My Spirit Is Revived Again

Joel in his prophecy mentioned 4 kinds of people that I will focus on to get a true revival! A true and pouring of God’s spirit upon his people and their lives!

It’s interesting that the word revival is found 4 times in the entire Bible!

The first time this word was mentioned

Is In Genesis 45 and its connected to Joel’s prophesy, talks about an old man “Jacob”!

Jacob in this chapter has lost his son “Joseph” the dreamer… His dad thought that he was dead, vanished and gone! And the dreams have forever left his life, he was grieving, sad, depressed, and thought that he will never be comforted again! At this stage he feels like all things are against him.

Sometimes we think like Jacob, we feel like our dreams are dead, everything is against us, nothing is alive, it seems like we are lost and there is nothing that can comfort us!

But in this same chapter, while Jacob is mourning, lamenting, grieving and saddened… his son Joseph was alive and sending wagons of provisions, BRINGING THE BLESSINGS, and bringing the proof that he was alive…so the scripture tells us in Genesis 45:27 But when they told him all the words which Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

This old man got revived in his spirit, his dreams come to life again, all of the sudden he wants to live, his desire for God has come back in old age, which lines up with Joel’s prophecy Your old men shall dream dreams…

It’s interesting how God’s words fit together, the first time the word revived (its where we get the word revival from) was mentioned and noted… it had to do with an old man who had lost his hope and his dreams!

When we say God wants to pour out his spirit, we think yes… it’s for the new generation it’s for our children! But revival starts with the elders of the church!

You don’t have to be old in order to be an elder! If you are mature in God and have been serving him whole-heartedly… then you are an elder even if you don’t have grey hair!

Revival doesn’t start with new saved people or new converts… it starts with elders in his house.

Some have quenched the spirit because of life, problems, persecutions, sufferings, sickness, or offenses… but when the Holy Spirit comes into your life…suddenly, there will be new vision, new dreams, new mind, new direction, new desire, new strength, and new hope!

Jacob’s dreams were restored; his dreams were resurrected at old age! Even when he had given up on life, hopes and dreams. We do the same when we face a trail or a test… we give up quickly! We forget what God is able to do! We forget his mighty power! We forget that he can revive our dead bones, dead spirits, dead visions, and dead dreams! But something happened to Jacob … he got revived!

Yes… this is what happens when the spirit of God comes upon you, you start dreaming again!

It’s about his timing… when he sends his spirit, when he thinks it’s time, not by your authority and power saying to yourself… I should be here or there, I should be this or that, when I’m in my 50s if it’s not going to happen then it will never happen.

Moses was 80 when God said to him now it’s my time, Caleb was 85 when he said give me this mountain

Joshua 14:12 give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day…

The first groups of people that will experience revival are the eldest, the older ones; the old men will dream dreams. Notice the order!

Old man… You have to have an attitude that God has not finished with me, he has just started with me, I’m not going home soon but with long life he shall satisfy me, God has a purpose and a plan for me, he still has big dreams that he will put in my heart Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Paul had a vision when he was 26yo in Damascus, somehow he kept it alive for more than 26 years when he met Agrippa the King in Rome…

What do we do? We quit too soon sometimes, we need the Holy Spirit to revive those dreams and visions of years… that the circumstances and troubles of this world have quenched… keep those dreams alive!

God is saying I know what I have planned for you, and I’m not through with you yet! I haven’t given up on you don’t you give up on yourself!