Marks of Revival

Mon, Feb 1, 1999
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What are the marks of real revival? As a liar and a deceiver, Satan specializes in spiritual deception. That’s why the Bible tells us to “test every spirit” to see whether it is from God.  This issue of Spirit of Revival magazine will show you how to tell a true work of God from counterfeits.

[originally published under the title Spirit of Revival]

Articles In This Issue

Essential Characteristics of Genuine Revival
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Fri, Feb 1, 2002
Life Action
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Essential Characteristics of Genuine Revival

We need to preserve a very clear view of what genuine revival is and in so doing to appreciate afresh just how marvelous such a work of grace is. Those who have themselves witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit in revival hardly need written descriptions and definitions to help them. However, those who have never known the reality of revival are more prone to settle for something less. Many believe that revival is linked to the restoration of supernatural gifts to the church. The major revivals of the past have indeed been noted for phenomena, but these have not ...

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What Is Revival?
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Mon, Feb 1, 1999
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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What Is Revival?

We can define it as a period of unusual blessing and activity in the life of the Christian Church. Revival means awakening, stimulating the life, bringing it to the surface again. It happens primarily in the Church of God, and amongst believing people, and it is only secondly something that affects those that are outside also. Now this is a most important point, because this definition helps us to differentiate, once and for all, between a revival and an evangelistic campaign. An evangelistic campaign is the Church deciding to do something with respect to those who are outside. A revival ...

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Is This Revival?
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Mon, Feb 1, 1999
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Is This Revival?

Nearly thirty years ago, when Life Action Ministries first began, hardly anyone was talking about revival. The term itself was uncomfortable, if not foreign, to most believers—except for some in the Bible belt who equated "revival" with a week of meetings geared to evangelize the lost.
A lot has changed in the past three decades. Now you can hardly find an evangelical denomination or ministry that is not talking about revival! What was once considered a fringe element has become a widespread, popular movement. Everyone, or so it seems, is into "revival" these days.

When it comes to the ...

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The Price and Power of Revival
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Mon, Feb 1, 1999
Duncan Campbell
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The Price and Power of Revival

In this passage, I discover that a power is placed at the disposal of the Church that can outmaneuver and baffle the very strategy of Hell, and cause death and defeat to vanish before the presence of the Lord of Life. Barrenness is made to feel His fertilizing power. Yet, how is it that while we make such great claims for the power of the Gospel, we see so little of the supernatural in operation? Is there any reason why the Church today cannot everywhere equal the Church at Pentecost? I feel this is a question we ought to face ...

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When Do We Need Revival?
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Mon, Feb 1, 1999
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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When Do We Need Revival?

When Do We Need Revival?     ·       when we do not love Him as we once did.   ·       when earthly interests and occupations are more important to us than eternal ones.   ·       when we would rather watch TV and read secular books and magazines than read the Bible and pray.   ·       when concerts draw bigger crowds than prayer meetings.   ·       when we have little or no desire for prayer.   ·       when we would rather make money than give money.   ·       when we put people into leadership positions in our churches who do not meet scriptural qualifications.   ·       when our Christianity is joyless and passionless.   ·       when we know truth in ...

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Important Questions
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Mon, Feb 1, 1999
Richard Owen Roberts
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Important Questions

When revival comes, it will be a fragile blessing, a blessing that will need to be handled with great care. Failure to rightly handle this blessing from God has often, in the past, kept revival from producing its highest and best possible results.
In a very lovely sense, the nature of revival is all eyes on God. If the attention turns to you or to me, to some phenomenon, to some over-emphasis upon a good truth--it matters not what eyes turn to--when eyes are off the Savior, the revival diminishes and soon ceases. Thus, it is urgent that we prepare ...

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