Prayer Brings Revival

"May God our Father and our Lord Jesus bring us to you very soon. And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows. May he, as a result, make your hearts strong, blameless, and holy as you stand before God our Father when our Lord Jesus comes again with all his holy people. Amen." 1Thessalonians 3:11-13


Reading and studying the move of God through history is of great interest to me. I'm greatly challenged by the men and women of God who have dug in and watched God change their cities, nation, and ultimately the world. As you read these thoughts from the American Evangelist R.A. Torrey let the Lord challenge you to a deeper prayer life as we seek God to move and impact this area. - Todd

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In this passage we see Paul praying for the church. Prayer will bring blessing, definite and rich and immeasurable blessing, to the church;

praying will do more to make the church what it ought to be than anything else we can do.

Prayer will do more to root out heresy than all the heresy trials ever held. Prayer will do more to straighten out tangles and misunderstandings and unhappy complications in the life of a church than all the councils and conferences ever held. Prayer will do more to bring a deep and lasting and sweeping revival, a revival that is real and lasting and altogether of the right sort, than all the organizations ever devised by man.

Humanly speaking, the church of Jesus Christ owes its very existence today to revivals. Time and time again the church has seemed to be on the verge of utter shipwreck; but just then God has sent a great revival and saved it. And if you will study the history of revivals, you will find that every real revival in the church has been the result of prayer. There have been revivals without much preaching; there have been revivals with absolutely no organization,

but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.

Don't come to me and tell me what this man or that man, or this woman or that woman, is doing that you think is wrong or that you think is right. Go to God and tell Him if you like, but it is far more important that you pray to Him.

Pray, pray, pray for Him to bless other churches or your city,and to bless the whole land; yes, and to bless every land.

This is what we need more than anything else today, in our own land and in all lands - a mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God.

But let us not merely sigh for it; let us cry for it, cry to God, cry long and cry loud if need be, and then it will surely come.

- R.A. Torrey