I have the privilege to share with pastors and Christian leaders from various denominations across the country.
If I ask any group if we need revival today, invariably, I will receive a unanimous, “Yes!” If I then ask around the room what is meant by “revival,” the unanimity disappears.
There is a cry rising around the nation for revival, but do we know what we are asking for?
“Revival...is man retiring into the background because God has taken the field. It is the Lord making bare His Holy arm and working in extraordinary power on saint and sinner.” - Arthur Wallis
Arthur Wallis, in his classic book, In the Day of Thy Power, offers this definition drawn from his research of historic revivals:
“Numerous writings on the subject that have been preserved to us will confirm that revival is the divine intervention in the normal course of spiritual things. It is God revealing Himself to man in awful holiness and irresistible power. It is such a manifest working of God that human personalities are overshadowed and human programs abandoned. It is man retiring into the background because God has taken the field. It is the Lord making bare His Holy arm and working in extraordinary power on saint and sinner.” (p. 25)
