There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given

through Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be God together to Psalm 85. We were here last evening and began our study of this amazing revival Psalm, the opening verses. We're going to pick up right where we left off in just a moment. I was thinking earlier today, there are certain scriptures that particularly speak to the subject of real spiritual awakening, of revival.

This is one of them. There are other psalms that are, might I say, revival psalms. Today we

published on our website, an article by a friend of mine who wrote a book on one of Asaph's Psalms, Psalm 73.

That's another revival Psalm. And you'll find them scattered throughout. And I think there's a

reason for that because, and listen to this just a moment, the Psalms get us looking back to God.

In other words, they bring our perspective back to the Lord.

And really, that's where revival must always begin.

I'm going to begin by reading in verse number one,

and instead of stopping where we stopped last night,

I'm going to read down through the text for this hour.

Follow along, would you please? Psalm 85 and verse number one, Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land.

Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people.

Thou has covered all their sin, Celah.

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath.

Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Turn us, O god of our salvation and cause thine anger toward us to cease will thou be angry with us forever will thou draw out thine anger to all generations

wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in

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