Devotional
May 25, 2017
Are you searching for spiritual awakening in your daily life but unsure how to start? Are you hungry for more from God but struggling with practical ways […]
February 28, 2017
“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 […]
February 27, 2017
As a Christian, continue to fast and pray, asking yourself, “What do I believe about spiritual awakening in me and in my nation?” As you explore […]
February 26, 2017
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 […]
February 25, 2017
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 […]
February 24, 2017
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 […]
February 22, 2017
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 […]
February 21, 2017
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 […]
February 20, 2017
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 […]
February 19, 2017
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 […]
February 18, 2017
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 […]
February 17, 2017
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 […]
February 16, 2017
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 […]
February 15, 2017
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 […]
February 14, 2017
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 […]
February 13, 2017
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 […]
February 12, 2017
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 […]
February 11, 2017
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, […]
February 10, 2017
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 […]
February 9, 2017
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 […]
February 8, 2017
“I am convinced that God will soon send a great spiritual awakening to our country and the world … .” These words came from Bill Bright, […]
February 7, 2017
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 […]
February 6, 2017
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 […]
February 5, 2017
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 […]
February 4, 2017
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 […]
February 3, 2017
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 […]
February 2, 2017
Is a fresh revival ready to sweep across this nation? Is it already happening? Could God really be about to ignite a holy fire that could […]
February 1, 2017
God’s constant re-creative nature to rekindle His people, and through them, to light that same fire in others who have known only darkness, is undeniable and […]
January 31, 2017
It happened several years ago while I was speaking at a church in Rochester, New York. The topic was church revival. I launched into a carefully […]
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