4 Attitudes to Adopt While Waiting for a Revival From God

Introduction

On Sunday, October 19, 2025, at ICC MONTREAL, Prophet Djo Grâce MWENZE spoke after a revival camp weekend that, he says, turned into an "upper room." Before a people he describes as "thirsty" and "blessed," he shares a short but direct message: there is no territorial, family, or church revival without a personal revival. Before God sets your nation ablaze, he wants to set your life ablaze. And for that, he asks you to stand before him with the right attitudes. He gives four. These are not techniques. They are dispositions of the heart that open heaven over you.

Outline of the message

1. Have a thirst for God

• The first attitude to have when you are expecting a revival is thirst. "There will never be a revival when you are not thirsty."
• The preacher speaks of a physical thirst that moves everything: it cuts off sleep, it changes your route, it can stop an entire meeting. "When you are thirsty, there are things you can no longer do."
• It is thirst that leads people into fasting. It is thirst that makes you abandon certain mindsets and certain sinful behaviors to cling to God. It is thirst that separates you from bad friends.
• He points to Elisha in 2 Kings 2: when the sons of the prophets tell him that his master Elijah is about to be taken away, he refuses to listen and goes on beyond the Jordan, because he is thirsty for the double portion.
• "God cannot work in the life of a person who is not thirsty." And he recalls John 7:37: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink."
• Do not settle for your present glory. If it does not make you thirsty for the glory to come, the glory to come will not come. God looks at your thirst and lifts you up because of it.

2. Seek God in prayer

• Second attitude: revival is not waited for in front of TikTok, nor in front of the computer watching Netflix. Revival is not waited for passively.
• "Those who have waited for real revivals waited for them in prayer. There has never been a revival where there was no prayer."
• He quotes Acts 1:4: Jesus tells his disciples not to leave Jerusalem, to go up to the upper room, and to wait for the promise of the Father. That is where Pentecost is born.
• Even Jesus, before facing the cross, withdrew into prayer, taking Peter, James, and John with him to Gethsemane.
• "No one will experience a great dimension with God if they have not prepared for it in prayer." What is "trending" today for those waiting on God is not the buzz, it is prayer.
• Like Elijah, who prays and sees heaven open, when you seek the face of God in the upper room, heaven eventually opens over you.

3. Become aware of your identity in Christ

• Third attitude: "You cannot be an agent of revival if you are not aware of your identity in Christ."
• Every time God wants to use a man for revival, he begins by awakening the awareness of his position. He gives the example of Gideon in Judges 6:11 and following: the angel calls him "mighty man of valor" while he is hiding and beating out wheat in the winepress.
• God sees what you do not yet see about yourself. Revival begins with you the day you agree to see yourself as he sees you.
• The preacher anchors this identity in John 1:12: "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."
• From the moment you become aware of who you are in Christ, revival starts with you. It will not start with those who complain that "the young people in this country are hard to raise up."

4. Walk in consecration

• Fourth attitude: "One of the important elements when waiting for revival is to walk in consecration."
• He recalls that at the end of last month, in his church, a time of prayer and fasting (about five days) preceded what God is doing now. Consecration is not decorative: it produces concrete fruit.
• Consecration is setting yourself apart for God. It is letting fasting, prayer, the Word, and obedience correct whatever in your life would prevent the fire from falling.
• The preacher closes by leading the congregation into a time of prayer: "God of grace, my soul thirsts for you. I thirst for your presence." He prays for revival in his personal life, in his family, in his church, in his nation.
• He ends with the verse for the following week, Proverbs 4:18: "But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day."

Key takeaways

• There is no territorial, family, or church revival without personal revival. God starts with you.
• Thirst is the first key: it changes your route, it tears you away from mindsets and compromises, it pushes you beyond the Jordan like Elisha.
• Revival does not come in front of a screen. It comes in the upper room, in persevering prayer, like that of the disciples in Acts 1, like Elijah's, like Jesus's at Gethsemane.
• You cannot be an agent of revival if you do not know who you are in Christ. Like Gideon, let God name you differently than your fear does.
• Consecration (fasting, prayer, setting yourself apart for God) is not optional. It is the ground where fire falls.

Personal application

1. What are you really thirsty for right now: recognition, comfort, new seasons, or God himself? Is your current thirst enough for you?
2. What, in your schedule, is taking the place that prayer should have? Where and when will you "go up to the upper room" this week?
3. Like Gideon, what is the name God gives you that you do not yet dare to receive? What does your fear call you instead?
4. On what specific point is God asking you today to consecrate yourself: a sin to leave, a fast to take on, a relationship to clean up, a bad habit to cut off?
5. For what specific revival do you want to pray (in your life, your family, your church, your nation), and how will you start with yourself?

Verses cited

• John 7:37 (LSG)
• Acts 1:4 (LSG)
• Judges 6:11 (LSG)
• John 1:12 (LSG)
• 2 Kings 2 (LSG)
• Proverbs 4:18 (LSG)

Frequently asked questions

Why does the preacher insist so much on "personal revival" before collective revival?

Because, in his view, no church, no family, and no nation experiences true revival if the people who make them up remain lukewarm. Fire does not fall on a people who are not thirsty and who do not pray. God always starts with one person: Elijah, Gideon, the disciples in the upper room. It is that person, changed first, who becomes an agent of revival for others.

What does spiritual "thirst" concretely mean?

It is not just a vague desire. In the message, thirst is compared to physical thirst: it keeps you from sleeping, it changes your route, it stops everything until it is quenched. Spiritually, it is what makes you fast, get up early, refuse certain compromises, distance yourself from what dims your flame. It is Elisha's thirst that refuses to stay at Gilgal and Bethel and instead goes on beyond the Jordan to seek the double portion.

How do I know if I am aware of my identity in Christ?

One simple sign: how you react to what God says about you. Gideon sees himself as small, weak, hidden. God calls him "mighty man of valor." If you are aware of your identity, you learn to accept God's words about you rather than those of your fear or your failures. John 1:12 reminds us that you have received "the right to become a child of God," it is your legal standing, not a feeling. That is what you fight from, not what you fight to obtain.