Spontaneous Combustion: Revival Fire Acts 1

The process of catching fire as a result of heat generated by internal chemical reaction

What is Revival: Arthur Wallis revival is Divine intervention in the normal course of spiritual things.It is God revealing Himself to man in awesome holiness and mighty power. It is such a manifest working of God that human personalities are overshadowed and human programs abandoned. 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

I. The Promise of Revival

Ch. 1.4 wait for the promise ...

That promise was the baptism of the Holy Ghost

a) Believe for Revival:

"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old." Psalm 44:1.

PERHAPS there are no stories that stick by us so long as those which we hear in our childhood, those tales which are told us by our fathers, and in our nurseries. It is a sad reflection that too many of these stories are idle and vain, so that our minds in early infancy are tinctured with fables, and inoculated with strange and lying narratives.

When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: "Oh, that was a very long while ago."

There is yet another disadvantage. The fact is, we have not seen them. Why, I may talk to you ever so long about revivals, but you won't believe them half so much, nor half so truly, as if one were to occur in your very midst. If you saw it with your own eyes, then you would see the power of it.

b) Burden for Revival: It is hindered because it involves:

Preparation for Revival

Humility; Awareness of our unworthiness; Confession of sin; secret sin Repentance; Restitution, Following Christ wholeheartedly;

a) It starts with a heart that's right with God.

b) It will be the most important thing in life. It must become desperate

c) It will cause us to Pray for revival and other to get the burden.

William C Burns At the age of 20 he prayed for hours as he began his public ministry. One morning his mother came to call him to breakfast. She found him lying on the floor where he had been all night in mighty prayer. He greeted her with the words, "Mother, God has given me Scotland today." In a short while the whole land of Scotland was shaken by a mighty spiritual upheaval without any organized effort.

II. Prayer of Revival: Great revivals started by the effectual prayer of just two or more

a) One of special burden If there is no real burden we want last long!!

Prayer is the hardest part; Satan will fight against it; Our own flesh will fight

All to often we rely on man's machinery, work, work, work, organize new methods.

b) One of spiritual military defense.

True prayer is an aggressive, unseen, closet ministry in co-operation with the Holy Spirit, for the purpose of dislodging the power of darkness form strategic position which they occupy. In the church, home, children, community

III. Praise of Revival

Then it will impact the community with conviction, godliness, justice, peace

and righteousness.

At the beginning of 1858 that Fulton Street prayer meeting had grown so much they were holding three simultaneous prayer meetings in the building and other prayer groups were starting in the city. By March newspapers carried front page reports of over 6,000 attending daily prayer meetings in New York, 6,000 attending them in Pittsburgh, and daily prayer meetings were held in Washington at five different times to accommodate the crowds.

Other cities followed the pattern. Soon a common midday sign on businesses read, 'Will reopen at the close of the prayer meeting.' By May, 50,000 of New York's 800,000 people were new converts.

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