Who Said That?

Who said that?

"In every generation, revival has come as a result of prayer.  For example, powerful prayer preceded America's First Great Awakening, which gave the colonists a unified biblical view of the principles of freedom and helped pave the way for the American Revolution.  The Second Great Awakening which preceded the Civil War, brought a conviction from God the slavery was sin.  It was led by men like Charles Finney, who prayed for hours upon hours and days upon days. 

God still needs men like Howell Harris and Charles Finney, who will give themselves to prayer and then go and do whatever the Holy Spirit tells them."

OK, have fun with this one!  No google searches!  Please leave your guess in the comments section below.

Update on Monday, December 4, 2006 at 02:48PM by Kim Riddlebarger

My Oh My, how quickly we forget.  This exhortation for men to pray like Finney came from Wellington Boone's chapter in the best-selling Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper (p. 26)  I guess there has not been a revival because there are no more Finneys!

Comments

[Richard]

Jerry Falwell.

[Dave]

I'll guess D. James Kennedy.

[MLR]

Bill Bright

[Scott]

Billy Graham

[Nikki]

Leonard Ravenhill

[pilgrim]

Obvious guess--Billy Graham
Semi-Obvious guess-Franklin Graham
less obvious guess-James Dobson
even less obvious guess-Jim Cymbala

[R.K. Brumbelow]

This could have come from Criswell or Patterson also.

[Keith Conley]

Tozer?

[sixzandsevenz]

I know I've read this before, could it be "Dad" Hagin?

[Tyler]

I hope it isn't this guy, but I'm gonna toss it out there for the heck of it: Lovelace.

[Tyler]

^That's Richard Lovelace

[A.S.]

Would Dr. Kennedy praise Finney?

[zrim]

i would think that, yes, kennedy would praise finney.

some consider kennedy "solidly reformed," but i find nothing solid or reformed about him one bit. like his liberal enemies, he wraps the gospel in the stars and stripes, co-opts the unfettered gospel with the traditions of men, compromises the truth for his own set of social, political and cultural values, lends the authority (some might even say whores out) of the gospel to his opinions and is arrogant, snarky, rounding it all out nicely with sinner's prayers an dother assorted nebulous evangelical phrases, slogans and feel-good theologies. "solidly reformed"? yeah, about as solidly reformed as finney. the smoke and mirors of robes and a litany of degrees after your name does not a good reformed presby make.

zrim

[Chris Sherman]

Must be the Anti-Horton.

[timinator]

Billy Graham or James Dobson

[Ron]

Franklin Graham

[Jeff Rolfe]

Sounds like Ravenhill

[Rev. Bob]

President Bush?

[Brian]

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[T.]

Rick Warren