I have always found it depressing to listen to the kind of people who, whenever you meet them, will always for sure tell you the story of their conversion many years ago. They tell you that story every time. I have known people do exactly the same thing with revival..... There is always something about an initial experience that is remarkable and outstanding. And a time of revival is so amazing and wonderful that it is not surprising that people go on talking about it. But, if they give the impression that they have had nothing since that wonderful experience, that ever after they have been walking through a wilderness, and travelling through a desert, then it is absolutely wrong.... Their idea of the Christian life is of a dramatic experience, perhaps at the outset, after which they just trudge along, living on the strength of that and partly keeping their eye turned backwards as they go forward.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
Oh, for the baptism of fire! Oh, for the living coal upon the burning lips of love! 0h, for men and women God-possessed and self-surrendered, grasping God's great idea and pressing forward toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14).
A. B. Simpson
Biography/Bibliography
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The Azusa Street Revival By Roberts Liardon Historian Liardon offers an in-depth look at events that caused Pentecostalism to become a major force in Christendom. He discusses Phoebe Palmer, the Holiness Movement, Alexander Dowie, Chicago's Zion City, Charles Parham, and William Joseph Seymour. Discover the secrets of a prayer-fueled revival that welcomed the poor, encouraged female leaders, and supported spontaneous worship! 224 pages, softcover from Destiny Image. |
Revival is waiting for us on the streets. It is hiding from us in nursing homes and prisons. It is calling to us from foreign fields and obscure places. Crying, yearning for even one person that will rise from the confines of normality and pursue it. One person that will approach the throne of grace with boldness and expect a miracle. That will stand on a street corner and wait for its shadow to pass by. Knowing that at any minute the wind that blows where it listeth may touch down in that very spot. Exploding, expanding everything that it touches. revival is a fire. And souls are its kindling.
Chad Taylor
Consuming Fire Website
A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age... But, we are living in such an age and the main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God's name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
I do not preach any new truth. I do not have any new doctrine.... We must have a revival that will mean purity of heart as a normal standard for everybody. We must be clean people, and not only clean outside.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
We Don't know where the wind comes from or where it goes. But we can and do feel it. And it can wreck old patterns of living. A storm of wind is the same thing as a meeting with the Holy Spirit of God. You Don't sit down and negotiate with either: you get blown about or blown up, and in that way you make progress and change. So will the explosion come in Church affairs. The Lord will get fed up with his children's foolishness and will bring about change. It will amount to a spiritual explosion. Paul experienced one.
Cyril Brooks
They [the revived] begin to get a concern for the members of their own family - husband, wife, father, mother, children, brother, sister - who do not know that they are outside. They tell them about it; they feel they must. There is a constraint that is driving them. They talk about it to people, to friends and to everybody, and they begin to pray for them. Prayer is always a great feature of every revival, great prayer meetings, intercession hour after hour. They pray for these people by name and they plead, and they will not let God go, as it were.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
I preached on the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith. While I was speaking, several dropped down as dead and among the rest such a cry was heard of sinners groaning for the righteousness of faith that it almost drowned my voice. But many of these soon lifted up their heads with joy and broke out into thanksgiving, being assured they now had the desire of their soul - the forgiveness of their sins.
John Wesley
Wesley Centre
Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
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Survey of 20th Century Revival Movements in North America By Richard Riss Contemporary North America has witnessed three major revivals: the 1906 Asuza Street revival, the post-World War II Latter Rain movement, and the late 1960s charismatic renewal and Jesus Movement. Although their impact has been tremendous, they've missed the history books. In this concise survey, Riss charts the course of 20th-century American revivals and explains how they've shaped the modern church. 208 pages, softcover from Hendrickson. |
Duncan Campbell
Short Biography
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles G. Finney
Online Works and Biography
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