Now I am sure that you will be interested to know how, in November 1949, this gracious movement began on the island of Lewis. Two old women, one of them 84 years of age and the other 82 (one of them stone blind), were greatly burdened because of the appalling state of their own parish. It was true that not a single young person attended public … [Read more...]

Duncan Campbell (1898-1972) was a Scottish preacher and a leader in the Lewis Awakening best known as the Hebrides Revival. He was a man of prayer but he insisted that “The revival did not break out because Duncan Campbell was there. No, a thousand times no, but because God found a man whom He could trust, a man who dared to believe the promise of … [Read more...]

The Holy Spirit is Love. The same Holy Spirit that brought the love of Heaven into their hearts must fill us too.” writes Andrew Murray, Nothing less will do. Even as Christ did, one might preach love for three years with the tongue of an angel, but that would not teach any man to love unless the power of the Holy Spirit should come upon him to … [Read more...]

God taught Murray the ways and rewards of prayer in regards to revival and this is part of what he said on the subject of revival: Revive Your work, O Lord! Revival is God’s work, He alone can give it; it must come from above. It must be asked for and received from God Himself. Those who know anything of the history of revivals will remember how … [Read more...]

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was a great writer, preacher and evangelist. He experienced revivals in Scotland similar to those that took place in America during the Great Awakening (1795-1835) under Charles Grandison Finney but before that he tried to stop a revival in his church in South Africa for which his father had prayed for 60 years. Andrew’s … [Read more...]

Isaac Backus (1724-1806) was a leading Baptist preacher during the era of the American Revolution who campaigned against state-established churches in New England. He was influenced by the Great Awakening and the works of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. In her book Beyond the Veil: Entering into intimacy with God through Prayer. Alice … [Read more...]

Here is a testimony from A.W. Tozer about D.L. Moody:  Years ago on the Southside of the city of Chicago, there was a little home. In the home lived an elderly woman full of the Holy Ghost named Mother Cook. A young fellow was converted in the city and he would have made a good salesman. He was very busy. He loved to run in circles. He went … [Read more...]

If I know my own heart to-day, I would rather die than live as I once did, a mere nominal Christian, and not used by God in building up His Kingdom. It seems a poor empty life to live for the sake of self.--D.L. Moody D.L. Moody (1837-1899) said that “Someday you read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a … [Read more...]

John Wesley is believed to have woken up at 4 A.M. to pray. Those who heard him sensed immediately that he was a man who had been with God and who now came to them with His message. It was only the preaching of that supernatural caliber that could have produced the results which Wesley saw.  Here is a paragraph from an unknown author’s words on … [Read more...]

Wesley’s only standard of truth was the Bible. Not that he read nothing else, but he assessed all else by the Bible. The Bible was John Wesley’s constant yardstick. He was content that his preaching should stand or fall by the test of Scripture. If anyone could show that what he said was contrary to the revelation, he was quite prepared to alter … [Read more...]