John Piper, A Passion for Christ-Exalting Power, Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Need for Revival and Baptism with the Holy Spirit: From the beginning to the end of his life, Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a cry for depth in two areas — depth in Biblical doctrine and depth in vital spiritual experience. Light and heat. Logic and fire. Word and Spirit. Again and again he would be fighting on two fronts: on the one hand against dead, formal, institutional intellectualism, and on the other hand against superficial, glib, entertainment-oriented, man-centered emotionalism. He saw the world in a desperate condition without Christ and without hope; and a church with no power to change it. One wing of the church was straining out intellectual gnats and the other was swallowing the camels of evangelical compromise or careless charismatic teaching (see note 10).

For Lloyd-Jones the only hope was historic, God-centered revival. What I would like to do is meditate on the meaning of revival in Lloyd-Jones’s preaching — or more specifically, I want to understand what sort of power he was seeking, what he expected it to look like when it came, and how he thought we should seek it