“A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth: ‘Oh LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: Oh LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.’”(Habakkuk 3:1-3)
Habakkuk’s prayer was occasioned because he was greatly concerned that God was preparing the Chaldeans as a tool of judgment against Judah. He gives a description of the Chaldeans’ army and savagery in battle. (1:5-11). He asked God why He would use such ungodly and wicked people to bring judgment upon Judah. He reminded God that He was, “…of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look upon iniquity.” (1:13) Thus, in his prayer, the prophet was pleading with God to bring a revival. In just a few short years from this prophesy and prayer Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans conquered Judah and took them into captivity. One has to conclude that Judah had sunk very deeply into sin for God to use the wicked Chaldeans to bring them to judgment.
America desperately needs a revival, a spiritual awakening. Most of these three day events that churches call revival today are not spiritual awakenings. There is little or no repentance and genuine turning to God from the ways of the world. There is little, if any, holiness of life resulting from the average, so called revival.
The late Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist, Billy Graham said, “If America doesn’t repent and God doesn’t bring judgment on America, He will need to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah for His judgment upon them.”
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