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Preparing for Revival

24 Days of Preparation

April 23 - May 16, 2015

24 Hours of Prayer

May 16 - 17, 2015

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Reflections by the Deacon Ministry and Invited Authors
North Richland Hills Baptist Church
North Richland Hills, Texas

Opening Thoughts

By: Pastor Scott Maze

This is not a prayer guide for those who are comfortable. Instead, these pages serve those who have an
ache for something more. If you have a taste for God to do something more in your life, in our church,
and in our nation, then join me in praying for God’s hand to descend upon us once more.

Our nation has experienced wave upon wave of God’s presence in local, regional, and nationwide
awakenings. From the stirrings in Jonathan Edwards’ day to more recent days of Billy Graham, we are a
people who have experienced God’s stirrings in our midst. The last mighty move of God was in the early
1970s – the Jesus Movement. We have entire generation who have grown up without seeing real,
up-close evidence of God’s Spirit upon the landscape of the American culture. We need God to move
again in our churches and in our country.

So take time to join with us for 24 hours of prayer on May 16 and 17. Read and attentively pray through
each of these carefully prepared summary chapters. I am so grateful of our deacon body to both take
time to read but also summarize these chapters for us. While we would love for you to obtain a copy of
Martyn Lloyd Jones’ book, Revival, and read the entire thing for yourself, we offer this summary to
assist busy people.

We desperately need the Spirit’s presence in our church. Don’t you agree? If so, pray for God would
deepen our zeal and enthusiasm for all things that are holy. Pray that God’s people are not satisfied
with a few minutes of Sunday morning lip service.

Who is Martyn Lloyd Jones?

Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899-1981) was an English physician who experience God’s call into pastoring
and ministry. Pastors all over the globe know him for his preaching legacy on Romans, Ephesians, and a
host of other subjects. His written sermons are read for devotions and by pastors weekly.

In 1959, he preached a series of sermons on Revival and Awakening on 100thanniversary of the Welsh
Revival. His sermons were later transcribed and produced into a book. Our deacon body read through
these sermons in preparation for a time of prayer earlier this year. You may purchase a copy of Lloyd-
Jones’Revival in our church office for $15.

May the Lord shake us again,

Pastor Scott Maze

Day One:
Thursday, April 23, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 1

Chapter 1 – The Urgent Need for Revival Today

By: Ralph Kunkel

And when Jesus had entered the house, His disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
And He said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.” (Mark 9:28-29)

As we consider the urgent subject of revival, Dr. Lloyd-Jones begins by calling our attention to the
above two verses and points us to the great religious awakening in the US and Great Britain in 1859,
when God promoted revival and used people within the Church that may have thought they were
“unimportant” church members. They purposefully and humbly bathed themselves in prayer and
God chose to move! Past revival periods were not “started by” Pastors and Ministers – instead by
individual church members seeking Christ.

• The author believes that the matter of revival in the world today deserves the “most urgent
attention” of every one of us. As we approach God in fervent prayer, let us do so with great
confidence and assurance.

• The world’s problems are many. Almost all such problems can be traced to Satan’s power in our
lives. Paul says in Ephesians 6: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against
the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Our Lord gives us a spirit and confidence of
greater power and as we seek revival, we need to pray that God has great power in our lives to
defeat Satan’s temptations.

• Revival will only begin when we set proper priorities in our lives. The Bible cannot be treated
like other important books – it must truly be held as the Holy Word of God in our lives. Our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ cannot be regarded as just a man amongst men – He must be held
as Deity and someone who laid down His life for us as an act of ultimate sacrifice.

• We need to be in the business of praying for the power of God to move in the Church today. The
author writes about the value of fasting so that this will receive our undivided attention. In
order for us to be the people that God created us for, this concentration in prayer and waiting
upon God should consume us. The author goes further by saying, “I shall see no hope until
individual members of the Church are praying for revival with urgency and concentration for a
shedding forth of the power of God, such as He shed forth in every period of revival and
reawakening in the past.”

• Let us remember the real depth of the spiritual problem that confronts us. People inside the
Church, as well as people outside the Church, need the constant presence of the Lord in our
lives. Let us join together in prayer for a supernatural moving of the Holy Spirit first in each of
us, as individuals, then within our Church, in our city, in our state, in our country, and in our
world!

Day Two:
Friday, April 24, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 2

Chapter 2 – Hindrances to Revival

By: Dennis Denson

“So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. And Isaac dug
again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had

stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them”.
(Gen. 26 17-18)

Isaac in dire need of water, essential for life, after leaving where he was not wanted. We, the church,
are in dire need of a pouring out of the Spirit, also essential for life. Tradition, custom and habit can
only carry the Church so far. Then life has to be injected into every activity of the Church. That life
comes for a pouring out of the Holy Spirit.

• What did Isaac do when he needed water? He dug wells that had been filled with debris by the
Philistines.

• There was no doubt water was there. So, he did not send for water diviners or prospectors
rather he dug where he knew where there was a source of water.

• The Church does not need to search for a ‘new message’ or a ‘new approach’. The Church needs
to search for a pouring out of the Spirit where He has always been found, on our knees in
prayer and God’s word!

• God is the same today as He has always been and that is equally true with man.
• The problems with man today are no different than 1000’s of years ago.
• History and God’s word show that the major interests of man are still: eating, drinking, war, sex

and pleasures of various kinds.
• The major social problems confronting us today: robbery, violence, jealousy, envy, infidelity,

divorce, separation, perversions that are all in the Bible.
• The problem confronting the Church today is not the circumstances in which we find ourselves.
• Saying things are "different today" and we need that "new program" or a "new approach" are

not valid. The New Testament reminds us that the solution to the problem remains the same:
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8)
• History of the past has a great deal to tell us:
⇒ The history of the Church has been a history of ups and downs. The Great Awakenings and
Revival of the past always followed periods of great drought, great deadness, apathy and
lifelessness.
⇒ Every time you have one of these great events (Great Awakening / Revival), it seems to be a
returning to something that had been obtained before. Just as Isaac rediscovered the wells
filled in, he went back to the source of the original wells. We need to go back to our source,
Jesus Christ our Savior.

The state of the Church today is the work of the ‘Philistines’. The ‘Philistines’ have been here, and
they have filled the well with the world’s rubbish and refuse. Being distracted by the things of this
world, be it "new" knowledge/intellect, materialism cannot be used as a crutch or excuse. We need
conviction, repentance, prayer and the pouring out of the Spirit.

Day Three:
Saturday, April 25, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 3

Chapter 3 – Unbelief

By: Mark Vaughn

In Genesis 26:17-18, we find the story of Isaac clearing out the wells dug by Abraham. The Philistines
had blocked the wells, filling them in with materials that would lie between the people of God and
the water of life that they needed. This is used to symbolize how we allow things to come between
ourselves and God.

Before we can begin to pray for revival, we need to address the clutter that is blocking our access to
the well of God’s presence. Three essentials truths are discussed, each of which need to be believed
before revival can occur:

• The truth concerning the sovereign, transcendent, living God who acts, and who intervenes, and
erupts into the history of the Church, and of individuals.

⇒ God did not simply set life into motion and walk away. The world wants to create a view of
a distant God that is not involved in or invested in the lives of His children. Revival is directly
opposed to that view. Revival is God acting and erupting into our lives. Without belief in a
sovereign and active God, there can be no revival.

• The authority of the book, the authority of the Bible.

⇒ The world does not want to recognize the authority of God, but they want to rely on
reasoning and speculation to arrive at their own “truth”. They create the notion of man’s noble
pursuit of God, when the Bible was a picture of God pursuing man and revealing himself to man.
Man’s searching cannot find God, which places an emphasis on man’s abilities. It is God seeking
and revealing himself to us. It is God with the ultimate authority and truth, and Him seeking to
share that with us.

• Man in sin and under the wrath of God.

⇒ As Paul notes in Romans 6, verses 18 and 24, we are capable of no good things on our own.
In every period of revival, men and women quake in the presence of God, as they become
keenly aware of their own unworthiness. While unpopular in the world, Christians must
address the doctrine of sin and the doctrine of the wrath of God before they can be prepared for
revival.

This chapter walks us through the steps to “dig again the wells that had been dug in the days of
Abraham”. By identifying the clutter and rubble that has filled these wells, we can begin to clear
them and revive the relationship that God desires to have with His children.

Day Four:
Sunday, April 26, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 4

Chapter 4 – Doctrinal Impurity

By: Gerald Daniel

At the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century “Deism” abounds with discussion of
God, yet minimal discussion of Jesus Christ’s role in redemption of mankind or the Holy Spirit’s role
of glorifying Jesus Christ. The work of the Holy Spirit is to point to and glorify Jesus Christ.
The chapter deals with Doctrinal Impurities. The Bible makes it clear from beginning to end God can
only be approached in certain ways and certain conditions. If we want the blessing and sealing of the
Holy Spirit we must make sure that our position conforms to God’s truths. If we desire “Revival” the
same is true. There are Biblical Doctrines that are absolutely essential to the Christian position.

• Transcendence and Sovereignty of God
• The authority of the Bible
• Doctrine of man in sin and under the Wrath of a righteous God
• Doctrine of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ
Person of Jesus Christ:
• There is no admittance to the Father apart from our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Colossians 1, Jesus is eternal, our eternal High Priest, co-equal with God the Father, before all,

creator of all, virgin born.
• In Christ shed blood, death on the Cross and resurrection from the dead rest the salvation of

mankind.
• The Holy Spirit is witness to these things.
• The “Revival” we desire above all things, is glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ in the life of our

Church.
• There is no value in so-called Christianity that does not exalt Jesus, and live to testify of him.
• Every historical “Revival” demonstrates an emphasis on the shed blood of Jesus.
• Hebrews 1:7, we enter the Holy place only by the blood Jesus Christ.
• Ephesians 1:7, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
• “Revival” means an out pouring of the Holy Spirit of God on his people.
Ministry of the Holy Spirit:
• To glorify Jesus Christ
• Convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Teach and correct his people.
• Out pouring of the Holy Spirit brings revival to Churches because he glorifies not Himself but

Jesus Christ

Clarity and purity of Doctrine brought to me by the Holy Spirit reveals the sense of spiritual peace
only available to me through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus is indeed worthy of our praise and honor.

Day Five:
Monday, April 27, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 5

Chapter 5 – Defective Orthodoxy

By: Steve Henry

‘So Isaac left there, camped in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there. Isaac reopened the water wells that
had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham

died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.’ (Gen. 36: 17-18)

The main cause of the state of the Christian Church today and for the whole state of the world is
the terrible apostasy (a willful falling away from, or rebellion against, Christian truth) that has
increasingly characterized the Church for the past one hundred years. Therefore we must get rid of
the rubbish in our lives as Isaac did the wells of Abraham. Lloyd-Jones previously dealt with several
fundamental doctrines but there are two more: 1) the Doctrine of Justification by Faith and 2) the
Doctrine of Regeneration.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith:

• Means an end of all thinking about ourselves and our goodness, and our good deeds, and our
morality, and all our works.

• All our goodness is but of filthy rags.
• All our righteousness is of no value at all.
• We feel they can do nothing.
• We cry out to God for mercy and compassion.
• It is God’s act.

• We wait in utter helplessness before Him.
• We pay no attention and attach no significance to our past religiosity and our faithfulness in

church attendance and many other things.
• God must justify the ungodly.
• When a church holds on too tightly to the doctrine of works it becomes as if we ourselves can

make ourselves Christians; we lose the need of a personal, vibrant relationship with Jesus
Christ.
• This was the great insight of Martin Luther that revolutionized his life and ushered in the Refor-
mation.
The Doctrine of Regeneration:
• It establishes the absolute necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit.
• It indicates the necessity of man being born again and he be given a new nature.
• No decision of man has any importance unless is derives from a transformative change in him
caused by God Himself; and this a gift.

Even cults can make a man believe in something intellectually. That is why cults and false religions
are thriving. To belong to them you do not need to belong to Christ.

• If a man decides to change his life and change his ways it does not make him a Christian.

• Everything about a revival is the work of God.

⇒ He is intervening, He is working, and He is doing things.

• Man, the corporate church, nothing has value except God when we are in His presence.

Defective Orthodoxy: The first and foremost trouble under this heading is to be concerned about the
person of, rather than with himself.

• We place the doctrines themselves in place or ahead of the Person Himself; in this case our
Heavenly Father, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. This is absolutely fatal.

• This is a very familiar state which traps orthodox and evangelical people. You can be orthodox
or evangelical but dead.

• Because you are stopping at the doctrines, the definitions and failing to realize that he whole
purpose of a doctrine is not to be an end in itself, but rather to a knowledge, understanding and
a relationship with the person.

• It is a terrible thing to be so focused on our doctrines that we never develop a relationship with
the person of Christ.

• There are churches today and denominations that are quite dead.

• It is because they remain only on the level with doctrine – this intellectual concern and this
intellectual correctness.

• This applies also to preaching. There is a difference in preaching about doctrines and
preaching doctrinally. The business about preaching is to preach about God our Father, about
Jesus Christ and about the Holy Spirit and their work for us in our salvation.

• Paul deals with this same issue. People were fixated on what they were to eat and what they
were not to eat. It is all they were talking about. Paul said that this was not the Kingdom of God.
“The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
(Romans 14:15)

• How much do you talk about the Lord Jesus Christ and how much about everything else of
religion and church business?

• Another defective doctrine of the Church: There are public meetings and gatherings instead of a
meeting of the saints; movements rather than the gathered saints in prayerful consideration of
God’s word. The bigger the better we say; surely God is proud of us. But God wants us, not our
busyness.

• We have names of churches that could represent anything, but will not be considered a house
of prayer or a place where sinners can gather where God’s love for them is manifest. But then
we say: yes but then the man on the street will not come in. Remember, if there was revival
EVERYONE comes in. Why – because God is present in that place. It will be just like what
happened on the Day of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came upon the apostles and the people said:
“what is this?”

• Look at what started the Revival of 1859. A small group of saints gathered for prayer. We just
cannot see that a small group of like-minded saints has the Holy Spirit with them. Are they the
powerful in the church? No, they are men and woman of prayer; men and women who see
themselves as sinners and not as saints; men and women who are broken and humble before
their God and cry out for repentance and forgiveness.

• Do we spend more time singing than we do in quiet prayer in our services? How has it come
to that? Many people come to church or a certain service because of the singing? What of
nutrition available through the prayerful consideration of the Word of God?

• This is no time for singing. This is a time for thinking and conviction. This is a time for
preaching about God and his wrath upon evil and all our foolish unorthodoxy. The time for
singing will come later. Let the great revival come. Let the windows of heaven be opened; let
us see men and women by the thousands be brought into the kingdom of God, and then it will
be time to sing. Let us beware of the subtle temptation to entertain the people, thinking that
thereby we can attract them and save them, and make ourselves happy.

• Do you think that evangelism is now the main thing, or is it the life of the church? Revival
always starts in a church. Why? It is because revival was needed in that church. Revival is
needed in each of us. Our doctrines tell us otherwise; our services tell us otherwise. The
churches are being fed externally and on the surface all the time, and not being deepened and
not being made more spiritual. What are the manifestations of the wrong spirit? First and
foremost it is pride, the pride of life. There is nothing more opposed to the spirit of the lowly
spirit of the Jesus of Nazareth than that. God have mercy upon us.

• Pride of knowledge is equally as bad. I am the Christian who reads a lot; I am the man who
knows the doctrine; I am the man who has read all the works of the Puritans. That other
person over there, he knows nothing about it. Pride of knowledge. I am the great theologian; I
am not like that Publican over there who does not have the brains nor the understanding to
grasp these things as I can. Pride of knowledge. What an ugly thing this is. Knowledge puffs up.
Of course it does. If this is our church we have no right to expect dealings with God.

• And pride of understanding. I have got it all. It is all plain to me; cut and dried. The other
person knows nothing.

• Contention: If the spirit of strife is allowed in the church and revival comes, it will soon
be quenched if people fall back on their idols of doctrine and try to impose those that are not
essential to salvation or do anything else but seek the depth of their own depravity.

• We must not be more concerned about labels and structure as revival comes than the Lord
Jesus Christ. I could add pettiness, quarrelling and self-importance. Then I could add triviality
and busyness that detract from holiness. If there is to be revival we must see within ourselves a
great seriousness.

• When the saintly Robert Murray McCheyne stepped into the pulpit in Scotland, before he would
open his mouth, people would begin to weep and were broken down. Why? There was a
soberness about the man. He had come from the presence of God. There was a radiance of God
about him. There was a terrible seriousness.

• And lastly. We must be absolutely obedient to God’s laws.

⇒ We must see the sin within us and stop and repent; allow Christ to change and transform us.
If we put our own desires before Him, we have no right to revival. So, sin of any kind is a
deterrent to revival.

