Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church.
– AW Tozer –
Revival
A Spiritual Awakening – Lewis Drummond
A spiritual awakening is no more than God’s people seeing God in His holiness, turning from their wicked ways, and being transformed into His likeness.
– Lewis Drummond –
The Irish Revival of 1859 – Oswald J. Smith
In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God. … To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.
– Oswald J. Smith –
The Great Sweeping Revivals of the Past – Leonard Ravenhill
I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and I said, “No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!”
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God Sends Revival in the Darkest Days – Adrian Rogers
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
– Adrian Rogers –
No Change, No Revival – Al Whittinghill
We want Him [Jesus] as long as He doesn’t change what we like. But any person not open to change is NOT open to revival.
– Al Whittinghill –
We Must Be Right With God
Brethren, it is just so much humbug to be waiting for this, night after night, month after month, if we ourselves are not right with God. I must ask myself—”Is my heart pure? Are my hands clean?”
– Comment from the Hebrides Revival –
Can You Sit At Ease? – Leonard Ravenhill
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The Gospel Is A Fire – Dr. Gautrey
The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.
– Dr. R. Moffat Gautrey –