What Will It Take For A True Revival to Come?

By EVANGELIST BRUCE HALLER

411 Main St. -- Tennille, GA 31089

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2 Chronicles 7:14

I have observed over the years Independent Fundamental Baptist churches lead by struggling preachers and spiritual leaders being over taken with carnality, contention, confusion, and an exchange of our true scriptural Christian heritage for a carnal contemporary so call Christianity.

America, our country, which has testified "In God We Trust" is significantly blinded by satanic darkness and wears a cloak of extreme wickedness that is spread across our land from shore to shore liken unto the days of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah.

The questions can be asked: What is the cause? Where is the blame? What is the answer?

Dr. Lee Roberson said, "Everything rises or falls on leadership."

Hence forth, it can be said, when the preachers and the spiritual leadership are spiritually weak and walk in spiritual darkness the people who follow consequently will be spiritually weak and also will walk in spiritual darkness.

In contrast, if our churches, communities, as well as America are to have sufficient spiritual light to escape the prevailing satanic darkness, true Bible preachers and spiritual leadership within the Churches of the Lord Jesus Christ have to experience true revival of sufficient spiritual light to expel the darkness of sin, the devil, and the depravity of the world.

We who are preachers and spiritual leaders must recognize the primary responsibility for a true sweeping revival of God’s people and the calling of America to repentance towards God and faith towards Jesus Christ our Savior, God, and Lord according to the scriptures is foremost with us.

It stands to reason to say that when we who are preachers and spiritual leaders achieve a state of and continuing to seek a true perpetual Holy Ghost revival in our own lives those who follow us will likewise experience the same.

The Bible says:

"If my people, who are called by my name…"

Revival will come when preachers and spiritual leaders search their hearts and recognize they need revival:

• Preachers need to search their hearts daily: Psalm 139:23-24
• Preachers need to discover and confess sins of omission (unrecognized sin) and commission (sin knowingly committed): Psalm 19:12-13
• Preachers need to not cover (deny, make excuse for, or blame others for) their sins but confess and forsake them: Proverbs 28:13

"shall humble themselves…"

Revival will come when preachers and spiritual leaders humble (dependent upon the Lord) themselves before the Lord: James 4:6-10

• Pride, an independent spirit, as with every believer, is our down fall: James 4:6
• Grace is what we need: James 4:6
• God must be submitted too: James 4:7 (Submission to God places us in a position to receive God’s grace by faith.)
• The devil must be resisted: James 4:7
• Draw near to God in repentance and forsaking your sin: James 4:8-9
• Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord: James 4:10

• God will lift us up in our personal relationship to Him in spiritual depth and consistency if we will consistently humble ourselves in the Lord’s sight…
• God will lift us up in our ministries with the person, power, and purpose of the Holy Spirit with scriptural effectiveness and fruitfulness in exalting and glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ if we will consistently humble ourselves in the Lord’s sight…

"and pray…"

Revival will come when preachers and spiritual leaders fervently pray:

• Pray, pray, and pray some more: James 4:2; 5:16-18; Luke 18:1
• Pray scripturally and for the glory of God: James 4:3; 1 Corinthians 10:31
• Pray for revival: James 4:2

• How often do you personally pray for personal and other’s revival? James 4:2
• How often do you lead the church to pray for revival? James 4:2

• History through out the church age has proven that true and significant revival was preceded by God’s people praying for revival: The Great Awakening, Praying Hyde in India; Moody in England and America, the movement of the Holy Spirit at times during the 20^th century… James 4:2
• The Old Testament sets the precedent for praying for revival: Psalm 85:6; Habakkuk 3:2

"and seek my face…"

Revival will come when preachers and spiritual leaders seek God’s face:

• Seek God’s face with your whole heart: Jeremiah 29:13
• Seek God’s face in true worship: John 4:23-24
• Seek God’s face through the Word: 2 Corinthians 3:18
• Seek God’s face with the daily offerings of sacrifice of your bodies which infers the sacrifice of your: time, talents and treasures: Romans 12:1-2
• Seek God’s face by faith: Hebrews 11:1,6
• Seek God’s face by laying aside what is hindering us and the sin of unbelief: Hebrews 12:1
• Seek God’s face by looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith: Hebrews 12:2

"and turn from their wicked ways…"

Revival will come when preachers and spiritual leaders repent and turn from their wicked ways of:

• Repent of prayer-less-ness: (Prayer and ministry of the Word is the primary mandate of the preacher. Acts 6:4) (Prayer and fasting is the primary way of pulling down Satan’s strongholds. Matthew 17:18-21)
• Repent of preaching without the significant preaching of the contextual interpretation and application of the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth): 2 Timothy 4:2-4
• Repent of powerless lives, preaching, and ministries absent of the anointing of, the filling of the person, power, and purpose of the Holy Spirit with evidence of souls being saved and believer’s lives being perpetually revived and discipled in the grace and knowledge of God: Ephesians 5:17-18; Acts 2:41; 4:31-33
• Repent of positions of unbelief because of focusing on the seemly insurmountable situations and circumstance that befall us today: Mark 5:36-41
• Repent of hiding from the Lord and blaming others for your fruitlessness: Genesis 3:8-12
• Repent of procrastinating from looking unto and laboring in the field white already for harvest: John 4:35
• Repent and let the Lord Jesus Christ come into your lives and ministries with His person, power, and purpose in a reviving way for He stands at the doors of our lives and ministries and knocks during this Laodicean age: Revelation 3:20, 22

"then will I (God) hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (Or by way of application our personal lives, ministries, churches, communities, and country will experience a God sent perpetual revival with the evidence of souls being saved and believers set apart by faith in experience for God’s glory.)." V