Prayer Bulletin No. 16b How does 9 Revival begin? History shows thet revival does not begin with crowds - usually with a few, sometines with only one. This is borne out ty the Scriptures. When the Lord speaks of intercession He does not do s0 in tems of the many, it ie more often in the terms of the one. "And He saw that ‘there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor"(Is.59.16) So far as we mow there was only one in Blijeh's day, and there have never been many in any generation. Up yonder, on some distant height, alone with God, pleading, inter ceding, 18 found one of a race of eagle-saints ~ an intercessor! He waits before God by the hour for a needy Ghurch and a lost world. There he kneels, like Jesus in the garden, weighed down with the Spirit's own prayer, There, in the kind of prayer that brings hin a6 near to God as ho oan gét; there, in his burdened heart is born "the revival"! One reason Finney enjoyed so much revival was thet God raised up so many intercessors. Let us do again what they in divine wisdom did - PRAY FOR FRAYERS AND INTERCSSSORS! "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous, man (even one or a few) aveileth much" (James 5.16 ) Revival docs not wait for hundreds - it is not BUIK that God wants, ‘but BURDEN! Not length in prayer, but depth! If every Christian who reads these Lines and longs for revival in the Church and congunity will lay aside all else one night each week (Starting in the Ringwood Assembly L6th Jan. at EPM) to wait upon the Lord, we wail goon hear from Heaven! i getuine revival, the greatest blessing God can confer upon any people ~ begins in the Church.It will show itself in increased eamestness in the Godly. They prayed before, they will pray more then. They felt the burden of sins before, it will become almost crashing! The slumbering consciences Cf those who have lost their first love will be aroused. There will be repentance, humbling, confessing, and a new interest in the services of the Church. A real agony will possess the godly for the unconverted. Parente will be unable to sleep thinking of their unsaved children, husbands will feel concern for tnsaved wives, and vice versa. ‘The work begins slowly. It is not shavings but coal that is kindling. ‘The unconverted are drawn, and drawn to Christ! They see that it is no light thing to te a Christian; that it means giving up the world, giving up many things that professed Christians love to do. Prayer Seems to bring heaven down to earth. Sinnezs tremble, yield. Men, women, young people, children - all know thet the Iord is in His holy Tenple! Taey receive instructions, consecrate thenselves to God, and soon testify by word and look’ that they have passed from death unto life! Invitations, appeals, singing, all ere common to both spurious and genuine revivals, but the fumdanental difference is that the spurious has no fallow ground broken up - it is surface work. The genuine goes to the depths of the nature. The one is profession only; the otheris possessio Jesus is still saying - "Ask end it shall be given you". Let every Christian give himself afresh to God in earnestness, ‘= seeking God in believing prayer for such a GENUINE revival. Goa will surely answer! He will! Re eaye ~ "Ask, and it shall be given you!"