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lwpray Member
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It is natural to man, from his earliest infancy, to cry for relief when in danger or distress, if he supposes that any one able to relieve him is within hearing of his cries. Every man then who feels his own dependence upon God, and his need of blessings which God only can bestow, will pray to Him. He will feel that prayer is not only his duty, but his highest privilege.
Edward Payson
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2004/11/15 15:59 | Profile |
lwpray Member
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In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God... To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.
Oswald J. Smith
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2004/11/15 16:07 | Profile |
lwpray Member
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Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age. . . But, we are living in such an age and the main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are anxious to see God's name vindicated and His glory manifested. We should be anxious to see something happening that will arrest the nations, all the peoples, and cause them to stop and to think again. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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2004/11/16 1:12 | Profile |
lwpray Member
Joined: 2003/6/22 Posts: 3318 Sweden
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My Lord was pleased to die for my sins; why should I not be glad to give up my poor life out of love for Him.
Girolamo Savanarola
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2004/11/16 15:32 | Profile |
RobertW Member
Joined: 2004/2/12 Posts: 4636 St. Joseph, Missouri
| Re: | | To preach to a church that are undoing all his work, and contradicting all his testimony, and that will not alter! No. Let him shake off the dust from his feet for a testimony, and go to the heathen, or to the new settlements. The man is wasting his energies, and wearing out his life, and just rocking the cradle for a sleepy church, all testifying to sinners, there is no danger. Their whole lives are a practical testimony that the Bible is not true. Shall ministers continue to wear themselves out so? Probably not less than ninety-nine-hundredths of the preaching in this country is lost, because it is contradicted by the church. Not one truth in a hundred that is preached takes effect, because the lives of professors testify that it is not so.
Rev. Charles G. Finney Revivals of Religion Lecture IX
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2004/11/16 15:41 | Profile |
lwpray Member
Joined: 2003/6/22 Posts: 3318 Sweden
| Re: Thoughts on Revival | |
The cross and the Spirit are inseparable. The soul that understands that death to self is the gate to true life is ready to learn what and who the Holy Spirit is. Andrew Murray
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2004/11/17 1:37 | Profile |
Gideons Member
Joined: 2003/9/16 Posts: 474 Virginia
| Re: | | The depth of a revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.
(This is very similar to a quote attributed to Finney if I recall.)
- Frank Bartleman
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2004/11/17 18:41 | Profile |
lwpray Member
Joined: 2003/6/22 Posts: 3318 Sweden
| Re: Thoughts on Revival | |
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together, and a low standard in one means a general debility in the whole spiritual being.
Arthur T. Pierson
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2004/11/18 10:45 | Profile |
lwpray Member
Joined: 2003/6/22 Posts: 3318 Sweden
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The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel. Thomas Watson
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2004/11/19 12:55 | Profile |
lwpray Member
Joined: 2003/6/22 Posts: 3318 Sweden
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How we have prayed for a Revival - we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not - what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire to win others. Mary Warburton Booth
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2004/11/21 10:29 | Profile |