Revival

We can define it as a period of unusual blessing and activity in the life of the Christian Church. Revival means awakening, stimulating the life, bringing it to the surface again. It happens primarily in the Church of God, and amongst believing people, and it is only secondly something that affects those that are outside [...]

And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found [...]

I will illustrate the necessity for a revival of religion in the present condition of the church, pointing to facts and circumstances humiliating to the believer and condemnatory of the church. When is a Revival Required?Wherever there are the proofs of spiritual death in, or around, the professing church; wherever there is an actual decay [...]

It is good for us to draw nigh unto God in prayer. Our minds are grieved to see so little attention given to united prayer by many churches. How can we expect a blessing if we are too idle to ask for it? How can we look for a Pentecost if we never meet with [...]

Have you ever made a careful, systematic study of all the prayers in the Bible and of all the teaching on prayer that the Scriptures contain? Such a labor has the potential of dramatic, powerful personal good. I am in the process of just such a study. I began my labor by quickly going through [...]

Revivals are among the charter rights of the church. They are the evidences of its divinity, the tokens of God’s presence, the witness of his power. The frequency and power of these extraordinary seasons of grace are the tests and preservers of the vital force in the church. The church which is not visited by [...]

Not long ago, I visited the site of the church building in Northampton, Massachusetts, where the renown pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards once served. Two church buildings have since been erected on that site because of fires; however, at the entrance to the current building is an old preserved stone that one must pass over, [...]

We have several generations who know nothing, experientially, of true revival and spiritual awakening. The following are descriptions of prominent features of revival scenes, which should stir your hearts to long for their repetition in our day. Pervasive, Fervent Praying. All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the [...]

In order to have mighty and unexampled revival, what we especially need is for the whole Church to be down on its knees before God. Past redemptions should make our cravings great. ‘I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill [...]

The features of revival movements on the surface vary widely, perhaps as a result of different settings, yet indeed God appears to delight in variety. Nevertheless, at the level of deeper analysis, there are constant factors recognizable in all biblical and post-biblical revivals, whatever their historical, racial, and cultural settings. They number five, and are [...]

A Humble Attempt to Promote the Agreement and Union of God’s People Throughout the World in Extraordinary Prayer For a Revival Of Religion And The Advancement Of God’s Kingdom On Earth, According To Scriptural Promises And Prophecies Of The Last Time. The Future Glorious State of Christ’s Church ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: [...]

An address delivered at the Puritan and Westminster Conference of 1976, and published in The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors, by Banner of Truth Trust. In dealing with Jonathan Edwards and the crucial importance of revival, we are really but continuing and concluding what has been the general theme of this Conference from the beginning [...]

Chapter 4 of: Jonathan Edwards: The Man. his Experience and his Theology Volume 3 The ‘Toronto Blessing’: A Renewal from God? Jonathan Edwards’ writings on revival are of especial importance, because he is, as Martyn Lloyd-Jones once described him, ‘preeminently the theologian of Revival.’ (1) His writings on revival possess ongoing value, because, first of [...]

We need to preserve a very clear view of what genuine revival is and in so doing to appreciate afresh just how marvelous such a work of grace is. Those who have themselves witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit in revival hardly need written descriptions and definitions to help them. However, those who have [...]

See to it  that the operation be such upon the will or heart, not on the Imagination, nor on the speculative understanding or motions of the mind, though they draw great affections after ‘em as the consequence. That the trouble of mind be reasonable, that the mind be troubled about those things that it has [...]

A very helpful way to come to grips with the Biblical teaching on revival is to approach it from the standpoint of the cycles of history. In your imagination, picture a very long line that begins with the creation of man in the Book of Genesis and continues on until the end of the present [...]

Today’s churches are praying for revival in unprecedented numbers. They are holding ‘revival meetings’ and ‘renewal conferences’ in the hope that these will hasten the coming of God’s Spirit in power. Yet, despite these sincere efforts, many churches have allowed unbiblical theology, as well as secular practices, to become entrenched into their corporate lives. Thus, [...]

Concerning fervent, persevering prayer, the prophet Isaiah writes, ‘I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD, give yourselves no rest, and give Him no rest, until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her a praise of the earth.’ (Isa. 62:6-7) Revival [...]