What Is Revival?: See The Need Hear The Cry Pay The Price

Desiring Revival
OCT - DEC 2017

Volume 3, Issue 4
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the moun-
tains might flow down at thy presence, - Isaiah 64:1
See the Need Hear the Cry Pay the Price

From Desiring Revival
The Church in America is rich with Bible knowledge, exports it to other countries, has evangel-
ists and Pastor's and increased in goods. Can explain the Bible with no evidence of power, having need of nothing
since they already know theology and have been taught well in their schools, passing with flying colors. The
Church says they don't need miracles, supernatural works, they want dispensational theologies and theories while
conducting lectures on Sunday and Wednesday, making sure we start and end on time, and telling the Holy Ghost
when our schedule of services are, so He can come as well. Then there is the world that is desiring to see a demon-
stration of Christianity instead of hearing the definition of Christianity. While the Church is busy with her
works the world is asking Where is their God?. Dear reader, let us not sit idly by. Now is the time, late is hour,
we must pay the price for revival or die trying. May God find us faithful.
What is Revival?
First, let me tell you what I mean by revival. An evangelistic campaign or special meet-
ing is not revival. In a successful evangelistic campaign or crusade, there will be hun-
dreds or even thousands of people making decisions for Jesus Christ, but the commu-
nity remains untouched, and the churches continue much the same as before the out-
reach. In revival, God moves in the district. Suddenly, the community becomes God
conscious. The Spirit of God grips men and women in such a way that even work is
given up as people give themselves to waiting upon God. In the midst of the Lewis
Awakening, the parish minister at Barvas wrote, "The Spirit of the Lord was resting
wonderfully on the different townships of the region. His Presence was in the homes
of the people, on meadow and moorland, and even on the public roads." This pres-
ence of God is the supreme characteristic of a God-sent revival. Of the hundreds who
found Jesus Christ during this time, seventy-five per cent were saved before they came
near a meeting or heard a sermon by myself or any other ministers in the parish. The
power of God, the Spirit of God, was moving in operation, and the fear of God
gripped the souls of men - this is God-sent revival as distinct from special efforts in the
field of evangelism. - Duncan Campbell (I Corinthians 1:29, Colossians 1:18)
What is Faith? Faith is the eye by which we look to Jesus. A dim-sighted eye is still an
eye; a weeping eye is still an eye. Faith is the hand with which we lay hold of Jesus. A trembling hand is still
a hand. And he is a believer whose heart within him trembles when he touches the hem of the Saviours
garment, that he may be healed. Faith is the tongue by which we taste how good the Lord is. A feverish
tongue is, nevertheless, a tongue, and, even then, we may believe when we are without the smallest por-
tion of comfort; for our faith is founded, not upon feeling, but upon the promises of God. Faith is the foot
by which we go to Jesus. A lame foot is still a foot. He who comes slowly, nevertheless comes.
- George Mueller
The 4 great tenets of Evan Roberts at the dawn of revival that he stressed were: In 92 days from
(1) Confessing openly and fully to God any sin not confessed to Him before; October 1st
of 2017, this
(2) doing away with anything doubtful in ourselves;
year as we
(3) giving prompt obedience to the influences of the Holy Spirit in the heart, know it will
(4) confessing Christ openly and publicly before the world. come to a close.
Real Revival comes only from GOD. He alone is the Fountainhead. A Spiritual Awakening cannot be
Scheduled, Worked up or Humanly engineered - Lewis Drummond
The Need for Revival

We've out-sinned Sodom and Gomorrah. You know there are 600 million Bibles in America and if
you say there only 15 million people that means that every person in the nation has 4 Bibles. Would
you try to guess how many millions or billions of cassettes, gospel cassettes there are in the nation?
would you like to try to estimate how many seminars there are? or seminaries there are? or Bible
schools there are? or how many gospel messages were preached throughout the nation, and we've
5000 radio stations that broadcast something of the gospel? Let me give you the other side... We
are the most broken nation we have ever been in History, We've more broken homes, we've more
broken hearts over those broken homes, we've more broken little kids
because of those broken homes, We've more minds broken by drugs,
we've more bodies broken by VD, over a million girls last year got
pregnant under 17 years of age, ...and it is estimated in the last 9 years
we have put more than 10 million babies to death before they left
their mother's womb, in a Christian country?... you think God Almighty
is going to wink at our sin much longer?...
- Leonard Ravenhill (1907 - 1994)
By the year 2000 the church will be a conscious minority surrounded by an

arrogant, militant paganism. - Elton Trueblood, the Quaker philosopher
ONE Nation Under GOD - Founded by the overruling providence of GOD.
Today in America, we have allowed drinking and booze as a social habit, pornography as
art and expression, murder of the unborn as freedom of choice, lottery and gambling as
entertainment, blasphemy as freedom of speech and homosexuality as freedom of expres-
sion. There is only one word for all these, SIN before a thrice Holy and righteous GOD.
America is following the path of Rome and Babylon. Unless America repents, she is
doomed to end as an enemy of GOD forgotten in the ashes of her judgment. (Isaiah 5:20)
The Hindrances to Revival Rebellion

Justifying Sin Apathy
Pride
Unbelief Disobedience
Self
Complacency Bitterness Worldliness
Sin Lust Covetousness
The 3 main reasons we dont see Revival is because, one, we don't realize that we are Bankrupt.
two, We are comfortable to live without it and three, We are not willing to pay the price
- Leonard Ravenhill
The Path to Revival

To the praying men of Barvas, four things were made
clear, and to them became governing principles.
First they themselves must be rightly related to God,
and in this connection the reading of Psalm 24 at one
of their meetings brought them down in the presence
of the Lord, where hearts were searched and vows renewed.
In the second place, they were possessed of the conviction that God, being a cove-
nant-keeping God, must keep His covenant engagements. Had He not promised to
"pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon dry ground"? Here was some-
thing that for them existed in the field of possibility; why were they not actually
experiencing it? But they came at length to the place where, with one of old, they
would cry, "Our God...is able...and He will!"
Thirdly, they must be prepared for God to work
in His own way and not according to their pro-
gram. God was sovereign and must act according to His sovereign purpose- but
ever keeping in mind that, while God is sovereign in the affairs of men, His sover-
eignty does not relieve men of responsibility. "God is the God of revival but man is
the human agent through whom revival is possible."
Fourthly, there must be a manifestation of God, demonstrating the reality of Di-
vine in operation, when men would be forced to say: "This is the Lord's doing, and
it is marvelous in our eyes."
Excerpts taken from the Story of the Lewis Awakening
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in
the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. - 2 Chronicles 16:9
Revival will not come because of a Denomination, but because of GOD.
The Price of Revival

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people,
O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the
heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say
among the people, Where is their God? - Joel 2:17
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could
but believe that there were some among you who would
go home and pray for a revival - men whose faith is large
enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this
moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and
do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations. - C.H. Spurgeon
Psalm 126:5
GOD is the answer, prayer & obedience is the key
Will you pay the price?
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Desiring Revival

OCT - DEC 2017

See the Need Hear the Cry Pay the Price

The Need for Revival

By the year 2000 the church will be a conscious minority surrounded by an

The Hindrances to Revival Rebellion

The Path to Revival

Revival will not come because of a Denomination, but because of GOD.

The Price of Revival

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