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| How Revival Happened In 1857; Ref: Revival School Email | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 11 2006, 09:52 PM (76 Views) | |
| Stace4Jesus | Dec 11 2006, 09:52 PM Post #1 |
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HOW REVIVAL HAPPENED - 1857 -by Chris ("PrayInTongues") 2 Chron 7:14: "If my people who are called by My Name (1) humble themselves, and (2) pray, and (3) seek My face, and (4) turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land." When we study the USA Revival of 1857 we discover the same four conditions were fulfilled and as a result, God "healed the land." This marvellous Revival began with just one man and his failure of a prayer-meeting! But it ended with two million people converted on both sides of the Atlantic--"The Second Evangelical Awakening" (Dr. Edwin Orr). Jeremiah Lanphier was a recently-appointed 49 year-old home missioner of the North Dutch Church, New York. He advertised a noon-to-one prayer meeting to give "businessmen an opportunity to stop and call upon God." At noon on 23 September he opened the door and waited. Twenty, 30 minutes passed. No one came. At last one person appeared. Then another. Finally six New Yorkers were present to pray. Next Wednesday a mere 22 people came. Lanphier's predecessor had held a similar weekly prayer meeting and been forced to close through lack of interest. Jeremiah must have wondered if his prayer meeting was heading the same way. But the following Wednesday coincided with the greatest financial crash in the nation's history. Banks closed. Businesses shut their doors. Suddenly men were out of work. Starvation loomed. Those who had been too busy or proud to pray were now desperate in their need for God. Soon the prayer meeting was filled to overflowing and within six months 10,000 businessmen were publicly praying daily in the churches of New York. Reporters sent to cover the meetings noted that it was entirely a layman's movement with no preaching, and just five minutes per person per prayer! A five minute exhortation was permitted, sometimes creating dramatic scenes. One on the need for repentance made a would-be murderer and suicide cry out, "What must I do to be saved?" Taking New York's example, right across America theatres, churches, halls were opened for prayer and thousands came. One man reported travelling from Omaha to Boston and finding "a continuous prayer meeting all the way--a prayer meeting about 2,000 miles in extent." Conversions began to take place, often in the meetings themselves. A scene from a united interdenominational prayer meeting in Michigan: "'A praying wife requests prayers for her unconverted husband.' Immediately a large man arose and said, 'I am that man! I have a praying wife. Please pray for me.' Then another arose in sobs, saying, 'That man is me. I have a praying wife.' Another five convicted husbands then rose requesting prayer for their conversion and the power of God came upon the meeting." Soon the number of reported conversions reached 7,000 a day and over two years the churches of America averaged 10,000 new members each week. Britain followed America's example. Prayer meetings multiplied. Within a year another million had been converted to Christ. This great revival had no revivalist, no leader, no preaching. It was proof that prayer and prayer alone can bring the presence of God not just into meetings but over whole nations. An intensity of prayer is the one indispensable in a genuine outpouring of the Spirit of God. ~SOURCE: Found under the 'Revival' section on the Forum at the following website- http://www.revivalschool.com ] -- YES! - You have permission to post these emails to friends or to other groups, etc. |
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