What does First B Jackson teach about revival?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on revival begins not with programs or events but with hunger, prayer, and a willingness to be sent. When Deborah brought the final message of the women's Bible study series on revival, she grounded it in Isaiah 6, where Isaiah sees the Lord on the throne and is immediately undone by his own sinfulness. That moment of undone-ness, she said, is where revival always starts. It is personal before it is corporate, and it begins with a person saying, as Isaiah did, here I am, send me. She also pressed hard against the comfort-seeking version of the Christian life, using the contrast between two elderly missionary women who died serving unreached villages in Cameroon and a Florida couple who retired early to collect seashells. The American dream of ease, she said, is a misreading of what a human life is actually for.
Peter Lacoccio, a missionary with the Romanian Evangelical Medical Mission, brought the same truth from church history. He traced how ordinary men, returning prisoners of war and frontline soldiers with no formal training, planted nearly half of all the Baptist churches Romania has ever had in just five years after World War One, simply because they had prayed together in the middle of death and come home changed. The disciples in the upper room in Acts 1 were no different, the same men who had fallen asleep in the garden and run away at the arrest, gathered now in constant prayer because they had nowhere else to turn. That pattern, people with nowhere else to turn choosing to pray, is what Peter identified as the consistent thread beneath every genuine movement of God he had seen.
Pastor Don Young, who came for a Prayer on Fire weekend, put a finer point on what that prayer has to be rooted in. He drew a distinction between hunger for something from God and hunger for God himself. The first keeps God at a useful distance. The second is what Matthew 5:6 is describing, and what makes prayer the primary work of the church rather than one item among many. Revival, across all these messages, is presented not as a scheduled event but as the natural result when God's people get honest about their need, turn to prayer, and stop spending their energy on things that do not satisfy.
Taught from Isaiah 6 · Acts 1:12-14 · Matthew 5:6 · Isaiah 55 · 1 Chronicles 12:32
The passage taught · 1 Chronicles 12:32
32 Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- October 18, 2023 Women's Bible Study - October 18th, 2023 Deborah teaches on revival, repentance, and staying on fire for Jesus, sharing personal stories of answered prayer and what it means to live a life that matters.
- October 6, 2019 Romanian Mission. REMM - Contemporary A Romanian missionary shares how prayer sparked revival through prisoners of war, communist persecution, and orphanages, tracing God's faithfulness across generations.
- January 27, 2017 Prayer on Fire #1 of 3 (3) Pastor Don Young of College of Prayer International leads First Baptist Jackson through a session on hunger for God, prayer as the church's foundation, and encountering God's manifest presence.
Mentioned along the way
- October 27, 2024 You Will Receive Power The pastor opens Acts 1, showing how the early believers prepared for the Holy Spirit through obedience, fellowship, prayer, and studying God's word.
- August 4, 2013 The Blood of the Martyrs Is the Seed of the Church Philip scatters the gospel into Samaria, a sorcerer's heart is exposed, and Peter and John make an unusual visit in Acts 8:1-25.