To make your name known to your enemies, so that nations would tremble at your presence! —Isaiah 64:2
Isaiah 64:1–3 is a beautiful Old Testament description of revival. This is God coming down, intervening, and transforming everything! And in the wake of God’s presence visiting, there is nothing and no one left unaffected or unchanged.
As you read the whole chapter, you realize the purpose for pleading with God to come down is not so that we can be happy or have all our problems solved. It’s to make His name known so people will know He is God!
If that’s not your purpose in life, then you’re living for the wrong reason. If you’re a child of God, deep in your heart, that’s what you should want more than anything else—for God’s name to be known among those who don’t know Him.
Your greatest concern shouldn’t be that a particular person gets into office, that a particular party wins an election, or that this person or that be dealt with. Your greatest burden should be that the name of God would be known, reverenced, and respected.
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“A Cry for Revival (Isaiah 63–64): A Picture of Revival” (Revive Our Hearts series)
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
What concerns weigh the heaviest on your heart? Pray that making His name known among the nations would become number one.