Day Six:
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 6

Chapter 6 – Dead Orthodoxy

By: Bill Hurlburt

In this chapter, Lloyd-Jones highlights one specific hindrance to REVIVAL, that being the truth
that for many individual evangelical Christians, evangelical Christian congregations and even entire
evangelical denominations, our orthodoxy has become an end unto itself. In fact, we are more
concerned with being right about a particular doctrine than really understanding and embracing the
spiritual value of these doctrines. He wonders how we can be passionate about the Lord Jesus Christ
if our greatest interest is in facts, and being right, rather than in Him.

• He says that we may be guilty of a “smug contentment” in our doctrines. His message shows
that even “way back” in 1959, the phenomenon of “apologetics” as a primary focus was
becoming a popular interest that can turn the saving act of Jesus Christ into something of
secondary importance. This smugness can be seen in the lack of a passion for being challenged
by the Holy Spirit. By this I mean that there is plenty of desire on our parts to hear general
informational messages, but the idea of hearing a message that points out our sin is avoided at
all costs. He wonders if we ever expect to actually meet God when we go into his house, or is the
only thing we expect is to sing some songs, hear a great sermon and fellowship.

• He points out that often times, one indication of a dead orthodoxy is a lack of or disdain for
Enthusiasm. He warns of the need to strike a balance.

⇒ Scripture clearly teaches to do things in a decent orderly manner, but at the same time we
must not “quench” the Spirit

⇒ Sometimes we may be guilty of institutionally creating a false sense of joy. He warns against
manufacturing excitement by “getting people into an excited state”.

• Finally, he speaks to Emotionalism. Not emotions, which are important and necessary, but
Emotionalism, which may actually mask a dead orthodoxy.

⇒ This is a state where emotions have taken control, where people can achieve a kind of
ecstasy, which is not of the Holy Spirit.

⇒ He stresses that scripture teaches that the emotions are to be subject to the mind.

⇒ He strongly discourages any attempt to manufacture emotionalism through a program or
service by any means.

In summary, Lloyd-Jones’ main theme is that Revival can only come by the visitation of the spirit of
God. That as his church, we should resist being smug in our self-sufficiency, that we should be as the
New Testament church was by “quenching not the Spirit”, while at the same time “despising not
Prophesying”, and always being ready to “prove all things” by relying on scripture to be our final
judge.

Day Seven:
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 7

Chapter 7 – Spiritual Inertia

By: Gerald Daniel

Remaining with the account of Isaac and the water wells closed by the Philistines, we find in this old
story a very true picture of the search for the Living Water of Revival. Lloyd-Jones continues with a
discussion of Dead Orthodoxy and for this chapter, Spiritual Inertia, leading toward the death of true
revival.

Some manifestations of this condition

• A failure to apply the truth. Truth is abundant in the Bible, Gods Holy Word. We can
acknowledge the truth but it is another matter to apply the truth. Applying the truth to
ourselves will lead to a deeper and more Spiritual Christian life.

• The art of Meditation has almost disappeared. Our excuse is that we are too busy. Failing
to meditate on God’s Word points us to Dead Orthodoxy and Spiritual Inertia. Our Christian
Spiritual life is or will be very shallow, without meditation on his Word. Our lives may be very
busy, yet Spiritually shallow.

• Meditation always leads to true self-examination. Some will say “look to God” and that is true
yet scriptures exhort us to examine and test ourselves. This exam often drives us to God and
prayer. Self-examination in the light of the scriptures will lead you to the Lord Jesus Christ and
his cleansing blood.

• Dead Orthodoxy and Spiritual Inertia often fails to realize the glorious possibilities of the
Christian Life. Paul expresses it in Phil 3: 9-10. “and be found in Him, not having a
righteousness of my own that come from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ,
the righteousness from God that depends on faith ...”

• Lloyd-Jones points out in many ways we are like the Church at Laodicea. Because we say,
I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing. Christ says to us, you are poor,
naked, wretched, miserable, blind, and do not know it. If we don’t know it, we are indeed in
a state of Spiritual Inertia. The test of a Christian is not his busyness, or activity. It is his
knowledge of God. We must pray for Spiritual Revival in our individual lives.

• Lloyd-Jones-ones says we are resting on our oars, and we are satisfied. We are so unlike the
Apostle Paul. Phil 3: 13-14… “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies
ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ.

We must pray for and expect revival in ourselves and our Church. We should seek, with God’s help,
to deal with Dead Orthodoxy and Spiritual Inertia.

Day Eight:
Thursday, April 30, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 8

Chapter 8 – Expecting Revival

By: Nolan Phillips

Lloyd-Jones recalls the events in Joshua 4 where Israel entered the Promised Land by crossing the
Jordan on dry land. God told the Israelites to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan
where the priests stood holding the ark. They erected them as a monument on the west side of the
Jordan as a reminder of what God had done both here and at the Red Sea. When their children asked,
“What do these stones mean?”, it provided an opportunity to discuss the facts of God’s intervention
in history. This is much like what Jesus instituted in the upper room that night of his betrayal. The
Lord’s Supper became an opportunity to remember and instruct.

We frequently forget what God has done in our past and, therefore, don’t expect him to act in our
future. Why do we need to be reminded of these crucial movements of God? We become overly
absorbed in our generation and particularly in ourselves. We bring this subjectivism to out Bible
reading and we miss the panorama of all that God has done. We must remember that acts of God in
previous awakenings are historical facts. These awakenings (revivals) are a part of a series that can
be traced all the way back to Pentecost.

The essence of a revival is that the Holy Spirit comes down upon a number of people together, upon
a church or number of churches, upon a city, a district or a whole country. This unusual blessing is
revival.

What are the characteristics of these movements of the Spirit of God?

• Believers, members of the Christian church, suddenly become conscious of God’s presence and
power, and the first effect is that spiritual things become realities.

• They become aware of the glory and the holiness of God.

• This inevitably leads to a deep and terrible sense of sin, and an awful feeling of guilt.

• This burden is relieved by a clear view of the love of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and
especially his death upon the cross.

• Salvation becomes real to them, joy enters into them and they are lost in love and in a sense of
praise of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

• This activity of God in their lives now becomes the one thing that absorbs them – they want to
talk of nothing else.

• They now have a great concern for those who are on the outside of this joy and who do not
know these things.

• They become deeply committed to earnest prayer.

• The news of these things and the life changes that are occurring in the people cause others to
ask “What is this?” or effectively “What do these stones mean?”

So in revival you get a curious, strange mixture of great conviction of sin and great joy, a great sense
of terror in the Lord, and great thanksgiving and praise. This is God visiting his people. Are you
interested? Are you concerned? Are you moved? “Oh, that it might happen to us!”

Day Nine:
Friday, May 1, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 9

Chapter 9 – The Characteristics of a Revival

By: Bill Swank

• The general characteristics of revival include a sense of the majesty of God, of personal sinful-
ness, the wonder of salvation through Jesus Christ, a desire that others might know Him, and
awareness of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This chapter deals with specific points that
stand out in our study of true revival.

• All classes of people are touched regardless of age, temperament, or intellect.
• Revival is transitory. It comes, lasts for a while, and then passes. It comes suddenly or gradu-

ally, and then it ends, perhaps suddenly or perhaps gradually. The beginning and the end can
often be defined by exact dates.
• The results of revival abide. Converts enter the church and a life of devotion to Christ.
• There is a difference between revival and an evangelistic campaign which rests of the plans and
methods of men. A revival springs from the unexpected work of God.
• Revival results in the increased number of people being called to ministry.
• All of society is touched by revival. Even those people who remain unconverted are influenced
and affected.
• Revival begins in various kinds of meetings. It may begin in a prayer meeting involving only
two Christians. It may break out during an evangelistic campaign drawing large crowds when
God does the unexpected.
• Revival may be accompanied with unusual phenomena—weeping, shouting, and falling on
one’s face in repentance of sin. Revival may be marked with the deep, quite commitment in the
hearts of people.
• Revival is no less a miracle than was the parting of the Red Sea.
⇒ Revival results in a wonder similar to Pentecost when people asked, “What does this mean”
(Acts 2:13).

Day Ten:
Saturday, May 2, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 10

Chapter 10 – The Purpose of Revival

By: Jerome Davis

Joshua defines the purpose of revival: “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand
of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.” (Josh: 4:24)

• Joshua had the people of Israel build a stone monument as they crossed through the Jordan
River into the Promised Land. This was so that later when their children asked the meaning of
the stones they could tell them of God’s great gift to His people.

