As I ponder on the happenings of the past few months, with the world virtually shut down by coronavirus, I look for God’s purpose in it all and how He can use it.  Revival has been my prayer and desire, but almost has seemed like an impossibility in my mind.  It seems we are living in such perilous days.  But God has been showing me some things from His Word that really reverberated in my mind and heart today.

First 2 Chronicles 7:14 is speaking to the Christian. God says if MY PEOPLE will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, he will hear from heaven and heal our land.  God’s people are the only ones that can be revived, lost people need to be made alive in the first place, so it seems responsibility for revival is on us.

2Ch 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Secondly, as I studied Isaiah 30, God spoke to my heart about being still and listening to God’s Spirit.  Are we a people that are so busy we don’t hear from God like we should? It says they covered with a covering but not of my Spirit.

Isa 30:1  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

Isa 30:2  That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

Isa 30:3  Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Where do we go for counsel and strength?  Who is our hiding place in the storms of life?

Isa 30:7  For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

Isa 30:8  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

Isa 30:9  That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

Isa 30:10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

God’s voice is a still small voice.  Is our life to noisy to hear from Him?   Our strength is to sit still.  Maybe in this quiet time in our world God wants His people to Be Still and Know He is God. 

Isa 30:15  For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Maybe the wicked ways we need to turn from as Christians is our own busyness and noisiness and just be still and let God speak to us. Maybe we need to quiet our own worthless opinions and knowledge, so He can speak. Maybe we need to Be still and Know Him and then rest in Him and have confidence in Him fresh and anew. Maybe this is the path to revival in our land.

Pro 1:23  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Pro 1:24  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Pro 1:25  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Pro 1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Pro 1:27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Pro 1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Pro 1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Pro 1:30  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Pro 1:31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Pro 1:32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Pro 1:33  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.