188 days until the Greenock, Scotland Revival Conference
There may indeed be things in another Christian’s life that hinder revival, but Jesus says we are hypocrites if we try to get others straightened out while we ourselves are in a worse condition (Matt. 7:1-5). Get filled with the Holy Spirit, get on fire yourself, get filled with love for God and love for souls yourself, then indeed you can help others. But get filled yourself, first! Else, the Lord says, you are a hypocrite!
It is high time that we, as Christians, seeking revival, realized that the devil is the accuser of the brethren (Rev. 12:9-10). And the devil will encourage us greatly (if we let him) to point the finger (Isa. 58:9) at this Christian and that one, while all the time the very attitude of our own heart is disgusting in the extreme to God.
If we really love others, we may see their faults, but love is grieved at the discovery of faults in others, and love prays for them. We may speak the truth in love to the erring brother or sister in the Lord, but not in a self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude or manner – if we ourselves are really filled with the Holy Spirit.
The devil, I am convinced, has many Christians “barking up the wrong tree.” They think they have discovered the hindrance to revival, and so they have settled back in a critical, self-justifying attitude – and they themselves are doing absolutely nothing to pray down a revival – they think they know why revival fires are not burning, and so the wily devil has gotten them shifted into neutral. They are as dead as the deadest – and as likely as not they are completely mistaken in their conclusions as to what is hindering revival.
Fellow Christians, let us unlock the door to revival, in Jesus’ mighty Name!
When we think of what one man, one woman has done in the past, we don’t have to point across the aisle at another Christian and say that so and so is blocking revival. Just get a looking glass and point at the face you see there and accuse that one of blocking revival, and nine times out of ten, you’ve got the right person. Think of what Elijah did, single-handed; and Finney, and Sammy Morris, and David Brainerd, and Mary Slessor. They all got results, and so can you, and so can I! By God’s help, let us unlock the door to revival!
“Break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you” (Hos. 10:12). -W.C. Moore
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