• Why does God pour out His Spirit from time-to-time and not continually? Why does the history
of the church appear as a graph of ups and downs? God sends revival from time-to-time, bless-
ings on the church, so that He may do something with respect to those outside him. He is going
to do something special that will attract the attention of all the people of the earth.

• The nation of Israel represented God and His glory. All other nations were pagan and served
other gods. God chose Israel to bear testimony of his glory to the other nations of the world.
They might be defeated and fall on hard times, and people of other nations were ready to say,
“Where is your God? Where is His power?” But then would come an outpouring of God’s Spirit
that would astound the scoffers, make them aware of God’s glory.

• We must never lose sight of the fact that revival is God vindicating himself, asserting his own
glory, and his own power. It is the main reason for revival. We should not seek revival so that
we can have experiences.

• Revival is not for solving the problems of people or problems of the church. Solutions may
come as a result of revival, but the overriding, controlling reason for having any interest in
revival should be the glory of God.

• We are living in an age where God’s name is taken in vain and desecrated. Some speak in public
with sarcasm regarding God’s mighty deeds and actions. We should be praying for revival
because we are anxious to see God’s name justified and his glory revealed (see Psalm 46).

• Acts 2 gives us an account of the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out and we
read that the people of Jerusalem and visitors knew something phenomenal was happening.
They had to pay attention. Peter had to get up and give an explanation. Revival does that and
nothing short of revival will have that effect. What is required is an act of God to stun the
people.

• People persist in regarding the Christian Church as just an institution, just a human
organization. But Church is really the body in which God himself dwells. What He does in
revival is remind us of that. When God acts in revival, everyone present feels and knows that
God is there. God reminds us that the whole power that should be shown in the Church is His
power, that everything the church does should be the exhibition of God’s power. We preach the
gospel which the Apostle Paul (Romans 1) says is the “Power of God unto salvation to everyone
who believes.”

God brings revival in his own time, but there has never been a revival that has not led to praise,
to thanksgiving, and to enjoyment of the riches of God’s grace.

Day Eleven:
Sunday, May 3, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 11

Chapter 11 – The Effects of Revival

By: Mike Doyle

“And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine." (Acts 2:12-13)

The verses quoted above show the reaction to the phenomenal occurrences recorded on the
Day of Pentecost. The Apostle Peter further explains in his sermon detailed in Acts 2 that what the
people are experiencing is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We clearly see this great and striking
phenomenon happen during revival. But why? Two reasons:

• To revive the Church

• To Draw attention to God so that others may find Him as Savior.

It seems the best way to classify these phenomenon is to put them into two categories:

• Physical, things like fainting, trances. Both happened in the revival in Northern Ireland in 1859.

• Mental, things like an extraordinary gift of speech, or the ability to pray like they have never
prayed before. Or, as was the case in 1904 and 1905 in Wales where the gift of prophesy was
manifested in people.

Some would classify these types of things associated with Revival as either brainwashing, mass
hysteria, psychic, or the work of the devil.

• Let's look at brainwashing first.

⇒ Lloyd-Jones says, "Let me make one thing quite plain and clear. I am concerned only to deal
with Revival. I am not concerned with evangelical campaigns”, i.e., he is not concerned about
changing the minds of people by bombarding them with a message (brainwashing), but rather
with bringing revival to the Church. He contends that you can use all the techniques and big
campaigns you want to try to force Revival but that most of those efforts do not produce Re-
vival like he is talking about.

• Secondly, what about these phenomenon being mass hysteria? Below are arguments against
mass hysteria by a Dr. Carson who witnessed the Revival in Northern Ireland.

⇒ It is almost an invariable symptom of hysteria that people are conscious of a ball in the
throat. They feel they are choking, that there is a lump there and they are going to choke.
There was no evidence of that in all of the Northern Ireland Revival,

⇒ It is a characteristic of hysteria that people laugh and cry almost at the same time, or change
quickly from on to the other. Uncontrollable laughter, then uncontrollable weeping. Sometimes
they are almost mixed together or they may follow in quick succession. There was none of these
in all of Dr. Carson's experience in Northern Ireland.
⇒ In hysteria you almost invariably have convulsive movements of the limbs and extremities.
There was not a single case of this in the revival.
⇒ Hysteria generally occurs in the frail or weak. That was not the case in Northern Ireland.
The phenomenon occurred in men, women, weak, and strong.

• Thirdly, was it psychic in nature?

⇒ Some say it was mind or thought transference through telepathy or hypnosis. Lloyd-Jones
responds with affirmation that some people seem to have this gift, the ability to read the minds
of people. However, he questions that this is how you explain the phenomenon that sometimes
occur in revival. He asks the following questions: Why should this suddenly start in people who
have had no evidence of these powers before? Why should it start so suddenly? Why should it
all of a sudden become so common? Why only during a revival? Why did masses do it? Finally,
why did the results last after the revival?

• Fourth, it was the work of the devil.

⇒ The Roman Catholics and Unitarians said this about the revival in Northern Ireland. But why
would the devil, finding the Church in a period of dryness and drought, cause something that
would bring attention back to religion and Jesus Christ? The main result of revival is that
thousands of people are converted to the Lord Jesus Christ and become followers of Christ. Is
the devil likely to lead someone to do that?

We must say here that there is not agreement in what these phenomenon are. The Northern Ireland
Revival began in the parish of Reverend J. H. Moore who disliked and discouraged such phenomenon.
But in the next parish, Connor, there were no phenomenon. Jonathon Edwards defended them. He
believed they were from the Spirit of God. John Berridge encouraged them. Wesley and Whitfield
didn't like them or were uncertain of them.

Lloyd-Jones concludes that the phenomena are not essential to revival, they are not vital to revival,
they are not religious in and of themselves. He says these phenomena may appear in a revival,
which, as the Apostle Peter says, is the result of an outpouring of the Spirit of God. But we must not
seek phenomena and strange experiences. What we seek is Revival. Let us therefore be careful lest
we quench the Spirit and let us keep our eyes fixed upon the Glory of God, and the outpouring of
Holy Spirit upon us.

Day Twelve:
Monday, May 4, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 12

Chapter 12 – How Revival Comes

By: Daryl King

The story of Israel and the golden calf in Exodus 32 and 33 illustrates how the church can move
away from the Lord, followed by the first steps of returning again in revival. These were a people
that from the beginning of their deliverance from captivity in Egypt had failed at faith such that
they were not properly thankful to the Lord and they complained about life’s hardships. Being
weak in faith, they moved away from the Lord into idolatry, and then realizing that the Lord was no
longer with them, in godly sorrow they repented and asked for the Lord’s mercy, forgiveness and
presence with them.

• Israel’s choice to worship the golden calf instead of the Lord is a picture of what many in the
church have done in worshiping an imagined god consistent with their own reasoning and phi-
losophies instead of seeking and worshipping the true Lord according to a thorough under-
standing of the Bible.

• Turning away from the Lord to the golden calf expressed Israel’s claim to having the power to
decide who was to be their god and resulted in open, shameful immorality.

• Many in the church have unwittingly set themselves above the Bible by turning away from its
study and believing only what agrees with their own philosophies of ethics and morality, fash-
ioning their own god. The weakness of the present church and the moral and social declines of
today are the result of this failure in the church.

• Moses came down from the mountain, saw the calf and called on those who would be on the
Lord’s side to recognize the evil and separate themselves from it. In this matter Moses was a
mediator between the sin of the people and the wrath of God even as Jesus is for us today. Jesus
calls us to Himself.

• The Lord responded to the false worship by saying He would no longer be in Israel’s midst.
They would have the Lord’s blessing, but not His glorious presence, as is true of much of the
church today.

• When the people realized that the Lord’s glory was withdrawn they grieved. Today’s church
needs the same realization and grief; without this response revival cannot come to the church.
It means nothing for the church to have buildings, money, meetings and events if the Lord is not
present in power and glory.

• In deep grief the people realized what their sin looked like to God and the seriousness of His
glory being withdrawn from them, and they repented. They turned to God and determined to
not go forward with the Lord’s blessing until the Lord returned to them in the power of His
presence. Today’s church needs this repentance away from their imagined god to the true God
of the Bible.

• In repentance Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments like those from which the calf had
been made. Many in the church need to strip themselves of their substitutes for the true God.

These are the first steps that lead to true revival. Are we happy with today’s church? Where is the
Lord in power and glory? In mercy may the Lord open our eyes to the truth.

