Today I send out some thoughts on revival. I do so because it seems clear to most who look around at the contemporary scene that the church stands in great need of God's reviving influences. Not mere emotionalism. Not religious fanaticism. Not a sudden surge of popularity or culture-wide respect for the Church. And not humanly generated attempts to pump up a fleeting zeal through motivational speeches. No. A true heaven-breathed move of the Holy Spirit which transforms hearts and restores in the people of God an all-consuming love for Him and our neighbors, a passion for His glory, a yearning for His kingdom to come, and a true concern for His redemptive will to be done on earth -- regardless of the sacrifice or cost to us.
I send these to you with the hope that they might guide your prayers for such a blessed move of God in His Church. May the fresh winds of the Spirit blow through the Body of Christ as we pray, confess, repent, worship, speak of His grace and love as He calls us to love.
"How little time the average Christian spends in
prayer! We are too busy to pray, and so we too busy to have power. We
have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little. There are many
services, but few conversions. The power of God is lacking in our lives and in
our work. We have not because we ask not."
R. A. Torrey
“Revival is God breaking in and upon and over His
church like ocean waves upon the shoreline rocks.”
Jonathan Edwards
“Revival is the Church falling in love with Jesus all
over again.”
Vance Havner
“Revival
is a community saturated with God.”
Duncan Campbell
“A revival means days of heaven upon earth.”
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Revival is ultimately Christ Himself, seen, felt,
heard, living, active, moving in and through His Body on earth.”
Stephen Olford
“Revival
is that strange and sovereign work of God in which He visits His own people,
restoring, re-animating, and releasing them into the fullness of His
blessings.”
Robert Coleman
“Revival is an extraordinary work of the Spirit that
invades the church to re-energize us with God’s eternal purposes in Christ
Jesus.”
David Bryant
“Revival
is a sudden bestowal of a spirit of worship upon God’s people.”
A. W. Tozer
“A true revival means nothing less than a revolution,
casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His
love triumph in the heart and life.”
Andrew Murray
“Revival is God revealing Himself to man in awful
holiness and irresistible power. It is God’s method to counteract spiritual
decline and to create spiritual momentum in order that His redemptive purposes
might be accomplished on earth”
Arthur Wallis
“Revival comes to the church when we are thoroughly
possessed by the hope held out in the gospel—and that hope is Christ Himself.”
David Bryant
With prayers for God's Spirit to stir afresh in your
heart, Pastor Jeff
