Herald Of His Coming

The following excerpts are taken from Herald of His Coming:

A Divinely Empowered Church – To Save A Dying World!
— Fred D. Jarvis

A Burning, Bleeding World Needs Burdened, Burning Men

Revival will sweep away indifference, formality, selfishness, and fruitlessness. It will invariably put missions in its proper place and priority. Oh, that revival and prayer would become a passion with us! Our frigid souls need a new flame of Holy Ghost fire!

The Fire Must Fall Again!

Revival will never come until we reach a place of spiritual desperation. It is time for us to pay the full price of Pentecost. The need for worldwide empowerment and revival is urgent. The fire must fall again. God has promised to give us the desires of our hearts. Let us believe and pray, sacrifice and give, surrender and obey until “the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest” (Isa. 32:15).

To Glorify The Lord
— Herbert Carson, in The Gospel Witness

We pray for revival. We pray that God would revive His people. “Oh, that You would come again and quicken us. Will You not revive us again that Your people might rejoice in You? Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down.”

How often we cry like that. For what are we praying? For some exciting experience? For some means of getting empty pews filled? God deliver us from that kind of thinking.

What we are praying for is that the Holy Spirit might so come upon the church that in a new way we might say, “Jesus is Lord,” and that He might come upon us with such power, and that our testimony may be so joyful that we might go out into the world, and men and women who tonight are lost in the darkness of sin might by God’s grace be so brought to saving faith in Christ, that they may join us in this same glad testimony: Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father!

Oh, that the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit of Scripture, the Spirit who has borne testimony in the Saviour – may this Holy Spirit fill our hearts. “Oh, fill our hearts, that we may know more of Christ, and knowing more of Him may love Him, and loving Him may rejoice in Him, and rejoicing in Him may have as our great desire to serve Him with all our hearts!”