Revival and Economic Prosperity. Can REVIVAL lead to Economic prosperity of a Nation. YES. I hope you will be patient to read to the end. Europe and Western civilization is built on Judaeo christian values. One of the effects of Jesus Christ's mission isn't just the propitiation of sins as christians believe and profess, one of the effects of the teachings and life of Christ is the revival in human beings of those values that were muted, lost or suppressed by past civilizations. Once nations and people began to imbibe them, they began to flourish. Modern economic prosperity began in Europe and spread, and Europe was totally christian. Europe was not more prosperous before it became Christian, it became more prosperous as it became Christian. This is the historical fact. Some may argue that it is mere correlation and not causal, but that argument is weak because it is historical that Europe prospered based on values that are integral to Judaeo christian Faith. There are books written on this, one of them is by Philip Yancey: WHAT GOOD IS GOD? Look for any and digest. Now, will Nigeria prosper with Revival. Yes, but not the revival programmes you see churches and ministries organize here and there. All those crusades and revival you see many churches in Nigeria organise and get crowds of people to attend are not the revival that produces economic prosperity. Check those who attend those revival programmes, 99% or more of them are christians, and they come looking for solutions as advertised and offered by the organizers. Evidence has shown that those revival offer no economic prosperity because if they did, Nigeria would have progressed, at least 50% or more of christians would have been lifted out of poverty. Statistics show otherwise. Despite all the revival programs, majority of christians are among the poorest, even those who attend those revival. When Europe and America built their economies, there was revival but not the revival of gathering people to pray for breakthrough. Both Protestant and catholic revivalists never organized this kind of revival we have today. It started with charismatic and Pentecostal movements( and we have them in Catholic and Protestant churches too) Long before the charismatics and Pentecostals began such revival, Europe and America had industrialized and built their economic foundations based on values that lead to economic prosperity. The revival that builds economic prosperity is the revival of virtues and values of love, honesty, modesty, diligence, hard work and innovation. These are the things every christian church should teach members every sunday. It is such values and virtues( in one word, character) that transforms a nation, that is exactly what Mtt 6:33 means( seek ye first the kingdom of God..) That's exactly what Europe did, they sought first the values of the kingdom, imbibed them and those led to the transformation of their nations. Muslim coutries like UAE, Malaysia etc have those values, that's why their economies are good. China which is officially like an atheist country has those values too. Anywhere those values are practiced, economic growth will take place. Those values work for everyone irrespective of their religion and race. Even unbelievers who imbibe those values will prosper. So, what we do in Nigeria is not revival, at least not the revival that solves socio economic problems. Those revival don't even add to the number of christians because eventually you will see that the organizers will open their own churches and the members are christians from other denominations. They even rarely lead to new conversions into the faith. For those of you emotionally triggered, this is not a condemnation of your usual revival where you go to kabash and fall under anointing, be intelligent enough to know this before you start masturbating fallacies here. I have been to such revival, ministered in them and will still do it when it is convenient for me.