Revival is for those who were once alive and are now dead. To revive means to bring back to life again. I can understand getting saved, coming alive in your spirit, then struggling to stay alive because the enemy is relentless in his reminding us of who we used to be before we gave our life to Jesus. What I don’t understand is people who have been in revivals, who have been revived and are now wanting another revival. This is perplexing to me, not because I didn’t love what God did in revival, but with all of us who experienced the power of God in Brownsville with Steve Hill and John Kilpatrick; or the Toronto Blessing with John and Carol Arnold; or the Smithton Outpouring with Steve and Kathy Gray; or Bethel with Bill Johnson and Kris Vallaton; or, or, or, or; are you still alive?

Do you realize how many moves of God we have had in our generation and yet we are seeing our kids stoop to a level of degeneration of the likes we did not see in our generation? Do you remember how it felt to be revived, but not realize, it was an external experience that kept you alive not an internal desire to remain revived? We are more like Israel than we realize. They would cry out for God to deliver them from their enemies, not realizing their enemies were brought on by their own idolatry, which they kept going back to despite being delivered over and over and over again.

Psalm 145 says, “Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.” Revival is to be a generational experience, where what God did for me I share with my son, my daughter, so they remain with God, they don’t run to idols. Our kids are a product of our choices, our attitudes, our lifestyles. We have been revived, now we want another revival, but if we don’t want to remain alive, if we don’t want to stay in love, if we don’t want to change something, another revival is not the answer. What we need is a heart transplant, for we have hearts of stone and we need the Lord to give us a heart of flesh. We need massive repentance, not another revival. Then our kids will know what real revival looks like when we repent and remain alive and on fire for the savior of our lives.