Revival: What is Revival?
by Marilynn Chadwick
The dictionary defines "revival" as "coming back to life" or "increasing in strength or intensity." An Emergency Room doctor might revive a patient whose heart has stopped. While the word "revival" doesn't appear in Scripture, "revive" does.
Psalm 85:6 says, "Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?"
Isaiah 57:15b says, "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."
Clearly there are moments where God's people find…
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