Day Thirteen:
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 13

Chapter 13 – Prayer and Revival

By: Ben White

Jews had sinned and turned against God. They had repented and were again seeking God's presence.
They had a longing for Him to come as before, but He had not come. They were waiting. What has to
be done now? You will not see the Church pass from sin to a mighty revival. There are stages that are
necessary for revival. That next stage requires prayer and intercession.

This chapter identifies steps toward a "Revival." You need to go to a place where you meet God.

• In Exodus 33:8, Moses went outside the camp. Sometimes we need to go outside the Church to
meet Him. Sometimes it takes just one person to spark a change.

• A place, a person and a burdened heart can initiate a connection with the Holy Spirit. Such was
Martin Luther when he began the protestant Reformation.

• Later the same thing happened when a New York Man started a prayer meeting. As people
increased, he felt a burden and did something about it.

• A revival started the same way in Northern Ireland, then another one in Wales.

• So let’s get out of the habit of the feeling that Christian church members have today - that
ordinary church members can do nothing. As pastor Tommy used to say, “Don't just sit and
soak - do something!”

• Listen to the spirit; Set up a place where God can inhabit and use it to communicate with Him.
Stay tuned to the spirit.

• The Jews saw Moses enter the tent, and wondered what he was doing. Haven’t you ever seen
a person looking at the sky and a crowd gathered around him? Do something and people will
follow.

• The next revival will come as a surprise. There has never been an official movement of the
Church that started a revival, but they are started by one person. Such was the Methodist
church. It was started by a Holy Club, outside the camp!

• No sponsorship is needed other than God, He will show up when we are in the right attitude.
When you are calling on God you don't need other sponsorship. People come because they feel
the same burden when they are in tune with the Holy Spirit.

• When people are concerned with the Holy Spirit, are holy as God is holy, and come to His
presence that is an ‘a-ha’ moment. When the Holy Spirit of God begins to deal with one of us
there will be the separation. Once man becomes burdened, then goes out as it were.

• Moses put his 'tabernacle' outside the camp because it needs to be separated, it has to be Holy.
The first indication is that we become aware of our unworthiness and uncleanness. We want to
have it out of the ordinary; that is 'exceptional.' Refer to Exodus 33:8.

God has a way to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. When this happens, God recognizes it,
He encourages and blesses it. Those things bring recognition and intercession on behalf of people,
and waiting in the presence of God, expecting more and more to happen. Are we ready for God to do
outstandingly, EXTRAORDINARY things?

Day Fourteen:
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 14

Chapter 14 – What to Pray for in Revival

By: Jerome Davis

Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom
you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my
sight.’ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may

know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” And he said,
“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” And he said to him, “If your presence will not go
with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight,
I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every

other people on the face of the earth?” And the LORD said to Moses, “This very thing that you have
spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” (Ex.33 12-17)

At one point God had withdrawn his presence from the Children of Israel because of their sin. They
repented and Moses interceded for them. God heard Moses’ prayer and the cloudy pillar returned to
the door of the tabernacle. Moses was grateful.

• We might think that this was good, that nothing further need be done. But Moses was not
satisfied. He desired more. So he went back to the tabernacle to pray. He pleaded for more,
something extra from God.

• God had said he was not going with the people into Canaan, but rather would send an angel. But
Moses insisted, “You must come with us. Make it absolutely clear to other nations that we are
separate, unique, and altogether apart.”

• The prayer for revival is that the church will become unique, separate, set apart. What is
needed is a signal so striking that it will arrest the attention of the world, to prove that we are
indeed what we claim to be, the separate people of God. Revival always does that.

• Moses knew God accepted him and that he was in God’s care. God spoke to him as a personal
friend. Yet, he wanted more. He wanted personal assurance. He wanted to “know God.”
He wanted to know beyond any doubt that God really loved him. He knew this, yet he wanted
absolute certainty.

• This is a characteristic of the saints of God. They want a deeper knowledge of God. They know
their salvation is real, but they begin to desire something bigger and something deeper.

• This is a desire to have a real consciousness of God’s Holy Spirit in the church. We know He’s
there—been there since Pentecost-- but we want to see a manifestation of His presence. This is
what we should pray for if we are concerned about revival—“that I may know him.”

• A man can preach, get converts, and bring additions to the church. What a man can never do is
what God does. The Holy Spirit sent down from Heaven, the descent of power, the uniqueness,
and the special manifestation of the presence and the power of God.

• In revival, God authenticates His people, their work, and their message, saying, “Yes, these are
my people. And I am doing something in their midst that I have never done among you, and that
I will never do among any but my own people.”

Prayer for revival is not the prayer for regular blessing on the work—we must always be doing
that—it is prayer for the unusual on top of it, in addition to it, something special, something that
authenticates God and His work among his people.

Day Fifteen:
Thursday, May 7, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 15

Chapter 15 – The Real Reasons for Revival

By: Ralph Kunkel

As we are being called to pray for revival, we should remember Moses in Exodus 32 & 33. Moses was
primarily concerned with and constantly sought the Glory of God. He says “this nation is thy people”.
Moses was there when God brought them out of Egypt, though the Red Sea, and escaped the wilderness.
Moses is a great example for us today – to lead others to know God’s power, glory, righteousness, and
forgiveness!

After Christ’s resurrection, Peter and John were tried and then forbidden to preach the gospel. Then, the
authorities were determined to exterminate the Church and put an end to all preaching. What did Peter
and John go and do? They began to pray with other believers. And, this is what they called out to God:
“The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against
Christ. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings…” This is right from the second Psalm. They had clear
insight. You would have thought they would have prayed entirely about themselves, but they did not do
that primarily. They recognized that all that was happening was really against God. As we pray for
revival, let us primarily be concerned about God, His Glory, His Honor, His Name, and not ourselves.

• Many times our conversations lead to the Church. We talk about attendance numbers, finance, how
we’re structured and organized, and how to get people to come. However, the author suggests that our
main concern should be how the Church can experience the Glory of God. This is the first real reason for
revival.

• The second real reason for revival is a concern about the honor of the Church herself. We should have
the attitude that our personal lives and well-being are very unimportant compared to God’s hand and
blessings on the Church. The author says that there is no hope for revival until you and I have reached
the stage in which we begin to forget about ourselves a little, and to be concerned for the Church, for
God’s body, and for his people here on earth.

• The third real reason for revival is for the people “on the outside”. Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know
that I am God.” This should be a main part of our prayer as we pray for others. As we show zeal for the
Glory of God, scoffers will be silenced, the blind will have their eyes opened, the troubled will be
delivered from the chains of iniquity, and the unsaved will be saved. All because of “God being God”, not
because of our efforts.

• Believers have access to the “high priest” as talked about in Hebrews 4. We can boldly come before God
in prayer and enter the “presence of God”. By the blood of Christ, we have a right of entry into God’s
holiness. Imagine the prayers of the saints throughout the centuries – our minds are blown that we are
given this access to Almighty God!

• The author ends this chapter mentioning a man by the name of James McQuilken. This is a man who
got saved in 1856 in Ulster, Ireland after a friend shared with him. The following year McQuilkin felt
burdened to pray for his neighbors. Unbeknownst to him, God was laying the same burden on many
hearts and small prayer groups started throughout Northern Ireland. In December 1857, McQuilkin
rejoiced to be involved in his first conversion of someone else, but widespread revival did not come
immediately. It took almost two more years, but revival came in 1859. Many called this the “Ulster
Revival”. Many great things occurred, such as it was not uncommon for teenage boys to hold street
meetings to reach their peers for Christ. By 1860, the police had empty jails, no crimes were to be
investigated, judges had no cases to hear, and most pubs closed. All this was due to people like James
McQuilken that sought the Glory of God though fervent prayer.

Day Sixteen:
Friday, May 8, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 16

Chapter 16 – What Happens in Revival

By: Manuel Sosa

“And the LORD said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in
my sight, and I know you by name.” (Exodus 33:17)

Revival, after all, is nothing but God hearing the people and answering them by giving this
manifestation of his glory, and his strength, and his power. Every revival of religion that the Church
has ever know has been, in a sense, a kind of repetition of what happened on the day of Pentecost.
People go accepting uncritically the explanation that what happened on the day of Pentecost was
once and for all and never to be repeated ... if that is really true, it is very wrong to pray for revival.

