To talk about revival is to talk superlatives, for revival is Christianity taken to a heightened intensity. God never does more for his church than when he revitalises her with the breath of heaven. In the midst of the years he ‘makes known’ (Habakkuk 3:2). We then experience more of his grace and power than at all other times.
Defined
This serves to remind us of what revival is. We can define it like this: ‘When ordinary spiritual conditions are intensified to the extraordinary.’ Hence the title of this article. We are not talking about a difference in kind from the norm; rather a difference in degree – although a very great degree. In revival God pours out the Holy Spirit and phenomenal results follow.
One outcome of revival is the extraordinary conversions wrought; another is the exceptional recovery of things that have declined in the church. So the chief benefits are vast numbers brought into the church, and the church itself raised up to new heights of blessedness.
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