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21 " Normal is sustained, continuous transformation into the image of Christ, from glory to glory (see 2 Cor. 3:18). Normal is not perfection; it’s pursuit. Normal is living your everyday life under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Normal is saying yes to God in every season and situation, no matter what He asks. Normal is praying for the sick and tormented, and believing that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside you—and is able to bring wholeness to the afflicted. Normal is going against the rising tide of culture and yielding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. "
― , The Fire that Never Sleeps: Keys to Sustaining Personal Revival
22 " Today, we have a Christianity made easy as an accommodation to an age that is unwilling to face the implication of Calvary, and the gospel of “simply believism” has produced a harvest of professions which have done untold harm to the cause of Christ. —DUNCAN CAMPBELL Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. —JOHN PIPER The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. —LEONARD RAVENHILL "
23 " We don’t need another Holy Spirit; we need to yield our lives to the One who already lives within us. "
24 " Revival introduces us to the better taste of God’s presence. When He becomes our great pursuit, by default, anything that does not reflect Him or honor Him will be stripped out of our lives; we simply will not tolerate it. "
25 " We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts. —VANCE HAVNER "
26 " But looking at God, I am full of faith and confidence because awakenings have come in our history during times when everything looked bleak and impossible. "
27 " Many talk of renewal, revival, and outpouring. The question is where is this nation-shaking move of God going to come from? Are we waiting for something new to come down out from Heaven, or are we pressing in for a great awakening of global proportion? "
28 " Just take one step in faith toward God and be confident that He has made the ten-million-mile journey that you could never make. Then take the next step and the next step, and before you know it, dramatic change will come in your life. "
29 " key to living a lifestyle of sustained, personal revival. It all begins with our willingness to say yes to anything and everything the Lord asks of us. It’s about saying yes to His word, His ways, and His direction. In view of who God is, how could we offer up any other response? "
30 " Prayer for revival starts with being so gripped by Heaven’s vision of the Christian life that everything you have embraced as normal becomes unacceptable, and you start pressing in for everything Jesus made available to you. Open your heart. Be expectant. You aren’t just reading words; I am confident you are receiving an impartation. Get ready to take your place as one who keeps the fire burning! "
31 " To teach God’s glory as a theological idea, not as active and available experience, is to shortchange the very truth of His presence. To fully know a person, closeness is essential. There is only so much you can receive through secondhand information. The same is true for God. Sadly, many are teaching secondhand information about a person we are called to know and experience. For example, a lot of people preach a theology of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but unless you’ve experienced the Spirit’s baptism for yourself, you cannot fully preach it. You have to taste and see that the Lord is good! (See Psalm 34:8.) I "
― Michael Brown , The Fire that Never Sleeps: Keys to Sustaining Personal Revival
32 " We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts. —VANCE HAVNER T "
33 " There is hardly anything more fundamental to the life of a believer than repentance—hardly anything more life-giving, more liberating, more glorious. That’s why the devil has sought to discredit it. "
34 " There can be no possible return to God without repentance. Repentance speaks of turning back. The notion that repentance is merely a change of mind is a deficient definition. It is a change of mind and heart and life. It is a deliberate turning away from that which is wrong and destructive and a turning back to God and His mercy. "
35 " It’s high time we quit trying to drag the Word of God down to our level of experience and commitment, trying to conform Scripture to our ways rather than conforming our ways to Scripture. Instead, we need to take hold of everything He has promised and everything He has called us to, and, by His grace, pursue and obey Him until His reality becomes our reality. "
36 " The world outside there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity. "
37 " Believers, do you have the courage to get alone with God and say to Him honestly, “If what I have is all the Christianity there is, then the thing is a fraud!” God "
38 " The Spirit doesn’t require our perfect performance to work with; He simply needs willingness to yield to whatever the Father wants to do. "
39 " To seek the fulfillment of ourselves in God—that is, to seek only the blessings and refreshing of God, but not seek God for himself—this type of spirituality is the enemy of the cross of Christ. —ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS "
40 " The test of how people will steward revival when it comes is revealed in how faithfully they cry out for it before it gets there. "