Revival is needed. It may be had. God waits to give it, but it will come only on God’s conditions. A supreme need of these momentous days is to know clearly and definitely what God’s conditions for revival are. The next step is to fall in line with God. Then we shall receive the blessing that we seek.
The expressed opinions of men as to means and methods will do little to further the cause. Indeed, such may do much to hinder it. Man’s methods, consciously or unconsciously, so often is to “get up” something that is attractive. God’s method is to “get down” Someone Who is effective. God’s conditions are the only conditions upon which revival can come.
Beloved, settle it now that anything less than a whole-hearted desire for God will never yield a God-sent revival. As the result of man’s effort after revival, there may be intense excitement and much energetic movement, but all of this is possible to “the flesh” apart from God. Let us see to it that it is God we seek; and when we seek Him, we shall find Him.
So it is written, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).
To meet God face to face is a heart-searching and a life transforming process. It is in His presence that we see ourselves just as we are, and “… abhor …” ourselves (Job 42:6).1t is there we see Him as the only satisfaction of our longing hearts, and appropriate Him as our all in all.
Surely it is clearly manifest where the responsibility for delayed revival lies. It is not that God holds back His gracious presence and His all-conquering power. It is because God’s people do not conform to the conditions that are needful.
Shall we face this fact individually? Shall we say with divine intention, “I will.” Others may not pay the price of these conditions to receive the proffered power, but “I will-by Thy grace, O Lord, I will.”