Their works follow them

I recently started reading the Revival Study Bible, starting from Genesis, and am already extremely edified by it. The Bible's general editors are William Pratney, Steve Hill and Tamara Winslow. It contains notes and articles about revivalists throughout history and has short biographies of them. These men and women of faith include Tozer, Spurgeon, Moody, Aimee McPherson, Evan Roberts, Heidi Baker, James Hudson Taylor, Jonathan Edwards, John Sung, John Wesley, Maria Woodworth-Etter, Smith Wigglesworth, Watchman Nee and many more. 

Even when I was typing their names above, I felt a bit emotional. The current generation of Christians has seen further because we are standing on the shoulders of these giants. They cultivated the ground which we are now harvesting, and I pray that we will also do our part in cultivating new ground for future generations. 

I will share some of their words as and when I feel led as I read this study bible over this year.

"Brethren it cannot be too strongly impressed on every mind that the decisive characteristic of true religion is energy, not apathy; that its vital essence is life,  not death." 

- Charles Grandison Finney

"Outside of the ark, all was ruin, but inside all was rest and peace. Without Christ, we perish, but in Christ Jesus, there is perfect safety."

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon