I can remember it like yesterday.
Just a few short years ago, I was convinced revival was mine to lead. I thought I was going to be the one to usher it in for our region—spearhead it, organize it, sustain it. (As if revival was something I could manufacture and control.)
So I started hosting services. Big prayers, bold declarations. “Revival, revival!” I cried.
People came the first time.
But the next month… not so much.
I kept going—kept hosting, kept pouring out my heart, kept pouring out my money.
And still—no wind.
Because you can’t fabricate the breath of God.
Eventually, I gave up.
Not in defeat, but in humility.
I knew something in my approach was off.
That’s when the Lord whispered a truth that cut deep and set me free:
“You can’t take a city until you’ve taken your family.
And you can’t take your family until you’ve tended your own soul.”
That revelation in 2021 launched me into the deepest humility I’ve ever known.
And from that hidden place came something more valuable than all my striving.
I stopped trying to light fires for the masses.
Instead, I learned to ignite the flame in my own soul,
and then in my own home.
Steward the small.
Steward the holy.
Steward the things no one else sees.
Revival doesn’t begin in a stadium. It doesn’t start with a microphone or a well-crafted sermon. Revival begins around the dinner table. It begins in a mother’s whispered prayers at bedtime. It begins in the ordinary moments when we choose Presence over pressure and connection over chaos.
Your home is not just four walls and a roof. It is a dwelling place of glory. It is the first church your children will ever know, the altar where worship rises without microphones, the training ground where they will learn what it means to walk with Jesus.
For the truth seeker, wild woman—the one who longs to raise children in wonder and truth, to create a home that breathes Heaven—this is our invitation: to make our homes sacred revival centers. Not perfect homes. Not Instagram-worthy homes. But atmospheres charged with the presence of God. A place where you can literally feeeeel the difference.
Here’s how you can begin to actually walk out "Revival is Family":
1. Guard the Atmosphere
Every home carries an atmosphere. Some carry stress. Some carry busyness. Some carry peace. You get to choose what is cultivated within your walls.
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Each morning, stand in your living room, kitchen, or even at the threshold of your front door, and speak peace out loud over your home. Words shape worlds.
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Turn down the voices of chaos: limit constant TV, clutter, and background noise that frays your soul.
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Invite beauty and worship into your space. Light a candle, play soft worship, or open the windows and let fresh air move through. These are not small acts—they are signals to your spirit: This place is holy.
2. Set a Family Altar
Every revival in Scripture was marked by an altar. It doesn’t have to be elaborate; it only has to be intentional.
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Choose a corner, a basket, or a shelf to be your family’s altar space.
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Place a Bible, a few journals, maybe some stones of remembrance or drawings your kids have made of prayers answered.
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Gather here daily—even if only for five minutes. Read a short passage. Pray a simple prayer. Pause and listen. Let this spot become the anchor point of your family’s days.
When your children know they have a place to meet God in their own home, they learn that His presence is not reserved for Sunday mornings—it’s here, now, always.
3. Practice Prophetic Hospitality
Hospitality is more than opening your home—it is opening your heart. It is seeing each person who enters as though you were welcoming Jesus Himself.
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Begin with your own family. Greet your children each morning as though they are gifts of God (because they are). Speak life over them: “I bless you to walk in joy today. I bless you to know how loved you are.”
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When friends and neighbors enter your home, don’t just offer them food—offer them blessing. Invite them into the peace of your home. A simple word of encouragement can shift atmospheres more than we realize.
Your table becomes an altar when love and blessing are the main meal.
4. Establish Rhythms of Rest + Joy
Revival thrives in rested, joyful hearts. If our homes are only ever marked by striving, we will miss the beauty of His presence.
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Choose one night a week for delight. It could be a family feast, storytelling around the firepit, or a night of spontaneous worship and dancing in the living room. Let joy have a place.
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Protect one day—or even one afternoon a week—as Sabbath space. Unplug from constant striving. Put down your phone. Breathe deeply. Notice God in creation and in your children’s laughter.
When we honor rest, we create a home where God is not squeezed into the margins but welcomed in the center.
5. Empower Every Voice
Your children were not meant to be spectators in the Kingdom—they are carriers of it.
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Ask your kids often: “What do you hear God saying today?”
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Allow them to pray, sing, and share their dreams. Treat their words with reverence, even if they seem simple.
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Let your home be the first place they are trusted as image-bearers of God with something to contribute.
The revival you long to see “out there” is already beginning in the hearts of the little ones right in front of you.
The Overflow: Revival Life Beyond Your Walls
When you begin to build a revival atmosphere at home, it naturally spills outward.
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To your children: They grow confident that they are safe, known, and empowered. Their friends will feel revival the moment they step through your door.
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To your marriage: Your unity becomes a covering of peace, a prophetic picture of covenant love.
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To your community: Playdates, meals, and conversations become thin places where Heaven touches earth.
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To yourself: You stop striving for revival somewhere else, because you recognize—it has already begun in your own living room.
The First Step
Don’t overcomplicate this. You don’t have to overhaul your home in a day. Revival comes in the smallest beginnings.
Light one candle. Speak one blessing. Choose one corner for prayer.
Watch how the Spirit breathes on it. Watch how the atmosphere shifts. Watch how your family begins to live, move, and grow in the overflow of His presence.
Because revival was never meant to stay “out there.” It was always meant to begin here.
