Reinvigorate Your Faith
On the first of October, I looked at the calendar and realized the last quarter of 2026 was upon us. It seems like only yesterday we were looking forward to the new year with the hope and anticipation that a new year brings. We believed for this year to bring forth the best God has for us.
To be honest, there have been some wonderful things that happened in 2026. But there is also a sense that the year is getting away from me. There are things I had hoped would happen that are still sitting in the “not yet” column.
Whether you celebrate the New Year according to the Jewish calendar during this season or you simply continue with the calendar you grew up with, there is something significant about recognizing that we are entering another season. We can choose to embrace a newness of vision for what God wants to do in us and through us.
Don’t surrender 2026 to history yet. You still have three months.
· You have three months to establish new habits.
· Three months to reinvigorate your faith.
· Three months to go deeper in your relationships with the people you love.
· Three months to learn something new.
· Three months to fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.
· Three months to remove things off your calendar that are simply wearing you out so that you can focus and align with what the Lord has called you to do.
· Three months to take time to listen for His voice and obey.
· Three months to pray Psalm 90:12, “Teach us to number our days aright,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
As I looked at these final three months, I began asking myself:
· What do I need to accomplish in these three months in order to finish this year well?
· What needs to be set aside?
· What needs to be postponed until next year?
· What is God asking me to focus on now?
As I waited on the Lord and looked toward these final three months, I heard the Lord say, “Reinvigorate your faith.” I want to share what I believe the Lord showed me. I believe these principles can help all of us, but I encourage you to listen for yourselves. The Lord may highlight something different for you. The important thing is that we are all positioning ourselves to move forward with Him.
When I hear a word like this, I often look up a key word in the dictionary. This time, I looked up “reinvigorate.” One definition is: “To give new strength or energy to something or someone.” The Cambridge Dictionary adds the nuance “to make someone feel healthier and more energetic again.”
If the Lord is telling me to reinvigorate my faith, I first have to admit it needs reinvigoration. Acts 3:19 states “Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” Sometimes reinvigoration begins by simply returning to the presence of God. It is coming back to our first love. (see Revelation 2:4–5)
What causes our faith to become depleted in the first place?
Intense or long battles
Unanswered prayers
Disappointment and hope deferred
Busyness that leads to weariness
Complacency that causes us to stop exercising our faith
Settling for the status quo
The word “reinvigorate” isn't found in Scripture, but there are many biblical words that are synonymous like renew, restore, revive, refresh, enliven. Romans 12:2 tells us: “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Transformation is rooted in renewing our minds.
We don't simply need our circumstances to change. We need the way we see our circumstances to change. We may need to transform the way we see ourselves and the way we see Father God. We may need to change the way we interpret what we are going through. If we have begun to see ourselves as victims, let’s remember that God calls us to something greater. He transforms us from victim to victor.
Remember, God works from the inside out. We may feel depleted, but 2 Corinthians 4:16 reminds us, “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day.” This isn't a one-time spiritual experience, but a daily renewal.
If our faith is to be reinvigorated, our soul needs restoration. He tells us in Psalm 23:3, “He restores my soul.” Notice who is doing the restoring. It is His work, not ours. Yes, we cooperate, but He doesn’t tell us to work harder in that psalm. He says He will lead us beside the still waters and make us lie down in green pastures. So don't continually push yourself through the process of renewal, rest is involved.
I was reminded of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37. Those bones were dry, depleted, lifeless, and beyond hope. Yet in Ezekiel 37:16 God declares, “I will put My Spirit within you, and you will come to life.” His life-giving power brought them back to life. Just like those dry bones, we can receive strength and life from Him. God is an expert at bringing dead things back to life. This is the good news of the resurrection!
As God is restoring us and bringing the dead parts in us back to life, we need to do our part and stir up what God has already placed within us. Paul said to Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:6: “For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you…” The phrase “kindle afresh” gives us the picture of rekindling a fire.
I thought I understood what that meant, but I decided to look up the actual process of rekindling a fire. The process gave me some interesting spiritual parallels.
1. Clear the ashes. Before a fire can burn effectively again, the cold ashes from the previous fire need to be removed. Clearing the ashes allows the fire to breathe. Spiritually, there can be residue from past battles, disappointments, defeats—or even past victories—that can interfere with what God wants to do now. Sometimes we allow the residue of past battles to produce hopelessness. Other times, we allow the memory of a previous move of God to create an expectation that God must move the same way again. We need to clear the ashes and make room for what He wants to do in this season.
2. Gather kindling, which is small, dry pieces of wood to get the fire going again. I thought about those we pass daily who are lost, backslidden, wounded, or simply far from God. When someone encounters the fire of God and the Holy Spirit breathes on them, they can ignite quickly and then cause others to reignite. Sometimes the people we might consider “dry sticks” are actually the very people God intends to use to help reignite a fellowship.
3. Arrange the larger pieces of wood. Once the fire is burning, larger pieces of wood are needed to sustain it. Spiritually, I see these as core truths God has established within the Ekklesia like love, faith, holiness, kindness, obedience. These will sustain the fire.
4. Blow gently on the fire and it will cause the embers to glow and the fire to grow. Throughout Scripture, breath is associated with the Spirit of God. We can position ourselves to receive when He wants to breathe upon us.
As I was pondering Jesus asking me to reinvigorate my faith, I was reminded of a prophetic word Chuck Pierce released on July 5, 2026. He spoke about God causing His wing to “re-shadow” America and said that in the next four months we should not fear the darkness for it would be a time when God's people would learn to see in new ways. He spoke of a shadow that would contain an anointing and said that although there would be darkness, “in that dark, there is a light that is beginning to get brighter and brighter.”
As we enter October, we have one more month of the four-month period he described. And I keep coming back to this phrase: “In that dark, there is a light that is beginning to get brighter and brighter.”
· I want to be part of that light.
· I want my faith to become brighter.
· I want to be ready to rise in a new way.
· I want to stand for truth as we approach the mid-term elections.
· I want to be one of those people who has allowed God to clear the ashes, rekindle the fire, and breathe fresh life into what He has already placed within me.
So, as we enter these final three months of 2026, let's not simply watch the year disappear from the calendar.
· Let's number our days.
· Let's listen.
· Let's obey and be faithful.
· Let's rest when God is asking us to rest.
· Let's renew our minds.
· Let's return to our first love.
· Let's rekindle the gift of God within us.
· Let's allow the Holy Spirit to breathe fresh life into our faith.
· And let's keep our eyes open for the dry sticks around us—people who are broken, wounded, lost, disconnected, or desperate for a Savior.
Perhaps God is going to use our renewed fire to ignite someone else's.
We still have three months.
The year isn't over.