You will never believe that God promises revival until you learn to receive. The difference between praying for revival and revival-praying, is receiving a portion now of that toward which you are praying....

You will never receive revival until you know for sure that God promises revival. When the apostle Paul prophesied to the church in Ephesus, he did so with the absolute certainty that revival is the promise of God....

When the Apostle Paul prophesied to the church in Ephesus, "Arise from the dead," he spoke with absolute certainty, because he knew that revival in the church is the promise of God....

Revival is a promise of God, because it is true to God's nature. Paul prophesied to the church in Ephesus, "Awake, O sleeper," because he knew that revival in the church is God's promise....

Revival is a promise of God, because it is true to God’s nature. When Jesus stood outside Lazarus’ tomb, he first identified himself as the resurrection and the life (John 11:25)....

When God says, Come, it is not only an invitation, it is an activation. When God says Come, it activates within you not only the ability to come into his manifest presence, but the desire to come....

God never created anyone with the ability to hear His voice on their own; and he never created anyone unable to hear His voice with his help. The ability to hear from God is given by the activation of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit can activate your hearing just as well as anyone else....

When God says, Behold! He is not only giving a command, He is giving a wake up call that activates in you the ability to see something you have never seen before....

The greatest hindrance to overcoming a lukewarm heart and a lukewarm church is the thought that you will never conquer a lukewarm spirit. This thought is a lie, and it must be defeated....

When God says, "Be zealous", He is certainly not giving you an assignment that you can fulfill all by yourself. Zeal is not something you can pump up or manufacture. Zeal in you comes from zeal in Christ, and the only way for you to have it, is to receive it from Christ. And that is a promise....

At the heart of revival is encountering the manifest presence of Christ, and every encounter involves a form of eating, or partaking, of His presence....

Every time God says, "I will", it is a promise. One of the greatest "I will" promises God ever made, He made to the lukewarm church in desperate need of revival. The heart of revival is the returning of God's manifest presence....

Habakkuk 2:14 is a promise— that one day the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea will fill the earth. Today the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, but very few of us recognize his glory. One day soon, however, the earth will be filled with the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of the Lord....

Revival-prayer flows from a healthy heart— a heart that longs to encounter the manifest presence of Christ. Healthy hearts have been crying out for revival for thousands of years. In one way or another all prayer leads toward the vortex of encountering God’s manifesting presence....

Hope is a righteous stronghold; hopelessness is an unrighteous stronghold. Hope is an authentic stronghold; hopelessness is an illusion. Both are powerful, but hope is invincible....

The God of hope wants to deliver you from hopelessness today. Hopelessness has been called the greatest enemy of revival. You will never ask for revival, let alone receive revival, if you are hopeless....

When God told you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, he gave you both a command and a promise. Jesus never asks anyone to do something without making it possible....

The reason the church is not in a perpetual state of revival is because we are content to live without it. The reason we are content to live without revival is because we are not convinced that God promises us revival. This is absolutely tragic....

Every name of God is a promise. When Jesus said, before Abraham was, I AM, he categorically put himself in a league all by himself. He was not simply identifying himself as one among many religious leaders. He was not putting himself on par with Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna, or Abraham. He wasn’t simply calling himself a son of God like you and I are sons of God. Jesus was saying he is God— equal wit...

Everyone faces stress, weariness, depletion. When Jesus says, I am the true vine, he offers himself as the open-access, never-ending, internal-battery-recharging presence to continually replenish your life. The only requirement is intimacy with Him....