We Need Revival
(Written by N.L. DeMoss)
We Need Revival When:
. . . we do not love Him as we once did.
. . . earthly interests and occupations are more important to us than Eternal ones.
. . . we would rather watch TV and read secular books and magazines than read the Bible
and pray.
. . . church dinners are better attended than prayer meetings.
. . . concerts draw bigger crowds than prayer meetings.
. . . we have little or no desire for prayer.
. . . we would rather make money than give money.
. . . we put people into leadership positions in our churches who do not meet scriptural
qualifications.
. . . our Christianity is joyless and passionless.
. . . we know truth in our heads that we are not practicing in our lives.
. . . we make little effort to witness to the lost.
. . . we have time for sports, recreation and entertainment, but not for Bible study and
prayer.
. . . we do not tremble at the Word of God.
. . . preaching lacks conviction, confrontation and divine fire and anointing.
. . . we seldom think thoughts of Eternity.
. . . God’s people are more concerned about their jobs and their careers, than about
the Kingdom of Christ and the Salvation
of the lost.
. . . God’s people get together with other believers and their conversation is
primarily about the news, weather and sports,
rather than the Lord.
. . . church services are predictable and “business as usual.”
. . . believers can be at odds with each other and not feel compelled to pursue
reconciliation.
. . . Christian husbands and wives are not praying together.
. . . our marriages are co-existing rather than full of the love of Christ.
. . . our children are growing up to adopt worldly values, secular philosophies and
ungodly lifestyles.
. . . we are more concerned about our children’s education and their athletic
activities than about the condition of their souls.
. . . sin in the church is pushed under the carpet.
. . . known sin is not dealt with through the Biblical process of discipline and
restoration.
. . . we tolerate “little” sins of gossip, a critical spirit and lack of love.
. . . we will watch things on television and movies that are not holy.
. . . our singing is half-hearted and our worship lifeless.
. . . our prayers are empty words designed to impress others.
. . . our prayers lack fervency.
. . . our hearts are cold and our eyes are dry.
. . . we aren’t seeing regular evidence of the supernatural power of God.
. . . we have ceased to weep and mourn and grieve over our own sin and the sin of others.
. . . we are content to live with explainable, ordinary Christianity and church services.
. . . we are bored with worship.
. . . people have to be entertained to be drawn to church.
. . . our music and dress become patterned after the world.
. . . we start fitting into and adapting to the world, rather than calling the world to
adapt to God’s standards of holiness.
. . . we don’t long for the company and fellowship of God’s people.
. . . people have to be begged to give and to serve in the church.
. . . our giving is measured and calculated, rather than extravagant and sacrificial.
. . . we aren’t seeing lost people drawn to Jesus on a regular basis.
. . . we aren’t exercising faith and believing God for the impossible.
. . . we are more concerned about what others think about us than what God thinks about us
. . . we are unmoved by the fact
that 2.5-billion people in this world have never heard the name of Jesus.
. . . we are unmoved by the thought of neighbors, business associates and acquaintances
who are lost and without Christ.
. . . the lost world around us doesn’t know or care that we exist.
. . . we are making little or no difference in the secular world around us.
. . . the fire has gone out in our hearts, our marriages and the church.
. . . we are blind to the extent of our need and don’t think we need revival.
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“Hope...that bubbling ingredient in life which is like carbonation in a
drink, giving it zest, keeping it in motion, always pushing it up.”
DePree
“O Lord, You alone are my hope...”
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