“Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth” (Ps 119:88).
We have already looked at this prayer for personal revival in verses 25, 37, and 40 of this amazing psalm. And we’ll see it again in verses 107, 149, 154, 156, and 159. NINE times David requests this from the Lord in this one psalm. We might coin the word, “Re-re-re-re-re-revive me!” And why the repetition? I think we all know the answer.
When D.L. Moody was queried why he kept asking the Lord for the filling of the Spirit, his honest answer was, “I leak!” Referencing a similar idea in Psalm 23:3, “He restores my soul,” Robert McClurkin writes, “His advocacy is the pledge of my restoration. What mistakes we have made in the past! What failures we have been! So many of us have been vessels marred in the hand of the Potter; but let us take courage, ‘He restoreth my soul.’ ‘He made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the Potter to make it’ (Jer 18:4).” Yes, Lord, revive us AGAIN.