A life worthy of revival

The biographer writes about Martin Lloyd Jones again:

'No man had ever produced a revival, and he was not foolish enough to think or hope for a moment that anything he did or said would produce such an effect, but he hoped to live in such a way that if, and when, a revival came through the grace of God from heaven, they would be worthy of it. That was the spirit in which he took up the ministry'

I remember blogging about revival all throughout last year, as we prayed and sought it. We're still going, in Goldsmiths Uni, we pray about it daily and cry out for it regularly. It's such a heavy desire, the need is so obvious but it's God's call and I'd rather it be His than mine.

Do we live our lives with a desire to make them worthy for a revival. We cannot petition God enough and we cannot earn a revival but will our hearts be ready to receive one if it comes. Revival will surprise our systems and break our expectations and only if we genuinely seek God rather than an image or an idol will be ready to receive the direct work of the Holy Spirit when it breaks out around us.

We cannot regard revival as a hobby

It is our life, opening up ourselves for God's renewal so it can spread from us to this world, begging for it and interceding for this broken world.