FOCUS – The Way to Revive
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / January 26, 2025
Series: How to Thrive in 2025
Text: 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
Read Daniel 2:20-21
What will it take for genuine revival in America?
Review on the sermon series How To Thrive in 2025:
1. Abide: The Way to be Alive
2. Partnership: The Way to Survive
3. Focus: The Way to Revive
The word ‘revive’ is used often in Scripture:
Read Psalm 119:107, 119:37, 80:19
Do YOU want revival?
Today’s text: 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
I. HEARTFELT CONCERN
Read 2 Chronicles 29:6-9
Read Deuteronomy 8:19
A. PROMPT CONCERN
Read 2 Chronicles 29:3
B. PERSONAL CONCERN
Read 2 Chronicles 29:10
Revival simply takes ONE man to be totally burdened:
1500’s – Luther
1600’s – Savonarola
1700’s – Wesley
1800’s – Jonathon Edwards
1900’s – 2 businessmen in NYC
II. HUMBLE CLEANSING
Read 2 Chronicles 29:5
Impure hands are not fit for the work of spiritual reformation
Read 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The ‘temple’ today is – the body of the believer
Read 1 John 1:7, 2 Timothy 2:21
John Wesley – “Give me 100 men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world.”
III. HOLY COVENANT
Read 2 Chronicles 29:31 “… now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord..”
Reconsecration is necessary if there is going to be a revival
Read Hosea 10:12
IV. HEAVENLY CONSEQUENCES
A. WORSHIP
B. WITNESS
Read 2 Chronicles 30:4-6