Great Revivals
 

Can you name some great Revivals and name what was great about them?

I remember the revival where Sister Kelly got the revelation that she shouldn't wear britches.

That one will go down in the books for sure.

more detail please!!

pathetic. Apathetic.....

She gave up her ear rings, too.

Messianic Jewish Revival of 2007!

Over 2 MILLION MJ's were filled with the HG . . . or something like that.

:largehalo

lol... I mean.. how did she get the revelation??

Does anyone consider Asuza street a Revival? How about During Charles Finney's days or John Wesley?

Azusa ...dunno.. not likely..

LOL...

You know, Berk, I was posting tongue-in-cheek.

The revival I mentioned really did happen, and the lady in question did get these revelations. I know some will say she just succumbed to peer pressure, but whatever.

As for the ear rings, she had been in the church about a month, and had quit her pants the morning after she got the HG.

She had never been in an Apostolic church before, and nobody had had time to tell her anything.

ANyway, one night during service, I noticed her holding her abdomen with a look of pain on her face.

Finally, while we were singing, she came forward for prayer. I didn't know it, but she had been diagnosed with a bad abcess where she had had a recent hysterectomy. All I knew was that she was in pain.

As I got ready to anoint her, the Holy Ghost spoke to me and directwed me to ask her if she would take off her ear rings before I prayed for her. She had four in each ear.

Well, I balked. I hasd never done anything remotely like that before. But the Lord pressed me in my spirit about it, so i did exactly what He had said do.

I said, "Sister Kelly, would you take your ear rings out?"

If she had said no, I would have prayed for her anyway, because I had no instrrructions otherwise. All He said was to ask.

So she looked at me and said, "Sure."

She took them out, handed them to someone, and I laid hands on her.

She was instantly slain in the Spirit and got up healed, and with a conviction about ear rings.

I know this isn't what Prax wanted, but you asked, so I answered.:)

i was kidding about the great revival, but the story is true.

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The Hebrides revival. People were convicted and went to church in droves not understanding what was happening.

http://www.oldpathsmag.com/

Scroll down to the April issue and read the two articles written by Duncan Campbell.

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Resurrecting another five year old thread, but here's a story similar to that...

A few years ago Bro. Bernard had a Samoan lady in his church who came up for prayer. While praying for her his tongues changed and the woman began to cry and say 'yes Jesus. Yes Jesus.'. Brother Bernard was approached by the lady, who said (I'm paraphrasing) 'Do you know what you said to me?'. Bro Bernard - No I was speaking in tongues. Samoan lady - 'You were speaking Samoan and telling me to stop cutting my hair.'

To my knowledge Bro Bernard knows Korean, Spanish, Biblical Greek and Hebrew and Latin. I doubt he knew Samoan.

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Who testified of this story? The Samoan lady or Bro. Bernard?

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The Jesus Movement from approxamately 1968-1978. No one man started it. It came sovereignly among the Hippies and young people of that time.Some Churches were involved in it but 10's or maybe 100's of thousands of young people all over America began turning to Christ. Many of these received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

We would go out on the streets, to the parks, to the malls, bowling alleys, bus stops, airports, bars, and anywhere that anyone was! We took our guitars and sang and praised the Lord, passed out tracts, witnessed and preached.

We prayed for the sick and I have seen occasions where prophetic gifts revealed the secrets of sinners hearts out on the street. We fellowshipped in homes mostly also coffeehouses and probably lastly in Churches because we were to zealous to be received by them for the most part.

I still have friendships made during those days. I count it as the best days of my life.

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Bro. Bernard, in a book he wrote. I've never felt or heard any deception on his part, so I'll receive it from him.

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My fav: the great Revival of Creedence Clearwater. :thumbsup

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Hey! I like that one too.

CCR rocks!

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:smack oh, wait, can't do that. My bad.

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:heeheehee

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I don't believe this at all.

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Here's a story I do believe:

During the Brownsville Revival (aka Pensacola Blessing), where the preaching included stories of the dead being raised, the baby daughter of a man in another state died. This man, knowing about the revival and the stories of resurrections, packed his dead baby in an ice chest and drove her to Pensacola, to have her raised. He believed the stories. He had faith. The preachers prayed. Sadly, God chose not to raise this particular baby from the dead.

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WTK!! :foottap

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I remember hearing about that.

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Great one.

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Anyone aware of a great revival in the upci or aljc? Revival where people showed up in droves for a revolutionary encounter with Christ? Where signs, wonders and moracles were the norm instead of the exception?

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I know of one off the top of my head, at CLC in Stockton. The local authorities were giving the church some grief over something (either the radio station, Bible college, or both) and were threatening to shut something to do with the church down. While in prayer Nataniel Haney's wife felt impressed to pray over their radio station, rebuking the devil and praying for God to move in a mighty way. Within a couple hours their parking lot was full and denominal pastors were receiving the Holy Spirit baptism and getting baptized in Jesus Name.

Here in Birmingham we had a lot of backsliders return and had people coming up to the church because they were compelled to, because they 'felt something'. We have people getting baptized and/or receiving the Spirit every service it seems. It's only building and building.

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there have been credible cases reported where a listener understood someone speaking with tongues.

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It was regarding the radio station. People were speaking in tongues, prophesying, miracles were happening on the callers end. That's what sparked it. Needless to say, they can no longer speak in tongues on their radio station.

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Why?

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You don't have to, that's your right. However, I've heard of this several times - including during Azusa St. A couple of women, 'Drunker'n Cooter Brown' on the Spirit, not very well dressed as they were poor were walking home from the Faith Mission. There was a 'dignified' gentleman - a professor/preacher of some sort who knew Biblical languages. A cessationist, he was speaking with those leaving that this was a delusion, it stopped after scripture was written, etc.

One of the women stopped, turned to the man and began to tell him in perfect New Testament Greek to repent, telling the sin he'd been committing. He went to the Mission, and did just that - receiving the Spirit and becoming a tongue talker himself.

It happened in my church. A man was speaking in tongues, perfect Spanish. He didn't know Spanish, yet my wife's cousin heard 'I love you Jesus, I praise you Lord', something to that effect.

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My guess is that Houston's disbelief is not about understanding tongues but the message about "stop cutting her hair by tongues" is what he does not believe...

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Probably, but why would the woman lie? Why would Bro Bernard lie? Once again, he doesn't have to believe.

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How did they baptize them in the parking lot?
sprinkling?
pouring?
water hose?

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I've read some accounts of the Brownsville Revival, the Smithton, Kansas Outpouring. The Jesus Movement ignited a world wide movement which still reverberates today. I don't know of any upci church which comes remotely close to the impact these movements had on the body of Christ.

It's awesome what God is doing in your church.

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If Phillip could find a pool in the desert, surely God could supply a puddle of water in the parking lot.

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How dare you mention the Brownsville Revival, the Smithton, Kansas Outpouring and The Jesus Movement in the same breath with the Body of Christ! Some here think those groups/movements are completely separate from and outside of the Body of Christ. (I'm not one who thinks that)

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That's a good question and I don't have an answer for you right now. I could ask the proper people.

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I'm sure they took them inside, sorry for that omission.

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That was a tic comment, not a criticism.
I've been known to do that here.

One time at the Vineyard where I was going at the time (1992-2006) we had so many folks scheduled to get baptized one weekend that one of he pastors jokingly said we ought to just take them out in the parking lot and hose them down. They didn't. Each was dipped individually over the 4 or 5 services they had that day.