This episode of TGC Podcast is brought to you by Crossway and the new ESV Bible app.

The ESV Bible app is designed to help you engage with God's Word on a deeper level,

offering elegant and intuitive features to personalize your study,

including multiple audio recordings of the full ESV text, audio playlist,

customizable background music, daily reading plans, and more.

Download the ESV Bible app on your phone or tablet or visit ESV.org to get started.

Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today, you'll hear a message from HB Charles on why prayer is necessary for revival.

This message was originally delivered at TGC's 2019 Arizona Regional Conference.

Rest in peace be multiplied to each of you this evening in the knowledge of God and of Jesus

our Lord. It's a joy to be with you tonight. When I was a boy, we did not have

revivals, quote unquote, in the church where I grew up, my father served there as pastor,

but he would regularly travel to preach revivals. I was a boy preacher and because of my

father's ministry, I was often invited to preach these quote unquote revival services I

could relate to Sam's sentiment that you cannot schedule revival.

But as I preached them, I was often moved for pastors to call their congregations to the seasons

of renewal and revival, a red story of Billy Sunday, a professional baseball player turned

evangelist who would go about preaching revivals and on one occasion he was confronted by someone

who told him you know that those quote unquote revivals don't work and you have to know they

don't work because you keep going back to the same place as doing them over and over again.

They don't work because they don't last in his own way. He responded by saying that baths

...