HindrancesTo Revival
 

I was wondering, can you name some important (the most important?) hindrances to Revival?

Complacency, lack of Commitment, lack of a real Burden are a few.

I think in North America we have too many distractions & things to keep us busy.

Also, a lack of understanding of the times is a hindrance as well.

I am not gunning for anyone or anything, I just speak as one who is wanting revival.

Can anyone add to this?

Attitude is one of the biggest.

In what respects?
Could you expound?

Lack of vision and burden are a huge hindrance to revival. Where there is no vision the people perish.
I believe these things are a huge part of revival.

Personal Experience:
I went to a well know conservative youth conference in Colorado one year. The services were so anointed you could literally feel the burden and vision of the Man of God that hosts this conference. You could tell that the conference was more than just a social gathering. It was truly a life changing experience. I believe that the Pastor hosting this conference prayed and fasted until he obtained a real burden and vision for the youth that were in attendance at that conference. When there is a true burden and vision people can feel it.

Interesting you posted this Ron because I had a long conversation with someone after ladies meeting Monday night about this very thing.

Perfection doesn't bring revival that's for sure. Never going to have everybody doing everything right and revival (as we usually think of it) isn't dependent on that.

I think it's mostly to do with a synchronization of God's timing, God's man and God's will. :)

The biggest hinderance is not being in Unity. "When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." They had to be Unity in verse 1 before in verse 2 the sound came from Heaven and the HG fell in verses 3-4.

You hit the nail on the head, Ron. We are so occupied with our personal lives - working, spending time with friends and family, even busy with "church" stuff - that we don't take time to reach out to the lost.

Last night we spent about two hours driving the streets, talking with hungry people - and ended the night by baptizing a man. Yesterday afternoon the team was out for less than an hour before they met a man who was hungry and went to the church @ 3pm, was baptized and received the Holy Ghost.

It doesn't take much time. It's not hard. I've always thought it was hard and took a long time. Outreach to me was laborious. But it's not. I was just going to the wrong places. I've been blown away, sadly enough, by the results of prayer and outreach the past two weekends. It's been awesome.


What was the result of the conference? Was it an in-church experience, or did it bring souls in? You say life-changing, was it really?

I like conferences, but we have so many of those and so little outreach. We have conferences and pat ourselves on the back because God moved in a powerful and life-changing way. But then the conference is over, we leave and nothing really changes but our pride for being in a place where God really moved.

Time to get out of the boat and walk on the water where Jesus is waiting . . .

Lack of expectation.... faith that something good can, and will, happen....

One hinderance could be.... the church was already revived at the last revival - last month. In my humble opinion, at times there is undue pressure for the church to be "revived" or to "change for the sake of change".

*bingo*

Agreed!