Lord, Send Revival — Denny Kenaston

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It's beautiful Sunday morning. I'm grateful That I get to be here today. That God in his loving mercy Allows me to be here this Sunday morning. We also had a blessed Opportunity last weekend. We were up in Bainbridge, New York.

My son Daniel and I we went up there together our families and had a little missions conference there. It was a real joy. We had a beautiful weekend. It was an extra blessing to me to preach with my son.

He stepped on my toes a few times over the weekend. And I'm very grateful for that that I have a son that will step on my toes. I'd like us to open our Bibles this morning to Psalm. Psalm 80. Is where we're going to be reading the title of the message this morning?

Lord, Send Revival

Is a very simple one. It's a prayer. It's a prayer. Lord send revival. Lord send revival. It's a prayer. It's a prayer that God's people need to pray. It's a prayer that God's people have prayed. It's a prayer that if neglected God's people will hurt for it.

It's a prayer that many of God's people down through the centuries have prayed. And those who prayed that prayer with a sincere heart Found God to be a covenant-keeping God. The burden of this message is fourfold this morning.

Number one it seems to be the cry upon my own heart and therefore it seems like a right time to give a message like this because The burden of the message is on my own heart for my own life and for my church.

Number two. Our weekend of meetings will be here in three weeks. I don't know if you realize that how quickly July is speeding by. The weekend of meetings will be here and a message like this is good heart preparation for a season of meetings like we're going to have number three.

The Pastor’s Responsibility to Preach Revival

Reason for this message I believe Periodic revival preaching is part of the responsibility of a pastor. Someone said to me some time ago Okay Revival's great. It's good to have revival meetings. It's good to have beautiful things that God does.

But what about all the rest of the Sundays of the year and I answered that Person in their question with these words. I Believe it's the responsibility of the elders of the church To be continually preaching in the spirit and burden of revival to keep the people of God who are on fire on fire and.

Lastly, I know that you all long for the same things. So let us long together this morning. Let us long together. We're going to be reading in Psalm 80. Which is one of the revival songs in the book of Psalms and there are several of them.

And I have them marked in my Bible. But This is one of them. Eight times in this song we hear the cry of the psalmist's heart a broken-hearted cry a cry for revival a cry for a return to reality a cry to turn their hearts back to God in his ways a cry to bring back former days of blessings and a cry to save them.

To come and personally deliver them. I don't know if it ever dawned on you, but We're not just supposed to say Lord save me one time in our life. It should be the cry of our heart continually Lord. Save me.

Have you cried that lately? We find this cry in Psalm 80. Four of these eight times flow like the refrain or chorus of a song. It's beautifully placed after a bit of instruction. Doctrinal singing then the chorus comes then some more teaching then the chorus comes.

Which is a repeat then some more teaching and the chorus comes again. As I was meditating upon this song I realized that it flows a bit like the song that we sing many times. Pentecostal power. Lord as of old at Pentecost.

Thou didst thy power display with cleansing purifying flame. Descend on us today. That's the teaching then Lord. Send the old time power. That Pentecostal power thy floodgates of blessing on us throw open wide.

Lord send the old time power that Pentecostal power that sinners be converted and thy name glorified. So we see the same pattern here in Psalm 80 that we see in that song Pentecostal power and there's a reason for that.

There's a reason why God breathed out this psalm. It's a psalm of Asaph. You know Asaph was a prophet. He was a musical prophet. He was a man who prophesied he was a man who was burdened over the ministry of music.

The singing of the songs of the people of God and here we have Asaph. God breathed out by the Spirit of God through Asaph this song filled with history and then prayer. More history then prayer and down through the psalm we go.

So with that introduction let us read this revival psalm this morning and see. The beautiful prayer that God is placed here for Israel to sing. And by the way, they didn't just sing it in the bad times.

They sang it in the good times so this morning if you're sitting here and the grace of God is beautiful upon your life and you love the Lord Jesus with all of your heart then sing the psalm and Meditate in the psalm in the good time and let it be a cry that rises up out of a pure heart.

But if you sit here this morning and your heart is in despair and you find that there are needs there. Then let your heart unite with the psalmist and the cry that the psalmist gives to us to sing. Let's read the psalm it begins with such beautiful words.

