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Revival, awakening, prayer for renewal, and the life of the church
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Spiritual Revival—the Need of the Church
Habakkuk 3:2
… Therefore, we need a revival of sound doctrine once more in the midst of the land. And the Church at large also needs a revival of downright earnestness …
SERMON • SERMON 597Preparation for Revival
Amos 3:3
… I suppose the worst time in the Christian Church is generally that which follows the excitement of a revival; and if that revival has had no reality in …
SERMON • SERMON 296A Revival Sermon
Amos 9:13
… Now, mark, here is a promise given of a revival, and when that revival shall be fulfilled this will be one of the signs of it—the marvellous …
SERMON • SERMON 2426A Prayer for Revival
Psalm 85:6
… In a revival, part of the result is the conversion of men, but the result is the praise of God—and that revival brings forth most fruit that …
SERMON • SERMON 3136Lessons From the Malta Fire
Acts 28:2
… There is no way for us to get a revival-fire but from God, Himself. If anybody can "get up a revival," as it has been said that …
SERMON • SERMON 725A Message From God To His Church And People
Habakkuk 3:2
… He does not say, "at the end of the years," but "in the midst of the years." His prayer is for a present and immediate revival of genuine …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 7
1Th 2:18
… There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition. As soon as Ezra and Nehemiah begin to labour, Sanballat and Tobiah are stirred up …
SERMON • SERMON 1211The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel
John 5:8
… They are waiting for a revival. We have heard glad tidings, in which we rejoice, of great revivals in different parts of England, Scotland and Ireland. And there …
SERMON • SERMON 1461AThe Seven Sneezes
2 Kings 4:35
… They frequently betray culpable ignorance and sinful obstinacy, combined with pride, unbelief and self-will—and yet in them there is a secret something which betokens an awakening …
SERMON • SERMON 1941Grace For Communion
Solomon 4:16
… The rough north wind has done much for some of us in the way of awakening our best Graces. Yet it may be that the Lord will send …
SERMON • SERMON 3361God's Valiant Right Hand
Psalm 118:16
… I think 1 see Him, like another Samson who had been bound with cords, awakening from His slumber like a strong man refreshed, and He snaps the bonds …
CHAPTERThe Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock
… Sin in the church will be the death of revival, or else the revival will be the death of sin. Let no one among us besmear himself with …
SERMON • SERMON 263The Story of God’s Mighty Acts
Psalm 44:1
… Have ye never heard of the great revival under Whitefield? Take as an instance that at Camslang. He was preaching in the church-yard to a great congregation …
SERMON • SERMON 1135Signs Of The Times
Luke 12:54-57
… The people needed awakening from spiritual slumber. They required to be exhorted to manliness of spirit, for they had so completely surrendered their judgments to their blind leaders …
SERMON • SERMON 3118What Had Become of Peter?
Acts 12:18
… It is a great blessing to enjoy health, but it is also a great blessing to suffer sickness, for it is often the means of awakening the slumbering …
SERMON • SERMON 2344Christ's Dying Word for His Church
John 19:30
… And fourthly, I will seek to show how our Lord's Words ought to lead to our own awakening. I. First, then, I will endeavor to speak of …
SERMON • SERMON 1346Guile Forsaken When Guilt Is Forgiven
Psalm 32:2
… As I desire to use it as a means for self-examination and awakening, I pray the Holy Spirit to apply it with power to many souls. You …
SERMON • SERMON 2149Everlasting Love Revealed
Jeremiah 31:3
… the Holy Spirit awake you at this time! May there come a blessed awakening hour to your drowsy spirits! This startling remembrance came to Israel at a time …
SERMON • SERMON 2229God's Glorious and Everlasting Name
Isaiah 63:12
… They have a revival about once in seven years and then everybody seems to feel intensely, and you can preach with great power. But in between the times …
SERMON • SERMON 716The Church Awakened
Ephesians 5:14
… your doctrines will stand as sentinels at the doors to prevent anybody from awakening you. Beware of Antinomianism! If you once drink a draught of that it will …
SERMON • SERMON 896The Coming Resurrection
John 5:28
… What trumpet call can be more startling? What arousing voice can be more awakening than this news to the careless sinner that there is a life hereafter? That …
SERMON • SERMON 1789Joseph of Arimathaea
Mark 15:43-46
… Thirdly, for our awakening—there was an occasion for Joseph to come forward and there is occasion, now, for all the timid to grow brave. And lastly, for …
SERMON • SERMON 2900How God Comes to Man
Genesis 3:8
… I pray that if He has never come to you, dear Friend, in the way of awakening your conscience and making you feel yourself a sinner, He may …
CHAPTERBlessing on the Printed Sermons
… really was, and have been the means, through the grace of God, of awakening a desire within me to seek to lead a pure and holy life; and …
SERMON • SERMON 2617Shining Christians
Isaiah 60:1
… I have known some in whom, happily, the process of awakening has been a really effectual one. There came, once, to a meeting I was addressing, a Brother …
SERMON • SERMON 1561Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle
Solomon 5:2
… It is true of all Christ's sheep, "A stranger they will not follow, for they know not the voice of strangers." The awakening Believer perceives that the …
SERMON • SERMON 927Martha And Mary
Luke 10:38-42
… Persons will talk about getting up a revival—of all things I do believe one of the most detestable of transactions. "If you want a revival of religion …
SERMON • SERMON 465The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ
John 16:14
… The blessed spirit of revival, the Holy Spirit, is poured out, and now the heaviest Church is floating out to sea and that which was most inactive begins …
SERMON • SERMON 268The Ceremony of Laying the...
… Pray for us that a revival of religion may come into this land. What is Ireland that it should have a revival denied to us? What is Scotland …
SERMON • SERMON 804Apostolic Exhortation
Acts 3:19
… The only way in which you, dear friends, can share in the refreshment of a revival, is by your own repenting and being converted. A revival is a …
SERMON • SERMON 675Spring In The Heart
Psalm 65:10
… We hold up our hands in glad astonishment and cry, "Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?" In the revival days …
CHAPTERSpring in the Heart
… We hold up our hands in glad astonishment and cry, “Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?” In the revival days …
SERMON • SERMON 345Self-Sufficiency Slain
John 15:5
… I have been lately in a district where a most excellent Brother in Christ had worked a very great revival. It was said that nearly every person in …
SERMON • SERMON 1009Travailing for Souls
Isaiah 66:8
… The era of the son of Jesse was evidently a time of religious revival. God was honored and his service maintained in the midst of Judea’s land …
SERMON • SERMON 1038Another Royal Procession
Matthew 21:5
… I despair, beloved, of any revival being of the slightest value which does not begin with the church of God. It never can originate outside and work into …
SERMON • SERMON 317Characteristics of Faith
John 4:48
… They have been meeting together in special prayer-meetings to seek for a revival; and because people have not dropped down in a fainting fit, and have not …
COMMENTARYPsalm 57
Psalm 57
… That worship that is performed with a sleepy, drowsy body, is a weak worship, but the psalmist here makes the awakening of the body to be the fruit …
SERMON • SERMON 819The Minstrelsy of Hope
Psalm 67:6
… The very name, "revival," has been made to stink in some places by reason of the mischiefs associated with it! But this is no reason why there should …
SERMON • SERMON 278Grieving the Holy Spirit
Ephesians 4:30
… These five years or more, we have had a revival which is not to be exceeded by any revival upon the face of the earth. Without cries or …
SERMON • SERMON 1107A Call To Worship
Zechariah 8:21
… The revival under the Apostles was marked by their everywhere preaching the Word and the people listening. This was the great token of the Reformation—meetings were held …