📘 REVIVAL! WOW! Now that’s a word. The word revival is probably one of the most used words in the Charismatic and Pentecostal Circles. It is undoubtedly the most exciting, misunderstood, misused, undefined, over emphasized, but most hoped for in these movements. We have everything from personal revival to revival meetings, revival fire and revival lifestyles. Revival even seems to have its own lingo. In our search for revival, could there be a deeper meaning to this word? Could there even be a RECIPE FOR REVIVAL? When you listen to messages from the older ministers, the ones known as REVIVALISTS, they speak of the word which such power and reverence. They speak often of both their personal and corporate encounters. It seems by the longing in their voice that they want so desperately to be in those moments again. This leaves the listener longing for that experience as well. I believe the reason we name so many of our services and events “Revival meetings” because we hope that we can encounter something that will shake us to our core and make us speak as passionately about God as the Revivalists of old. In my own personal quest for revival, I have become a student of revival. You could even say I have become a revival junkie. I have studied the bigger corporate revivals like The Brownsville Revival, The Welsh Revival, and the Hebrides Revival. Once again you can name a town and simply add the word revival to it and everyone knows what you are referring to. People who experienced ...