{"id":15037,"date":"2020-03-29T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=15037"},"modified":"2020-03-29T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T03:02:33","slug":"nine-characteristics-of-the-great-old-testament-revivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=15037","title":{"rendered":"Nine Characteristics of the Great Old Testament Revivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, our congregation spent time in the Spirit-inspired prayer for revival known as Psalm 85. One of the study resources for this sermon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/revive-biblical-insights-encouraging-spiritual-renewal\/walter-kaiser\/9781857926873\/pd\/26870?event=ESRCG\">Revive Us Again: Biblical Principles for Revival Today<\/a> by Walter Kaiser. In the Introduction to this volume, Kaiser points out nine characteristics of the revivals we find recorded in the Old Testament, which were originally listed by Wilbur Smith.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Most revivals were preceded by a time of deep spiritual decline and despair.<\/strong> For example, offering children as burnt offerings of the altar of Molech prior to the revival under King Hezekiah.<strong>Each of these revivals began in the heart of one of God&rsquo;s servants, who then became the instrument in God&rsquo;s hands to stir up the sleeping consciences of God&rsquo;s people.<\/strong> For example, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Haggai, Josiah, Nehemiah, and others.<strong>Every revival in the Old Testament rested solidly on a new and powerful proclamation of the Word of God.<\/strong> The most obvious example is the revival under King Josiah.<strong>Each revival was marked by a return to the genuine worship of Yahweh.<\/strong> &ldquo;Wholehearted, genuine worship of the living God became the chief delight and one of the foremost desires of each person who was truly restored to spiritual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, our congregation spent time in the Spirit-inspired prayer for revival known as Psalm 85. One of the study resources for this sermon was Revive Us Again: Biblical Principles for Revival Today by Walter Kaiser. In the Introduction to this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,2069,2070],"class_list":["post-15037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-prayer","tag-revival","tag-walter-kaiser","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15040,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions\/15040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}