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Freeline FM Proudly Presents, The Church of the Christian Nation Blog, with Messianic Rabbi Israel Ben Heman.Revival is here!Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.Over the years, I've often gotten emails asking, "When do you think revival will come?"Well.... first, what is "revival," exactly? One of Merriam-Webster's definitions is "a renewed attention to or interest in something." Here are some important questions for us to answer today:How interested are we in knowing Him more intimately today than yesterday?How interested are we in gaining a greater knowledge and understanding of His Word?And just how interested are we in sharing those precious things with the dying world around us?A true revival must begin with us -- it must be intimately personal. And it's not just a one-time thing, either. Once, a lady asked Billy Sunday, "Why do you keep having revival meetings?" He quickly retorted, "Why do you always take a bath?"Revival is something that needs to happen daily. It's an ongoing transformation of our hearts to move by the Spirit of God constantly. We need to break up our fallow ground daily, those places in our hearts that we've allowed to grow hard. We have to ask the Lord to reveal those hard places, pray that He would forgive us, and ask Him to heal all our rough edges so that we might be soft before Him and sensitive to His leading. As we open ourselves to the moving of the Spirit of God ... then we will usher in a new move of God within us.Let's get serious as we enter a new year!  It's a new season -- so let's begin this year the right way -- in revival!