"REVIVE US AGAIN LORD"  

Scripture Text: Psalm 85: 4-9

Intro: The churches greatest need today is genuine revival. The pastors and leaders has offered a variety of solutions to the church problems. They have discussed a variety of plans that could make a difference in our churches. all the solutions they have discussed could help. It does help the surfaces issues but we need to get to the heart , the root matter of all the problems.   I have come to the conclusion with the help of the holy spirit we and the nation of churches need a spiritual revival . Some one may say why let me tell you why.

1) The condition of the church demands it. The apathy (lack of enthusiasm or energy, emotional emptiness, boredom laziness) and backsliding(relapse into bad habit - fall back into wrongdoing or a bad habit after having attempted to change your behavior or to lose faith in a religion after being a believer) in our churches is staggering, sin is running ramped from the pulpit to the door. And this is not confined to one location it is nation wide.  

 2) The proneness of our hearts to wander and stray from God dictates the need for revival . We are living in a secular culture that bombards us with temptation. we are in need of God's renewing and strengthening power.  

3) Finally our inability to turn ourselves to God necessitates a revival: only GOD can grant genuine revival. It is His great work the church needs today. Genuine revival that smashes the pride of our hearts. We have to take back the ground that we have surrendered to the devil and his emps. We need faith that stirs and renews us to repentance. We need to RETURN TO GOD'S WORD AND HIS POWER TO RUN THIS RACE.  

REVIVE- means to bring or come back to life or consciousness, to impart or regain health or vigor, to restore to use or notice breathe life into.   REVIVAL: a meeting or series of meetings for the purpose of reawakening your faith. the process of bringing somebody back to life, consciousness, or full strength, renewed zeal to worship and obey God.  

 THE NEED OR REASONS FOR REVIVAL:  

 BROKEN HEART PS 34:18, 19, 18The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.  

CONFESSION Psalm 66:17-19  I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: 19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.  

 Repentance: 2 COR 7:10 10For godly grief and the pain God is permitted to direct, produce a repentance that leads and contributes to salvation and deliverance from evil, and it never brings regret; but worldly grief (the hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly [breeding and ending in death].  

Turning From Sin: 2 CHR 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.   2Tim 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.   AMP But the firm foundation of (laid by) God stands, sure and unshaken, bearing this seal (inscription): The Lord knows those who are His, and, Let everyone who names [himself by] the name of the Lord give up all iniquity and stand aloof from it.  

 Bite And Devour Gal 5:14, 15, 16. AMP For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is ^[e]complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.^(A) 15But if you bite and devour one another [in partisan strife], be careful that you [and your whole fellowship] are not consumed by one another. 16But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without

 Spiritual Revival - 2 Chr 17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

2Chrn 34:30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

Neh 8:3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

Cleansing 2Chrn 29:5-8  And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

 6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

 7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

 8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

I pray that this is a blessing to you. Your Sister In Christ :-)