Poll: Revival coming in...

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I'm doing a poll, but the poll feature surely cannot give me enough choices, so I'm just going to ask.

In your Christian walk, how many years have you been told "THIS is the year for a mighty revival"?
 
Hmmm interesting, I don't think I have been particularly heard this is the year for a mighty revival since I became a Christian 27 1/2 years ago. Maybe I haven't moved in the right circles or maybe no one I would believe has said this (we are told to test prophesies). I know there have been historic revivals and would love there to be another one maybe I need to start to pray more for one.
 
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I'm doing a poll, but the poll feature surely cannot give me enough choices, so I'm just going to ask.

In your Christian walk, how many years have you been told "THIS is the year for a mighty revival"?
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I suppose to have a mighty revival, society has to sink pretty low. Are they there, yet? I would say yes.
 
I've not heard it mentioned with any sincerity in the UK, although it is often said
on the God channel - almost every other programme I would say.

There are obvious signs of God moving in my city, it seems to have
gathered momentum over the last 10 years. Maybe this qualifies as a slow steady
revival, or at least a movement in a Godly direction
 
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I'm doing a poll, but the poll feature surely cannot give me enough choices, so I'm just going to ask.

In your Christian walk, how many years have you been told "THIS is the year for a mighty revival"?
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I don't think i have lived a year in the past 30 when i have not heard someone making that claim.... Of course no mighty revival came.. I believe we are in the end times and as such we are experiencing a great falling away from the truth.. So i do not expect any revival until the Day of the Second Coming.. I see the falling away as a refining process.. In the last days there will be very few Christians but they will be rock solid ones for sure..
 
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I don't think i have lived a year in the past 30 when i have not heard someone making that claim.... Of course no mighty revival came.. I believe we are in the end times and as such we are experiencing a great falling away from the truth.. So i do not expect any revival until the Day of the Second Coming.. I see the falling away as a refining process.. In the last days there will be very few Christians but they will be rock solid ones for sure..
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I came to the Lord in the last revival. The one before that was 60 years earlier.

And there isn't a great falling away happening now. Conservative churches (biblically conservative, not talking politics) are having a great increase right now. Only liberal churches are having a great falling away. But, if this is a revival, it's in its infancy. To me, it just looks like how it's been in the last 30 years, so I'm thinking not.

Then again, I was also thinking the Super Bowl would be Pittsburgh against Green Bay, so don't count on me as a great predictor of anything. lol
 
I don't know the exact amount but I have been saved for four years and hear this a lot so lets just assume it's in the hundreds.
I haven't felt God tell me of a coming revival but there is hope i guess
 
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I don't know the exact amount but I have been saved for four years and hear this a lot so lets just assume it's in the hundreds.
I haven't felt God tell me of a coming revival but there is hope i guess
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Ahhh, but I asked in years, not how many times per year. So, you're solid at 4. :)
 
Blain said:
I don't know the exact amount but I have been saved for four years and hear this a lot so lets just assume it's in the hundreds.
I haven't felt God tell me of a coming revival but there is hope i guess
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Wow is it really only 4 years.

I remember when you first came on this site and you were still a baby. :)
 
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I'm doing a poll, but the poll feature surely cannot give me enough choices, so I'm just going to ask.

In your Christian walk, how many years have you been told "THIS is the year for a mighty revival"?
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Large scale revival... here?


I just ignore anyone who says that.
It seems very unlikely, here in the West, in the midst of a post-postmodern culture.

Revival usually comes in a place where people recognize their need for God...
not in a place where people are so comfortably enriched, and so disconnected from reality, that the cries of their own children aren't enough to tear their attention away from the latest update on their iPhones.

I suppose we might have revival in the West after some horrible tragedy.
That could happen.
It would have to be something pretty bad.

So, if you're going to pray for revival in the West...
you're probably praying for God to bring whatever horrific turmoil is necessary to crack open the cold, frozen hearts of the unbelieving people.
 
