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"You have said, 'Seek my face.' My heart says to you, 'Your face, Lord, do I seek’" (Psalm 27:8 ESV)

To be revived… what does this mean? To be revived is to be, quite simply, alive again. Jesus promises us that when we seek Him with all of our heart, we will find Him. How, then, do we begin to seek God?

In Psalm 27:8, God tells us to seek His face, and so our hearts must reply, “Your face we seek.” In other words, we must become hungry and thirsty for God, and the abundance of life and revival He brings us. The song "One Thirst" by Bethel comes to mind, as a part of it says, “we have gathered, with one thirst and hunger, here to drink of holy wonder…we wait for you!”

As we wait for God, we must develop a spiritual hunger and thirst to not only see God, but to encounter Him and become alive again in Him. This hunger and thirst cannot be given to you by anyone but the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit who fills our hunger and thirst for God. We have to have a heart posture to God that is so open, and that is so famished for more of Him and who He is and what He brings. That is when revival occurs, when we desperately cry that all we want is Jesus, and no one and nothing else will do.

In our whirlwind of thoughts that drive our mind racing—stop. Take a breath. Pause, and be quiet, opening your heart to whatever Jesus wants to do in or through you. He is waiting to fill you once more. He is waiting (and wanting) to revive you.

Ask yourself today: Am I seeking Jesus with all of my heart? Am I seeking His face?

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