It’s not that I don’t believe in revivals…it’s not that I don’t want them. But I believe that every revival…every awakening of the past, was merely a means to an end…they were but a foreshadowing of what is to come..the awakenings that will happen during a time of great testing…of tribulation (see Revelation 7:9-17), when there will be no place to run…and because of this, these awakenings will not be like the others: They will not die out…until the Lord Himself raptures us out! Therefore let us not cling to the revivals of the past, but let the hope…the lessons we gain from them…things that the Holy Spirit would teach us from these awakenings…let this  prepare us for what is to come in the future; that in these final days we will be effective agents of grace and good stewards of the Hope of Salvation, that he has entrusted us with…in the midsts of great darkness…Until the very end.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 

always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 

For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 

2Corinthians 4:6-10