My 1 Year Revival 🔥 Lesson 1

My 1 Year Revival Series

Welcome! My name is Dave Burnette, and it is SO GOOD to have you here with us today.

This year, we’ve embarked on an incredible journey called “My 1 Year Revival”—a series of 52 messages that include:

🔥 52 principles (biblical truths)

🔥 52 precepts (rules in action)

By applying these truths, you will:

✨ Produce spiritual fruit in your life.

✨ Experience a revival—a renewal and transformation in your walk with God.

What is Revival?

As we will discuss over the next few weeks, revival means:

🌱 To bring to consciousness, or

🌱 To bring back to life.

When we live in revival:

💧 We will be filled with the Spirit of God.

💧 We will have God’s power in our lives.

💧 We will defeat the enemy.

💧 We will live the victorious Christian life.

We will see:

🔥 Lives changed,

🔥 Mountains moved, and

🔥 Christ’s plans and promises for us fulfilled.

We will discover who we are in Christ Jesus and who He is in us.

This Week’s Lesson

Lesson 1 — Be Saved (New Life in Christ)

Texts: John 3:1–18; Ephesians 2:1–10; Romans 10:9–13

Principle: Revival presumes life. You cannot be “re-vived” unless you have been made alive in Christ.

Precept: Repent and believe the gospel; receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Cohesive Overview :

Every movement toward revival begins where God begins—with new birth. Nicodemus, learned and religious, came to Jesus by night with questions; Jesus answered with a necessity: “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7). Salvation is not a renovation of the old nature; it is a regeneration—God bringing the dead to life (Eph. 2:1–5). We were not merely sick with sin; we were dead in trespasses. The gospel announces that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again; whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Rom. 10:9–13).

To be saved is to be united with Christ. His righteousness is counted to you; your guilt is laid upon Him. You are justified—declared right with God—not by your performance but by Christ’s finished work. Salvation is by grace through faith; it is “not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8–9). Yet grace does not leave us unchanged. We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand (Eph. 2:10). The new birth gives a new heart, new desires, new power—the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Revival later will call you to capitulation (surrender) repeatedly, but that life of surrender begins at the cross. The flesh and the Spirit are contrary; two entities contend (Gal. 5:17). Which one “rules” is tied to which one you feed—but the Spirit only dwells where there is life. So the first step of the year is decisive: turn from self-rule and sin, trust Christ alone, take Him at His word.

Keys of Submission:

Conviction — Agree with God about your sin and need.

Confession — Declare Jesus as Lord; believe He rose from the dead.

Conversion — Receive Christ by faith; rely on His finished work.

Commitment — Publicly identify with Jesus (baptism, church).

Continuance — Begin in grace; continue in grace.

Practice This Week:

Read John 3 and Ephesians 2 aloud; underline every mention of grace, faith, life.

Write a one-paragraph testimony: “Before Christ / How I met Christ / Since Christ.”

Share that testimony with one person and invite them to call on the Lord.

Declaration: “I am saved by grace through faith; I belong to Jesus, and I begin this year alive in Him.”