CAN WE HAVE REVIVAL?

II CHRONICLES 15

Rick Jackson

CAN WE HAVE REVIVAL?

"Sure we can Brother Rick, just call an evangelist and set up a meeting." Really a meeting is not a revival. You hope the meeting produces a revival but of course that's not always the case. You can have meetings without revival but you can also have revival without meetings. What does an evangelist do then? He preaches the Word of God hoping to get sinners saved and saints right with God. When God's people get right with God usually sinners will be saved and more saints get right with God and more sinners get saved and soon you have revival! A bringing back to life! The saints begin to show spiritual life, the lost gain spiritual life, the church shows life and we have revival. Can it happen? Yes, that's actually what God wants to be the norm for His people. Let's look at a revival in the Bible and see what happened.

They started with a...

I. GREAT PROMISE (v. 1-2, 7:14, 14:4, Mt. 10:33, James 4:6-10)

They had...

II. GREAT POTENTIAL (v. 3-6, 16:9, Eph. 6:10)

They had...

III. GREAT PROVISION (v. 7, Joshua 1:6-9, Mk. 9:41, I Co. 15:58)

They had a...

IV. GREAT PATTERN (V.8-13)

1. Cleanse the life (v. 8a)

2. Call upon the Lord (v. 8b)

3. Covenant together (v. 9-15)

My friends we have the same things! We can have revival! The question is will we pay the cost?