The reason why churches don't see a need
for revival is because they need revival.
Our pulpits lack power.
Our pastors lack authority.
Our congregations lack godliness as our nation sinks
into godlessness and moral anarchy.
Get a man full of God, who's wholly
sold out to God, and turn him loose
in a room full of sinners, to preach
the full counsel of God under the anointing
of the Spirit of God.
And a combustion will occur as sparks begin
to fly, which will result in either a
subdued brokenness and repentance over sin, or rebellion
in a further hardening in sin.
But either way, there will be smoke and
fire one way or the other, and God
will get the glory.
The reason we have so little burdened prayer
is because we are little in prayer.
Revival is when Christ is preeminent in the
sanctuary of the church and prominent in the
lives of the church.
When a nation grows more wicked and the
church grows more cold, then the devil grows
more bold while heaven groans.
The two doctrines killed off in the modern
church in the last sixty years are the
two doctrines the church needs the most in
these last days.
They are the lordship of Christ and man's
duty of repentance.
We need God-called men to perform the
God-sized task of reaching our godless communities
with a God-centered gospel of the Son
of God.
The dinosaur of the church is the old
-time prayer meeting.
If we do have one, it is more
like a doctor's waiting room with personal pleas
for pains and needs, rather than a hospital
delivery room where new life is birthed from
bended knees.
We need pastors today who fear God more
than men, who can touch God in prayer
for men, and who will preach what others
will not to reach men who need God.