Repentance for Revival in the UK?

Christians Turn to God Over Moral Crisis in UK

LONDON – “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done” was the prayer of hundreds of Christians who gathered at a central London church on Saturday to cry out to God over the moral and spiritual crisis in the United Kingdom. The State of the Nation gathering also focused on repentance over the church’s silence in the face of immoral legislation passed over the decades, particularly in the areas of the unborn child and marriage.

There you go-the British may be coming and they're getting it- confession of sin and repentance (2 Chr. 7:14) is what leads to revival in a nation. That's precisely what Daniel prayed for (Dan. 8) when Israel was in the Babylonian captivity, mirroring our current captivity in the world of materialism and cheap grace. Revival cannot happen without repentance and it begins in our own homes on a grassroots basis. Howard Springs once said, "The kingdom of God is not going to advance by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God."

As for the UK effort, David Noakes, a member of the State of the Nation facilitating group, said the prayer meeting was possibly the most important gathering since World War II. Noakes chided the church for failing to speak out against ungodly legislation and urged the church not to be swayed by political correctness. “God is not politically correct but biblically correct,” he said, adding that the church needed to cast out the sin within its own ranks and return to a fear of the Lord. " Amen and that will preach brothers and sisters.

"Revival restrains the righteous anger of God, restores the conscious awareness of God, and reveals the gracious activity of God." - Stephen Olford