BLUEPRINT FOR REVIVAL. This psalm is a blueprint for how to respond when your church community declines. Study past seasons of revival and reformation (verse 1). Church history is convicting and encouraging, showing how far we have fallen yet also what God can do. Next must come repentance, acknowledgment that our hard hearts and sin have put a barrier between God and us (verses 4–5). We must also cry out to God in prayer that he “show us” his unfailing love (verse 7). Revivals always involve a fresh “seeing” of the Gospel of grace—grasping it theologically and knowing it experientially.
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