Although we are hearing and in some way also seeing Churches getting larger, I can’t help but feel that there has got to be more. We are more sophisticated, connected, more visible, no less skilful than the performers and leaders of the world but there seem to be a lack of spiritual power in comparison to that of the early Church. If we are honest enough, it seem, we have to do many things and try very, very hard to keep the Church as the Church. The tide of worldliness and the tidal wave of humanistic ideology seem to be drowning our voices even as we try go preach the Word to the save and unsaved alike.

Let’s take courage, the Church that Jesus Christ envisioned is a strong and victorious Church. He has already declare, “I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” (Matt 16;18). I am convince we need to go beyond doing our best and persevere and faithfully. We need o ask God for a special season of grace call “Revival”. I was inspired by what I read of how God blessed and help His Church in the past during some of the special season. I hope it will inspire you too as you read them

Dr. Campbell Morgan, preaching on the Welsh revival. 1904 

“Here Is REVIVAL that comes from heaven; There is no PREACHING, no ORDER, no HYMNBOOKS, no CHOIRS, no ORGANS, no COLLECTIONS, and finally  no ADVERTISING! Now think of THAT for a moment! There were organs, but they were silent; there were ministers but no preaching – they were among the people praising God! Yet the Welsh Revival is a “revival of preaching” for EVERYBODY  is preaching! No order, yet it moves from day to day, county to county, with matchless precision,  with the order of an attacking force. No songbooks, but ah, me, I nearly wept tonight over  the singing! When the Welsh sing they abandon themselves to their singing. We sing as if we  thought It wouldn’t be respectable to be heard by the one next to us! No choir, did I say? It was all choir!” 

When God Step down from Heaven by Rev Owen Murphy

When men in the streets are afraid to open their mouths and  utter godless words lest the judgments of God should fall; when sinners, overawed by the Presence of God tremble in the streets and cry for mercy; when, without special meetings and sensational advertising, the Holy Ghost sweeps across cities and towns in Supernatural Power and holds men in the grip of terrifying Conviction; when “every shop becomes a pulpit, every heart an altar, every home a sanctuary and people walk softly before God – This Is Revival

R.A. Torrey

“Every real revival in the Church has been the child of prayer. There have been revivals without much preaching; there have been revivals with absolutely no organization; but *there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.”*

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.”

American Revival 1857

“like a spiritual tornado of the Holy Spirit where almost impossible to find anyone who is not converted”

“like a spiritual epidemic that swept through the land with the conviction of sin where drunkard, gamblers, prostitutes knee where they are in repentance, finding forgiveness”

Leonard Ravenhill

“The people who are not praying are straying.”

“We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”

“A preacher who is not praying is playing”