We are to initiate revival, not wait on a Sovereign move of GOD!
The term “Great Awakening” has been declared for this final move of GOD on the earth. Who is meant to be awakened? Not God, we are to awaken to our responsibility to bring forth Heaven to earth. These latest writings are meant to awaken us, not FATHER. We must not shirk our responsibility and defer to FATHER to bring forth this Great Awakening. HE is waiting for us.
Light does not wait to shine. Light shines because shining is its nature!
The deepest obstacle to revival is disagreement. This includes internal division between a believer’s mind and spirit, their confession and God’s Word, and their prayers and expectations. Revival flows in agreement—agreement in spirit, expectation, and faith.
When believers tolerate internal division or act in contradiction to their prayers, they unknowingly sabotage the awakening they are seeking. Revival responds to spiritual consistency, where believers think, speak, and act in agreement with God’s Word.
Prayers for revival often fail because Christians are praying for something God has already placed inside them or already provided. This is due to a human misunderstanding of what God has already accomplished.
The following are reasons for the failure of prayers for revival:
Asking God for what He has already given and begging Him to do what He has already commanded.
Pleading for Holy Spirit Fire that is already burning in their spirit and waiting for winds that have already filled their inner man.
Praying from a place of separation, insufficiency, or distance instead of union, fullness, and indwelling with Christ.
Praying for what they already possess.
Praying from unbelief about what God has already given. A believer who prays for revival while believing they are powerless, unworthy, or spiritually empty is praying from contradiction.
Refusing participation and expecting God to move sovereignly without requiring anything from them.
Waiting for Spiritual sensations or feelings instead of acting on Spiritual Truth and faith.
Tolerating internal division between their mind and spirit, confession and God’s Word, and what they pray and what they expect.
Speaking discouragement, defeat, or unbelief, which cancels the awakening they are asking for.
The early church should be our example of revival as contained in the Book of Acts.
To reiterate:
Unlike many modern Christians who pray for revival to be “sent” from Heaven, the early church never prayed, “Lord, send revival.” Instead, they prayed, “Lord, stretch forth Thy Hand”, indicating a belief that God was already present and moving through them.
The early church recognized that revival flows from within the believer, not from external sources. They understood that the Fire from the upper room took residence in people, rather than returning to Heaven.
The early church did not ask God to stir them because they already knew they were stirred and declared the Word with boldness. This contrasts with modern believers who “wait for God to ignite what He commanded them to stir”.
They did not ask God to give power but rather acted on the power they had already received. This directly opposes the modern tendency to pray as though “power must be requested rather than released”.
The early church did not plead for Heaven to move; instead, they moved because Heaven had already been given, and as they moved, Heaven manifested. This highlights that they were “being revival,” rather than waiting for it to be an external event.
The early church operated from an understanding that God had already supplied all things pertaining to life and Godliness, and that revival was the believer awakening, not God finally responding. This contrasts with the idea that prayer for revival fails because Christians “ask God for what HE has already given”.
In essence, the early church exemplified a posture of releasing and acting upon what God had already provided within them, rather than passively waiting or requesting something they believed had yet to come