Give ear Oh shepherd of Israel. I Thought you know Broken hearts delight in names of grace don't they? Give ear Oh Shepherd of Israel what a tender word Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. Thou that dwellest between the cherubims look at the plea there shine forth.

Lord it's not enough that you dwell on the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies Between the cherubims, but we plead with you Lord shine forth. That's the plea of the psalmist here before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.

Stir up thy strength and come and save us. Notice those words Lord Stir up thy strength and come and save us. Can we pray a prayer like that this morning brothers and sisters as we sit here in the glory of the beautiful service that we have Lord stir up yourself and come and save us.

I believe we can. I believe it's a healthy thing to pray. I believe it's time to pray it when you're not in despair. Oh Broken-hearted Humble prayer of a man or a woman who recognizes that without me He can do nothing that person will come to God in the midst of the beauty and glories and blessings of a vibrant Christian life and say Lord Throw up thy strength and come and save us.

Amen Lord. Send revival Lord. And Then in verse 3 we see what seems to me to be the chorus of the song. Look at this beautiful chorus. Turn us again Oh God and cause thy face to shine and we Shall be saved.

What a beautiful prayer. What a beautiful prayer brothers and sisters I want you to notice here. There's a twofold. There's twofold action in this little prayer, which is the refrain of the song in this song twofold one Turn us Lord to Toward us beautiful prayer for all of us to pray turn us Oh Lord and Turn your face on us.

And then in verse 4 the psalmist goes into some of the reasons why Such a prayer could be prayed. Some of the reasons why a cry from the heart would come Oh Lord God of hosts. How long? Will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

How long will you not answer the prayer of your people? Says the psalmist thou feedest them with the bread of tears and give us them tears to drink in great Measures, maybe that's where you find yourself this morning.

Drinking a cup of tears Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors and our enemies laugh among themselves. Oh. What a awesome statement that is if we look at the church. If we look at the church here in the United States We would have to say that the church in the United States is a reproach To the Nate to its neighbors.

Yay that the enemies of God Laugh at the church in this day that we live in the church is not reverence. The people of God are not reverence because The hedge has been broken down. So there the statement of fact is given and then again in verse 7 Turn us again.

Oh God of hosts and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved. Beautiful prayer. Look at this verse verse 8 Giving some history the history of Israel, but also we could say this morning the history of the church.

Yay, we could even say the history of the church in America and we could even say The history of the church right here and I believe it should be the history of every church. For when God births a church it prospers.

Look what it says. Thou has brought us thou has brought a vine out of Egypt. Thou has cast out the heathen and Planted it thou prepares room before it and it caused it to take deep root. And it filled the land.

The hills are covered with the shadow of it and the bows thereof were like goodly Cedars. She sent out her bows under the sea and her branches unto the river. Beautiful history. History that from Israel's perspective God wanted Israel to sing about her glorious history.

Imagine. Imagine what it's like to be sitting there to be an Israelite to be sitting there maybe in the days of Isaiah when people have departed when they're going through the motions of their Religious life, but their hearts are far away from God and yet here They are.

God is requiring of them to sing this song to remember their history. Oh, it's good for us to remember our history. Also, it's good for us to remember the history of the church as we look into the book of Acts the beautiful history that we find there is Stirring and stimulating to our hearts and it ought to cause our hearts to cry.

Turn us again. Oh God Turn us again. Look at verse 12 why has thou then broken? Down her hedges. So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her. The boar out of the wood doth waste it and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

Return we beseech thee. Oh God of hosts look down from heaven and Behold and visit this vine again. Again, that's the third refrain in the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted and The branch that thou made is strong for thyself.

Look down and visit this vine. This vineyard this branch which you made strong which you caused to prosper. Oh My there are so many ways that we can apply it. Every one of us sitting in this room can make the application as we sit here today.

We can remember the days gone by the glory of the early days of our salvation. When grace overflowed in our lives when prayer was easy when the Bible was Exciting every time we opened it up to read it those glorious days.

