Nov
02
Revive Your Work!
I came across this quote last week in my devotional reading and we prayed over it in our prayer time on Sunday Morning. I don’t mean for this quote to be self-serving in anyway, but what I found in it was the encouragement to plead for our heavenly father to revive his work in our church and not get caught up in the “if only” mindset. I hope you will join me in that prayer.
There will be some who will agree with me that the church needs reviving. But let me ask that instead of complaining about your minister, instead of finding fault with certain parts of the Church, cry out, “O Lord, revive thy work!”. “O!” says one person, “if f we had another minister. O! if we had another kind of worship. O! if we had a different sort of preaching. “You do not need new ways or new people, you need life in what you have. If you want to move a train, you don’t need a new engine, or even ten engines—you need to light a fire and get the steam up in the engine you now have!
It is not a new person or a new plan, but the life of God in them that the Church needs. Let us ask God for it! Perhaps he is ready to shake the world at its very foundations. Perhaps even now he is about to pour forth a might influence upon his people which shall make the Church in this age as vital as it ever was in any age that has passed.
—Charles Spurgeon