The devil is quite adept at his job description, so good that often times his opponents don’t recognize his tactics, which is his purpose. He takes what God creates for His own glory and corrupts it into something with a distorted resemblance of its intention, superficially appearing like something good but corrupted into defilement and deception.

Thus he has done with revival.

The ONLY thing that will heal this nation is for those who call on the name of Jesus Christ to become desperate enough to pray, hungry enough for change to fast, broken enough to repent, and bold enough to place God and His ways above our own! Then and only then can we be a light and hope to others desperate for truth, healing and grace.

Salt and light must be more than a phrase. Enduring hardship not a figment of the imagination but a lifestyle. Ministry must not be a position with a title, but the physical hands and feet of Christ serving in our world.

Far too many ministers I know are focused more on the next event than mentoring the next disciple.

“Only the gospel goes deep enough to effect real heart change. Everything else is just behavior modification.”

Perhaps we don’t have the answer because we ask amiss, with the wrong motives. We are not asking God for the revival He truly wants to give us. We are not preparing for the revival He truly wants to give us. We must cease asking amiss and begin to ask according to His heart, His desires, and His plans. What does real revival look like when it comes?