Lord. Return and visit this vine again says the psalmist. Good for all of us to consider this morning. Why verse 16 it is burned with fire it is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the son of man. Whom thou made is strong for thyself. So will not we go back from thee? Quicken us and that word quicken is. In the Hebrew, it's the word revive.

Revive us and we will call upon thy name. Turn us again. Oh Lord God of hosts cause thy face to shine and we shall be Saved. I'd like to look at this psalm in eight ways if we can do that quickly here this morning.

Remembering Past Revivals

First of all, I want us to consider the beautiful memory of revival. In verse 1 we we have the memory of how God Led the children of Israel. He led them out of Egypt and he led them through the wilderness and brought them to the promised land.

But during those days between Egypt and the promised land God was their tender Shepherd. He led them through the wilderness. They followed him a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day. If you could just imagine what that would be like this morning brothers and sisters you get up in the morning you go outside your tent you look and see that the pillar of fire is moved away from the Tabernacle and it's sitting on the mountainside and everyone realizes.

Oh, it's time to go. Let's pack all our things. We're gonna move again. Why the Shepherd of Israel has decided to lead his sheep a little further on in the wilderness? The Beautiful memory of revival.

And also we see it in verse 8 through 11 where we read the glorious memory of God. Working in the hearts and lives of the children of Israel. Leading them through the wilderness then planting them in the land of Canaan truly one of the most amazing exploits that the history books could ever record.

That two million people would move from Egypt all the way to the land of Canaan. Move all the people out of that land and establish themselves to be the strongest nation on the earth. Truly a great exploit that God did with Israel.

All the beautiful memories of revival how good they are for us to consider. What great things God has done in days gone by and allow those things to stir our hearts. To seek God and believe God for more of the same brothers and sisters.

For the church. We look to the historical memory of the book of Acts when God was mighty in the midst of his people and don't you? Doubt it brothers and sisters. That's why the book of Acts is recorded.

It's part of a holy scriptures. God wants it there because of the beautiful memory of revival but for us we also must remember what great things the Lord did in the past even in our midst and Cry for more and not be satisfied where we are, but try for more.

Was just sharing with brother Dean Taylor yesterday morning about a little season of Refreshing revival that we had. I think it was in 1993 at the end of three weeks of God dealing with us the people of God.

We baptized 26 church members. 26 church members that's 26 people who stood up behind this little pulpit up here and gave a Testimony that they had been born again that they loved the Lord Jesus that they had been washed in the blood of the Lamb.

But in the midst of the heat of the revival Atmosphere that God poured on this place for those three weeks that we met night after night after night. They fell like flies one after another crying out and saying I have nothing on the inside.

I Don't have what you have. And it's a sad commentary to us that they were allowed that they were able to sit in our midst and Get up and give those testimonies and say all the right things but have nothing on the inside.

But it's also an awesome testimony of the grace of God that when God comes and visits his people. No hypocrite can stand the atmosphere very long. Sit here even this morning. Who came in the enthusiasm of their heart wanting to be a part of what's going on here?

But never been regenerated by the Spirit of the Living God in their heart. I wonder how many all the beautiful memories of revival Psalm 44 one says we have heard with our ears. Oh God, our fathers have told us what worked out ditched in their day in the times of old.

Oh, there's something there's something stimulating about accounts of revival brothers and sisters. There's something good and healthy For our own hearts to sit down and read an account of what God did in some other place or in some other time.

In Christian history, there's something very healthy about that. It creates hunger in us. It builds faith for us today. It encourages us to believe in prayers instead of just prayers. So here Israel they were to sing the memory of Their blessed times with God.

They were to sing those memories as a song over and over again. With a refrain that echoed a cry from the heart do it again Lord do it again. Oh. It would be it this it would be likened unto Somebody sitting down and writing a song about things that God did in our church's history in days gone by.

And we would be singing it Sunday by Sunday we would sing the song remembering what God did so that we would never be complacent and Settle down or get high-minded and think that we've arrived that we've got the answer to everything.

But all it would keep us low to the ground. Yay with a cry on our heart blessed are the pouring spirit saying to the Lord do it again Lord. Do it again. I Believe it's supposed to be that way. The beautiful memory of revival the revival in Wales spread around the world.

I don't know if you've ever heard the account of the revival in Wales and how it spread around the world. But it went from one country to the next to the next just by simply hearing the story told from one place to the next.

The fires spread in October 1904 a deep hunger caused many to pray for revival in Wales and Revival came through the ministry of several ministers and preachers and the news began to spread. There's one thing about revival when revival comes you don't need any announcements.

You don't need a sign out on the church building. You don't need to even send out any announcements. You don't need an advertisement in the newspaper. When God comes the news spread by November after October the news had spread to London and a hunger and a prayer meeting began and the people in the streets of London started gathering together and praying why they heard they hurt.

Hey, did you hear what? They're having revival in Wales. Really? Yeah, it's even in the newspapers. The newspapers are recording it. The people are staying up half the night. The service gets over at 5 a .m.

Souls are being saved on every hand. Really yes, let's go see they go they hear they see they listen. They go back they tell the stories in their little congregation and guess what happens. Hey, if God did that there God can do that here, too.

Let's pray. Let's pray Lord. That's how it works. That's how it works all over Wales. The stories of revival spread by the common people just simply sharing the beautiful things that God was doing. No great sermons.

No great eloquent dissertations on theology but just simple common people who saw and Experienced the reality of God in a way that they had never known before and they win everywhere. They win just telling the stories of what God was doing.

From that revival came what they call a decade of Revival. The beautiful memory of revival stirred flames of desire in many parts of the world. The news spread fast and prayer meetings began with earnest seekers the flames Lept to India first in the north and then six or eight months later into the south part of India.

From there. They landed in Korea and in in in the in America from there. They moved to China where a mighty revival broke out. Then Scandinavia, South Africa Indonesia, South America and Australia all these places were stirred with the memory of revival.

They heard with their ears and they were stirred to believe God that God could do More than what he's doing in this our day. They were stirred because they heard the accounts and they began to pray and they didn't just pray.

They prayed Believing prayers. They prayed desperate prayers. They were jealous. They were provoked to jealousy by those whom God had visited and they were not going to be satisfied. Until God would also come and visit them.

Oh What a beautiful jealousy to have in our own hearts that we will not be satisfied that we will not let God rest Until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Second of all, I'd like us to notice the great need of Revival.

The Great Need for Revival

In verse 4 through 6 we looked at these we read these verses already. But we see the condition that the people had gotten themselves into God was far away from there. The blessing was not on them anymore.

Their neighbors were being reproached by them and and the enemies of God were Blaspheming God and God's people. We can see the great need of revival. Revival is always preceded by a revelation of need.

Revival is always Preceded by a revelation of need. If we have no need we're not going to pray. But if we have need or we see our need we're going to come to the one who can meet our need. Revival is always preceded by a revelation of need.

Many times the stories of the memory of Revival stir that revelation of need and hearts begin to cry. You see when you hear the stories of people staying in the church service. From 7 in the evening till 5 in the morning, then you start thinking I'm not there.

I mean, I don't want to be there till 5 o 'clock in the morning. No way I got other things to do and the need begins to bear upon your heart and you realize I'm not Where I should be. I'm not where I should be with Israel.

They measure their present situation With the recorded blessings of the past and a cry began to rise out of their heart with the church. We have acts to measure with and we know we all stand in great need when we measure with acts.

Which is the historical record with us here locally. All we have to do is look around us and see our needs. Look around us and see the community that we live in look around us and see how many are lost and going on.

In their deluded religion or in their fleshly ways. All we need do is hear some of the discouraging stories of those who go to the streets of Lancaster City. Week by week after week and see very little happening to for us to grasp the reality of the need that we have.

It's there. Consider the fact that we seem to need another reviving. That's a need also brothers and sisters we have yet to meet God in a deep way that will sustain us and Stabilize us in our Christian life that we don't always need.

Another reviving it would be the heart of God that we don't need another reviving. It would be God's heart. Oh To be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man in such a way that we don't so easily slip away and grow cold being distracted easily by other things.

The Cry of Prayer for Revival

Number three, I'd like us to consider this morning in this song the strong cry for revival. Eight times in this song which is a prayer. There is a strong cry For revival eight times as we looked at them here in my Bible I have them marked in yellow just so that I can see them in the psalm is marked with yellow.

