~ LEONARD RAVENHILL ~

“Revival is the act of the Spirit upon believers who have lost their first love. Revival is the restoration of true doctrine. Revival is the rekindling of the power of prayer in individuals and in groups. Revival is seeing that God must be vindicated either by His mercy in pardoning - or by judgment! Revival is the ascendancy of the spiritual over the material. Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God. Revival is the willingness to forsake all, that God might be all in all to the individual and to the Church. Revival is the "no-time-limit" operation of God on the saints, resulting in a moving of God among the sinners. Revival is the redeemed sobbing with broken hearts over a nation of broken lives from breaking the commandments of God. Revival is not a luxury, but a necessity for our nation; not an alternative, but an imperative.

I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the "seven years of plenty" are over for us. The "seven years of famine" are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in the nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (AMOS 8:11). WHAT IS REVIVAL?”

Fathers Heart ..

John Hutchinson, a wonderful teacher who passionately teaches on the Fathers heart..the first few minutes are just introduction so just be patient..its a message worth listening to:

http://www.uchurch.ca/media/messages/public/week_24_message.mp3

God is Amazing..

Check out this amazing story from The Sentinel Group - Prayer Tranformation Ministries about a small town in Brazil:


http://www.prayertransformation.com/pdf_files/stories/Report%20-%20Transformation%20of%20Algodao%20de%20Jandaira.pdf

fasting..

Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, then perhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul’s appetite for God. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the path of pleasant pain called fasting.

- John Piper -