“LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. (2)Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. (3)Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. (4)Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. (5)Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? (6)Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? (7)Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. (8)I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. (9)Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. (10)Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other . (11)Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. (12)Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. (13)Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.” (Psalm 85)
After revival we must
1. Return not again unto folly (verse 8b)
We must not return again unto the sin from which we just cried to God to save us. Instead, we must
2. Fear God (verse 9)
Then God will be nigh unto us and His glory will dwell in our land.
Results of Revival
1. Mercy and truth meet together (verse 10)
2. Righteousness and peace kiss each other
3. Truth will spring up out of the earth (country, field, lands, world; Strongs #0776) Souls will be saved. (verse 11)
4. Righteousness will look down from heaven. Naturally, morally, and legally there will be prosperity.
5. The LORD will give that which is good (verse 12)
6. The land will bring forth good crops
7. Righteousness will come forth from Him and will set us on the right path as we walk before Him.
Below are some more verses about revival. I pray you will study them and be blessed.
“(1)I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. (2)I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (3)In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. (4)All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth. (5)Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD. (6)Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. (7)Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. (8)The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.” (Psalm 138)
“For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” (Isaiah 57:15)
“(1)Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. (2)After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (3)Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. (Hosea 6:1-3)
“(1)O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. (2)Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. (3)Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. (4)I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. (5)I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. (6)His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. (7)They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. (8)Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. (9)Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.” (Hosea 14)
“O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.” (Habakkuk 3:2)
“(7)For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. (8)For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. (9)For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.” (Romans 14:7-9)