Give ear shine forth stir up your strength. Come save us turn us again. Oh Lord cause your face to shine on us. Look down from heaven and behold. Oh What a privilege that God would look down from heaven and behold.

What a privilege and visit this Vine with you have visit this vine which you have the strong cry of revival. These pleadings are the essence of this song and the secret of every genuine revival. Prayer earnest prayer believing prayer brokenhearted prayer.

Persistent prayer is the secret of every heaven-sent revival from Pentecost on down through church history. That's the way it started. That's the way it is Continued all the way through hit church history and that's the way it starts in every local New Testament Church or every Individual life know this of a truth brothers sisters.

There is no Recorded place that I know of in all my studies of church history where a people were just sitting there in the status quo. At ease in Zion and God stepped down one Sunday morning and shook them all.

No, that's not how God works. You won't find one record like that. But it's when the people begin to see their need that they start to cry to God and as God's people cry to God God visits his people. The strong cry of revival is clearly revealed in the scripture here.

No that God would bring the burden of that cry upon our hearts as a people as a church. Listen to Daniel's powerful prayer in Daniel chapter 9 verse 17 Through 19 after Daniel. Note this now after Daniel one of the holiest men you'll ever find in the Bible as far as I know.

There's not one spot recorded about Daniel in all of the scripture after Daniel. Confesses his sins and the sins of Israel for 16 verses here his prayer his cry to God. Now therefore all our God hear the prayer of thy servant and his Supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the Lord's sake.

For the Lord's sake brothers and sisters. Oh my god incline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our desolations and The city which is called by thy name for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness But for thy great mercies.

Oh. There's a wisdom of theology in this prayer. Oh Lord here. Oh Lord forgive. Oh Lord hearken and do defer not for thine own sake. Oh my god, but I city and thy people are called by thy name the cry of Daniel's heart 500 miles away from where Jerusalem was.

But the cry of his heart is the cry of God's heart. For the testimony of his great name and brothers and sisters every local church is to be a Testimony of his great name in this earth where we live in the community where we live.

As I meditated upon Daniel's powerful prayer I thought you know. It sounds just like the prayer that they prayed in Acts chapter 4. Where they were threatened and they boldly prayed and the place was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

It's the same kind of prayer the desperate cry for revival. David Brainerd wrestled with God day and night that God would take out a people for his namesake. Among the Indians the day came when the savages were on their knees crying to God for mercy the day came.

Thomas Charles of Wales 1850 something said these words. Unless we are favored with frequent revivals and a strong powerful work of the Spirit of God We shall in great degrees Degenerate and have only a name to live.

Religion will soon lose its vigor. The ministry will hardly retain its luster and glory and iniquity will Consequently abound. Therefore, let us pray. Beautiful word of exhortation from Thomas Charles of Wales 200 year old exhortation.

Therefore let us pray. The revival in Wales was preceded by many people praying the one in 1890s. They prayed from 1897 to 1904. Are we ready to pray for seven years? They prayed and they prayed. They wept before God.

They pled with God for a visitation. What that would shake their whole nation? Many ministers gathered to pray for a visitation of God at times. They were in utter desperation in their prayers. But they kept on praying and sure enough in 1904 the Spirit of God Descended upon the churches in Wales and the rest is history.

What about the Moravian revival this morning. It is a glorious segment of history. Why? Because count Zinzendorf and many others in the community gathered for prayer many times a day. Why did they do that?

Because they knew that they were lacking. They knew they needed a visitation from the Spirit of God. So they coveted together. Let's you and I let's meet at noon over here by those trees and we'll pray for revival.

Let's you and I meet at three o 'clock when we get done with our work and we'll pray for revival all. Over her not the people gathered and prayed for revival. That's why we know who the Moravians are today.

Because there was a bunch of simple people who were bold enough to believe that God could do Miraculous things in their midst and they prayed and they cried to God for it. Spurgeon testified of the hidden group of desperate prayer warriors who stormed heaven for a visitation in their church.

And he said at times the burden and presence of God was so intense that no one dared to speak. There were meetings when they would gather together on a Sunday morning and the presence of God was so strong that he wouldn't dare Get up and say anything.

