Credo | Week 5 | Preparing for Revival | Pastor Don Ross | Life Center Tacoma

Isaiah 43:16-21 (NIV)

Big Idea: We can awaken a hunger for the reality of God.

1. The Great Awakening, 1734-1743.

“It pleased God to display his free and sovereign mercy in the conversion of a great multitude of souls in a short space of time, turning them from a formal, cold and careless profession of Christianity, to the lively exercise of every Christian grace, and the powerful practice of our holy religion.” -Jonathan Edwards

2. The Second Great Awakening, 1800-1840.

3. The Businessmen's Revival, 1857-1858.

4. The Civil War Revival, 1861-1865.

5. The Urban Revivals, 1875-1885.

6. The Revivals of 1905-1906.

7. The Azusa Street Revival, 1906.

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8. The Post-World War II Awakening.

9. The Charismatic Renewal and Jesus Movement.

10. The Mid-1990s Revivals.

Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)

Isaiah 43:20-21 (NIV)

Matthew 5:6 (NIV)

10 Characteristics of Spiritual Revival

1. Timing

2. Prayer

3. The Word

4. The Holy Spirit

5. Conviction

6. Glory for God

7. Reformation and Renewal

8. Manifestations

9. Messy

10. Cyclical

Today, Christianity is PREVALENT but NOT POWERFUL. The solution is spiritual revival and awakening.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

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2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

Questions for you...

-Are you willing to humble yourself and pray?

-Are there wicked ways you need to turn from?

-Is there a sin you need to be forgiven?

-Are you willing to hunger and thirst after righteousness?