God is the fountain of life. All of creation came into being by the Word of His power. Jesus alone offers living water (see Love God message from John 4) we can drink and never be thirsty again.
“Revival is just the life of the Lord Jesus poured into human hearts. Jesus is always victorious… And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will fill us and overflow through us to others. And that is revival in its essence.” Roy Hession, The Calvary Road p. 19
Revival is not an event, it is the daily pursuit of the Christ follower. The only reason we are not filled with the Spirit (as we are commanded to be in Eph. 5:18) is because we don’t place ourselves before the Lord so He can fill us. Our pride, independence and selfishness keep us away from the One who can fill us to overflowing. (This is why brokenness is the gateway to revival.)
“If you want to get warm you must stand near a fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry. Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what can he do but wither and die?” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity p. 153
“This is eternal life – that they may know you, the Eternal God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3). We get a foretaste of the infinite, eternal joy that awaits us in heaven as we know God right now. It is only as we experience how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ that we can be filled to the measure of the fullness of God (Eph. 3:14-21). Jesus has not only promised to be with us always (Matt. 28:18-20) and to bring us into His life (2 Cor. 5:17; Rom. 6:4-6) but He has also promised to live in us!
“I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26