"IN WRATH REMEMBER MERCY." Let this be our prayer daily, that God might revive His church. No one can revive the Lord's work but Himself. He began it, He must carry it on and He will complete it. He does so by His way and means, and one of the means He employs is prayer. He convinces us that we need a revival. He stirs us up to seek it. He makes us sensible of our insufficiency. He may perhaps keep us waiting at His throne for a time. The delay may cause us pain and perplexity. If sanctified, it will make us more earnest for the blessing; and there we shall cry out with the Psalmist of old, "Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?" When the Lord revives His work, He strengthens our faith, invigorates our hope, inflames our love, deepens our humility, animates our zeal, and stirs us up to seek the promotion of His cause. Then prayer becomes pleasant, praise sweet, ordinances welcome, the sabbath a delight, and the sanctuary amiable. The church resembles a lovely garden in which we walk with peculiar satisfaction; the gospel is a feast, most suitable and costly; and we look forward to heaven as our country and home. The Lord revive His work in us by His Spirit, by His providence, and by His holy will. May God make His people willing. O for His soul-reviving grace,

For Meditation:
That quick'ning power divine;
The deadness from my soul to chase,
That I may rise and shine.