Pray for the Spirit
In order to have mighty and unexampled revival, what we especially need is for the whole Church to be down on its knees before God. Past redemptions should make our cravings great. “I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it” (Psalm 81:10). Thousands have already been seen gathered in one place for prayer, but when “the Spirit of grace and of supplications” is poured out on the great body of Christians, touched with pity for the desolations of the spiritual Jerusalem, that word will come true: “Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come; for thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof” (Psa 102:13-14). Oh! that God's people were awake to the privilege of crying aloud for his great gift! Open your mind, believing reader, to the extraordinary truth, that God has an infinite willingness to bestow in answer to prayer that which, since the sen...