• In revival, God is pouring forth his Spirit, filling his people again.
• But so much of the modern teaching never uses these scriptural terms at all.
• Revival is, above everything else, is what is needed today.
• We do not need more studies on why the church is losing people we need, “… the power.” We

need a call to prayer and humiliation.
• Things that happens when God hears our call (prayers) for revival ...

⇒ The church becomes conscious of a presence and a power in her midst. The meeting is taken
out of the hands of whoever may have been in charge, and the Holy Ghost begins to preside, and
to take charge, and everybody is aware of his presence, and of his glory, and of his power.
⇒ The church is given, as the result of this, great assurance concerning the truth.
⇒ The church is filled with great joy and a sense of praise…When the Church is in a state of re-
vival you do not have to exhort people to praise, you cannot stop them.
⇒ And the other factor ... is this element of worship, and of thanksgiving, together with a great
freedom. If this happen to the Church, the world outside will be astonished.
⇒ The next thing ... is the power and boldness that is given in the proclamation of the truth.
⇒ The Church experiencing this great visitation is now concerned about the world outside.
• We are always trying to find new programs and/or gimmicks to bring more people into
the church but. Oh if you want to get a crowd into your church, pray for revival! Because the
moment a revival breaks out, the crowd will come, and I assure you, it will not cost you a penny.
• Revival is how God started the Church that is how God has continued to keep the Church alive.
• Pray for revival, and to see that has more time than anything else.
• When the Holy Ghost comes in power, more will happen in an hour that will happen in fifty or
even a hundred years as a result of your exertions and mine.
In summary, we don’t need flash to bring people in we have the fire, we don’t need glitter we have
God, we don’t need persistence. We have the power. Pray for revival!

Day Seventeen:
Saturday, May 9, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 17

Chapter 17 – The Glory of God Revealed

By: Jerome Davis

Prayer for revival is for the ultimate: the manifestation of the glory of God. Revival is a glimpse of the
glory of God passing by through a special visitation of the Holy Spirit.

• Revival---the revelation of God’s glory-- can come to the individual just as it can come to many
collectively. Do we have the desire for more of God?

• We can fall victim to self-satisfaction. Because we are saved we feel we have arrived and all we
have to do is maintain this position. Do we know the desire for God himself and for a knowledge
of His glory?

• Moses, so favored by God, always wanted more of God. His ultimate goal was to see God’s glory.

• Like Moses, the Apostle Paul was so blessed yet was still not satisfied. He asked (in Philippians
3:10) “That I may know him in the power of his resurrection.” He wanted more of God.

• We should go beyond asking for blessing and gifts. Like Moses and Paul we should be filled with
passion for a personal knowledge, confrontation, and meeting with God himself.

• No man is able to view all of God’s glory. Isaiah had a glimpse and he called himself “unfit for
this. I am unworthy.” John, the apostle was given a glimpse and he “fell at his feet as dead.” Paul
was blinded because the sight of the Lord Jesus was so incredible. Peter, James and John, at the
Transfiguration fell into a deep sleep. God gives us just an indication of His glory; He protects us
from the full impact. Even so, He still wants us to ask.

• Why do we believers know so little about these things? Christianity is to know God. Not only to
know about God, but to know God personally. Peter says a Christian is a man who knows and
loves the Lord. He rejoices in Him with joy that is unspeakable, that baffles description.

• Moses shows us the way to receive more of God: 1) when He gives a little grace ask Him
for great grace. 2) When He gives great grace, ask for faith. 3) When He gives faith, ask for
assurance. 4) When he gives assurance, ask for full assurance. 5) When He gives full assurance,
ask for enjoyment. 6) When you receive enjoyment, ask for Him to reveal His glory and He will
give it to you in His own appointed season.

When revival takes place, God gives us a glimpse of his glory. The God who is with us in glory comes
down and pours out his Holy Spirit and ascends again. We look on, feeling and knowing that
something special is happening. God is in our midst and is passing by. We see only his back, but that
is more than enough. Draw nigh to God and He will draw near to you (Joshua 4:8). For yourself seek
God’s glory. For the church pray for revival for the passing by of the glory of the Lord.

Day Eighteen:
Sunday, May 10, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 18

Chapter 18 – The Goodness of God Made Manifest

By: Daryl King

In Exodus 33 and 34 we are told of how Moses asked for the most needed thing, for the heart of what
we need in true revival, and of the all sufficient answer given to him and to us by our Lord. For we
Christians who feel burdened, weary, unhappy, perplexed, troubled by doubts, for we who find life to
be grievous as did Moses and the people of Israel, we can learn of the answer given to Moses which
was a revelation of all of the goodness of God.

• Moses asked that he might be shown God’s glory. God replied by saying He would display all
of His goodness. To be shown all of God’s goodness is to be given an understanding of the
character of God; this is God’s glory. All of our troubles in the Christian life ultimately arise from
our ignorance of the character of God. Our supreme need is for knowledge of God’s character.

• Moses seemed to want a physical display of God’s power and glory, which we are all prone to
want. Jesus said this evil generation seeks a sign. God’s answer instead addresses our greatest
and ultimate need which is to know Him.

• God began by telling Moses what He is: Elohim, the one supreme, all powerful, creator deity.
He is eternal with unlimited authority and influence. That is the first thing we need to know.

• Next God told Moses His name: Yahweh (Hebrew) or Jehovah (English). This name tells us that
God is the self-existent, “I am” and the only One who is such. He is unchangeable, has infinite
awareness and understanding, and is present everywhere at all times. This is the One who
wants us to know Him, who wants to redeem us. The church’s failure to know God this way
causes her to be fearful, anxious, and to busily try in the flesh to be the savior.

• In the scriptures Yahweh is the One who comes down to man and makes a covenant with us; He
sees our affliction and comes as our redeemer. What we need to know of our redeemer is that
He completely loves His own, is completely holy, has a complete hatred of sin, judges between
the holy and the sinful, and satisfies perfect justice by taking our deserved curse upon
Himself on the cross. Much of the modern church denies the wrath of God and therefore does
not properly value the cross or the Lord Himself.

• God told Moses that He will be gracious and show mercy to whom He will be gracious and show
mercy. Our salvation is entirely and altogether by the choice and grace of God. It is in spite of us.
It is only of God’s own will.

After God showed Himself to Moses as we need to know Him, Moses did what we need to do:
he bowed low and worshiped. In this knowledge of God there is salvation.

Day Nineteen:
Monday, May 11, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 19

Chapter 19 – The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus

By: Nolan Phillips

This chapter continues to focus on Exodus 33 where Moses asked to see God’s glory. If this is not
the deepest desire of our hearts then there is something seriously and sadly defective in our whole
position. In times of revival, God gives us a glimpse of his glory. God tells Moses, “You cannot see my
face,” but he agrees to hide Moses in the cleft of a rock and cover him with his hand as he passes by.
Moses was allowed to see the back of God’s glory.

This passage reveals two main principles that always govern every manifestation of God, and his
glory, to his people. First, there is a combination of revealing and concealing. God shows Moses
something of his glory, yet God is hiding something of his glory at the same time. Secondly, at one
and the same time, God is blessing but he is also protecting.

This image is a perfect summary of the New Testament. Paul put it this way, “For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:6) That is Christianity.
A Christian is one who believes this – one who has experienced that in a measure, or to a certain
extent.

The New Testament is a fulfillment of what we have seen here:

• Concealing - No man shall see me and live. This is confirmed several times in the New
Testament. John said no man has seen God at any time. It is the essential, first pre-supposition
that no man can search out God on his own; that no man can see God. Moses was covered by the
hand of God. The Lord Jesus did not come in the form of God, though he is God, but he came in
the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

• Protecting - Not just a covering but a protecting was required that Moses might live. What was
happening on that cross on Calvary? It was us being protected against the glory and the
holiness, and the righteousness, and the justice, and the wrath of God against sin.

• Revealing - It was not only protecting and concealing that took place with Moses, but the main
purpose was revelation. God reveals himself in his own way. John 1:18 in full says, “No one has
ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.” This is God’s
way of revealing his glory in these last days. John 1:14 says, “And the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of
grace and truth.”

• Blessing - The glory of his cross. The wonder of his blood. These things are the theme of the
church.

The Spirit coming in unusual power gives a glimpse of the glory of God in the face of Jesus.

Day Twenty:
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 20

Chapter 20 – The Burden for Revival

By: Mike Dukes

Lloyd-Jones begins this chapter by quoting a scripture from Isaiah 62:6-7 where Isaiah writes that God
will put watchman on the wall who will not be silent day or night, and those who love the Lord will also
not keep their silence and will not give God any rest until he glorifies Jerusalem and his church. This is
not a direct quote, but is the message of the verse Lloyd-Jones uses as his text for this chapter.

