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Section 9A .. Index To Revival

 
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"Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.  To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience." A.W. Tozer.

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.” Leonard Ravenhill

REVIVAL

As history shows, the church can only expect true Revival when a remnant of God's people get DESPERATE - desperate about the backslidden state of the church, desperate about the lukewarmness within them and all around them, desperate about sin and compromise, desperate about the fact that God is not GLORIFIED, that He is not truly LORD of His church, that His words are mocked and largely seen as irrelevant by a dying world. Revival will come when God's people truly humble themselves, when they replace their "positive imaging" ('Rise up, you people of power", etc), with the reality of James' lament: "Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up" (James 4:9-10). The Two Secrets Of Revival -by Andrew Strom

Hebrew prophecy does tell us that another harvest is yet to come. [See End Time Revival Or End Time Apostasy?]. However, note that not everyone who believes in an end time revival necessarily believes that the church will establish God's kingdom here on earth, which is just another exampleof widespread apostasy [See Dominion Theology]. However this will be a move of God and NOT in any way caused or instigated by the church, which has largely proved to be an empty shell. [See Section The Contemporary Church].

 

LET THE FIRE FALL
We desperately need revival. We desperately need the fire to fall. But God seems to be very silent.. Why?

TRUE REVIVAL
Every Christian knows what revival is, right? All active church members are familiar with and accustomed to the traditional revival. Many evangelical churches have one every year. The special series of services publicized and promoted as "revival" is a staple in most evangelical denominations, although they do seem to be losing popularity in many churches. But is it possible that most faithful Christians do not really understand and appreciate what a true revival is or what it would be? I am convinced that this is, in fact, the case. And worse yet, if the typical Christian did understand and appreciate what true revival would be, he would not want to experience it!

PREACHING THAT HINDERS REVIVAL
What ever happened to the fearless preachers whose fiery denunciations of sin and awesome warnings of impending doom used to grip the land?

REVIVAL... WHAT REVIVAL?
Forgive me for not buying into the hype, folks. But every time I hear someone defend Rick Warren’s ministry based on the premise that it has cultivated a new revival, I ask myself this question: Revival? WHAT revival?!

TRUE REVIVAL OR APOSTASY?
A Comparison Between the Modern "Toronto Blessing" Style of Revivalism & Historic Revivals.

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Also See Sections

Counterfeit Revivals
Move of God or demonic deception?

The Contemporary Church
Losing The Fight For Our Churches as We Dilute the Gospel, Embrace Worldly Methods
and Become People Pleasers.

Living The Faith
Some Central and Very Important Issues For All Believers..

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