First Tuesday October 2025 | The Reason for Revival


Various Scriptures

Tonight’s Question:

What Should I With Spiritual ?

Three Kinds of Revival:

1. – Example –

2. Awakening

3.

is for the when the responds properly to .

1. is not rooted in my .

makes feelings the primary of spiritual growth.

📖 Jeremiah 17:9 ESV The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

📖 Proverbs 4:23 ESV Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

📖 Romans 5:5 ESV God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

📖 1 John 3:20 ESV Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

Like a , revival the and wipes out the .

📖 Acts 4:23–28 ESV When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “ ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? 26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’— 27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

📖 Acts 5:1–2 ESV But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, 2 and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

📖 Acts 5:11 ESV And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.

2. is meant to me in God’s .

A. change and don’t .

B. aren’t always what they .

📖 Joel 2:12–13 ESV “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13 and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

📖 Ecclesiastes 7:2–4 ESV It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

📖 Matthew 5:4 ESV “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

📖 Psalm 85:6 ESV Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

📖 Psalm 85:8 ESV Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

3. should me in spiritual .

📖 Philippians 4:4–7 ESV Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 

📖 Philippians 4:5 NLT Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon.

📖 Philippians 4:8 ESV Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

📖 Philippians 4:9 ESV What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Conclusion:

1. Don’t chase .

2. with God’s Word.

3. Develop that you.