Part 1
The Challenge of Sustaining a Revival (1)
Many desire revival but are unable or unwilling to pay the price
Preamble
Today, August 1, 2024, the paperback of “A Call to Pray for a Revival”¹, a book we wrote, is out on sale. The book focuses primarily on the need to pray for a revival and briefly, in the epilogue, the need to sustain a revival so birthed.
The objective of any revival is not just to birth it through godly prayer — prayer that is continual, consistent, and persistent — but also to spread it through godly preaching, and to sustain it through continual teaching of sound scriptural doctrine, enabling people to live righteously, especially in difficult times. While birthing a revival can be challenging, sustaining it is even more challenging.
Therefore, it is appropriate that we discuss the challenge of sustaining a revival. The Early Church sustained the revival of their time for over 200 years spanning several generations! Although there were apostates during that period, sustained teachings of righteousness smothered their inglorious activities. However, when the teaching of righteousness subsided, so did the revival — it waned and eventually died!
