REVIVAL:
PERSONAL; DISCIPLESHIP; SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life.
1. Get thoroughly dissatisfied with yourself. Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.…
2. Set your face like a flint toward a sweeping transformation of your life.…
3. Put yourself in the way of blessing.… There are plainly marked paths which lead straight to the green pastures; let us walk in them. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
4. Do a thorough job of repenting.… Until we allow the consciousness of sin to wound us, we will never develop a fear of evil. It is our wretched habit of tolerating sin that keeps us in our half-dead condition.
5. Make restitution whenever possible.…
6. Bring your life into accord with the Sermon on the Mount and such other New Testament Scriptures as are designed to instruct us in the way of righteousness. An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.…
7. Be serious-minded. You can well afford to see fewer comedy shows on TV. Unless you break away from the funny boys, every spiritual impression will continue to be lost to your heart, and that right in your own living room.…
8. Deliberately narrow your interests.…
9. Begin to witness.…
10. Have faith in God. Begin to expect. Look up toward the throne where your Advocate sits at the right hand of God. All heaven is on your side. God will not disappoint you.
Psalm 1:1–3; Isaiah 6:5–8; Acts 1:8; Romans 7:24–25; Philippians 3:13–14; 2 Timothy 1:6–7; 1 John 2:1–2
The Size of the Soul, 16, 17, 18, 19.