God Come Down Psalm 143:11

¹¹ Revive me, O Lord, for Your name’s sake! For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.

“Revive me” David cried out. What is revival? Revival is when God comes down. Listen to what David has already said. Cause me to know Your loving kindness in the morning. Cause me to know Your way that I should walk. Deliver me from my enemies. Teach me to do Your will; lead me in the way of uprightness. In all of these prayers, David is asking God for His presence in his life.

When we respond to God as David has done, we can expect His presence and where the presence of God is, there is revival! When we are willing to know God’s loving kindness in the morning of each and every day; when we come to know the way that we should walk and then walk in that way, God will hear our cry from heaven and He will come down and walk with us and He will guide us personally and He will revive our sin sick souls and He will give us a new life and a new direction in that life.

Notice too that David says, “Revive me for Your name’s sake.” Wow. Revival is not just for us it is for God too! David writes, “For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.” How is this possible? How can revival in me be for God’s righteousness’ sake? Simple. This is God’s goal and purpose for your life and mine that we allow Him to come down and dwell with us and us with Him. We allow Him to revive us and to give our lives a new direction because that is what He intended from the very foundation of this world. God wants to be our God and He wants us to be His people, When we allow Him to be God in our lives, then His glory is magnified and His joy is made full and His righteousness is seen in His faithfulness to us as His children!

When God is able to reach down from heaven and do something that can only be explained by the words, “God did it” then and only then does the world sit up and take notice and begin to respond to the call of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. When God is able to be God in our lives then and only then will people around us respond and begin to inquire about the secret to the success in our lives. When God comes down in our church services because we have allowed Him to come down into our lives, we will have more smiling faces in our church services than empty spaces in our pews. People will come where the presence and power of God is being demonstrated!

We need to make this Psalm and pray it each and every day and ask God to cause us to know His loving kindness in the morning. Cause us to know Your way that we should walk. Deliver us from our enemies. Teach us to do Your will; lead us in the way of uprightness. Revive us today, for Your righteousness’ sake! When we begin to pray this prayer, God will come down and things will begin to change dramatically for the better!