How to have a Personal Revival
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How to have a personal Revival (1)
The Psalmist prayed:
1. Get thoroughly dissatisfied with yourself. Complacency is the enemy of spiritual progress. A complacent soul is a stagnant soul.
2. Set your face like a flint toward a sweeping transformation of your life. Timid experimenters are tagged for failure before they start. We must throw our whole soul into our desire for God.
3. Put yourself in the way of blessing. It's a mistake to expect God's help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known and met. There are plainly marked paths which lead straight to the green pastures; let us walk in them. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time neglect prayer and devotion, is to wish one way and walk another.
4. Do a thorough job of repenting. Do not hurry to get it over with. Hasty repentance means shallow spiritual experience and lack of certainty in the whole life. Let godly sorrow do his healing work. Until we allow the consciousness of sin to wound us, we will never develop a fear of evil.
5. Make restitution wherever possible. If you owe a debt, pay it, or at least have a frank understanding with your creditor about your intention to pay, so your honesty will be above question. If you have quarreled with anyone, go as far as you can in an effort to achieve reconciliation.
How to have a personal revival (2)
A. W. Tozer gives us four more steps to personal revival that we must take:
1. Bring your life into accord with such scriptures as are designed to instruct us in the way of righteousness. An honest man with an open Bible, a pad and a pencil, is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly. I recommend that self-examination be made on your knees, rising to obey God's commandments as they are revealed to us.
2. Be serious-minded. You can well afford to see fewer shows on TV. Unless you can break away, every spiritual impression will continue to be lost to your heart. The world used to go to the movies to escape serious thinking about God. You would not join them there, but you now enjoy spiritual communion with them in your own home. The Devil's ideals, moral standards, and mental attitudes are being accepted by you without your knowledge.
3. Deliberately narrow your interests. Too many projects use up time and energy without bringing us nearer to God.
4. Have faith in God. Begin to expect. Look up toward the throne where your advocate sits at the right hand of God. All of heaven is on your side. God will not disappoint you. The Psalmist writes:
How to have a personal Revival (1)
The Psalmist prayed:
Psalms 80:18 "Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name"Almost a century ago, A.W. Tozer laid out the steps that lead to a personal revival. Some of the language may sound uncool and outdated, but the principles still work today:
1. Get thoroughly dissatisfied with yourself. Complacency is the enemy of spiritual progress. A complacent soul is a stagnant soul.
2. Set your face like a flint toward a sweeping transformation of your life. Timid experimenters are tagged for failure before they start. We must throw our whole soul into our desire for God.
3. Put yourself in the way of blessing. It's a mistake to expect God's help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known and met. There are plainly marked paths which lead straight to the green pastures; let us walk in them. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time neglect prayer and devotion, is to wish one way and walk another.
4. Do a thorough job of repenting. Do not hurry to get it over with. Hasty repentance means shallow spiritual experience and lack of certainty in the whole life. Let godly sorrow do his healing work. Until we allow the consciousness of sin to wound us, we will never develop a fear of evil.
5. Make restitution wherever possible. If you owe a debt, pay it, or at least have a frank understanding with your creditor about your intention to pay, so your honesty will be above question. If you have quarreled with anyone, go as far as you can in an effort to achieve reconciliation.
How to have a personal revival (2)
A. W. Tozer gives us four more steps to personal revival that we must take:
1. Bring your life into accord with such scriptures as are designed to instruct us in the way of righteousness. An honest man with an open Bible, a pad and a pencil, is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly. I recommend that self-examination be made on your knees, rising to obey God's commandments as they are revealed to us.
2. Be serious-minded. You can well afford to see fewer shows on TV. Unless you can break away, every spiritual impression will continue to be lost to your heart. The world used to go to the movies to escape serious thinking about God. You would not join them there, but you now enjoy spiritual communion with them in your own home. The Devil's ideals, moral standards, and mental attitudes are being accepted by you without your knowledge.
3. Deliberately narrow your interests. Too many projects use up time and energy without bringing us nearer to God.
4. Have faith in God. Begin to expect. Look up toward the throne where your advocate sits at the right hand of God. All of heaven is on your side. God will not disappoint you. The Psalmist writes:
Psalms 80:19 " Restore us, O Lord God Almighty; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved."You say, "saved from what?" From ourselves! Saved from the influences that pull us away from God and toward this world. Saved to fulfill the purposes for which we have been redeemed and called into His kingdom. If you desire it, you can have a personal revival.
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