Starting out your Day with prayer. Psalm 85:6Starting out Your Day with prayer. Psalm 85:6 A Psalm of the sons of Korah. These sons of Korah were Levites, from the family of Kohath. By David’s time it seems they served in the musical aspect of the temple worship. Verses 6-7 is a prayer for revival. Will You not revive us again: This is a simple and wonderful prayer for revival. It recognizes that revival is not man-made, but given by God. Yet it also recognizes that one may and should pray for revival, and pray with godly expectation. This prayer for revival The psalm implies that the people were alive once, have died in a spiritual sense, and now need to be given spiritual life again. This is what the church almost always needs, and it is how revivals come. The heart of this message tells us when to pray for revival. We should pray for revival when we remember the great things God has done in the past. We should pray for revival when we sense we are under a cloud of divine displeasure or an evident lack of blessing. In praying for revival, pray for the pastor. In praying for revival, pray for the congregation. In praying for revival, pray for other churches in your community. Revival is a work of God’s mercy. It isn’t earned or deserved. God graciously grants true revival.