Revival is usually preceded by consistent behind-the-scenes prayer.

Here's Lyle Dorset.

Church history has always had periods of great and major revival

when there's just widespread in an entire city or a region or even nations

where there's a lot of confession, repentance, and prayer.

We've always had those,

but continuously between these high points of revival or renewal, there's always been an undercurrent going on. There's always been prayer meetings and people seeking revival and praying for it.

It's Wednesday, September 26th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

About 150 years ago, faithful people were praying for revival.

They had endured in prayer not knowing the outcome, and God answered, transforming this nation and bringing genuine revival.

We'll hear that story in a few minutes.

But first, one of the marks of genuine revival is honesty.

Nancy's been explaining that this week, and she continues as part of the series on revival, seeking him.

I got an email recently from a friend who said, I've been praying that God

would bring revival to my church. And I think that many of us would relate to that. We want to

see God bring revival to our churches. And she said, I've been praying God would bring revival

to my husband and to my Sunday school class. But it was only this

week that God showed me my own great need. So I'm finally praying God revive me. We've been talking

all this week about honesty, walking in the light, a sincere faith, having a heart that is

honest and true before God confessing our sin, bringing them out into the light. And we've

been talking about living with the roof off in our relationship toward God, nothing between

our soul and the Savior, being honest with God.

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