Revival the cry of our heart? Really?

We are fast approaching the end of this series that we have been involved in for a year. I have found it an interesting and rewarding journey that has been  a pleasure to share with you over the time. This is our second to last text.


I am going to use this paraphrased text from Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892). He was a phenomenon in his age.
Habakkuk 3:2 "O Lord revive thy work"
" All true religion is the work of God. God is indeed the author of salvation in the world, and religion is the work of grace. If there is anything good or excellent found in his Church, it too, is entirely God's work from first to last.
It is God who quickens the soul which is dead, and it is God who maintains the life of the soul; God who nurtures and protects that life in the Church. We ascribe nothing to ourselves and everything to God. We do not dare for single moment to think our conversion or sanctification is effected by our efforts or the efforts of another."

I am not sure that this a widely held belief in the modern church any more than Spurgeon thought it was wide spread in his own time more than a century ago. At least in his time church was a little more fashionable than it is today. In our modern highly programme driven church there would seem to be little space for God on occasion.

What really grabbed me was his thoughts on revival. We so often say we want revival and begin to pray for someone else. What if we began to pray for revival in ourselves and watch what happens to us and through us. After all as Spurgeon says it really is all down to God. Some of the time we just get in the way.



Allowing God free reign in us. Now that takes some courage!


He also said if we really wanted revival we would pray to God to do whatever he needed to do start revival. That would start with you and me! It would be messy loud and dramatic. Are we ready for this?

I took the road less travelled and it made all the difference

This has certainly got me thinking!