The Great Shaking Awakening

Will the church have a Revival, a Reformation, or will it have a Revolution-perhaps all three are needed? Churches all over America casually pray for revival. They sing about it, talk about it, blog about it, write books about it, preach sermons about it, yet, the air of the church seems helplessly thin. For a good deal of western Christendom, revival is a novel idea but not a perceivable reality. The cry for revival has never been greater-the demand for its powerful effects has never been more needed. Yet, the requirements for revival have never been so neglected. Every Spirit-filled believer knows in their gut something is coming, that things cannot remain as they are for the American Church. That we have somehow missed what we are supposed to be and do. If there is an ounce of prophetic nature left in the American church, she will anticipate and prepare for what is ahead. We picture times of revival as a time of refreshing, and of course, there are those times. However, a true sign that revival is on its way is when all we can see is a barren wasteland peppered with many crosses. It looks as all hope is lost, and in the natural, it is. Many of us want Revival our way. But revival God's way means there will be a tearing down of the old to bring to life again the things that have died. The Prophet's anguish will soon become his hope. When we recognize our churches seem to be spinning out of control, it is because we are on the potter's wheel. It is there the church is being formed in the image of Christ. How do we know such a revival will come? Because they have come in the past! God, time and time again has revived His church. As well, we have seen great awakenings in our land. We are due, no, overdue, for a great world-shaking, nation-awakening, revival!