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Gypsy Smith was once asked how to start a revival. He answered: “Go home, lock yourself in your room, kneel down in the middle of your floor. Draw a chalk mark all around yourself and ask God to start the revival inside that chalk mark. When He has answered your prayer, the revival will be on.” —Missionary…

The story of the Moravian Brethren is a similar one. When the Christians of various and disparate traditions—Roman Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, Anabaptist, and many others—gathered together on the Von Zinzendorf estate in Moravia, in the early 1700s, they saw themselves as pilgrims in spiritual unity.…

Back in 2000, the FCA leaders of Pearl River Central High School in Carriere, Ms, were discussing plans for the remainder of the school year. "Everyone was writing down goals and plans when suddenly a teacher suggested we reach our school for Christ," said Cary-Anne Dell, a member of the FCA's leadership…

In 1958 John Stott was leading a university outreach in Sydney, Australia. The day before the final meeting, Stott received word that his father had passed away. In addition to his grief, Stott was also starting to lose his voice. It was late afternoon and within a few hours the final meeting would take…

Sometimes pastors and missionaries experience unbelievable fruitfulness; other times they beat the soil for years with no results. Why? Because sometimes the Word of God "runs" and sometimes it does not. Dafydd Morgan (1814-1883) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist pastor who was used greatly in the Welsh…

Last Monday, Wanda Murfin sent a note from Silverhill, Alabama, asking, "Did this happen? I read about the revival in New Orleans with Billy and Franklin Graham, but somehow I must have missed this." She forwarded an internet article showing photos of Billy Graham and a French Quarter scene. The reporter…

by Dr. Paul Chappell “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified,…

When Fiorello La Guardia was the mayor of New York City (1933–1945), he hung above his desk in City Hall, a pronouncement by Abraham Lincoln. Interestingly, General MacArthur had a copy of it hanging over his headquarters desk during World War II, and Winston Churchill had a framed copy of it on the…

"A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness, making God’s love triumph in the heart." Andrew Murray

"If God has visited His people before, He can and will do it again" James McQuilkin

And what happens when you repent of your disobedience, fear God, understand your sin, and stop making excuses? Well just consider W. P. Mackay. He writes: My dear mother … had been a godly, pious woman, quite often telling me of the Savior, and many times I had been a witness to her wrestling in prayer…

* 1. They were hungry for the Word vs.1-4a, 5 2. They were humble in their Worship v.6 3. They were holy in their Work vs. 15-16 Source: Unknown

"Revival is the church falling in love with Jesus all over again." Vance Havner

Subject God bless the church From wagardner Sent Friday, October 12, 2007 7:54 AM Usually when God intends greatly to bless a church, it will begin in this way: Two or three persons in it are distressed at the low state of affairs and become troubled even to anguish. Perhaps they do not speak to one…

"A genuine rival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light." Charles Spurgeon

"A revival means days of heaven upon earth" D. Martin-Lloyd Jones

"A revived church is the only hope for a dying world." Andrew Murray

"Revival cannot be organized, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again." G. Campbell Morgan

Jim Cymbala - The Brooklyn Tabernacle. WHO OWNS IT? "God normally calls us along the line of our gifted-ness, but the purpose of giftedness is stewardship and service, not selfishness." Os Guinness, 1971 The Brooklyn Tabernacle had 30 people The choir began with a group of 9 people in the early 1980’s…

3 Preachers who were doing revivals at the churches got together and compared notes: A Methodist church got 3 families A Presbyterian Chruch got 7 families The Baptist Chruch got rid of the 10 worst familes in their church

The Fulton St Prayer Meeting of 1857. Jeremy Lamphier looked at the six men gathered in the rented hall on Fulton Street in New York City, and I suppose he wondered what could possibly come of it. He had been hired as a lay missionary some months before by the Dutch Reformed Church in lower Manhattan…

“Since revival can never lay hold upon the world until it has first laid hold on the church, the need is for the fountains of sin to be broken up in the church. Backslidden Christians must be brought to repentance. They must have their faith renewed. Before the world can be moved, we must renew the image…

1904 Welsh Revival. - Evan Roberts - 26 years coal miner/blacksmith - Very little education - 1904 Welsh Revival - 100,000 came to Christ - Often his meetings had no preaching just Prayer or reading of scripture. /The Welsh revival was a mighty invasion of the Spirit; God's Kingdom radically manifested…

When Do We Need Revival? Evidences of the Need for a Fresh Visitation of the Spirit in Revival -when we do not love Him as we once did. -when earthly interests and occupations are more important than eternal ones. -when we would rather watch TV and read secular books and magazines than read the Bible…

Vacuum of Desire Revivals come only to those who want them badly enough. The problem is not to persuade God to fill us, but to want God sufficiently to permit Him to do so. The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed…