July 15 – Revivals
Psalm 85:6: Will you not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
Revival comes from the waterfall of God’s grace pouring down on a nation, taking its course through first a stream, then widens like a river, which runs through a nation, running its course, it cannot be stopped, no one can stop a river and like a river, it enriches the shores and riverbanks that it touch. A true spiritual revival born on the winds of God’s spirit will always impact eternal change.
We need a revival where many will turn to God, seeing their own unholiness and like Isaiah cry out, “Unholy, unholy, I am undone I am and be overcome by the beauty and holiness of God!”
When Wesley Duewel wrote Revival Fire, it was one of the purest, blazing heart-changing books I have ever read, depicting the time of the early Christians until the modern age in the 1900s where the supernatural outpouring of God in His Spirit manifests His Presence so overpoweringly that humans could not stand in His Presence. They are overwhelmed, hit with bullets of piercing convictions of their personal sins, falling over to the ground, some crying, some in ecstasy, some seeing visions of angels and Christ and many other supernatural manifestations. This is recorded in church history throughout the ages.
Charles Finney greatly impacted America in the mid 1800s. People got so convicted by sin that they could not sleep. Weeping, sobbing, and crying for God where people became alive to God’s Presence was commonplace. In one event, a man blaspheming the revival fell down dead. The revival kept spreading. In Northern Ireland in the 1800s, great conviction of sin, and glorious conversions happened all the time. Business came to a standstill as people gathered in cottages on the hillsides, singing, praising God and praying. People did not sleep for nights, and drunk men were awed by the Holiness of God and gave up alcohol instantaneously. Thousands upon thousands gathered together, praying and crumbled to the ground by God’s Power. No one was making it happen, there was no leader. The Holy Spirit was the Leader.
The cloud of God’s presence hung over many parts of the United States in the 1800s, especially near the east coast near the sea. It is said that during those days while sailors approaching land, they would feel a powerful holy presence around them, even though they knew nothing of the revival. As the ship would be about to land, the captain would call for a minister and as the glory of God covered them, sailors would repent of sins and gloriously turn to God. Such a revival is visiting us again. Let us be ready!
Rita
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