Editors Note to Readers  Issue 3. In this third issue of The New Cruse we are dealing with Revival. The subject of Revival is one that is very close to my own heart. From a child I have waited, watched, prayed and prepared for a visitation of God’s presence as promised in the Bible.   In this dark hour when we see iniquity abounding in the nations and in the church the very reading of Bible Revivals or Historic Revivals is very encouraging.   As this issue is sent forth we are remembering the 150th anniversary of the 1859 Ulster Revival that swept Northern Ireland so powerfully. This of course was connected with the revival in America that started in 1857 with one praying man called Jeremiah Lanphier amidst what was the first international money crisis and collapse in history.   In New York City, at the very heart of the crisis, God was at work. As this nation which had never been so rich and prosperous was brought to its knees with the closure of its banks for a two month period business men and their families turned to God in humility and prayer.   The result was an estimated one million converts to Christ over the next two years.   Our God is the God of revivals; it is not something He does but who He is. He does not just send revivals He comes in revival power. He is the revival.   I do not believe good ministry, preaching, dynamic evangelism, great leaders or large missionary activity will turn the present accelerating downward slide in both the world and Church. Only a sovereign gracious intervention of God will make a difference.   We must remember as we approach this issue of Heaven Sent Revival that we are not talking about successful soul winning, great healings and miracles, large gatherings, or great excitement. It is possible to have all this but not a Heaven Sent Revival.   We are talking about something that can only be explained as God Himself taking up the field. God Himself after long silence baring His mighty arm in fullness. God Himself restoring His Church immediately, sovereignly, supernaturally to His New Testament pattern.    I do have a great expectation that He will do it again and that nations shall yet again  run after Him.    Yours in Christ Jesus, Keith Malcomson   Quotes ON REVIVAL  “Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.” – Vance Havner    “Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.” – Leonard Ravenhill   “God's time for revival is the very darkest hour, when everything seems hopeless. It is always the Lord's way to go to the very worst cases to manifest His glory.” – Andrew Gih   “We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again.” – G. Campbell Morgan   “Revival is not some emotion or worked-up excitement; it is rather an invasion from heaven which brings to man a conscious awareness of God...Revival is that strange and sovereign work of God in which He visits His own people—restoring, reanimating, and releasing them into the fullness of His blessing...Revival is ultimately Christ Himself, seen, felt, heard, living, active, moving in and through His body on earth.” – Stephen Olford    “A revival is something that can never be arranged and organized by men. A revival is the result of the direct action of the Holy Ghost in authority and power. A revival does not just mean preaching the gospel with the result that a number of people are converted. A revival means the Holy Ghost descending upon a Church or a community or a countryside in power and in might, in an unmistakable manner, breaking men down, and perhaps even casting them physically to the ground. It leads to agonies of repentance and longings for Christ and for peace and salvation. That is what is meant by revival.” – D.M. Lloyd-Jones  “Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.” – Charles Finney   “Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!” – Andrew A. Bonar   “A revival begins with the quickening of the Believers, and it awakens the church to its divinely appointed mission of leading sinners to Christ.” – Robert A Brown   “In every revival there is a re-emphasis of the Church's missionary character. Men return to Calvary, and the world is seen afresh through the eyes of Christ. The infinite compassion of Christ fills the heart, and the passion evoked by Calvary demands the whole wide world as the fruit of His sacrifice.” – John Shearer   “I know nothing, in my own experience, that has been more exhilarating and helpful, and that has acted more frequently as a tonic to me, than the history of revivals.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones “It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37 and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).” – Jonathan Edwards “Throughout Puritan literature...in Scotland and England, there [was] the emphasis upon the kingdom of Christ advancing through revivals.” Ian H. Murray   “Revival is the inrush of the spirit into a body that threatens to become a corpse.”   “Revival is a renewed interest in religion after indifference and decline.” – J.D. Drysdale  “Revival is not going down the street beating a big drum; revival is going back to Calvary with a big sob.” – Dr. R. Sockman   “Revival is a sovereign act of God upon the church whereby he intervenes to lift the situation completely out of human hands and works in extraordinary power.” – G.R. King   Revival is a divine intervention in the normal course of spiritual things. It is God revealing himself to man in awful holiness and irresistible power. – Arthur Wallace  “The Bible and the record of history reveal that there has never been such a thing as a prayerless revival.” – L.K. King   “Let your hearts be much set on revivals of religion. Never forget that the churches have hitherto existed and prospered by revivals; and that if they are to exist and prosper in time to come, it must be by the same cause which has from the first been their glory and defence.” – Joel Hawks  “As God, from the beginning has worked prominently through revivals, there can be no denial of the fact that revivals are a part of the divine plan.” – E. M. Bounds   “Divine movements have their birthplace in the heart of deity.” – David Matthews   “The Welsh in past generations experienced spiritual quickening almost in every decade. Wales earned the envious title, The Land of Revivals.” – David Matthews  “As a specimen of the outpouring of the Spirit, Pentecost was unique only in being first.” – B.H. Clendennen  “When revival appears, it reveals to the church its spiritual decay, its worldliness, and the insincerity of its witness.” – B.H. Clendennen  “Few people in history have really made Jesus Lord. That is, few people ever lived who lived only unto Him. Those who have made him Lord have been responsible for every revival in the history of this world. Such people are invincible. – B.H. Clendennen