A revival is a time of quickening or impartation of life. As God alone can give life, a revival is a time when when God visits His people and by the power of His Spirit imparts new life to them, and through them imparts life to sinners dead in trespasses and sins. We have religious excitements gotten up by the cunning methods and hypnotic influence of the mere professional evangelist; but these are not revivals and are not needed. They are the devil’s imitations of a revival. New life from God–that is a revival. A general revival is a time when this new life from God is not confined to scattered localities, but is general throughout Christendom and the earth.
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…revivals also have a decided influence on the unsaved world.
First of all, they bring deep conviction of sin. Jesus said that when the Spirit was come He would convince the world of sin (John 16:7-8). Now we have seen that a revival is a coming of the Holy Spirit, and therefore there must be new conviction of sin, and there always is. If you see something men call a revival, and there is no conviction of sin, you may know at once that it is bogus. It is a sure mark.
–R.A. Torrey, How To Pray
Marks of Revival – J. I. Packer
Revival-and Renewal – A.W. Tozer
Revival Conditions – A.W. Tozer
What Is a Revival? by C. H. Spurgeon
The Spirit of Revival (pt. 1) – R.C. Sproul
The Spirit of Revival (pt. 2)
The Spirit of Revival (pt. 3)
The Spirit of Revival (pt. 4)
The Spirit of Revival (pt. 5)
Test Revival with Doctrine – John Piper
MARJOE GORTNER-HOW FALSE PROPHET WORKS – YouTube
Psalm 19:7a HCSB
The instruction of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
I prefer to think of revival as spiritual restoration. As my pastor put it recently:
His definition sounds just like what Strong’s and BDB say about “reviving” in Psalm 19:7 now that I look more into it.
Jeff
When I think of spiritual growth and revival, I usually think of Zech 4:6:
“Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies” (NLT).
“A text of Scripture is like a diamond with many facets, which flashes and sparkles whichever way it is held.” C H Spurgeon.
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Hi.I found your Web Site by GoogleAnd I wish you the best you can get,the peace of God through Jesus Christ.Welcome to visit my Site.Allan Svensson, Swedenwww.algonet.se/~allan-sv/INDEX.HTMWhy does the revival tarry? It is because God’speople tarry to obey the powerful command ofthe Lord in Rev. 18:4. This is the most powerful revival message of the Lord to his people in our time.As in the days of Lot, it is now. Lot was not interested to leave Sodom. God sent two angels to rescue him,and they must persuade him to leave Sodom. When he yet lingered, one of the angels said to him: “Flee for your life sake …” Just like as Lot, God’s people are not interested to leave the great Babylon, but finally they must flee for their life from there.www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/PAGE88.HTMWhy are the Christians divided in many churches and denominations? It is because the truth of the Assembly of God has never been preached in the churches. The members of churches and denominations are not permitted to know the truth of the Assembly of God. If the truth of Assembly of God would be well known among the people, then all God’s people would leave the churches, according to Rev. 18:4.I left the great Babylon 43 years ago.God’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledgebecause their preachers have rejected knowledge.Hosea 4:6-11. Instead to preaching the truth of the Assembly of God, they have preached lies about the Assembly of God. The Pentecostalists have abusedthe expression “Assembly of God” and used it as a name of their church.Evil spirits in the churcheswww.algonet.se/~allan-sv/SPIRITS.HTMA catastrophic coursewww.algonet.se/~allan-sv/COURSE.HTMWhy did the Pentecostal Revival take an end?www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/CRISIS.HTMWhat does hinder the Antichrist to appear?What is the Restrainer?www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/MESSAGE.HTM#Antichrist The truth shall make us freewww.algonet.se/~allan-sv/FREE.HTM
The word knucklehead comes to mind.
Thanks Stan. I was at a loss. I didn’t want to censor (censer?) the comment though.
Jeff
I think he’s posted the same thing at another blog but I can’t remember which one.
i think that spiritual life is much more important compared to our earthly life.`’;