The World Needs Revival

Scripture Reading:  Jonah 3

Focus Verse: Jonah 3:5  “The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.”  

Many people think that what happened in Nineveh was the greatest change of an entire city that the world has ever seen.  The Bible says from the greatest to the least turned from their wicked ways and turned to God.  That’s a powerful repentance.  And God used Jonah, a man who was not even obedient to God, at first, to go to Nineveh.  No man can manufacture a massive conversion of the heart like this.  Only the Spirit of God can bring about this kind of change.  God knew what He wanted to do in Nineveh and He would have accomplished it either with Jonah or without Jonah.  No man can start a Godly movement and no man can stop it.

Here in the US we are seeing an impressive revival that started as an ordinary chapel program until one young man gave a testimony of God.  This began a cascade of repentance among those present.  The service continued through the night and into the next day and has not stopped for a full week.  They switch out those leading in prayer, reading of the scripture, leading in worship, etc. People are coming from all over to attend.  We are seeing God’s Spirit working on this Kentucky college campus in the lives of many young people.  I pray that this may be the beginning of America turning back to God.  We realize that in the last few years America has drifted so far away from God.  

A revival starts when God’s Spirit pours out into individual lives.  The evidence of true revival, a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon believers, is changed lives.  Let God do the work of revival in my heart.  Allow God to do the work of revival in your own heart.  Now is the time to lay aside the sin and hindrances of this world and submit ourselves to Him fully.  Romans 13:11 says, “This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is... time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.”   We do not know the day or the hour of Jesus' return.  Let this revival of God working begin in our lives, and then share it with others.

Bobby Johnson

Interlocking Ministries