It is my conviction that we are never going to have revival
until God has brought the church of Jesus Christ to the point of desperation. As long as
Christians people can trust religious organization, material wealth, popular preaching,
shallow evangelistic crusades and promotion drives, there will never be revival. But when
confidence in the flesh is smashed, and the church comes to the realization of her
desperate wretchedness, blindness and nakedness before God, then and only then will God
bread in.
Yes, there must be the point of desperation but there must also be the point of
intercession. Oh, that God would bring us to this place of intercession! We cannot think
or talk, let alone taste of revival, without intercessory prayer. Indeed, the
reason for an unrevived church in the last analysis is the sin of prayerlessness.
Certainly there are individuals who are praying for revival, and God is graciously meeting
them at the point of their need, but where are the prayer groups, where are the companies
of intercessors, where are the churches united in an agonizing that God would rend the
heavens and come down and cause the mountains of hindrance and sin and unbelief to flow
before His presence? Yes, there is only one thing that will save us in this hour of
desperation and that is prayer.
References Used: Heart-Cry for Revival by Stephen Olford.
From: A Revival Source Center