Sermons & Devotionals by Revival Messages

What Happens When We Are Filled With The Holy Spirit? By Elmer G. Klassen In the beginning of my Christian life I did not hear much about the need of Christians having to be filled with the Holy Spirit. When some of us young converts began to meet Christians from other denominations we learned that ... Read More

What Is The Greatest Need In Every Church? By Lettie B. Cowman Our greatest need is for those who know how to pray and how to prevail! The disciples came to Jesus with the request, “Teach us to pray!” Do you know the meaning of intercession? It does not mean saying prayers, making a petition for som... Read More

When Christ Returns By Dr. Daniel Lundy The return of Christ to this earth is at the top of the list when it comes to important subjects mentioned in the Bible. It is impossible to read the New Testament without coming to the conclusion that the return of the Lord in glory to judge the living and th... Read More

When Do We Worship In Spirit And In Truth? By Elmer G. Klassen With a slight wind blowing in one window and out the other but not enough wind coming through for keeping us cool without using cardboard fans, provided free to the church by the Bergen Mortuary, we sat fanning and swatting flies in the ... Read More

When Revival Came to Canada By Bill McLeod Arranged from a message delivered at the “Heart-Cry for Revival” conference held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 26-29, 1998. In 1962 I became Pastor of a Baptist church of 175 members in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. In Canada this would be an average s... Read More

When The Holy Spirit Reigns By A. T. Pierson The one grand purpose of the Book of Acts is to teach us that the one Head of every true church is the invisible Head; that the Church is a body of believers indwelt by the Holy Spirit and administered by Him; that of all important things this is the vita... Read More

Who Believes The Book Of Romans And Will Confess It To Be True? By Elmer G. Klassen Why ask people to trust Christ when it does not make much difference if they do? When there are as many divorces within the church as outside the church, the habits of Christians essentially is the same as non-Christ... Read More

Who Needs Revival? By Charles G. Finney "Wilt Thou not revive us again, that Thy people may rejoice in Thee" (Psalm 85:6). This Psalm seems to have been written soon after the return of the people of Israel from the Babylonian captivity, as you will easily see from the language at the beginning of t... Read More

Whose Son Is He? By Elmer G. Klassen Feeding the poor and healing the sick seems to be the primary concern of Christians, yet this was not the Great Commission the Lord left His followers when He ascended into Heaven, nor was it the greatest concern of the Apostles as recorded in the Book of Acts. M... Read More

Why Be Spiritual When Carnal Christians Go To Heaven Too? By Elmer G. Klassen Because no one really knows if they do. There is reason to doubt the destiny of worldly people. No one knows for sure if worldly people are Christians. Disobedient people do not have assurance of their salvation from sin i... Read More

Why Do Revival Showers Of Blessing Delay? By W. C. Moore In Joel 2:1 we read, “Blow the trumpet in Zion.” It is we Christians who need to be aroused, and to be exhorted daily (Heb. 3:7-19; 4:1). It is we Christians who need to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God (1 Peter 5:6). Can it be th... Read More

Why Do We Become Quitters In Prayer? By Armin Gesswein One thing is clear from Scripture: God loves to answer prayer. He works overtime to get us to believe that. Too often we believe Him to a point, and then quit. There is nothing which we start and quit more than prayer. Why do we do that: quit sh... Read More

Why Neglect Of Prayer? By James Gilmour of Mongolia My creed leads me to think that prayer is efficacious, and surely a day's asking God to overrule all events for good is not lost. Still there is a great feeling that when a man is praying he is doing nothing, and this feeling makes us give undue im... Read More

With New Determination By Theodore M. Bamber It is most strongly laid upon my heart that the months ahead will be critical months. I want in these months just ahead to lay hold of God in a very definite and persistent manner, in strong faith, that it is His time to work mightily. We must be submissi... Read More

Worldwide the Need – Worldwide this Call! By Sarah Foulkes Moore When Queen Esther and the Jews in captivity were in danger of being destroyed, they fasted and prayed. It was this threatened disaster that led them to such burdened, importunate prayer that they did neither eat nor drink for three day... Read More

Worship From The Heart By Gary Bowell Isaiah was proclaiming a message concerning true worship. In his day, as in any age, there were some who went through a form of worship, but they were not concerned about living godly lives. The form of worship then became more important than true worship. God d... Read More

Yielded To The Lordship Of Christ By Stephen F. Olford The central message of the Bible is that "Jesus Christ is Lord." All of history moves to that moment, in God's timing, when every creature will declare that "Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:11). If we start with th... Read More

You Must Decide! By Charles Finney Do you need a revival in your own soul, in your church, in your town? Aren't the circumstances such as to prove that you greatly need a revival? Do you want one? You may need it, yet not be urgent to have one. Are you willing to be awakened? Or, rather, do you desi... Read More

"Broken Cisterns" By Arnold Cook Edited from a message delivered at the "Heart-Cry for Revival" Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 26-29, 1998. As a church leader, I am concerned about the subject of revival. My background is conversion at the age of 11, in a dying church out in the country.... Read More

"Even So, Come, Lord Jesus!" By D. M. Panton Revelation 22:20 Probably no generation since our Lord ascended has had such urgent reasons as our own for praying for our Lord to come back. "God works according to the prayers of His people" (Evan Roberts), and the date of the second coming of Christ is... Read More