THINK ABOUT IT 6-10-24
REVIVE US AGAIN
“Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?”Psa.85:6
After closing my message yesterday by quoting this verse I couldn’t help but think about what the old country preacher Vance Havner said:
The greatest need of America is an old-fashioned, heaven-born, God-sent revival. Throughout the history of the Church, when clouds have hung lowest, when sin has seemed blackest and faith has been weakest, there have always been a faithful few who have not sold out to the devil nor bowed the knee to Baal, who have feared the Lord and thought upon His Name and have not forsaken the assembling of themselves together. These have besought the Lord to revive His work in the midst of the years, and in the midst of the fears and tears, and in wrath to remember mercy. God has always answered such supplication, filling each heart with His love, rekindling each soul with Fire from above.
Certainly it is high time that we prayed once more: “Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?” America has been a land of revivals. It was conceived in revival. Its foundations were laid by men who came out of the Puritan and Pietist revivals in England and on the Continent. In those early days, when hardship gave way to prosperity and men drifted away from God, the faithful few besought heaven and God sent the Great Awakening through the terrific preaching of Jonathan Edwards and the seraphic evangelism of George Whitefield. Spirituality flourished, the churches filled, and there was a preacher for every two thousand of our three million people. THINK ABOUT IT
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, Tx
