1857 Prayer Meeting Revival
In 1857, America was in trouble. Corruption in business and politics was rampant. People were addicted to gambling and greed. Immorality and the occult dominated many people’s lives. There was widespread atheism, agnosticism, apathy and indifference to God. If there was ever a time when a revival was needed, it…
Mocker Becomes One of Histories Greats – George Whitefield Story
As a boy, he was a self confessed liar, thief, and a gambler, addicted to cursing, foolishness, and fantasy. In his teens, he would mock local preachers, even storming into a church service, trying to break it up. George Whitfield was barely 15 years old when he tended bar for…
Why You Are In Your City
What would it take for Christian leaders in your city to be wholeheartedly united? What would happen if a pastor in your city was murdered and his body was dumped at the steps of City Hall? Would anyone care? You bet they would. And at that paradigm shifting moment, if…
Why Leaders Need Intercessors
If a pastor or leader is desiring to see God move in a supernatural way, they are involved in spiritual warfare. The enemy of their soul will not give up ground unless there is focused understanding that we are in a life and death spiritual battle. An intercessory team is the key…
The Smartsville Revival
Smartsville, California is located right next door to the northern California gold rush towns of Timbuctoo and Rough and Ready. In the early 1970s, it had a booming population of 200. It was there in late 1971, six months prior to my arrival, that a band of newly converted hippies…
Revivals Are Birthed In Unity
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I can be; but praise God, I’m not the…
My Mother the Intercessor
My mother was an intercessor. She stood alone, calling out for the broken lives of her husband, children and hundreds more. Facing many challenges in her young life, she was driven to the only One who could help a young wife with an unfaithful, yet gifted, husband. She shared her…
Leadership Roles That Spearhead Revival
Nothing just happens. Rain doesn’t fall from a clear sky. There’s a cause and effect for everything. God looks for someone willing to stand for Jesus, to separate from the sleepy pack…to usher in His Spirit. Scripture states, “The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are…
Joy and Tears in Revival
Revival! What does it mean? There are many misconceptions about this word. Is revival a morbid experience for hyper-melancholies, or an over-used advertisement describing nothing more that spiritual excess? Neither one! True revival is a move of God. It’s God pouring Himself out upon His people so that we may be revived…
Heaven is Coming!
Jesus said, “May Your Kingdom come soon. May Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10) Jesus was Heaven coming to earth. God is still sending heaven. The Holy Spirit came to Earth to bring an eternal deposit of Heaven. The revelation of being “perfectly positioned” gave us a glimpse…
Greatest Revival of All Time
What are considered the greatest revivals of all time….who were the revivalists at the forefront of these extraordinary moves of God….and what exceptional graces, found first in the life of Jesus, did they model so passionately that the church in their day was transformed and millions of lost souls were saved? Do the answers to these questions hold a key to unlocking strategies that could in some way help unleash an outpouring of God’s Spirit in our day?
Eight Old Testament Revivals
Arthur Wallis described revival as “…Divine intervention…It is God revealing Himself to man in awesome holiness and irresistible power. It is man retiring into the background because God has taken the field. It is the Lord…working in extraordinary power on saint and sinner.”[1] When we study revivals throughout history, the first…
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