Isaiah was a prophet who was given an understanding of the state of the nation, and it was not a good
one. Lloyd-Jones tells us that we must recognize the true state of the church and acknowledge that we
are not in a place that God wants us to be. Israel was facing God’s judgment which was going to be
fulfilled when Babylon would come and destroy the nation, temple, and take many of their people into
captivity. They needed revival, but did not know it and would not admit it. He uses their example to call
the church to assume the burden of calling for a revival.

• Today, we see a church that has the apparent markings of prosperity, but is this really the evidence
that the church is doing well?

• Lloyd-Jones says the church is actually in a state of being desolate and forsaken like Israel was. He
says that we must somehow get a glimpse of the glory God desires for his church if we are ever
going to see the true state we are in.

• The watchman or watchmen know that if the church does not experience revival, the church will
never bring the glory to God it was destined to do. God wants the church, like Israel, to be a light to
the world where God’s glory rests and declares to the world the majestic glory of Jesus Christ.

• The reason for the burden of these men who are watchmen is the state of the church. He shows
that a burden cannot be assumed if one believes all is well.

• He challenges the church today to compare itself with the early church. The glory of God rested
on the early church, but today’s church does not compare to the early church in commitment,
character, and power.

• Are we satisfied with the church today, or do we see that we do not measure up to the standard the
early church exemplified?

• Are our personal lives what God wants them to be? Are we walking with God in a manner that is
portrayed in the New Testament?

• Do we see the need to repent? If not, we do not have the burden. This is the burden that God will
lay on anyone who yearns to see a revival in today’s church.

• All revivals begin here. Why do we not see revival? We do not see it because we do not think
anything is wrong with us or our church.

• We want revival for others maybe, but do we really need it?

• Next we see they will not keep silent concerning the state of the church. Those with the burden will
not keep silent. They will declare the need for revival to those who will listen, and they will not
cease interceding before God bringing to God’s remembrance that He has promised to come for a
glorious church without spot or wrinkle!

Once the vision is seen of where we are and where God wants to take us, we will not keep silence before
men or God. This burden will consume us. Let us get a vision of what the church is to be and then the
burden will come when we see how far short we are falling in what God wants us to be.

Day Twenty-One:
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 21

Chapter 21 – God Breaking Through

By: Bill Hurlburt

In this chapter, Lloyd-Jones describes a vision, found in Isaiah 63, given to the prophet Isaiah during
a time of great distress, both for the prophet and the nation. As an aside, I have personally read this
chapter, and listened to the sermon that can be found online, several times. I cannot get the image of this
warrior that has whipped the enemy completely, and is now returning to his people, out of my mind. It is
so powerful to think that when we are in our darkest hour, and in our most miserable state that
God would show his love for us by giving us encouragements. That is the word that Lloyd-Jones uses.
Encouragements. In the midst of total defeat, he shows us that he sees us, he cares for us, and at just the
right time, he will single-handedly show up to rescue us.

This vision occurs during a time of intensive prayer by the prophet, and the people. They have been
praying earnestly, asking God for deliverance, and then right in the very middle of the prayer, God gives
them a vision, this encouragement.

Lloyd-Jones states that throughout church history, when the church has earnestly sought God’s
deliverance, God has given similar encouragements. Sometimes these are in the form of Revival. When
the church, either at a local level or maybe spanning borders, is at its most miserable state, God
intervenes and sends his Spirit. When that occurs Revival happens.

In these verses of Isaiah 63, the vision is one of a mighty warrior returning from a great battle in Edom.
Edom was a real as well as a symbolic enemy of God and God’s people. The exciting part for me are the
words, “Who is this?” This is what is said when the people saw this mighty person returning. From out of
nowhere he appeared, and they wanted to know who he was. He was the pre-incarnate God the Son. It
was Jesus before he became a man. He, alone, fought the battle to destroy God’s enemies, and because of
that He also freed those of us who have given ourselves to Him.

Two key themes that Lloyd-Jones brings out are this warrior’s wrath, and that he fought alone. In Isaiah,
this mighty warrior says that:

• In my “Wrath and Fury”, I fought and was victorious.

• He also said that he was alone.

The image of this pre-incarnate Christ, doing his vanquishing alone is very striking. Lloyd-Jones gives
examples of this mighty warrior through history and in the future.

• In the garden, God himself first prophesies His victory.

• He was alone in the burning bush.

• He was alone as the captain of the Lord’s army for Joshua, and the Israelites.

As the incarnate Jesus Christ he was alone on so many occasions.

• He was alone as he resisted the devil after already being alone in the wilderness.
• When everyone else went to his or her own homes, he had no home to go to.
• He was alone in the garden as he asked to have “this cup” taken away.
• Alone he was tried, and then, as he died on the cross he was alone before God taking the punish-

ment that I deserved.
• And in the future, it is the resurrected Jesus Christ who will be the only one worthy to open the

scroll of history, and who will finally, and forever, and soundly, and completely defeat Satan.

In summary, the church of Jesus Christ must follow the example in Isaiah 62, and 63. To pray earnestly,
and persistently asking for God’s intervention, and he will ultimately do just that.

Day Twenty-Two:
Thursday, May 14, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 22

Chapter 22 – The Great Prayer for Revival

By: Mike Dukes

“I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD
has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his

compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.” (Isaiah 63:7)

Once God has laid the burden upon someone for revival, prayer is going to follow. Revival will never
come any other way. It is always born out of fervent prayer by those who have been given the burden for
revival. Lloyd-Jones shows in this passage of scripture the pattern of prayer God hears. It is a prayer
which Lloyd-Jones says is prayed by the church during a time of spiritual decay. He says, “It is a great
prayer for revival, a prayer for God to look down from heaven and to visit his people once more.” Prayer
like this is the expression that comes from the heart of those who yearn to see God move again in the
midst of his people.

Lloyd-Jones tells us that the prayer prayed by Isaiah is a prayer that is very similar to other prayers
prayed in the Bible, and we should take time to see the pattern of prayer that is revealed in this section of
scripture. We see several points that one will see in other prayers found in Bible.

• Prayer opens by magnifying God’s character. In verse 7, Isaiah speaks to God and says that he
remembers the steadfast love of the Lord. He shows us that it is always appropriate to begin our
prayers by addressing thankfulness to God for his steadfast love that he has for his people. This is
significant because Isaiah is praying at a time when God’s people have not been faithful to God. In
spite of our failures to be faithful, God’s love for us is steadfast. It is a covenant love that tells us he
will never cease to love us and care for us.

• Lloyd-Jones tells us to ask if we truly believe in the character of God that is revealed in scripture.
He tells us that prayer offered to God when we do not believe that God’s love is a steadfast love
regardless of our goodness or failures will avail nothing before God. As we pray we must ask
ourselves if we truly believe that God is gracious, merciful, and longsuffering extending his
steadfast love to all who will receive him. He further says, “If we have any criticism of God in our
hearts, we should stop praying.” The character of our God has not changed and his love for his
people has never wavered. Do we believe God will hear our prayers for revival?

• Lloyd-Jones then shows how Isaiah refers back to the experiences of the nation of Israel in the past.
He remembers how God’s steadfast love has delivered Israel in the past when they had fallen away
from God. This becomes a major focus of Isaiah with the prayer being extended through Isaiah 64.
He uses this principle that is found in many prayers in the Bible to also refer back to times in the
history of the church when God moved in mighty ways to revive his people. Additionally he points
out the time of the reformation when Martin Luther led the revival that literally changed the
direction of the church. Luther along with John Calvin were men who were facing great trials and
adversity during the Protestant Reformation, but God delivered them and carried them through a
very dark and difficult times for the church.

Lloyd-Jones concludes the chapter by reflecting on the history of Israel and the church. He points out
that Israel’s past history shows how they would fall away from God, but would return to him when they
realized what they had done. Lloyd-Jones exhorts the church who is wondering where God is to begin to
seek God in prayer for revival.

Day Twenty-Three:
Friday, May 15, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 23

Chapter 23 – The Heartfelt Fervor of Revival Prayer

By: John Booker

Look down from Heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and thy glory: where is thy zeal and
thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? Are they restrained? Doubtless thou
art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us no more: thou, O Lord art our
father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. O Lord, why has thou made us to err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. The people
of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are

thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name (Isa. 63: 15-19).

