Seeking Revival

I've given up on revival and come back to it many times over the last few years,  It's easy to think God would not give us revival in our present condition, our many disobedient churches, our personal sins, the sins of the nation and the churches.   And without repentance there is no doubt that is true.  Yet there is no other help for us but God so what else can we do but seek revival? 

tart with personal repentance, ask God to show us our sins and grant us repentance, ask God to purge the churches of sin, of false doctrines, of fear of man, of fearfulness in the face of the growing threat from the world,  that He would give us the love that casts out fear, that we would become characterized by a self-sacrificial spirit, a spirit of dying to self, of becoming nothing that He may increase and guide us. 

False doctrine in so many churches is a barrier, the liberalism that pursues a false love is a barrier, and many other things we need the Lord to show us, which He will if we ask.  I alwaqys think of the abandonment of the head covering for women, which is the subject of one of my blogs, but I also know I have to start with confessing my own mountain of sins to God and seeking repentance.

I found this video about a revival in Scotland back in 1638, when a church was to vote on a National Covenant to embrace the principles of the Protestant Reformation.  The need for repentance and reformation is emphasized if we also want revival: