Praying for Revival — Byron Paulus

I wonder if Michigan is too long of a commute to this church. That's what I'm trying to figure out here tonight. I don't think you know how much you are blessed to be here this morning. Tonight, I get around.

OK, but there's rare that I step into a Sunday evening service that is much art and God's Spirit is present, has been put into it and God's Spirit present as I sense tonight. And don't take that for granted.

It's an anomaly today. OK, and Russell, is that his name that led in prayer? Thank you. Because Martin Lloyd-Jones, I don't know if it's in there with that name. He's a pastor at Westminster Chapel over in England and and just a renowned prolific author and spiritual giant.

OK, but after he died, somebody asked his widow, do you miss your husband's preaching? And she said, not near as much as his praying, because his pastoral prayer was 25 minutes. On Sunday mornings, when Rainhill told me one time, he says, Byron, you learn how to pray by listening to godly people pray.

It was a praying church because their pastor prayed. As that gentleman prayed tonight, out of the heart that he prayed, I just thought, you know, that's how you learn to pray, isn't it? By listening and being in the midst of godly people who pray.

So I just want you to know I have been blessed, not just with your southern hospitality, but with your spiritual hospitality as well. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And when you came in tonight, you should have received an outline entitled Praying for Revival.

If you did not get one, raise your hand. The ushers will get them into your hands. Just keep your hand up until they get one to you, along with an index card. OK, and so get that half sheet of paper and an index card.

Everybody needs one of each. And on that index card, you understand a little bit more later. If I remember, I want you to write and don't do this maybe until later in the service or at the end of the service.

Just one thing that you're believing God for in the next week during this season of time, that your church is focusing on God doing astonishing works. If you're here this morning, one thing that you'd like to believe God for that would just astonish you, it may be a wayward child.

It may be a marriage is on the rock. It may be going hard. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, be specific because, well, I'll just tell you now. There are over 300 intercessors and they're going to pray each one, take one confidentially.

They are going to be praying by name for you every single day. That request between now and when the team leaves in May. I mean, they are serious intercessors and that's what they do for our minute. There's already actually six thousand, but there's over 800 of them that do just this.

I think it is. So they take it seriously. If you want someone that really knows how to pray, to take seriously a burden on your heart, I suggest you write it on that index card and you can fold it in half and I'll make you work to do it.

I'm not going to collect and you come put them on the front row or somehow get them to me at the end of the service. Maybe there's a better way. I don't know. But anyway, just make sure we get them. And as soon as I get that into their hands, when I get back, they're going to start praying for you.

OK, Southern hospitality. OK, I have to confess that your pastor told me tonight on the way into the church that this is I can't believe he would. He said this is he said this is redneck country. He did.

I was commenting. He has a truck. Another staff member, I think, was drove up and I saw some lady driving a truck up here. I said, what gives? He says, just redneck country. OK, so I want to show this video at the outset tonight.

OK, only because of what your pastor said. And see if anybody can identify.

OK, here we go. Five percent divided between the five of us. You know, Grobar, myself, Tom and the baby. That makes five percent for each one of us.

Billy, you're cheating yourself. If there's 25 percent divided among the five of you, that's 14 percent a piece.

Oh, listen, Bob, I wouldn't cheat you. You know, I wouldn't know. Look here. I'll show you. Let me run this out here. Now, 25 by five is five. You see, if the five won't go into two. Well, no, but five goes into 25 five times.

You see, you're wrong, Billy.

Pretty good mathematician into 25. Five won't go into two. No, but five goes into five. One. Now, we didn't use the two before, so we're going down here now. Five into 20 goes four times. There you are.

Five into 25.

Fourteen. No, look, Bob, let me prove it to you about my multiplication. Five times five, five times five is twenty five. Billy, I'm surprised you're learning. I'm surprised that you're learning. Now, I'll show you.

It's twenty five. Five times four is twenty. Look, you're wrong there because I'll prove it to you. I'll put down five fourteens here. Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen. There now. Now, I'll prove to you by addition that five fourteens is not twenty five.

Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five. Now, to brush up, Billy, I don't want to see you boys cheating.

Prayer as the Foundation of Revival

There's significance to that, believe it or not. No matter how many different ways we try to see a revival become a reality, there is really only one answer. And that answer is prayer. There's never been a revival in the history of the world that has either been given birth to, cradled or nurtured in prayer.

