What really is revival?

What is revival? When people hear the word, “revival,” many may get mixed emotions or flat out not understand the definition of the term.

When we delve into the Word of God we come to a scripture found in Psalms 85:6, “Will you not revive us and bring us to life again, that Your people may rejoice in You?” As you see here, there is an urgency in the psalmist writings, “Will you not revive us?” Revive, in the Hebrew language is chayah which means, “To live,” “Remain alive,” or to, “Sustain life.”

Without revival, there is no life, nor any restoration back to life! It is impeccable that we sustain life. Because most of us, if we are to be honest, are just maintaining life. Going through the motions. Living day-by-day. Hanging on by a string. But Jesus came to give you life and life abundantly! A revived life!

Revivals have broke out throughout the decades. Typically, they happen every 50 years or so. But revival was never meant to be seasonal. It wasn’t meant to be like a faucet that turns on and then turns off. It was meant to sustain and be continuous for all to live from! Let’s use an example here: Take a person whose heart has literally stopped. They are dead. So what do they need? They need resuscitated. They need revived! We need to slap the defibrillator on there chest and hit, “Clear!” Thrust them back to life.

This is a picture here of dead religion. An old wineskin. Souls who just go through the motions of religion with no vibrance to their life. Jesus said in Mark 2:22, “And no one pours new wine into old wineskin.” Otherwise, the old wineskin would burst and you would lose all the new wine.

When revival breaks out it includes two things: the manifestation of God appears and His healing power explodes. We saw this in February 2022 when the Southern Utah Revival broke out. There was a renewal happening as well as lives becoming revived. It warped people’s minds into understanding the tangible presence of God. A presence that was always meant to be stewarded. Healing, miracles, deliverance, salvations, baptisms, and filling people with the Holy Spirit. Everything the Bible promises for the new revived life.

So revival is now. It’s for today. It’s meant to awaken, resuscitate, restore, and sustain life altogether. The time is now for the Holy Spirit to revive us to a degree that we won’t want anything more than Him. In all His glory to meet us and mold us into His image. “Will you not revive us,” Oh, God! Revive us back to life once again.

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by Aaron M. Garcia/Lead Pastor Revival City