REVIVAL OUR HOPE-W. F. BELL

 Revival or spiritual awakening is so needed in our day. So many professing Christians are content with where we are. I cannot see it. I know there are times I fail God miserably, but He has never failed me. May God help us all to strive for truth. I believe that God will not give up on us. W.F. Bell put together these sayings.Very good! Apply them well! Charles Woodruff.


"I see the churches expanding their building facilities; increasing their office space; adding a new wing or new building for a family center, or for educational or recreational purposes; but, I say again, I never see a church having to increase the size of the prayer room.  This, I am convinced, is because the preachers themselves are shrunken in the habit of prayer.  A revival of prayer in the pulpit would mean a revival of prayer in the pew."  Leonard Ravenhill

"I do not understand Christian people who are not thrilled by the whole idea of revival."  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"The Bible was written in tears and to tears it will yield its best treasure.  God has nothing to say to the frivolous man."  A. W. Tozer

"I believe if you and I were adequately impressed, fully alive to the tremendous issue, we could never pray mere prayers.  We could never allow words to run out of our mouths, which we call praying.  We should be down on our faces in a tremendous conflict on God's side against the evil menace that is seeking to devour the life of God's people."  T. Austin Sparks

"The church patronized is the church paralyzed, therefore the church in peril.  The church persecuted is the church prayerful, and therefore powerful."  G. Campbell Morgan

"The self-satisfied do not want to pray.  The self-sufficient do not need to pray.  The self-righteous cannot pray."  Leonard Ravenhill

"When the old faith is gone, and enthusiasm for the Gospel is extinct, it is no wonder that people seek something else in the way of delight."  C. H. Spurgeon

"Think of the many tricks by which the church today apes the world to attract men and money....But God works from above with fire from heaven....One meeting where God answers by fire is worth all our convocations in the energy of the flesh."  Vance Havner

"Evan Roberts of Wales, Jonathan Edwards of New England, and George Whitefield of England and America -- were all great reapers in public because they were all great weepers in private."  Leonard Ravenhill

"Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (Jeremiah 9:1).  "For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ" (Philippians 3:18).  "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Psalm 126:5).