As we look at this prayer, says Lloyd-Jones, we must realize that this is the only hope for us, too, at this
present hour because our position today, our predicament, is almost exactly like that of the children of
Israel when they were carried captive to Babylon, and like that of the Church during her subsequent
periods of disobedience. We must realize that our only hope for God’s mercy and revival lies in praying
this kind of prayer.

• There is nothing half-hearted about this prayer, nothing slack or vague.
• As the prophet describes his nation’s deplorable condition, Lloyd-Jones says of God’s people today:

It is astonishing to see how we are so much at ease in Zion, when the Church and the state of the
world around us is so apathetic towards God.
• It is only as we realize this state of affairs that we can begin to pray with the urgency and
importunity that characterizes the prophet.
• The key to great praying is a deep knowledge and grasp of the doctrines of grace.
• Great praying begins with standing on the Holy Scriptures and its blessed doctrines.
• The prophet’s first great petition includes these pregnant words: Look down from Heaven ... and
behold.
• What really tests us is whether we long to see the smile of God, to know that God is looking upon us,
and that we are living and moving under his eye.
• The prophet’s first petition begins with worshipping and adoring God: ‘Behold from thy habitation
of holiness and glory’.
• Our focus must never start with ourselves but must always start with God.
• The prophet’s second petition includes a reminder to God and to himself of the relationship that
subsists between them.
• The prophet is reminding God of his ancient relationship to the nation and to the people, and his
zeal on their behalf.
• We start with God as he is in himself, and then we go on to the relationship between us and God.

• We must now consider the third petition of this great prayer, which is the actual plea that he offers,
and it is a threefold plea.

• In the prophets first plea he knows that God’s mercies are still there and pleads to the God who
does not change.

• In the prophet’s second plea, he says: ‘why are thou like a journeyman?’ Why not come back to us?’
Having acknowledged that they have no right to ask, he pleads, and urges God to look again, and to
exercise compassion.

• The prophet’s third plea is the most extraordinary petition of all, in v. 17, ‘O Lord, why hast thou
made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?’

• Sometimes God punished our disobedience not only by turning his face away from us, but sending
afflictions that harden us. We must turn back to God quickly in repentance and ask him not to deal
with us judicially as we deserve, but to soften our hearts through his grace.

• We have seen the prophet’s method, his worship, his adoration, and his threefold plea, and now let
us see how he closes his argument.

• The prophet’s final argument reminds us that we deserve nothing from God. If you think you do,
you know nothing of God’s holiness. You have not seen God’s glory.

• There is nothing for us to do but to say ‘Oh God’. Is there an ‘Oh’ in your praying? That is another
test of prayer that this ‘Oh’ comes in.

• Somebody once said that a sign, the best sign, of a coming revival is that the word ‘Oh’ begins to
enter into the prayers of the people. ‘Oh Lord’.

The prophet closes his prayer by reminding God of who we are and who they are. The other nations are
not thy people. ‘We are thine, thou never barest rule over them, they were not called by thy name’. This is
a tremendous statement. The Lord’s portion is his people. Though we may be full of sin and unworthi-
ness, as indeed we are, we are still the people of his holiness. Let us plead with God, asking him to return,
and reminding him that we are his chosen people.

Day Twenty-Four:
Saturday, May 16, 2015

“Revival” by Martyn Lloyd Jones
Summary of Chapter 24

Chapter 24 – Revival: The Presence of God’s Spirit Among Us

By: Mike Thomas

Lloyd-Jones concludes the book in Chapter 24 with Isaiah 64:1, “Oh, that you would rip open the heavens
and descend, make the mountains shudder at your presence”. Prayer is not easy; prayer, because we
what we are, is difficult and we need instruction. So God in his kindness provided well for us.

• He has given us great patterns, example and illustrations of prayer.
• We see Isaiah implore God to look down, behold their condition and take interest in them as He

once took in them.
• But he does not stop there. True prayer through the ages has never stopped there. There is a further

petition which is contained in this sixty-forth chapter.
• You notice the first word ‘Oh’. True praying is always characterized by the use of the word, ‘Oh’. No

word is more expressive of longing than that word. It expresses a thirst of deep desire, it is the cry
of a man at the end of his resources waiting and looking for, and longing for God.
• Real prayer means taking hold of God and not letting go as Jacob said, ‘I will not let go, unless you
bless me’ (Gen. 32:36).
• We do not often see a thousand hearts turning to God in Christ do we, but that is what happens in
revival!
• The true revival we pray and long for is indeed God’s coming down, God, no longer merely granting
us the blessings but truly with us as on the day of Pentecost.
• Half out troubles in our praying are due to the fact that we fail to realize the greatness and the
power of God.
• We must remind ourselves to whom we pray. He is a God of great power.
• The first reason for praying that God should come down is that his name be known and recognized
among his adversaries. The world will never be interested in the Christian message until it has
some knowledge of God.
• The church has been blind to this. She has been trying to attract people to herself for over fifty years
and more, putting on popular programs, dramas, and music, trying to entice people, but they never
come.
• They never will until they know the name of the Lord, and then they will come.
• Come down, Isaiah says, let them know thy name, let them be humbled before thee.
• You may say, that doesn’t help us very much because he has gone back to heaven.
• He left twelve ordinary ignorant men, these disciples, these so-called apostles in a hostile world and
all hell against them.
• You know what happened? As they were meeting in an upper room for the Feast of Pentecost,
suddenly there was a sound from heaven as a mighty rushing wind. What has happened? Oh, God
has ripped open the heavens and has come down. It is the descent of the Holy Spirit! Let us remind
God of it, he is the same God and he has sent him since.
• Go back and remind yourself of the Protestant Reformation, read the mighty revival of two hundred
years ago affecting London and the provinces of the other countries. Go back and read the story of
1859. What are these? God ripping heaven and coming down.

• The encouragement of history is a great encouragement.

• “But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,nor the heart of man imagined,what God
has prepared for those who love him”… (I Corinthians 2:9) Have you realized the possibilities or are
you putting your little pigmy limits on them?

• Shame on us for our puny prayers, for putting our limits to God’s illimitable power!

• How do we know God is going to listen to me and to give me my petition?

• The answer is, he is ready to meet certain people. He meets those who work righteousness (through
Christ) and who rejoice in doing so. Listen to James as he says, Draw near to God, and he will draw
near to you’ (James 4:8).

William Cowper was an English poet and hymn writer who wrote, ‘Oh rend the heavens, come quickly
down, and make a thousand hearts tine own.’ Let usbegin to pray that God will send the Holy Spirit in a
mighty way as on the day of Pentecost and other times thru history; pray that we may have a modern day
of Pentecost right here in America.

Concluding Thoughts

By: Deacon Officers

Thank you for taking the time to read through this synopsis of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ book Revival. We
would also like thank Pastor Scott Maze for providing this book to our congregation as we prepare
for a corporate time of prayer for revival on May 16th. And, we extend a special thanks to the
members of our church who willingly created this synopsis so that everyone could have the chance
to know Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ message.

On May 16 our church will begin a 24 hour prayer vigil for revival. Based upon Dr. Lloyd-Jones’
message from God’s word, there are some truths we should focus on as we pray:

• It important that we are humbled and repent before our holy and righteous God. We need to
have a real thirst for knowledge of the living God, and a longing and a burning desire to see
Him acting, manifesting Himself and his power, rising, and scattering his enemies. We need to
want a personal knowledge of God, a direct knowledge, a manifestation, extraordinary, and
unusual, and an additional manifestation of his great love. We want to see God’s way, some
glimpse of his great plan and purpose.

• Revival above everything else is the glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is
the restoration of Him to the center of the life of the Church. We pray for revival because we
deeply desire the glory of God, the honor of the church, and salvation for the nonbeliever.
Revival is something God does to the church not the church deciding to do something. Revival
will impact every type of person regardless of economic status, age, temperament, or intellect.

• We were never meant to be content with a little bit of God. As we pray, we are to remind God
of his own promises. When we pray, we need to expect something to happen. Our prayers
should be urgent, strong emotion, pleading. Real prayer means taking hold of God and not
letting go.

The following is a paraphrase from page 185 of Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ book that should heighten our
expectation of what God can do:

Shake us! …. I ask God to do something that is so amazing, so astounding, so divine, that the whole
world shall be compelled to look on and say, ‘What is this’? And it is clear it is nothing that man can
produce or organize, it is plain that it is an act of God.

In Christ from the 2015 Deacon Officers,

Tim Bass, Grant McCarson, Mark Vaughn, and Dr. Gerald Daniel