Charles Finney defines revival as "a new beginning of obedience to God".
1. Are we ready for revival in the U.S.A?
2. Are we ready for revival in our Home State?
3. Are we ready for revival in our home towns?
4. Are we ready for revival in our churches?
5. Are we ready for revival in our Families?
3. Are we ready for revival in our self's?
Charles Finney goes on to say
"You may go and build a splendid new house of worship, line your seats, put up a costly pulpit and everything of that kind to make a show.
In that way you may procure a sort of respect for religion among the wicked, but it does no good in reality.
It rather hurt and misleads them as to the real nature of religion; and so far from converting them, it carries them farther away from salvation.
A revival may be expected whenever Christians are found willing to make the sacrifices necessary to carry it on. They must be willing to sacrifice their feelings, their business, their time, to help forward the work.
"God does not send the equipped, He equips those He sends"
How often we ignore the things God wants us to do. "he doesn’t need to use any of us, but he wants to use all of us – to our fullest potential.
The greatest argument against Christianity is Christians !
The world is tired of hearing "Praise the Lord" They want to see it.
It is time, Christians should awake themselves.
It is as much their duty to awake as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night.
The Church should to put out the fires of hell, which are laying hold of the wicked.
Sleep ???
Should the firemen sleep and let the whole city burn down? What would be thought of such firemen? And yet their guilt would not compare with the guilt of Christians who sleep while sinners around them are sinking stupidly into the fires of hell.
An apple tree becomes an apple tree via a miracle of God. But it proves it’s an apple tree by making apples.