Through prayer there is no problem that can’t be solved,
no sickness that can’t be healed, no burden that can’t be lifted,
no storm that can’t be weathered,
no devastation that can’t be relieved,
no sorrow that can’t be erased,
no poverty cycle that can’t be broken,
no sinner that can’t be saved,
no perishing that can’t be rescued,
no fallen that can’t be lifted,
no hurt that can’t be removed,
no broken relationship that can’t be mended,
no difference that can’t be resolved,
no hindrance that can’t be shaken,
no limitation that can’t be overcome,
no mourning that can’t be comforted,
no ashes that can’t be that can’t become beauty,
no heaviness that can’t be covered with the garment of praise,
no thirst that can’t be quenched, no hunger that can’t be filled,
no dry ground that can’t be flooded,
no desert that can’t blossom,
no congregation that can’t be revived,
no preacher that can’t be anointed,
no church pews that can’t be filled,
no church leadership team that can’t become ‘one,’
no community that can’t be transformed and
no nation that can’t be revived.
— Anon. Cure of all Ills, Mary Stewart Relfe p.5 (slightly adapted Tony Cauchi)
Psalm 85:6
“Won’t you [God, the Giver of revival] revive us [the need] again [the history of revival], so your people [the prime subjects of revival] can rejoice [the effect of revival] in you? [the end and purpose of revival]”
Revival is what the church first experiences; #evangelism is then what she engages in. Revival is periodic; evangelism is continuous. “Revival and evangelism are not identical, although the word revival is frequently used to designate soul-winning efforts directed toward unbelievers. Revival is not always welcome. For many its price is too high. There is no cheap #grace in revival. It entails repudiation of self-satisfied #complacency. Revival turns careless living into vital concern… exchanges self-indulgence for self-denial. Yet, revival is not a #miraculous visitation falling on an unprepared people like a bolt out of the blue. It comes when God’s people earnestly want revival and are willing to pay the price.
— Christianity Today, April 9, 1965Revival is that which changes the moral climate of a #community
— A.W. TozerSpiritualAwakening is a movement of the Holy Spirit bringing about a #revival of New Testament #Christianity in the Church of Christ and its related #community
— J. Edwin Orr
#Revival is a work of God’s Spirit among His own people… what we call revival is simply New Testament #Christianity, the saints getting back to normal.
— Vance Havner
If there was 10,000 Christians just like you, when it comes to usefulness to the Kingdom of God. How long would it take for the world to be saved?
— Fabian Grech (via, Charles Finney)
All I wanna know is… Who’s coming with me?
We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.
— Robert E. Lee
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China, India, Paskistan…etc With the facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
— Hudson Taylor
