A Revival is coming! - Part 1

Adonai Katsir
Dec 8, 2025
6 min read

Introduction - before we start:

Something is shifting.

If you’ve sensed it too—the unease, the deception, the accelerating darkness—you’re not imagining it. The world is being reshaped before our eyes, and Scripture warned that these very conditions would mark the final moments before Christ’s return.

In a time when truth is being buried, spirituality is being distorted, and nations are forging a path that leads away from God, many believers feel unsettled and unsure where to turn.

But there is a place where truth still speaks.

Welcome to Adonai Katsir — The Lord’s Harvest.

A ministry created for this very hour:

• to restore forgotten biblical truths

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• to uplift Christ above noise, culture, and confusion

• and to support those searching for solid ground in a collapsing world

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This ministry exists to reach those who feel what many will not say aloud—that the world is racing toward a prophetic climax, and now is the time to return to Scripture, stand firm in Christ, and prepare for the final harvest.

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WHAT A REVIVAL REALLY IS — NOT WHAT PEOPLE THINK

Have you ever wondered why the word revival is everywhere, yet so few lives seem genuinely changed by it? Churches promote it, people talk about it, and social media is saturated with it. But if you pause long enough to look honestly at the world, the church, and even your own heart, a more uncomfortable question rises to the surface:

If revival is supposedly happening all around us, why do so many Christians still feel spiritually dry?

That question exposes something we rarely admit. The word revival gets used a lot these days, but almost always in a shallow way — as if it’s nothing more than a mood, an atmosphere, or a burst of religious excitement. Yet biblical revival has never been about noise or emotion. It is about God working personally, quietly, and deeply in a soul that has drifted from Him. It is about restoring a life to harmony with His Word and the character of Jesus — humility, obedience, surrender, and trust.

A revival doesn’t begin on a stage; it begins in the heart that finally stops resisting God.

A.W. Tozer, a well-known Protestant preacher, once captured the contrast perfectly when he said, “The proof of revival is not found in the shout, but in the change.” That one sentence clears the fog. It exposes the difference between the revivals people promote and the revival God actually sends. Because when the heart is untouched, the noise becomes meaningless — and noise creates confusion, and confusion does not come from God.

So, what does the Bible mean when it speaks of revival? How does God actually accomplish it? Scripture points to four unchanging principles: humility, united prayer for the Holy Spirit, seeking God’s face, and turning away from sin.

But before any of that, we must confront the simple truth the Bible always begins with.

The Dictionary Definition: True, but Nowhere Near the Full Picture

Across different areas of life, the word revival is used in many ways — renewal or restoration, renewed interest in something old, a re-emergence of cultural expression, even economic or political revitalisation. The word is broad enough to stretch across almost anything. But when it is narrowed to a religious context, the definition usually becomes something like: “an improvement in spiritual condition, a renewed interest in faith, or a surge in religious excitement.” It sounds harmless, but it barely scratches the surface of what revival truly means.

Modern definitions fixate on atmosphere, emotion, and renewed activity. They describe the symptoms — the visible stirrings — but not the cause. They speak of increased interest, but renewed interest alone does not revive a dying heart. It does not restore obedience, heal spiritual compromise, or reconcile the soul to God. The dictionary definition stops precisely where the Bible begins.

A revival assumes something is dying. To revive means to bring life back to what is sliding toward death — a conscience growing numb, a faith that has weakened, or a life drifting from the light. No one revives the healthy; revival is for the weakened, the cold, the unresponsive. That is why revival is not the excitement of the spiritually alive; it is the resurrection of the spiritually dying.

And this is exactly why we must study the biblical pattern that sits at the centre of every true revival. You cannot separate revival from Scripture without stepping straight into the enemy’s playground. No matter how strong the sensation or how stirring the emotion, only one path meets the divine standard — the path grounded firmly in God’s Word. Heaven is still calling: “Come, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18).

While the world becomes excited about the wave and the crowd becomes wrapped up in the movement, God’s attention is fixed on the heart of the sincere believer. When He revives His people, He brings them back from spiritual decline, back from compromise, back into harmony with Christ. The dictionary touches the surface; Scripture reveals the depths. And unless we understand that difference, we will confuse enthusiasm with transformation — and mistake activity for awakening.

The Biblical Pattern: Revival Begins With a Crisis of Honesty

This is where Scripture slices through every shallow idea of revival. The Bible never treats revival as a mood or a meeting. It presents revival as the moment when God interrupts His people with truth — truth about Himself, truth about sin, truth about the soul. And every genuine revival in Scripture follows the same unbroken pattern.

God exposes sin. Hearts become convicted. Pride collapses. The weight of truth presses upon the conscience. People repent, confess, and forsake what God reveals. And only then does renewal and joy break through. Across the entire biblical record — whether Israel at Sinai, during the judges, under the kings, returning from Babylon, or the disciples at Pentecost — revival never began with celebration. It always began with confrontation. The sword of truth cut before healing came.

This is why the psalmist prayed, “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” (Psalm 85:6). Revival first, rejoicing after. Today many try to reverse the order. They want joy without judgment, warmth without the refining fire, blessing without the breaking. But revival without honesty is not revival — it is illusion.

And here is the profound mercy in all of this: God exposes not to shame us, but to rescue us; not to wound, but to heal; not to condemn, but to restore. This crisis of honesty — uncomfortable, humbling, and deeply personal — is always the doorway into true revival. A heart cannot be revived until it is willing to be honest with God.

Understanding this basic foundation is part of God’s protection over His people in the last days. Without this grounding, multitudes will be swept away by the intoxicating wine of Babylon as the final movements unfold before our eyes. If we do not understand how revival begins, we will not recognise the difference between the true and the false when both stand before us.