REVIVAL:
CONDITIONS FOR; OBEDIENCE: NEED FOR

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before. All-night prayer meetings that are not preceded by practical repentance may actually be displeasing to God. “To obey is better than sacrifice.”

We must return to New Testament Christianity, not in creed only but in complete manner of life as well. Separation, obedience, humility, simplicity, gravity, self-control, modesty, cross-bearing: these all must again be made a living part of the total Christian concept and be carried out in everyday conduct. We must cleanse the temple of the hucksters and the money changers and come fully under the authority of our risen Lord once more. And this applies to this writer as well as to everyone that names the name of Jesus. Then we can pray with confidence and expect true revival to follow.

1 Samuel 15:22; Isaiah 1:11–20; Matthew 21:12–13; Luke 9:23–25; 2 Corinthians 6:17–18

Keys to the Deeper Life, 25.