Revolution- Not Revival

There is a hunger for more. A cry for God's power and might.
A yearning for what many call 'revival' .
The enemy, it appears to many,
has come in like a flood. The waters are rising.
When will God raise up a standard against?
What will he do? How will he do it?

When you did terrible things that we looked not for,
you came down... Isaiah 64.3


Years ago when I was seeing signs from the Lord
that he in fact was planning a mighty 'move' of the Spirit,
the word 'revolution' was dropped into my spirit.
When this was given to me it was actually just bare bones.
The word 'revolution' and then three words:
repentance,
revival,
and restoration.

I understood at this time that these three R's signified
three different and distinct phases of spiritual revolution.
So what were looking at here is more than revival.
It has been said that 'we are past the point of revival'.
Something more is needed.

The 'more' is contained in the understanding of revolution:
earth shaking,
mind shattering,
heartbreaking,
life transforming- revolution.

Revival is talked about as though it were an end in itself.
We need to see it as part of a larger process.
Jesus didn't come to bring revival.
He said that no stone would be left upon another
and in the new creation this has been accomplished on every level.

No, the fire he sent in the earth was the fire of a mighty revolution..

I am come to send fire in the earth...Luke 12.49

So after I got the bare bones of this I was led to more,
given more light and revelation so as to flesh it out.
It was years later that it dawned on me that the passage
in second Chronicles describes this very process.

If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray
and turn from their wicked ways (repentance),
I will hear from heaven (revival)
and forgive their sin and turn and heal their land (restorationn).
2 Chronicles 7.14

Yes,we are going to see dramatic change.
God is indeed going to do things we looked not for.
He is going to do exceedingly abundantly above anything
we can think or even ask.
And when it is all said and done we will see that he did indeed
fulfill our great expectations. The God of promise
becomes for us the God of fulfillment.

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God;
we have waited for him, and he will save us:
this is the LORD; we have waited for him,
we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Isaiah 25:9 KJV