That's the one ingredient that is always there in every great movement of God. A number of years ago, I actually had the privilege of having dinner with Chuck Colson, and there's only about six of us sitting around the table.

And he asked a question and and he said, how many of you know what an oxymoron is? How many of you know what an oxymoron is? That's great. That's good, because I had no clue. Honestly, I thought it was a disease or something.

OK. And he could tell I was clueless. So he began to try to help out a little bit. And he said, well, an oxymoron is a statement of opposites. I still didn't quite get it. He said, well, let me give you an example of an oxymoron.

He's a good example of an oxymoron, he said, would be government intelligence. And he could get away with that. OK. And then he could tell I said another good example would be a legal brief. And I thought I figured that one out real quickly.

You know, there is no such thing as a legal brief. And but I have a wife and I had three small children then. And that summer I did discover what an oxymoron is. It was called a camping vacation. You know, there's another oxymoron.

It's called Christian America. At one point, a statement of fact, but now a statement of opposites. But there's one other one. It's called a prayerless revival. It does not exist. A number of years ago, there was a famous prisoner in the former Soviet Union.

His name was Petrovich. And Petrovich was just an avid thief. And and he would steal and they would capture and they put him in prison. They let him back out and he would steal and capture. Put a prison back out again.

They did it multiple times. And one time they let him out of the prison and they and they put him at work at a huge factory there in the Soviet Union. As as he was coming to work on the first morning, the security guard stopped him at the gate and said, Petrovich, I just want you to know, I know who you are and I'm going to be watching you.

That night, Petrovich comes out. He's got a wheelbarrow with a big bag in it. And he gets the security guard and he stops. He said, Petrovich, what's in that bag? He said, sawdust looks through it. It's your sawdust.

Next day, he goes to work. He comes back again. Wheelbarrow, big bag, security guard stops him. Looks just sawdust next night. Same thing. Bag, wheelbarrow, sawdust next night. Same thing. Finally, it's driving that security guard crazy.

And he stops Petrovich says, look, I know you're stealing something. I know you're up to something. Tell me what is it? He said, you really want to know. He said, yeah, I said, OK, I'll tell you, I'm stealing wheelbarrows.

You know, I chuckled at that. And then my heart was penetrated with the reality that the all time thief of the universe, the enemy himself, Satan, has been stealing right before our very eyes, the very foundation of what is necessary for God to come in great power in the church.

And that's prayer. I don't know about you, but I struggle with prayer big time. One of the things I struggle with is how do I know when I'm praying that I'm really praying the will of God, you ever struggle with that?

And one of the ways, you know, that's one of the ways, you know, you're praying the will of God is when you're praying what the word of God, because the word of God is never contrary to the will of God.

Isaiah 64 as a Pattern for Revival Prayer

And so in this whole area of praying for revival, I just said, Lord, how do I know when I'm praying for revival that I'm praying the will of God? He said, go to Isaiah 64. And so I did. And in Isaiah 64, you will find what I believe to be the most powerful prayer.

For revival that you could ever imagine, and I love this passage in Isaiah 64, but as you begin to read it, you kind of say, what in the world are you saying, Isaiah? One of my favorite preachers is Chuck Swindoll because he uses word pictures so effectively.

What was no different in Isaiah's day when he was living in the midst of a group of people who are familiar with the ways of God, much like us, but no longer walking in the ways of God. And and so he gives word pictures, it's literal, but he uses word pictures to help drive home to our hearts the understanding with clarity of what was the condition of that day.

And so what I want to do tonight really is just help us to have a template, just a pattern, if you will, that we can we can take home with us and and pray through Isaiah 64 between now and perhaps when the team arrives and let God take that biblical prayer and make it our prayer in the days ahead.

So I want to invite you to stand and I'm going to read through this passage again tonight, if you would stand again tonight rather and and pay honor the word of God that way. And I'm just going to read through it quickly and then we're going to walk through this passage, see how far we get.

I'll try and get all the blanks filled in. But. Here's the. Here's the prayer. He says, oh, oh, that you would run the heavens and come down that the mountains might fall down or quake at your presence.

As when the fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes waters to boil to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations might tremble at your presence. And when you did awesome things which we looked not for, you came down and the mountains flowed down at your presence.

For from old, no one have heard or perceived by the ear, neither have the eye seen, oh, God, besides you, what you have prepared for them that steadfastly trust you. It says wait, but that wait is not a passive term.

It's a very proactive term. Unlike we think of it today, it means to steadfastly trust. Who does God meet with? You meet with him who joyfully work righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you're angry and we sin in our sins.

We have a long time. Shall we be saved? We have all become like one who is unclean and all our righteous thieves are as a polluted garment. We all do fate as a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, taken us away.

There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses up himself to take hold of you. For you have hid your face from us and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities. Oh, but now, oh, Lord, you are our father.

We are the clay. You are our potter. We are all the work of your hand. Be not so terribly angry, oh, Lord. And remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people. Your holy cities have become a wilderness.

Zion's become a wilderness. Jerusalem, a desolation. You're holy in our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned up with fire. And all our pleasant things are laid waste. And wilt you refrain yourself for these things?

Oh, Lord, will you keep silent and afflict us so terribly? I have never injected this like this tonight, this afternoon in a leadership meeting. Somebody asked a very important question while you're standing there.

Somebody asked a very important question. And he said, Byron, revival always includes desperation. How do we become desperate and will God send revival without desperation? And as I was just really reading this passage again right now, it hit me.

Look at the words of desperation. Behold, please. It starts out with, oh, you just sense, do you, the desperation in the heart of Isaiah? Why? I can't answer that. Here's what I'll tell you about a year and two years ago, this last summer, I was facilitating a revival form on the topic of revival.

Jim Cimbala from Brooklyn Tabernacle, Erwin Lutzer from the Moody Church, Dr. Richard Owen Roberts, a historian on revival and a young reformed blogger by the name of Colin Hansen were sitting on the panel.

And at the end of some of the questions we interacted on, I had a Q &A time with about 400 pastors sitting out there in the audience at this pastor's conference. And at the end of that time, one man raised his hand and he was it looked like an African-American.

He was a black individual and he raised his hand. The final question he said, I've got a comment and then I have a question. And I said, OK, I took the mic to him. He said, I'm from Uganda. We've had revival in Uganda.

About five years ago, God moved dramatically through our nation. But it was a result of devastation, horrible atrocities and devastation. We're now turning our prayers to America that you will experience revival, knowing that if America experiences revival or impact the world, including Uganda.

They said, that's my comment. He said, here's my observation and then my question. God will send revival always, either through devastation or desperation. What are you doing to make sure it's desperation in America?

And not devastation. None of us. Had an answer, but that question is still an impetus in my heart. Helped me launch one cry and a pulse of other things. I just said I don't want devastation. And at some level, it's put some desperation in my heart to know that my grandchildren, all ten of them, seven and under.

Could experience devastation if I do not do whatever I can to try to bring desperation to God's people in America. So, Lord, take this cry of desperation from Isaiah. Make it our cry of desperation in all of our hearts in these coming days.

I pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen. Verse one. We're going to walk through this. You may be seated. Verse one, all that you would run to heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.

Now, I said there are word pictures here. If you were to go to the nearest, I said this the other day out in the middle of America. If you go to the nearest mountain and I can't even think where there is one within five.

That's easy here. If you were to go the nearest mountain and you were to stand before that mountain and you were to say mountain, be removed. It's not that God couldn't do it. He could. But that's not likely what's going to happen.

And it's really not what God is most concerned about. That a physical mountain be removed. Isaiah knew there were mountains in people's hearts. Frankly, he knew there were walls, obstacles standing between them and his presence, his coming down.

And there may have been mountains of bitterness or mountains of broken relationships or unresolved conflict or mountains of prayerlessness or mountains of addictions or mountains of lostness or mountains.

I don't know if there are mountains standing between God and his people and all he wants to do. And giving us his supernatural power and presence. So mark it down as you get to verse one, as you're praying through this passage, pray for God's supernatural power and presence that he would do exceeding abundant above all that we could ever ask or think.

That is, his eyes do go to and fro throughout the whole earth, that he would show himself mighty on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect towards him, that that he would do beyond anything that we could ever imagine.

The God would just display as if he opened up the windows of heaven and came down his power to remove mountains. I asked this historian, Richard Owen Roberts, I referred to earlier one time, as what does he see happening in our nation?

His answer, I'll never forget, he went to Isaiah 61, two and three, actually, and showed how the manifest presence of God we talked about this morning was removed from the nation. And that's why Isaiah was so desperate.

And that's why he said all that you would come down as if he's not there. And he told me there were two forms of the judgment of God. I'd never thought of this before. One form of the judgment of God we are familiar with, aren't we?

It's like Sodom and Gomorrah in response to evil or wickedness. God just comes and annihilates or destroys. That's called an immediate form of the judgment of God. But there's another form of the judgment of God I'd never thought of.

And he calls it, that's called a final form of the judgment of God. It's a remedial form of judgment of God where God, in response to sin, just gradually withdraws his presence in a remedial fashion from his people.

Remember Romans 1, God gives them over to a rebel. But that's just a remedial form. God, in response to the sin, isn't just destroying. He's giving them over to his own end or destruction. Let me illustrate for you, Mr. Roberts said he lives in the suburbs of Chicago at the time, and he said he's going to work one day.

And he noticed that there was a police car that was stationed at the entrance of this subdivision. He didn't think much about it, except when he came home at night. There it was, went the next morning.

There it was next night. There it was, he said, for a period of weeks, he said, actually, for six months. Every morning, every night, there was this police car stationed at the entrance of this subdivision.

And then he said a headline in the newspaper caught his attention. It says crime diminishes to one fourth. So he starts reading the article. And sure enough, there in that development, that subdivision, crime had dropped to one fourth of what it was previously.

And he learned in the article that those residents just went and bought an old car and painted it like a police car and dressed it up and stationed at the entrance and crime drops to one fourth of what it was previously.

But don't miss the point. Wherever there is a presence of an authority, there's a restraint to evil. Don't look puzzled when a police car is behind you. I promise you, you may not be speeding. Don't you just intuitively slow down?

At least think about it. That's true, isn't it? But the authority in a remedial sense has left with his presence, and that explains how evil to me can be so rampant in our nation today. You say, how can this be happening?

How can we be where we are in the nation with the wickedness? Could it be God's gradually withdrawn his presence and leaving us to our own? Verse two, it's when the melting fire burns, it causes the waters to boil.

OK, a word picture. What happens when water boils, among other things? It purifies, doesn't it? It cleanses. So when I get the verse two and I'm praying through this passage, I say, oh, God, I just pray for a purity among God's people.

Because why? Blessed are the pure in heart. They shall see God. We want to see God in his presence. But it takes purity. Who shall stand in his holy place? He that has what? Clean hands and a pure heart.

The end of the commandment is love out of what? A pure heart and a clear conscience and a faith on faith. So there's something about purity that brings the presence of God. So we need to be praying that God would just turn up the heat of his conviction in that boiling water of God's people, their hearts.

And he would turn up the heat of their conviction to where they can't stand it anymore. And God, the conviction becomes so intense that that they have to respond and repent and turn back to God. Pray for purity among God's people.

It's interesting to me over the years of just the different ways when God turns up the heat of his conviction, how he how he touches hearts, you know, sometimes it's a very small thing. OK. And I remember one time God convicted somebody of a twenty five cent sin.

You say, oh, come on, Byron, that's heresy. You know, God doesn't put monetary value. I know that. We were in Philadelphia. This obviously was years ago by the price. And somebody was convicted that one time they had taken two newspapers instead of one out of the newspaper.

He was just convicted. He's a thief. So he picks up the phone the next morning. He calls the editor of the Philadelphia News. And he said, sir, I've stolen you from your company. Can I come see you? He got an appointment.

He walks in there. He says, look, I'm not trying to be a smart aleck. I just want you to know that God has convicted me. I've been a thief and it may seem like a small thing to you, but it's a huge thing to me because it stands between me and fellowship with God and handed him a quarter to make restitution.

The next day on the front page of the second section, there's a picture of this gentleman and it has headlines, News Thief Repents, tells a whole story of what God was doing in his heart and the church we were at, you know, and I thought, man, that's free advertising.

