Enduring Revival

​Enduring Revival (Read time ≈ 4 minutes)
Isaiah 57:15
"For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite."
 
To be revived is to be given life again or to greatly increase the quality of life. What then, should we do with revival? Keep it revived! God can bring revival to a soul or to a people in just a moment of supernatural brilliance. It can be through many different ways or methods. But what matters the most is, will we maintain it? The life that has been given, will we tend to it? We cannot go from revival experience to revival experience and expect to form any meaningful type of relationship with our Lord. In fact, we run great risk of that flame dying out all together and never being reignited. Revival of our lives is God stoking the flame in our spirit but that flame must be steadily fed and maintained to experience an enduring revival that will go beyond just a moment and become more than just an experience.  
 
If we want enduring revival, we need to be enduring saints. That as we once were all of contrite and lowly spirits, we now have been given a revived spiritual life by God but now, we are redeemed, sanctified and called to purpose. Those who are sanctified by the Blood of Jesus are made saints (1 Corinthians 1:2). We are brought from contrite and lowly spirits to sainthood by the supernatural revival of God.
 
Revelation 14:12
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus
 
The Kingdom of Heaven is near and the attacks on the faith of the saints are real. True revival is not a moment, but it is something that lasts. At the heart of every revival in church history, you will find enduring saints who have stayed true to the Lord and His ways for them. Do you want enduring revival? Then be an enduring saint. Hold Jesus as Lord over your life and allow His word to direct your life, even outside of the bonfire, gasoline on a fire, type of revival moments and then you will find something even more valuable. An enduring faith centered around the eternally enduring love of God. A life of continual, enduring revival. Don’t wait for moments. Life is but a mist, here today and gone tomorrow (James 4:14). Life is just a moment, rise to it, endure as a saint and you will continue to see Him revive you each day.