Heartcry Journal - Issue 14

Men That We Need

“But now we are all little men; there is scarce a man alive now upon this earth.” --C. H. Spurgeon

From earliest times, God has blessed His people and sustained His church by giving them leaders. While the children of Israel were groaning in bondage in Egypt, Jehovah was preparing Moses to be a savior. When the hordes of Midian filled the land of Israel, driving God’s people into dens and caves in the mountains, Gideon was commissioned, and by three hundred men a great victory was wrought. When Europe was enslaved in the chains of popery and superstition ...

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The Prayer for Revival (Psalm 89)

Weakness in prayer is a feature of our times. One chief cause is no doubt the widespread neglect of Scripture. Despite our modern privileges of books, prosperity, and education, our prayers fall conspicuously short of biblical standards, not merely in point of utterance but in urgency as well. Perhaps our prayers are better in secret than what we judge in public, but who would deny that, whatever our attainments, we are much below a scriptural standard and quality of prayer?

This poverty in prayer is seen to be all the more serious when we ponder how alarming the times are ...

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Spiritual Revival: The Need of the Christian

“O Lord, revive thy work” (Hab. 3:2).

All true religion is the work of God. He regards the work of grace as being even more glorious than His works of nature. He is, therefore, especially careful that people know that He is indeed the author of salvation in the world and in the hearts of men. It is a sin of the greatest magnitude to suppose that there is anything in the heart that can be acceptable to God except that which God Himself first created there. If there be anything in our souls that can carry us to ...

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John Knox and the Revival in Scotland

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Scotland was one of the poorest countries in Europe. The towns were few, thinly populated, and wretchedly built, while the people were sunk in degrading poverty and the grossest ignorance. The feudal system, which elsewhere had broken down because of population growth, was still supreme. The country was composed of three orders--the clergy, the nobility, and the people. The people existed merely as the vassals of the baron. He protected them, and in return they tilled his land, fought his battles, and in all the other relations of life acknowledged themselves as his ...

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Preaching and Revival

Historically, there has been a close relationship between preaching and revival. Those revivals that have been the purest and most beneficial have given a preeminent place to the scriptural priority of preaching. In fact, a careful examination of preaching from past revivals reveals that God has been pleased to bless certain kinds of preaching with mighty outpourings of His Spirit.

Experiential Preaching

A manifestation of God’s presence and power to a preacher’s soul often precedes his power in the pulpit. In fact, rarely has effective revival preaching been divorced from the personal spiritual experience of the preacher. Such ...

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