REVIVE US AGAIN!

 

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

 

REVIVE US AGAIN!

 

Eph 4:22-24

22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

 

          The word “revival” appears nowhere in Scripture! The idea of “backsliding” can be found many places, twelve times, and all in the Old Testament! Backsliding almost always referred to Israel returning to the worship of idolatry.

 

          Our concept of backsliding and the need for revival is similar but has to do with a cooling of the love relationship between us and our Lord. The attraction of sin, the “former way of life of the old man”, gradually returns and the zest of the Christian way of life becomes tasteless for us. We begin to change our minds about God. In backsliding, we gradually withdraw from fellowship with God. We begin to give God the “cold shoulder.”

 

Neh 9:29

 …withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

 

          Perhaps it is time for you to be “renewed in the spirit of your mind.” Not just to change the way you think but to change WHY you think that way. The SPIRIT of the mind!

 

          The change is not in mind psychologically, either in its essence or in its operation, neither is it in mind, as if it were a superficial change of opinion, either on points of doctrine or of practice; but it is "in the spirit of the mind," in that which gives mind both its bent and its materials of thought.  -- The Biblical Illustrator

 

Ps 85:6

6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

 

Dear Lord, I sense in me carelessness and coldness in the spirit of my mind. Please revive me again! AMEN