D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Authority
Revival is the greatest need today, indeed it is the only hope. Let us decide that day by day we will spend our time before God pleading for revival. Let us remind ourselves that the God who in the past has come suddenly and unexpectedly upon the dying Church has raised her to a new period of life and victory can do the same still.
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A revival is a miracle ... something that can only be explained as the direct ... intervention of God. Men can produce evangelistic campaigns, but they cannot and never have produced a revival.
Revival sermons from the Martyn Lloyd-Jones Trust
https://www.mljtrust.org/free-sermons/revival/
"What is Revival?"
http://articles.ochristian.com/article1651.shtml
We can define it as a period of unusual blessing and activity in the life of the Christian Church. Revival means awakening, stimulating the life, bringing it to the surface again. It happens primarily in the Church of God, and amongst believing people, and it is only secondly something that affects those that are outside also. Now this is a most important point, because this definition helps us to differentiate, once and for all, between a revival and an evangelistic campaign.
An evangelistic campaign is the Church deciding to do something with respect to those who are outside. A revival is not the Church deciding to do something and doing it. It is something that is done to the Church...
The essence of revival is that the Holy Spirit comes down...an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
"The Urgent Need For Revival Today", 1959
http://sentinellenehemie.free.fr/mllyodjones1_gb.html
We must ask ourselves how we can succeed if we do not have this authority, this commission, this might and strength and power. We must become utterly and absolutely convinced of our need. We must cease to have so much confidence in ourselves, and in all our methods and organisations, and in all our slickness. We have got to realise that we must be filled with God's Spirit.
I shall see no hope until individual members of the Church are praying for revival, perhaps meeting in one another's homes, meeting in groups amongst friends, meeting together in churches, meeting anywhere you like, and praying with urgency and concentration for a shedding forth of the power of God, such as he shed forth one hundred and two hundred years ago...
"The Real Reason For Revival"
http://articles.ochristian.com/article3152.shtml
“The Living God”, address at the June 1971 annual Westminster Ministers’ Conference
https://recognizingchrist.com/2012/05/16/martyn-lloyd-jones-the-living-god/
God seems to be saying to us: ‘Prove Me now. Try Me. Risk your everything on Me. Be fools for My sake. Cast yourselves utterly upon this belief.’ Let us put it like this: Do we really believe that God can still act? That is the question; that is the ultimate challenge. Or have we, for theological or some other reasons, excluded the very possibility? Here is the crucial matter. Do we individually and personally really believe that God still acts, can act and will act – in individuals, in groups of individuals, in churches, localities, perhaps even in countries? Do we believe that He is as capable of doing that today as He was in ancient times – the Old Testament, the New Testament times, the book of Acts, Protestant Reformation, Puritans, Methodist Awakening, 1859 and 1904-5 (see below)? Do we really believe that He can still do it?
Cylchgrawn Efengylaidd (Evangelical Magazine of Wales) January 1950
For the Church, my greatest desire is that she should experience a great revival in 1950. Who can not but grieve to see Zion powerless and poverty-stricken and so unworthy of her great Lord and Master? What can be more pitiful than to see the Body of Christ reduced to no more than a number of committees and conferences without the Spirit and without power… Oh to see Christians on their knees in repentance and earnest prayer that God should visit us once again in His grace!
Interview with Lloyd-Jones in 1975
John Piper on Lloyd-Jones and revival
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/god-set-his-sermons-on-fire