They just sat in the presence of God and they were dismissed an hour and a half later. You have heard from the Spirit of God. Spurgeon said go home and do what you've heard and he sent them away without his eloquent sermon.

Wise man wise man. James McQuilkin in 1856 gathered three others to pray the night through on Friday night. Every Friday night they prayed the night through. Finally six gathered then 50 and then revival came to Ulster in Wales in 1858 and 100 ,000 souls were saved.

Born again into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Oh. We just want to emphasize this morning the strong cry for revival. It is a cry I think it's very clear in here as we look at this little refrain that comes four times.

It is a cry when our heart Becomes a cry before God. God will answer number four. I'd like us to notice the angry enemy of revival. The angry enemy of revival. In verse 12 and 13 it speaks about the hedge being broken down and the boar out of the woods.

The Enemy That Destroys Revival

Coming in to destroy the vine as I pondered and studied that it Came to me. So clearly this is not a pig like we understand. This is not a domestic pig. A boar out of the woods is not like a domestic pig.

It's a wild boar. It has sharp teeth. It's a ferocious animal. It can run as fast as a horse can you don't want to get in its way if it's angry with you. That's the picture that we have here. And if there was ever a picture of Satan the destroyer of our souls the destroyer of Revival it surely is a picture of the boar that came out of the woods.

But How did the boar come out of the woods? How did the boar have such freedom to come out of the woods and go in and destroy this? Beautiful vineyard ah. It says in verse 12 vow God broken her hedges.

Awesome thought isn't it? God would break down the hedges of his heritage. Awesome thought. Oh God have mercy on us Lord. Don't let us in our foolishness lose thy sweet blessing that you would tear down the hedges and The boar out of the woods come in and devour some of us.

We must watch for his wiles. We must keep our hearts clear brothers and sisters. We must not give him any place for he would destroy us. He would distract us and get our focus on lesser things. He would demolish our unity and get us fussing with each other.

He would deceive us into a little sin and open up our hedge for all kinds of destruction. The angry enemy of Revival is alive and well on planet earth brothers and sisters, but rejoice this morning. Greater is he that is in you and me than he that is in the world.

Oh Listen when the hedge is around the vineyard. No boar can get in and do anything just like the example of job. He couldn't get in. He couldn't he. Satan even complained to God and said it's because you put a hedge around him.

Hallelujah. That's right. You put a hedge around him and I can't. What a rejoicing that is this morning brothers and sisters. Let us stay on our faces. Let us keep our hearts clear so that the boar out of the woods.

Cannot come in and destroy any of us. Number five. I would like us to look at the powerful reality of revival and all there's so many places here where we can look at this but verse 1 and and 2 and 3 and also in verse 14, we see the powerful reality of Revival.

What do I mean by that? Oh, how about a shepherd who leads you? How about a shepherd who leads you like it says in Isaiah 58? You shall call and the Lord shall answer. Here am I? Here am I? The Lord shall guide thee continually, these are the beautiful realities of Revival.

A shepherd who leads you a pillar of fire to direct you. God's manifest Presence to bless you. These are the things that are the result of revival. God working in you. Both the will and to do of his good pleasure.

And according to verse 14 revival is a visitation of God's spirit. Once this occurs. What else is needed brothers and sisters? Once this occurs when God visits his people. Hundreds of hours of counseling.

Vanish from sight. Hundreds of hours when God visits his people. Return. Verse 14 return we beseech thee. Oh God of hosts. Look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine revival. The powerful reality of revival is a visitation of God for the church for Israel.

She remembered the reality of the Living God in their midst. This stirred them on to cry to God for a return to the former days of blessings. For the church, we see this clearly manifested all through the book of Acts.

This is what we as a local Congregation should cry for. I am totally convinced. When we stand before God and the books are going to be open the book of Acts is going to be open brethren not only first Corinthians chapter 11, but the book of Acts is going to be open.

The powerful reality of revival. Men and women weep under conviction of sin. Even the good and the holy breakdown under deeper Revelations of their needs. In the midst of revival the power and presence of God is felt in amazing ways.