not believe in revival, because that means essentially God acting, God coming in, God breaking in. So if we have the god of the philosophers, or the god of the deists and the rationalists, we shall never experience revival. Indeed prayer almost becomes a waste of time and quite ridiculous. And how often that is precisely many people’s attitude to prayer. It is something formal and mechanical—you either read your prayers, or you muddle them up. There is no living contact, nothing is expected, God