35 Bible Verses for Revival and Awakening

There’s a stirring in the hearts of believers across the globe, a deep longing for something more than routine church services and comfortable Christianity. We sense that God wants to do something fresh and powerful in our generation, but we’re not quite sure how to position ourselves for it. Revival feels both desperately needed and mysteriously elusive, like trying to capture lightning in a bottle.

But here’s what history teaches us: revival isn’t something we manufacture through the right techniques or programs. It’s something God does in response to the humble, desperate prayers of His people who recognize their desperate need for Him. Every great awakening throughout history has begun with believers who were dissatisfied with the status quo and willing to pay the price of sustained, fervent prayer.

The same God who poured out His Spirit at Pentecost, who awakened entire cities through the preaching of Whitefield and Wesley, who transformed Wales through the prayers of Evan Roberts, is still ready to move in extraordinary ways today. The question isn’t whether God wants revival; it’s whether we’re willing to humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways so that He can heal our land.

Bible Verses for Revival and Awakening

1. 2 Chronicles 7:14 – If My People Will Humble Themselves and Pray

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

New International Version (NIV)

2. Acts 3:19 – Repent, Then, and Turn to God

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

English Standard Version (ESV)

3. Habakkuk 3:2 – Lord, I Have Heard of Your Fame

O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

New King James Version (NKJV)

4. Joel 2:28-29 – I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All People

Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on servants—men and women alike.

New Living Translation (NLT)

5. Isaiah 64:1-2 – Oh, That You Would Rend the Heavens and Come Down

If only you would tear the heavens open and come down, so that mountains would quake at your presence—as fire kindles the brushwood, and fire causes water to boil—to make your name known to your adversaries, so that nations will tremble at your presence!

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

6. Psalm 85:6 – Will You Not Revive Us Again?

Will You not Yourself revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

7. Acts 2:17-18 – In the Last Days, God Says

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

King James Version (KJV)

8. Ezekiel 36:26-27 – I Will Give You a New Heart

A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

9. Isaiah 55:10-11 – As the Rain and Snow Come Down

“Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth, doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, so will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed.”

The Message (MSG)

10. Jeremiah 33:3 – Call to Me and I Will Answer You

Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know [and which are beyond your power to know].

Amplified Bible (AMP)

11. Isaiah 44:3 – I Will Pour Water on the Thirsty Land

For I will pour water on the thirsty ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your children.

New English Translation (NET)

12. Zechariah 4:6 – Not by Might Nor by Power

So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

13. 1 Kings 18:37 – Answer Me, Lord, Answer Me

Please answer me, Lord! Answer me so these people will know that you are the Lord God, and that you will turn their hearts back to you.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

14. Psalm 80:18-19 – Revive Us, and We Will Call on Your Name

We will never turn away from you again; keep us alive, and we will praise you. Bring us back, Lord God Almighty! Let your face shine on us, that we may be saved.

Good News Translation (GNT)

15. Isaiah 57:15 – I Live in a High and Holy Place

God’s name is holy! He lives forever and is highly honored, so here is what he says: “I live in a high and holy place, but I am here to help those who are humble and depend only on me.”

New Century Version (NCV)

16. 2 Chronicles 6:26-27 – When the Heavens Are Shut Up

“When the skies are shut and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and then they pray toward this place and confess your name, turning from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Indeed, teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you gave as an inheritance to your people.”

International Standard Version (ISV)

17. Malachi 3:10 – Bring the Whole Tithe into the Storehouse

Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so that there may be food in My house. Test Me now in this,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing for you until there is more than enough.

Tree of Life Version (TLV)

18. James 5:16 – The Prayer of a Righteous Person Is Powerful

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

Lexham English Bible (LEB)

19. Isaiah 62:6-7 – I Have Posted Watchmen on Your Walls

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem, who will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest, and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

World English Bible (WEB)

20. Psalm 126:1-3 – When the Lord Restored the Fortunes of Zion

When Jehovah brought back those that returned to Zion, We were like unto them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them. Jehovah hath done great things for us, Whereof we are glad.

American Standard Version (ASV)

21. Romans 10:1 – My Heart’s Desire and Prayer to God

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Revised Standard Version (RSV)

22. Isaiah 6:8 – Whom Shall I Send? And Who Will Go for Us?

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: Who should I send? Who will go for us? I said: Here I am. Send me.

New American Bible (NAB)

23. Jeremiah 1:12 – I Am Watching to See That My Word Is Fulfilled

And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch over my word to perform it.

Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB)

24. Luke 11:13 – How Much More Will Your Father in Heaven Give

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

English Revised Version (ERV)

25. Hosea 6:1-2 – Come, Let Us Return to the Lord

Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up. He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)

26. 1 Chronicles 16:11 – Seek the Lord and His Strength

Seek Jehovah and his strength; seek his face continually.

Darby Translation (DARBY)

27. Acts 4:31 – After They Prayed, the Place Was Shaken

When they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God’s message with boldness.

Weymouth New Testament (WNT)

28. Ezekiel 37:9-10 – Prophesy to the Breath

And he seide to me, Profesie thou to the spirit, profesie thou, sone of man; and thou schalt seie to the spirit, The Lord God seith these thingis, Come, thou spirit, fro foure wyndis, and blowe thou on these slayn men, and lyue thei ayen.

Wycliffe Bible (WYC)

29. 2 Kings 6:17 – Open His Eyes So He May See

Then Elisha prayed, and said, O Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the seruant, and he sawe: and beholde, the mountaine was full of horses and charets of fire round about Elisha.

Geneva Bible (GNV)

30. Psalm 67:1-2 – May God Be Gracious to Us and Bless Us

God be merciful vnto vs, and blesse vs: and cause his face to shine vpon vs. That thy way may be knowen vpon earth: thy saluation among all nations.

Bishop’s Bible

31. Isaiah 32:15 – Until the Spirit Is Poured on Us from on High

vntyll the sprete be poured vpon vs from aboue. Then shall the wyldernesse be a fruitfull felde and the frutefull felde shalbe reckened for a wood.

Tyndale Bible

32. Acts 1:8 – You Will Receive Power When the Holy Spirit Comes

But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power to testify about me with great effect, to the people in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, about my death and resurrection.

The Living Bible (TLB)

33. Isaiah 43:19 – See, I Am Doing a New Thing

“Can’t you see that I am doing a brand new thing? It’s bursting forth! Don’t you perceive it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, opening up springs of water in the wasteland.”

The Passion Translation (TPT)

34. Psalm 51:10-12 – Create in Me a Pure Heart

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and make my spirit right again. Do not send me away from You, or take Your Holy Spirit from me. Give me back the joy that comes from being saved by You. Give me a spirit that obeys You so that I will continue to serve You.

The Voice Bible (VOICE)

35. John 7:37-39 – Let Anyone Who Is Thirsty Come to Me

Jesus said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Does anyone believe in me? Then, just as Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from inside them.” When he said this, he was talking about the Holy Spirit.

New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)

Our Thoughts On What the Bible Says About Revival and Awakening

Scripture reveals that revival isn’t a human achievement but a divine visitation that comes in response to specific conditions. Throughout biblical history, spiritual awakenings occurred when God’s people humbled themselves, acknowledged their desperate need, and cried out to Him with genuine repentance and faith. The pattern is consistent: when believers stop relying on their own efforts and position themselves in humble dependence on God, He responds with supernatural power that transforms individuals, communities, and even entire nations.

What’s fascinating about biblical revival is that it often comes during the darkest moments when hope seems lost. Ezekiel prophesied to a valley of dry bones. Habakkuk pleaded with God during a national crisis. The early church experienced Pentecost after their leader had been crucified and their dreams shattered. This suggests that our current cultural darkness and spiritual dryness might actually be the perfect setup for God to demonstrate His power in extraordinary ways.

The key isn’t trying harder but surrendering more completely. Revival comes not through better programs or strategies but through broken, desperate hearts that are willing to pay the price of sustained prayer, genuine repentance, and radical obedience to whatever God asks.

Say This Prayer

Heavenly Father, our hearts are hungry for revival in our generation. We see the spiritual dryness in our churches, the moral confusion in our culture, and the desperate need for Your power to be demonstrated in ways that cannot be explained away or ignored. We confess that we’ve often relied on our own wisdom and strength instead of depending completely on You.

Break our hearts over what breaks Yours. Give us a spirit of intercession that won’t give up until we see a breakthrough. Help us to humble ourselves, pray with fervency, seek Your face with desperation, and turn from anything that grieves Your heart. We want to see Your glory revealed in our midst.

Pour out Your Spirit on our churches, our communities, and our nation. Raise an army of intercessors who will stand in the gap and cry out for revival. Use us as instruments of awakening in whatever way You choose. We’re willing to pay whatever price is necessary to see Your kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Revive us again, Lord! Let Your people rejoice in You as we see You move in power like we’ve never experienced before. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.