Duncan Campbell
1898-1972
Lewis Awakening, Hebrides Revival
What did the early church have that we do not possess today? Nothing but the Holy Spirit, nothing but the power of God.
Nothing but a Holy Spirit revival will meet the desperate need of the hour.
Never compromise to accommodate the devil.
We are afraid of disturbing people today. You must not have their emotions stirred, you must not have the people weeping in a meeting, you must not have the people rolling on the floor under conviction of sin; keep things orderly. May God help us, may God have mercy upon us. Who are we to dictate to Almighty God as to how He is going to work?
Show me a people on their faces before God - gripped in the unction of prayer and I show you a people ready for revival.
One of the main secrets of success in the early church lay in the fact that the early believers believed in unction from on high, and not entertainment from men. One of the very sad features that characterizes much that goes under the name of evangelism today is the craze for entertainment.
If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the "last piece," for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?
I want to say humbly and reverently that to me the greatest reality, the greatest fact in life is just the presence of the Lord Jesus. And I love Him; that to me is greater than preaching, it is greater than seeing revival. I thank God for what I have seen in that realm, but the greatest thing of all is just to have fellowship with Jesus.
We do well to remember that no amount of activity in the King’s service will make up for the neglect of the King Himself.
How did they get the people at Pentecost? How did the early church get the people? By publicity projects, by bills, by posters, by parades, by pictures? No! The people were arrested and drawn together and brought into a vital relationship with God, not by sounds from men, but by sounds from heaven. We are in need of more sounds from heaven today. It seems to me that heavenly sounds are dying out. I am sure you must have noticed that Pentecost was its own publicity.
The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
When God takes the field He does a thorough work, but in this connection we do well to remember that it takes the supernatural to burst the bands of the natural.
Three young women were praying in a barn when there was a sound from heaven, and the whole community became saturated with God, and men and women were swept into the Kingdom. We had not organized, we had no publicity programme, but heaven’s messengers moved in the midst of the people, and in a matter of hours churches became crowded as scores were swept into the Kingdom of God.
Revival is not churches filled with people, but people filled with God…In revival the church, the roadside, the hillside —all become places made sacred by the presence of God and the cry of the repentant.
The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.
It is one thing to shout it, it is one thing to sing it, it is one thing to talk about revival, but give me a people on their faces, seeking to be rightly related with God, and when that happens, we will soon know the impact of God-realisation in our country.
There is a growing conviction everywhere, and especially among thoughtful people, that unless revival comes, other forces will take the field, that will sink us still deeper into the mire of humanism and materialism.
We long for revival, we are longing to see a movement in our own community, in our own church, hall or assembly, and we are crying: “God send it”, but heaven cries: “Is your eye fixed upon Me? Get rightly related to Me”
God is the God of revival and He will revive us again. God is a God of power and He will find a willing people in the day of His power.
I would say that the particular prerogative of the Holy Spirit is to purify and then empower.
There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
It is the signature of the Holy Ghost upon our work and witness that makes all the difference.
How many there are whose lives are weak and whose service is poor and ineffective, just because they have not zealously guarded the time and place of prayer!
The preacher who will proclaim this glorious truth and magnify the cleansing power of the blood of Christ will find that his message of full deliverance touches life at every point. He is doing a disservice to his hearers and is dishonoring his God if he substitutes any other theme.
The reason why we are not filled is simply because we are not hungering after God.
Nothing but a Holy Spirit revival will meet the desperate need of the hour.
Never compromise to accommodate the devil.
We are afraid of disturbing people today. You must not have their emotions stirred, you must not have the people weeping in a meeting, you must not have the people rolling on the floor under conviction of sin; keep things orderly. May God help us, may God have mercy upon us. Who are we to dictate to Almighty God as to how He is going to work?
Show me a people on their faces before God - gripped in the unction of prayer and I show you a people ready for revival.
One of the main secrets of success in the early church lay in the fact that the early believers believed in unction from on high, and not entertainment from men. One of the very sad features that characterizes much that goes under the name of evangelism today is the craze for entertainment.
If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the "last piece," for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?
I want to say humbly and reverently that to me the greatest reality, the greatest fact in life is just the presence of the Lord Jesus. And I love Him; that to me is greater than preaching, it is greater than seeing revival. I thank God for what I have seen in that realm, but the greatest thing of all is just to have fellowship with Jesus.
We do well to remember that no amount of activity in the King’s service will make up for the neglect of the King Himself.
How did they get the people at Pentecost? How did the early church get the people? By publicity projects, by bills, by posters, by parades, by pictures? No! The people were arrested and drawn together and brought into a vital relationship with God, not by sounds from men, but by sounds from heaven. We are in need of more sounds from heaven today. It seems to me that heavenly sounds are dying out. I am sure you must have noticed that Pentecost was its own publicity.
The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
When God takes the field He does a thorough work, but in this connection we do well to remember that it takes the supernatural to burst the bands of the natural.
Three young women were praying in a barn when there was a sound from heaven, and the whole community became saturated with God, and men and women were swept into the Kingdom. We had not organized, we had no publicity programme, but heaven’s messengers moved in the midst of the people, and in a matter of hours churches became crowded as scores were swept into the Kingdom of God.
Revival is not churches filled with people, but people filled with God…In revival the church, the roadside, the hillside —all become places made sacred by the presence of God and the cry of the repentant.
The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.
It is one thing to shout it, it is one thing to sing it, it is one thing to talk about revival, but give me a people on their faces, seeking to be rightly related with God, and when that happens, we will soon know the impact of God-realisation in our country.
There is a growing conviction everywhere, and especially among thoughtful people, that unless revival comes, other forces will take the field, that will sink us still deeper into the mire of humanism and materialism.
We long for revival, we are longing to see a movement in our own community, in our own church, hall or assembly, and we are crying: “God send it”, but heaven cries: “Is your eye fixed upon Me? Get rightly related to Me”
God is the God of revival and He will revive us again. God is a God of power and He will find a willing people in the day of His power.
I would say that the particular prerogative of the Holy Spirit is to purify and then empower.
There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
It is the signature of the Holy Ghost upon our work and witness that makes all the difference.
How many there are whose lives are weak and whose service is poor and ineffective, just because they have not zealously guarded the time and place of prayer!
The preacher who will proclaim this glorious truth and magnify the cleansing power of the blood of Christ will find that his message of full deliverance touches life at every point. He is doing a disservice to his hearers and is dishonoring his God if he substitutes any other theme.
The reason why we are not filled is simply because we are not hungering after God.