There are seasons in our walk with God when our hearts feel dry and our spirits weary. We still attend church, still read the Word, and still pray  but the flame of passion seems dim. The psalmist understood this feeling well when he cried out, *“Will You not revive us again?”* Revival is not just a church event or a series of emotional meetings; it is a divine awakening of the soul. It is when the Spirit of God breathes new life into what has grown cold.

Revival begins in the heart. Before God revives a nation or a congregation, He revives the individual. He stirs the soul that has grown complacent and reignites a hunger for His presence. “Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10 (ESV). When we come before the Lord in humility, confessing our sins and acknowledging our need for Him, He responds with mercy and restoration. True revival always begins with repentance a turning away from what has drawn us from His heart and a turning back to the One who first loved us.

The world around us is desperate for the evidence of a living, powerful God. But that evidence comes through revived believers men and women who burn brightly with the love of Christ. When our hearts are set ablaze by the Spirit, our words carry weight, our prayers carry power and our witness carries light. “For thus says the One who is high and lifted up… ‘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.’” Isaiah 57:15 (ESV).

We often pray for God to change our circumstances, but revival changes *us*. It restores joy to our worship, strength to our faith, and passion to our service. It is the Spirit rekindling what routine and distraction have smothered. When God revives His people, churches are renewed, communities are transformed, and nations can be awakened to righteousness.

Revival is also about returning to our first love. In Revelation 2:4–5, Jesus tells the church in Ephesus, “You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.”* Revival calls us to remember the fire we once had that eagerness to serve, that hunger for His Word, that excitement to be in His presence. God desires to restore that spark. He longs for His people to once again find joy in Him.