Sir, how much is revival?

C: "Hello Aunty, how much is this?"
Find this familiar?
I definitely do, and I even bargain.
C:"Cheaper lar..I come all the way here."
A:"I'm sorry, the price is fixed. It used to be way higher but after I absorbed the GST, I cannot lower it anymore."

Just for humour, GST stands for 'Global Sins' Tax'. And it has been absorbed when Jesus came to do what no man could do. Yet we still bargain. For some, they are absolutely good at bargaining. Some others, they bargain for a while thinking that the price they offer is good enough, then they stop because they realised that the price they offer simply isn't enough.

Lately, I have been intrigued with the thought about 'revival'. I realised I never really understood what revival meant until recently. I have read books and heard stories about great things happening in every other parts of the world and I'm still amazed at how it all took place.

Let's put aside all cognitive knowledge from which arguments stem and every other fleshy mindset and look at this matter objectively. If not, please press Alt+F4 now.

Over the phone with a friend, where the conversation was said to never have existed once we hang up...we came to the topic of revival and mentioned a few of whom you might be familiar with. John G. Lake, Maria Woodworth-Etter, Kathryn Kuhlman, Smith Wigglesworth and so on.
They were great generals of God and used in powerful ways where their ministry were 'outstanding'.

John G. Lake,had a family of 5 children with a wife who offered her life to servanthood. 4 hours of prayer and reading of God's word was the minimal for him daily.

Kathryn Kuhlman, a lady of destiny whose ministry included physical healing of the body. The Holy Spirit would move and people were healed in the midst of her preaching of God's word. She grounded herself with the Word of God in her teenage years and her believed every inch of it. Each time before she goes on stage, she would tarry in brokeness and in realisation of how small she is. She wouldn't move without the anointing of the Spirit.

Maria Woodworth-Etter,was the woman many akin to Esther in the old testament. She oftened said that she is merely a worm in the dust. Humility and obedience led her to fulfilling the call to preach to 'all who were perishing'. Signs and wonders accompanied her. Spiritual authority over sin, diseases and demons.

Smith Wigglesworth,had a phrase and I like it alot. ha. "God said it, I believe. That's it." And with that faith, he went on with signs and wonders, even resurrection from the dead of his wife. An uneducated plumber, raised the 'faith temperature' in his time.

They were all human, frail and fragile just like us. If it's about paying the price, then the above mentioned must have paid it, somehow.
Could it be their secret life, which is prayer? The supernatural to us, is natural to God. It is in God's nature to heal. He cannot deny Himself. The same power that raised Jesus then, is still very much available to us now. If so, what is holding us back or hindering us from flowing in the power that is given to us?

In a sermon I have heard at least twice, the price to pay was not cheap.

1. To be captured by a vision.
2. Destroy the flesh.
3. Living a life of purity.

I'm still trying to get pass the first point. I met a noel and he shared about God wanting us to move in faith. To move in the supernautral and no longer use ploughing equipment to plough. No longer use machines to build. But supernaturally, raise up the building for God. Faith.
We have been way too comfortable.

Lord, prepare our hearts and ready us so that we can receive from You when revival comes. Only make us ready. Make me ready.