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I just ignore anyone who says that.
It seems very unlikely, here in the West, in the midst of a post-postmodern culture.

Revival usually comes in a place where people recognize their need for God...
not in a place where people are so comfortably enriched, and so disconnected from reality, that the cries of their own children aren't enough to tear their attention away from the latest update on their iPhones.

I suppose we might have revival in the West after some horrible tragedy.
That could happen.
It would have to be something pretty bad.

So, if you're going to pray for revival in the West...
you're probably praying for God to bring whatever horrific turmoil is necessary to break the hearts of the people.
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The last one came in "The Age of Aquarius," when everyone was about "peace, love, and rock n' roll" except for that war in Viet Nam. When kids could afford to go to some rinky dink little town in upstate New York for a three-day concert to get stoned, and go to college in the fall. They still planned "a better life for our kids," and went on to be the grandparents and great-grandparents of today. (Ha! I was 16 coming in on the end of it, but hubby, who wasn't hubby yet, already had a wife and daughter then. Now that daughter is a grandmother. lol)

The one before that came a decade before "The Great War."

I don't know how God works it, but horrific turmoil isn't a need.

(I already said I didn't think one is coming for a while, but you can take my word when it comes to choosing who won't win the next football game and strictly based on who I want to win. lol)
 
When I was living in Maine, my brother-in-law who is a pastor, said that God spoke to him and said that the revival in the US is going to start in Maine. I'm thinking, yeah, right, like Maine is a hotbed for sin. He obviously has never been to Las Vegas. Funny thing about Vegas is that there are a lot of Christian churches there. I guess Jesus, the Great Physician, goes where the sick people are. I personally believe that any revival must begin in the heart of the individual.
 
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The last one came in "The Age of Aquarius," when everyone was about "peace, love, and rock n' roll" except for that war in Viet Nam. When kids could afford to go to some rinky dink little town in upstate New York for a three-day concert to get stoned, and go to college in the fall. They still planned "a better life for our kids," and went on to be the grandparents and great-grandparents of today. (Ha! I was 16 coming in on the end of it, but hubby, who wasn't hubby yet, already had a wife and daughter then. Now that daughter is a grandmother. lol)

The one before that came a decade before "The Great War."

I don't know how God works it, but horrific turmoil isn't a need.

(I already said I didn't think one is coming for a while, but you can take my word when it comes to choosing who won't win the next football game and strictly based on who I want to win. lol)
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I think we have some extremely different views on the definition of revival.


Maybe we should have started this thread with a definition... so we'd all be talking about the same thing.
 
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When I was living in Maine, my brother-in-law who is a pastor, said that God spoke to him and said that the revival in the US is going to start in Maine. I'm thinking, yeah, right, like Maine is a hotbed for sin. He obviously has never been to Las Vegas. Funny thing about Vegas is that there are a lot of Christian churches there. I guess Jesus, the Great Physician, goes where the sick people are. I personally believe that any revival must begin in the heart of the individual.
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I'm going to disagree here, but I think you'll be okay with that. I think it starts with God does something big time and noticeable.
 
maxwel said:
I think we have some extremely different views on the definition of revival.


Maybe we should have started this thread with a definition... so we'd all be talking about the same thing.
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Oh, Max! I thought you knew me well enough. It's me. Miss Old-school, keep-the-definitions-the-same woman. Revival. When there is a great awakening of God in a large area. The one I came out of was The Jesus Movement of the late 60's-early 70's. The one before that was The Azusa Street Revival and The Scottish Revival. My favorite was the one in New England started through a man named Jonathan Edwards.

Why? What were you thinking?
 
BTW, just to answer my own question. 2017 is the 45th year I've heard a revival is THIS year. Pretty amusing since I was saved during a revival. (Even during revivals, people want to see a great outpouring. Kinda makes you wonder what they think the great outpouring looks like to them. lol)
 
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