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Water cannot rise any higher than its source, nor can the mission overseas
be any stronger than the supporting church at home. A sick church can never
save a dying world. Throughout history, revival at home and missions abroad
have always gone together. - J. Herbert Kane, A Concise History of the
Christian World Mission
* The Church today
needs a revival. There is plenty of missionary sentiment; but little of that
practical self-denial and burning zeal which impelled the Moravians to go
forth without script or purse, to carry the banner of the Cross to the dark
places of the earth.
- Edwin Hodder, The
Conquest of the Cross, A Record of Missionary Work throughout the World
* Revivals begin
with God’s own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives
them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He
has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones. Oh,
what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away
from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers
sorely!
- Andrew A. Bonar
* Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence. It is
vain to say, ‘I have too much work to do to find time.’ You must find time
or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly
keep for communion with Him. - A. T. Pierson
* The world has lost the
power to blush over its vice; and the Church has lost her power to weep over
it.
He who kneels before God
will stand in any situation.
One praying man stands
as a majority with God.
Today God is bypassing
men – not because they are too ignorant, but because they are too
self-sufficient. - Leonard Ravenhill
* It is
God revealing Himself to man in awful holiness and irresistible power. It is
such a manifest working of God that human personalities are overshadowed,
and human programs abandoned. It is man retiring into the background because
God has taken the field. It is the Lord making bare His holy arm, and
working in extraordinary power on saint and sinner.
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