANALYSIS: Servant Leaders are Conduits of Revival

1. Revival is stirred by the Word of God.
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and withdust on their heads. 2 Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for one-fourth of the day; and for anotherfourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God. Vs 1-3

My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.I have declared my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes. Make me understand the way of Your precepts; So shall I meditate on Your wondrous works. My soul melts from heaviness; Strengthen me according to Your word. Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me.I cling to Your testimonies; O Lord, do not put me to shame! I will run the course of Your commandments, For You shall enlarge my heart. Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, And I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to covetousness.Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way. Establish Your word to Your servant, Who is devoted to fearing You.Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your judgments are good. Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. Psalm 119:25-40

2. Revival remembers the Work of God.
Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the Lord their God. 5 And the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said:
“Stand up and bless the Lord your God
Forever and ever!
“Blessed be Your glorious name,
Which is exalted above all blessing and praise!..........

3. Revival bears Witness of its Covenant with God.
“And because of all this, We make a sure covenant and write it; Our leaders, our Levites, and our priests seal it.” Vs 39

Covenant (berith) is used to refer to a formal arrangement between two or more parties.

APPLICATION: The Key to Revival

Stir up Desire as we Shakeoff Defilement in Prayer.

“Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence—as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!”Isaiah 64:1-2

“But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away”Isaiah 64:6