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2 mar 2024 · It’s the Source of revival we really want. We long for the Life that gives us life, sustains our life, and renews our life — that in Christ, by his Spirit, we might “be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). If Jesus were to ask us what it is about revival that we want, we might paraphrase Lucy in our reply: “It isn ...
22 mar 2024 · But if we pray for new hearts, we must let the word of God do its work. If we see revival, it will cost us far more than we dare to believe, because the Holy Spirit will give us faith that he is worth far more than we risked believing before. 2. Revival will be easy. The word of God increased and multiplied.
10 mar 2017 · That is what revival is. “God is the decisive giver of all spiritual life, so ask for a fresh outpouring of his live-giving Spirit.”. So, for example, we read a prayer to God in Psalm 85:6, “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?”. Or, Habakkuk 3:2, “O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O ...
13 mar 2024 · So, revival begins with God — through his speaking, his voice, his word. Man does not produce true spiritual revival; God does. And the way in which he does so is through his word. When God sends the fire of his Spirit to fall on the hearts of his people in some blessed local or regional renewal, the fire falls on the wood of his word.
Uncommon Wife of Revival The Rugged Joy of Sarah Edwards (1710–1758) Oct 12, 2021. Sharon James Oct 12 ...
26 mar 2024 · Jonathan Edwards certainly understood revival this way — as an intervention by God. It’s why, in his writings about the First Great Awakening, he had to use words like surprising, remarkable, extraordinary, and wonderful to describe what he saw happening. Far from threatening Reformed theology, the God-centeredness of revival validates ...
20 mar 2024 · Every piece of scorched ground becomes a garden where the Spirit’s fruit can grow. 4. Restore. Do the works you did at first. (Revelation 2:5) Ultimately, the work of soul restoration belongs to God. “ He restores my soul,” not I. But as he restores us, he also grants us to play a part in the restoration process.
6 lip 2019 · Seven Marks of Revival. While we cannot dictate to God what he will do, history shows us that there are some things that happen before and when revival comes that are worth noting. 1. Faithful Preaching. As all the revivals in the history of the church show, the preaching of God’s word is a key ingredient.
9 mar 2024 · First we learn that this miraculous joy is under authority. “You received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 1:6). This joy wasn’t a follow-your-heart joy, but a kneel-and-obey joy. We actually get to watch the Thessalonian church receive the word in Acts 17:1–5.
Throughout New England the revival spread in the spring of 1905. J. Edwin Orr wrote that “the movement was characterized by an intense sensation of the presence of God in the congregations, as in the Welsh Revival. . . The churches were obviously in the midst of a revival of greater Power and extent than New England had known since 1858.”.