I'm going to cost him a quarter, but it's free advertising, you know. And what God can do and obedience, but it's not always 25 cents. We were in Indiana one time and there's a gentleman there who fled as a fugitive from Canada, had a wife and three small children, and he knew to obey under the conviction as the waters begin to boil and his heart intensity grew.

He just knew he'd be miserable if he didn't obey. So he went back to Canada, turned himself in. And sure enough, it meant prison time. I'll never forget, about three years later, he got out of prison and he called our office and I just asked the question that we had all asked, would you do it all over again?

He said, I'd do it all over again because when I was in prison, I was a free man. But when I was out of prison, I was in bondage and behind bars. That gentleman began to lead Bible studies, have influence throughout Canada.

He really could never come back to the States because of his police record. But just about three years ago now, he called and he said, I'm dying of cancer. My kids were all lived in the States. The authorities let me come back to the States to visit my kids.

One last time, he stopped by our office. We took time to interview him and I asked him the question. We did. Would you do it all over again? Absolutely. I'd do it all over again. Separated from his kids and his grandkids, from them coming here anyway.

And he'd do it all over again. We did pray for purity among God's people. It's amazing when the purity takes place, the presence comes. Hey, verse three, I was puzzled when I first read this verse when he said, look, God, you did awesome things which we looked not for.

Another version said, I read today for the first time, beyond all expectation. But here's the point. I asked myself, look, Isaiah, this godly man, why were you not looking for great things? And it hit me, it really doesn't say he wasn't looking for great things.

It just weren't necessarily the things he was looking for. I want to tell you, folks, something that I think would withhold the presence of God and stay his hand of his presence upon us and his hand of power and might upon us is if we put him in a box and say, you know, if revival is going to come here to First Baptist Powell, then this is going to have to happen and that's going to have to happen.

And this is what it looked like. And that is what I don't think it'll ever be contrary to the word of God or it's not revival, but it could be extra biblical. And I think what Isaiah is saying, God did all these things.

They weren't a matter of right or wrong. I just weren't expecting it to look like this. And the danger is that we would put God in a box and whatever he did 20 years ago, that's what it's going to look like this year.

God tailors every mood of his spirit to the needs of our heart, to the needs of that congregation, to the needs of our family. And I'm just praying that we will keep our eyes marked down, pray that we will keep our focus on Christ.

And however, Christ want to reveal his glory, his personage in our midst. God, you just have your way in that. And it may not look exactly like you think it will. It may not be a full building. It may be that we have to move to a larger building.

We don't know. I have a dear friend. His name is Gerard de Toy. Actually, he joined our ministry and he's out of Canada. What we're doing up there and he goes around the world. He's based in Vancouver, but he grew up in South Africa.

And that's where a lot of his ministry takes place today. OK, so he's out of college. He's getting ready to go to seminary. And he says, God, how can I prepare for seminary? And he says, like the Lord told me to go up into the mountains where there's godly prayer warriors, these black men who just know how to meet with God and seek God and hear from God.

Go spend some time and fast and pray with them. So he did for about two weeks. Then he went off to seminary and he got out of seminary and he says, God, what next? Go back to that mountain, Gerard. And get with those men and be with them until God leads them and tells you what they think is next for you.

He said he was there for about six weeks, much of that time fasting and praying and just trying to hear from God. And one day one of those men came to him and said, Gerard, we've been thinking we've been praying.

We believe that you need to launch your ministry about 500 miles south of here. There's a host family there that will keep you. There's a church there and have a series of meeting beginning on such and such a date.

So, Gerard, he told me he fasted for 11 days leading up to that time. He got there to that church or that home early and met the host mother or the host wife and husband and husband and wife and settled in a little bit.

Then he said he went to the church two hours early just to pray. And he's there on his knees and an hour and a half before the service, he continues to pray. And an hour before the service, he continues to pray.

And about a half hour before the service, he's praying. He looks around. Nobody's there. And he said about seven o 'clock the service was to start. He looked up and nobody else was there. And he thought, well, maybe I had the time wrong.

Maybe it's seven thirty, seven fifteen, seven thirty, eight o 'clock. Nobody there. Nobody shows up. And he says, God, I don't understand it. These are the godliest people I know. They said, this is what you you wanted for me to launch my ministry.

Lord, what is going on? And he says, like God said to him, Gerard, who are you doing this for? So Gerard opened in prayer, sang some songs. I guess he took an offering. He preached his message, gave an invitation, did a benediction.

