{"id":8382,"date":"2010-03-24T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2023-02-22T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:23:00","slug":"send-a-resurrection-o-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2010\/03\/send-a-resurrection-o-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Send A Resurrection, O Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Forerunner Foundations<\/a> has posted the following, prompted by chapter 12<\/a> of Raised With Christ<\/em>. Not everyone makes the connection between resurrection and revival, but I am convinced they are strongly associated. Here is how the post explains it:<\/p>\n

By definition, a revival is a resurrection.<\/p>\n

We can think of this life-giving miracle on two levels. First, individuals need to be revived. This happens as we are connected to the life-giving power of our risen Lord through the ministry of His Holy Spirit. It is by the Spirit, Paul says in Ephesians 1, that we come to know (meaning experience and encounter) the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead\u201d (Eph 1:17-20). It is by the power of this Spirit that we have already been made alive together with Christ (Eph 2:5).<\/p>\n

On a second level, revival can touch churches, cities, or whole nations. Qualitatively, this is not a different work than the first. Here only the expanse or scope of the work has changed, broadening now to include a group of individuals who are all making a vibrant connection to Christ\u2019s resurrection power. As Adrian Warnock argues in his excellent book Raised with Christ<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A revival is something that happens to individual Christians first and only subsequently has implications for those outside. Once a significant number of God\u2019s people are experiencing more of the change that the resurrection brings, a larger number of conversions seems almost inevitable. Such \u201cawakened\u201d Christians are infectious in their joy in God, delight in telling people about the love of God for them, and tremble at thinking about the eternal state of the unbeliever (164).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we can see the connection between revival and resurrection, we can see that something powerful is being said about our access to revival. Namely, revival is not to be an anomaly for the Christian, just as the resurrection is not celebrated once a year but every Lord\u2019s day, and every day! A revival is not be something \u201codd\u201d or \u201cextra\u201d for the one who has been raised with Christ and whose life is sustained by the Spirit of the risen Lord!<\/p>\n

. . .because of Easter, Warnock argues, a revival is \u201ca powerful intensification by Jesus of the Holy Spirit\u2019s normal activity\u201d (161). Indeed, \u201cthe Spirit of revival is always available to us. Thus, when revival comes, we should recognize it as a greater manifestation of normal Christianity\u201d (161).<\/p>\n

So it is our Easter-people privilege to cry out, in the word of Psalm 85:6 \u201cWill you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?\u201d In other words, \u201csend a resurrection, O Lord!\u201d This is the hunger and this is the hope of those who have been shaped by the Easter gospel.<\/p>\n

In his chapter of A God-Entranced Vision of All Things, J. I. Packer surveys both history and the Scriptures to discern a pattern for genuine revival. I am including his list of 10 elements here because they form excellent prayer points as we ask for the implications of Easter to be more completely and intensely released in our hearts, in our church, and in our city . . .<\/p>\n

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  1. God comes down<\/li>\n
  2. God\u2019s word pierces<\/li>\n
  3. Man\u2019s sin is seen<\/li>\n
  4. Christ\u2019s cross is valued<\/li>\n
  5. Change goes deep<\/li>\n
  6. Love breaks out<\/li>\n
  7. Joy fills hearts<\/li>\n
  8. Each church becomes itself \u2013 becomes, that is, the people of the divine presence in an experiential, as distinct from merely notional, sense.<\/li>\n
  9. The lost are found<\/li>\n
  10. Satan keeps pace. (It is often said that the first person to wake up during an awakening is the devil!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    READ MORE at\u00a0 Send A Resurrection, O Lord! \u00ab Forerunner Foundations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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