30-Day Devotional

“How do you start a revival?” someone once asked the British evangelist, Gipsy Smith. He replied, “If you want to start a revival, go home, and […]

I grew up on a farm, homesteaded by my grandfather, Joseph Whitefield Phillips, in northeastern Mississippi. This Primitive Baptist circuit rider with a revivalist middle name […]

Whenever I would come home from college on a short break or for the summer, I would drop off Ouida at our house and then visit […]

Seen as a whole, Burns’ timeless principles offer more than just the “big picture” of spiritual awakening. As you look at each truth, the real discovery […]

Burns’ eighth principle of revival is the Principle of Influence. As revival progresses—as the wave action builds, as the movement of God crests—large numbers of people […]

James Burns’ sixth principle of revival is the Principle of Leadership. In any revival, at least one prophet always emerges. Though he or she may be a […]

Look at any spiritual awakening in history, including those that have occurred in our country, and you’ll discover an obvious, common thread: Revival is always preceded […]

Burns’ second principle of revival is the Principle of Spiritual Growth. The goal of revival is not to get absorbed in guessing when the wave will […]

Most Christians today are unfamiliar with the big picture principles of revival. In the classic work Revivals, Their Laws and Leaders James Burns identifies 11 laws […]

Revival is happening this very moment in the coal-mining country of West Virginia. Prayer and desperation for God led to a great movement of God. As […]

In my years of ministry, especially as I’ve marveled at how the interest and prayer for revival have grown, I’ve met Christians who are content to […]

A fourth potential obstacle to personal and national spiritual awakening is apathy. This disease of disinterest has been a nagging, disruptive gadfly to every revival in […]

A third potential obstacle to personal revival and spiritual awakening is the very real fear of not being accepted (and feeling rejected) by others. Imagine Jesus […]

The second potential obstacle to personal and national spiritual revival is as basic as our desire to know God. It is the need to understand. North […]

In the coming days, all of the interest, desire, and prayers for God to revive our land could become nothing more than the spiritual equivalent of […]

Might the Holy Spirit already be at work in you drawing you to Himself, stirring you to pray, moving you to pray for a fresh awakening, […]

It happened on the Hebrides Islands, off the western coast of Scotland in 1947. A group of five to seven very godly men had become concerned […]

Bruce Snell is a businessman who loves getting rousted out of bed at 3:00 a.m. “I have this intimacy with Jesus. Seven days a week, He […]

“I am convinced that God will soon send a great spiritual awakening to our country and the world … .” These words came from Bill Bright, […]

The renowned pastor Charles Spurgeon, while giving people a tour of his church prior to his sermons, led them down into the basement. “Here, I want […]

When a nation’s darkness becomes overwhelmingly destructive, only God can supply what people need to be brought back to life. These things include the assurance of […]

If you think our current moral decay, increasing violence, and crumbling ethics are signs of an inevitable, darker, downward spiral, think again. Consider the uneasy twilight […]

God’s greatest desire, as the supreme evangelist, is for people everywhere to know Him personally in and through Jesus. God has chosen to reach the rest […]

At a small downtown community church in Memphis, Tennessee, thirty-five men gathered for a special Saturday morning meeting. They had learned that Bill, a man in […]