ERICA DUNOMES

How is your spiritual life? Would you say that it is spiritually thriving or spiritually drying? If your answer is thriving, then that means you are prospering, growing and developing successfully in your walk with God. If your answer is drying, then that means that you are probably suffering from spiritual drought. Does the dryness have you feeling empty, depleted, and like you’re practically approaching spiritual death? If so, revival is in order and prayer is a key. Here are nine verses to pray when you need personal revival.

But first, take a moment to answer a few questions.

• What has been the focus of your attention lately?
• Have you been seeking God or the things of this world?
• Who have you been hanging around?
• How have you been spending your time?
• What type of dialogue have you been having with yourself and others?
• Have you been cultivating your relationship with God throughout the week, or have you only been attending Sunday service?
• What’s the first thing you do at the start of your day?
• What’s the last thing you do before going to bed?
• What lies have you been believing?
• What challenges have you been facing and how have you been dealing with them?
• How often are you reading and meditating on the word?
• Have you just been hearing the word, or hearing and doing the word?

These are not questions to condemn you. On the other hand, answering the questions above may help to shed some light on how you ended up where you are today?

Nothing happens by coincidence.

Everything has a root cause, a source from where it begins. For example, when I went through my own season of spiritual drought, it was because I allowed what was taking place at that time to get the better of me. In return, that created distance between God and me.

Consequently, I thought that I had reached the point of no return in that season of my life. My spiritual life was hanging on by a thread. I desperately cried out to God for restoration. Faithfully, He heard me and restored me.

Is that something that you believe you need to do? Cry out to God? Please don’t hesitate. He will hear you. He can restore you. You can get to thriving spiritually again.

What does it mean for something to be revived? What is its source?

To revive something means to restore it, renew it, and bring it back to life again. It also means to strengthen it and make it whole. The evidence that revival is needed in one’s life is the fact that one acknowledges that something is missing. There’s a dryness. There’s a void. They are desperately seeking change.

Prayerfully, when we’re facing spiritual dryness, we have a great source to bring us back to life within. We have the Word of God. For a more in-depth look into spiritual dryness, read this article here. Now, to those nine verses.

All nine verses come from Psalm 119 according to the New King James Version.

1. My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word (v.25).

2. Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things. And revive me in Your way (v.37).

3. Behold, I long for your precepts; revive me in your righteousness (v.40).

4. Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth (v.88).

5. I am afflicted very much; revive me, o LORD, according to Your word (v.107).

6. Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; O LORD, revive me according to Your justice (v.149).

7. Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word (v.154).

8. Great are Your tender mercies, O LORD; revive me according to your judgments (v.156).

9. Consider how I love Your precepts; revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness (v.159).

Here’s what the commentaries have to say:

The Tony Evans Bible Commentary –

The entire psalm is an appreciation for, celebration of, and dependency on the Word of God to enable us to properly negotiate the twists and turns of life.

~Tony Evans

The MacArthur Bible Commentary –

From before sunrise to beyond sunset, the Word of God dominated the psalmist’s life, e.g. before dawn, daily, seven times daily, nightly, and midnight.

~John MacArthur

There’s one common denominator.

Both commentaries, when referencing Psalm 119, both speak to how important the word of God was to the psalmist’s life. If you read the full psalm, you’ll see that he longed for God to teach him, lead him, guide him, and revive him through His word. The word of God was his life’s source. The key word here is life.

There is life in the word of God. If it’s been a while since you’ve read it and or applied it, then let the verses above be the guide for your return today. Returning back to the word of God is returning back to life in God.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. ~John‬ ‭6‬:‭63‬ ‭

Returning back to the word of God is returning back to life in God. #chaseJesus #findLife #liveFreely

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