Essence of Revival 3

City Transformation: Praying for Revival

• Pray for God to stir in our city a desire to relate with him

Over the last three or four centuries of church history, when God transforms many people across an entire city or region, we often call it a “revival”.  In a sincere desire to experience revival, we sometimes schedule a series of meetings in a church or a tent.  Revival, however, is something God does, not something we do.  The essence of revival includes the following:

• A tangible and strong sense of God’s presence
• An increased awareness of our need for God
• An increase in people’s desire to have a relationship with God
• A widespread release of God’s power that brings healing, salvation, provision and other supernatural phenomena
• Clear and long-lasting transformation of many people’s lives

Let’s pray for God to visit our city and bring the transforming event that we call “revival.”