So nobody was there because he did it for Jesus. Went home, that host man met him at the door and said, how did it go tonight, Gerard? He said, oh, great. Says God was there. So how many people came? Gerard said he wasn't smart enough to say for God, the Father, Son, Holy Spirit in him.

He said, well, nobody. Well, what'd you do? I sang, I prayed, I preached, gave an invitation and nobody was there. No, because I did it for God. That man was lost, he was influential in the community, he couldn't sleep that night.

So he woke up his wife and said, honey, I can't sleep. And she said, what's the matter? Since that preacher downstairs, what do you mean? Well, you don't know what he did tonight. Well, what'd he do tonight?

Well, he sang and he prayed and so what? But nobody was there and he did it anyway because he did it for God. That wife led her husband to the Lord that night. By the end of that crusade, 46 people came to Christ.

And Gerard told me just several years ago he went back and there's a flourishing church of 450 people where it began really when he preached to nobody. You talk about keeping your focus on Christ. When God did great things, which we looked not for.

Faith for What God Has Prepared

Verse four, I have not seen your ear heard, neither has entered in the heart of man the things that God's prepared for them that steadfastly trust him. That's repeated, obviously, over in Corinthians.

We always think that's talking about heaven. It's not. It's going back to Isaiah 64. He's saying, look, I have not seen nor ears heard. I just get to that verse. I say, pray for an increased faith in God.

I believe with all of my heart. OK, folks, that if we were to take these screens somehow tonight and we were to begin to to make a list of everything we've ever seen God do. Everything we've ever heard about God doing everything we've ever read and throughout history, we've seen God do or heard God do.

And we were to collectively put that on the list. Our eyes still will have not seen our ears, will not have heard all that God could do on behalf of those who steadfastly trust him. I believe that somebody I tell in color one time, is there anything worse than not having sight?

And she said, yes, there is sight without vision. What are you believing God for? And these coming weeks. That is impossible. Apart from God, I've just been convicted in the last few days. I mean, I've got somebody said, you need to write stories on impossible things you've seen God do.

And I do. That's unbelievable. I mean, I could amaze you in some of the unbelievable, unexplainable, supernatural things God has done. But not in the last six months. And I tell our staff at the hand of God is an evidence that he's not doing things we can't explain that I don't want anything a part of it.

I'm crying out, oh, God, I need to see your hand, not for the sensationalism, not for the excitement of it all, just to know that God is doing his work. I'm sick and tired of the explainable in our nation.

Where is God that when people stand back and say, oh, I can say is God did this. Let's go to verse five. Was it say when when when? Now, verse five, he meets with those that rejoice, we did that tonight and singing thankfulness, et cetera, and those that remember him in his way.

So I get that verse and just pray for a proper view of God that we'd remember him in his ways. I find that interesting that Isaiah is saying that because you remember back in a verse I'm sure you're familiar with passage in Isaiah six.

Remember, he says at the beginning of that chapter in the year that what King Uzziah died. I saw also the Lord high and how many of you can remember? You have to be really old like I am. How many of you can remember where you were when President John F. Kennedy was shot?

Yeah, so can I tell you the exact chair in junior high band class or whatever, where I was sitting the moment I heard the news. OK, how many can tell you exactly where you were when the Twin Towers was bombed?

I can't just exactly the moment what happened. That's the same scene here. Look, the nation King Uzziah had died. Everybody remembered where they were, how it happened, that they were just stunned. Yet in the midst of that loss and that and that trauma, they said they saw something else.

They saw the Lord high and lifted up in his train, filled the temple and the cherubims cried out, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. And then two verses later, as it. He says, woe is me, for I'm done, I'm a man of unclean lips.

Jump over to Isaiah 57, 15, not literally, but just in your mind here where it says that says the high and the lofty one, the one who inhabits eternity. He says, I dwell in a high and lofty place. With him also, who is of a broken and contrite spirit to revive the heart of the broken ones and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Now, get the pattern here in Isaiah six. He sees God for who he is and then he sees himself for who he is. Woe is me. In Isaiah 57, he sees God as the high and lofty one for who he is and all of his holiness and purity and glory and all of his majesty and everything that he is.