The Narrow Way

Revival sounds beautiful until it burns.
Until it breaks your schedule.
Disrupts your comfort.
Pulls you out of what’s easy
and into what’s eternal.

Because revival doesn’t come cheap.
It doesn’t ride in on feelings.
It rides in on sacrifice.

And those who carry revival must count the cost.

Revival will cost you your pride.
Your reputation.
Your comfort zones.
It will ask you to forgive when it’s easier to stay offended.
To love when you’d rather protect yourself.
To keep burning even when no one claps.

Revival will make you weep over people who mocked you.
Fast when others feast.
Stay up interceding while others sleep.

It will break your heart for what breaks His—
and then ask you to give Him the pieces.

But here’s the mystery:
Every cost becomes an altar.
And every altar attracts fire.

2 Samuel 24:24 says,
“I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing.”

David knew—
cheap offerings produce shallow fire.
But costly surrender?
It brings glory.

So yes, there will be days you feel stretched.
Misunderstood.
Exhausted.

But don’t quit.
Because the weight you feel isn’t punishment—
it’s presence.

You are carrying something heaven entrusted to you.
And when others see sparks,
you know the story of the oil behind it.

So keep paying the price.
Keep bringing the costly perfume.
Keep pressing into the secret place when no one’s watching.

Because revival may cost you everything—
but it will give you more of Him.

And once you’ve tasted His glory,
you’ll never be satisfied with anything less.