Revival means the work of God restoring to a moribund church, in a manner out of the ordinary, those standards of Christian life and experience which the New Testament sets forth as being entirely ordinary; and a right-minded concern for revival will express itself not in hankering after tongues, but rather in a longing that the Spirit may shed God’s love abroad in our hearts with greater power.
Thoughts on Revival
“It is the mature fruit which comes afterwards, and not the beautiful colours and smell of blossoms, that we must judge by” -Jonathan Edwards
There are many things in the word of God, showing that when God remarkably appears in any great work for his church…it is a most dangerous thing, and highly provoking to God, to be slow and backward to acknowledge and honour God in the work.
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Jonathan Edwards (Thoughts On The Revival)
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All great religious awakenings begin in the dawning of the august and terrible aspects of the Deity upon the popular mind, and they reach their height and happy consumation in that love and faith for which the antecedent fear has been the preparation.
The history of religious revival proves that all real, spiritual awakenings of the national mind have been those in which God and not man, has been the prime mover.
