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Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; but do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciously set aside time to do nothing but pray. What we actually do reflects our highest priorities. That means we can proclaim our commitment to prayer until the cows come home, but unless we actually pray, our actions disown our words.
“It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).”
Jonathan Edwards, Thoughts on the Revival in New England – 1740
England experienced scattered revival blessings, but there was not a general revival there. One parish church had an amazing rebirth, and 950 new converts were confirmed. Thirty English bishops endorsed the revival, and the Archbishop of Canterbury called for a nationwide day of prayer. Protestant denominations gained 10 percent in four years. Revival also moved across Scotland and Ireland but to a lesser degree than in Wales.
Revival Fire by Wesley Duewel (205)
Wesley Duewel explains…
What shall we call these special times of blessing? Some like the term spiritual awakening. Others prefer to use the word revival. Sometimes it has been termed spiritual renewal or the outpouring of the Spirit.
Perhaps the briefest and most time-honored term is simply revival.
May the Lord send us genuine revival!
Revival Fire (15)
Revival fire–that’s it! God stir us to pray, “Oh that You would rend the heavens! That You would come come down! That mountains might shake at Your presence–as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil–to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations tremble at Your presence!” (Isaiah 64:1-2 NKJV).
Stephen F. Olford in the Foreword of Revival Fire by Wesley Duewel
Do we know a prayerfulness like that of Luther, who once said, “I have so much business to do today that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours’ prayer.” It is John Angel James who said “we are weak in the pulpit because weak in the closet.” Edward Payson thus writes to a brother minister: “Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, and the third thing necessary for a minister, especially if he have revivals. Pray, then, my dear brother, pray, pray, pray.”
And Rev. Wm. Reid, in his admirable “Words to Winners of Souls,” speaks thus to his brethren: “Why is there so little anxiety to get time to pray? Why is there so little forethought in the laying out of time and employments, so as to secure a large portion of each day for prayer? Why is there so much speaking yet so little prayer? Why is there so much running to and fro, yet so little prayer? Why so much bustle and business, yet so little prayer? Why so many meetings with our fellow men, yet so few meetings with God? Why so little being alone, so little thirsting of the soul for the calm, sweet hours of unbroken solitude, when God and his child hold fellowship together, as if they could never part? It is this want that not only injures our own growth in grace, but makes us such unprofitable servants of Christ.”
Henry Fish, Handbook of Revivals, Chapter 19: Are You Revived?
“Church altars which for years had been nothing more than pieces of furniture now became hallowed places where men met God, and brother was reconciled with brother.
Robert Coleman The Asbury Revival
By Wesley L. Duewel…
Sometimes God has given special personal revival to a hungry-hearted, deeply devoted Christian. What a blessed experience of spiritual refreshment and new manifestations of God’s grace and power this brings! It is always an experience to be remembered and cherished.
Are you really hungry for personal or widespread revival? God is eager to come to you in grace and power!
(Wesley L. Duewel, Revival Fire, 15). 
Such as the…
THE REVIVAL WE NEED
by Oswald J. Smith
“MR. SMITH’S book, ‘The Revival We Need,’ for its size is the most powerful plea for revival I have ever read. He has truly been led by the Spirit of God in preparing it. To his emphasis for the need of a Holy Spirit revival I can give the heartiest amen. What I saw of revival in Korea and in China is in fullest accord with the revival called for in this book.
It is most timely that Mr. Smith has called attention to man effort and man method in modern revival. If we all had faith to wait upon God in intense believing prayer there would be genuine Holy Ghost revival, and the living God would get all the glory. In Manchuria and China, when we did nothing else than give the address and let the people pray, and kept out of sight as far as possible, we saw the mightiest manifestations of Divine power.” Jonathan Goforth
We have included the foreword and 3 of the 11 chapters.
 
Biographical Sketch on Monergism Iain Hamish Murray was born (of Scottish parents) in Lancashire, England, April 19, 1931, and educated at King William’s College, Isle of Man, and the University of Durham. Prior to university he held a commission in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) who were then engaged in the suppression of an insurgency in the jungles of Malaya. Converted to Christ at the age of seventeen, after upbringing in a larger liberal denomination (the English Presbyterian Church), he became assistant minister at St John’s, Summertown, Oxford in 1955, where the Banner of Truth magazine began. The influence of this magazine (edited by him until 1987) was to be greatly enlarged when, with Jack Cullum, he founded the Banner of Truth Trust in 1957. Initially intended to supply out-of-print Reformed and Puritan authors for Britain, the Trust’s publications were soon selling in forty countries, with an office established at Carlisle in the United States in the late 1960s. Murray remained director of the Banner publications until 1996, combining this with serving Grove Chapel, London (1961-69), and St Giles, Sydney (1981-83). Since the latter charge he has remained a minister of the Australian Presbyterian Church although living chiefly at Edinburgh (the head office of the Banner of Truth) since 1991. A turning point in his life was a call from Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in 1956 to assist him at Westminster Chapel, London. This he did for three years and without which the Banner publications could not have begun. His closeness to Lloyd-Jones led, after the latter’s death, to the writing of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years 1899-1939 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982), and D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith 1939-1981 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1990). When asked how much he owes to Lloyd-Jones, Murray replies that the indebtedness is too great to calculate. During the 1970s, and after his return to the UK from Australia in 1991, Murray has been often in the United States on speaking engagements and two of his best-known books, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography(1987) and Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858 (1994), reflect his close interest in American church history. While authoring several biographies (John Murray, A.W.Pink and John Wesley), Iain Murray’s main intention has been to use history to recover commitment to the doctrines of Scripture, particularly the doctrines of grace. He did this first in The Forgotten Spurgeon (1966), and again in Pentecost—Today?The Biblical Basis for Understanding Revival (1998). More general is his Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000 (2000), which, despite its controversial nature, became one of his best-selling hardbacks. Almost all his titles have been published by the Banner of Truth and remain in print. Marriage, Murray believes, is the next most important event to conversion, and Jean Ann Walters, whom he married in 1955, has been and remains the first influence in his life. They have five children and ten grandchildren. Since retirement from the everyday work of the Banner of Truth Trust, Murray has both continued to write and been able to visit and help Christians in various parts of the world. The friendship of Christians in several nations are counted by him and his wife as one of their greatest privileges and encouragements. |
| Bibliography
Australian Christian Life from 1788 : An Introduction and an Anthology (1988) D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years (1982) D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith (1990) The Forgotten Spurgeon (1966) Spurgeon and the Church of England (1966) — a booklet Jonathan Edwards : A New Biography (1988) The Life of Arthur W. Pink The Life of John Murray: Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1937-1966 (1984) The Puritan Hope : Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy, (1971) Revival & Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858 (1994) Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism: The Battle for Gospel Preaching (1995) Pentecost Today?: The Biblical Basis for Understanding Revival (1998) Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000 (2000) Diary Of Kenneth MacRae : A Record of Fifty Years in the Christian Ministry (1980) The Invitation System (1960) Letters Of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1992) Should the Psalter be the Only Hymnal of the Church? (2001) The Reformation Of The Church: A Collection of Reformed and Puritan Documents on Church Issues (1965) The Unresolved Controversy: Unity with Non-Evangelicals (2001) Old Evangelicalism – Old Truths for a New Awakening The Happy Man: The Abiding Witness of Lachlan Mackenzie (1979) Articles Dr. Lloyd-Jones and Authority in Preaching MP3 Messages From Iain Murray History Preaching Revival |
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