Personal Revival

As I take you through the Down Pour book, I am sharing information about Revival. For me, Revival is something we did every year at church, like a mission conference. The pastor would bring in another preacher or evangelist and would lay guilt trip on you. They would preach against the latest fashion trend and how you are like the world. They would preach against the latest communication technology that is corrupting your mind and how you need to be in the Word. Then they would preach that you need to give your life to the Lord and sell out for the Lord and sell all your possessions. Is this Revival?

I have to be honest here, when our church decided we were going to do Down Pour and what I heard about the book, I said, “Great, another guilt trip study of how my life is not living for God.” I had reservation about going through the Down Pour study. But when I started reading the book, I realized this was a different approach to Revival. It starts out how our hearts are hard as the ground gets from a drought. And our relationship with God is in a drought and we need the soft rains to soften the ground of our hearts to allow the blessings of God to flow. And once our hearts are soften; God can pour down the rains of blessings in our lives.
Hosea 6:1-3 is A Call to Repentance. It is call for us to come back to God. A call to revive us again, and let God rains a down pour in our hearts.

Come, let us return to the LORD.
For He has torn [us],
and He will heal us;
He has wounded [us],
and He will bind up our wounds.

He will revive us after two days,
and on the third day He will raise us up
so we can live in His presence.

Let us strive to know the LORD.
His appearance is as sure as the dawn.
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring showers that water the land.

Revival is about your personal relationship with God. Is your heart hard? Is there a drought in your life where you do not see the blessings of God? You need to get on your knees before God and repentance by saying, “I am sorry God.” Just stop and get away from your routine in life and get alone with God. God is waiting and He wants to rain a Down Pour upon your life.