Thoughts on Revival

If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves.Only obedience rationalizes prayer.Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.William Carey

Lars, this is good. I have been seeking God on what to do with myself. I've never been whole enough in the past to be of much use to God. Now, I feel that God is placing a fire inside me, but I don't know which direction to go. Please pray that I will hear his voice and follow him. Love, Dian.

We are glad to do some work in prayer in this direction.God's training is always "on the job training".Lars

Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.Samuel Chadwick

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.Matthew Henry

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.John Wesley

I like this one by Wesley the best so far.Thx Bro. Lars

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight;while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight;while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight;while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!William Booth

Revival:A general breaching of the breakwaters of sin and pride.A. Skevington Wood

Yes, there lies before us a beautiful possible life - one that shall have a passion for giving: that shall be pored forth to God – spent out for man: that shall be consecrated for the hardest work and the darkest sinners.Lillias Trotter

Oh, for closest communion with God, till soul and body, head, face, and heart - shine with Divine brilliancy! But oh! for a holy ignorance of our shining!Robert Murray M'Cheyme

Neglected Christian truths can be revitalized only when by prayer and long meditation we isolate them from the mass of hazy ideas with which our minds are filled and hold them steadily and determinedly in the focus of the mind’s attention.A.W. TozerThe Divine Conquest

True prayer will achieve just as much as it costs us.Samuel M. Zwemer

Prayer is buried, and lost and Heaven weeps. If all prayed the wicked would flee from our midst or to the refuge.Evan Roberts

Oh, for closest communion with God, till soul and body, head, face, and heart - shine with Divine brilliancy! But oh! for a holy ignorance of our shining!Robert Murray M'CheymeThis is wonderful, it reminds me of Chambers The new life manifests itself in conscious repentance and unconscious holiness. My Utmost – August 15

That, which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.John Flavel

Why is there so little forethought in the laying out of time and employment, so as secure a large portion of each day for prayer? Why is there so much speaking, yet so little prayer? Why is there so much running to and fro to meetings, conventions, fellowship gatherings and yet so little time for prayer'? Brethren, why so many meetings with our fellow men and so few meetings with God?"Andrew Bonar

The Azusa revival began where every revival should rightly begin-in repentant tears. It began in tears, it lived in tears, and when the tears ended the Azusa revival ended.A.G. Osterberg

We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. . .To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!C. T. Studd

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.J. Mott