Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days.
– Adrian Rogers –
Revival
When God Visits His Own People – Stephen Olford
Revival is that strange and sovereign work of God in which He visits His own people—restoring, reanimating, and releasing them into the fullness of His blessing.
– Stephen Olford –
Greatest Barrier to Revival – Ted Rendall
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are too interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.
– Ted Rendall –
Don’t Preach Repentance Unless … – Joseph Parker
The man whose little sermon is “repent” sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—”off with his head!” You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven.
– Joseph Parker –
A Revival of Religion is Indispensable – Charles Finney
A revival of religion is indispensable to avert the judgments of God from the church. … The fact is, Christians are more to blame for not being revived, than sinners are for not being converted. And if Christians are not awakened, they may know assuredly that God will visit them with His judgments. How often God visited the Jewish church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets.
– Charles Finney –
Revival or Judgment – Arthur Wallis
Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment. … Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival—or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other.
– Arthur Wallis –
The First Step Towards Evangelizing the World – Vance Havner
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
– Vance Havner –
Entertain the Holy Spirit – Richard Sibbs
Keep the soul open to entertain the Holy Ghost, for he will bring in continually fresh forces to subdue corruption.
– Richard Sibbs –
from The Bruised Reed, 1630
A Testimony of Revival – William Bramwell
I had not discoursed long when the congregation melted into tears. This abated for a few minutes, till a little boy about seven or eight years of age cried out exceeding piteously indeed and wept as though his little heart would break. I asked the little boy what he cried for. He answered ‘my sins !’ I then asked him what he wanted. He answered, “Christ!”
Others were so earnest for a discovery of the Lord to their souls that their eager crying obliged me to stop, and I prayed over them, as I saw their agonies and distress increase. Oh, the distress and anguish of their souls! oh, the pains that were upon them!
Many of the assembled were deeply affected, groaning and sobbing; there was a great weeping and mourning.
– William Bramwell –