The Fire that Never Sleeps: Keys to Sustaining Personal Revival

by Michael L. Brown

“Revival is a season of unusual divine visitation resulting in deep repentance, supernatural renewal, and sweeping reformation in the Church, along with the radical conversion of sinners in the world, often producing moral, social, and even economic change in the local or national communities.”

Are you hungry for the move of His Spirit? Then cry out. Pray. Ask…and keep asking. He will respond; but know that the God who responds to the cries of His people is also the God of more than enough. He wants to over-answer your prayers, too.

I discovered that you don’t need television, marketing, Internet, or news media to attract people when the Holy Spirit is truly moving in power. His presence and fire are enough.

Sadly, we have adopted a theology of cultural relevance. We think the only way we can win the world is by becoming like the world, rather than recognizing the only way we can win the world is by becoming like Jesus.

We know very little about the pure Gospel today. We share our testimonies with our friends and coworkers. We get people to pray the sinner’s prayer, and then we bring them to our discipleship classes. But so many times we fail to see real conversion, deep transformation, and genuine salvation.

today, even when we preach on the love of God, if we neglect preaching about sin, the wrath of God, and humankind’s need for a Savior, we are promoting imbalance. When we preach God’s mercy without the reality of sin, one must ask the question: Why must God be merciful? Why do I need mercy from Him at all? If we preach a Savior without giving context for what we need saving from, our grasp of salvation is limited. It all comes together when we present the complete, full Gospel—nothing missing, nothing lacking.

“the average Christian is so cold and so contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.”1