We Want A Revival

I have heard people talk about wanting a revival, we need a revival, or some other way of saying we want a move of God to happen. I was up studying this morning, came across this book by Tommy Tenney that I honestly didn’t know I had. I began to scan it, and I came across this part of the book about revival. Really made me think, check it out…..

No true revival has ever occurred simply because people sought revival. They where birthed when people sought Him. In our presumptuous thinking, we have said, “Okay, we’re going to hold a revival. “ You might as well try to hold a hurricane! If you can hold it, then “it ain’t revival.” If you can contain it or control it, then “it ain’t revival either.” We need to call it what it is: a series of good meetings complete with whipped –cream preaching and maraschino cherries of man on top! We may love it and lick our lips through every minute of it, but it isn’t revival. We have to face the fact that we have become addicted to all the things that accompany church, like the choirs and the music. But they are not what God calls “church” and they are not true revival either…. It’s time to seek the Reviver instead of revival! He wants to have intimate, close encounters with you and me. He wants to invade our homes with His abiding presence in a way that will make every visitor begin to weep with wonder and worship the moment they enter.

Seek the Reviver instead of revival