Thanks for joining us for Our Daily Bread.

I'm Sheridan Voizzi and I've titled today's reading, Revival Comes.

Erecoon is a small town in northern Australia, its Aboriginal population drawn from seven clans.

While the gospel came to Erecoon a century ago,

eye-for-eye retribution sometimes remained.

In 2015, clan tensions grew, and when a murder happened,

payback required someone from the offender's family to die in return.

But something remarkable happened in early

2016. The people of Erecoon started seeking God in prayer. Repentance followed, then mass

baptisms as revival began sweeping the town. People were so joyful they danced in the streets

and instead of enacting payback the family

of the murdered man forgave the offending clan. Soon 1,000 people were in church each Sunday,

in a town of just 1,300. We see revivals like this in scripture, as in Hezekiah's Day,

when crowds joyfully return to God,

and on the day of Pentecost, when thousands repented.

While revival is God's work, done in his time, history shows prayer precedes it.

If my people will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,

God told Solomon in 2 Chronicles 7, I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

As the people of Erakoun found, Revival brings joy and reconciliation to a town.

How our own cities need such transformation.

Father, bring revival to us too.

Let's read today's scripture passage from 2 Chronicles chapter 7 verses 11 to 16.

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