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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES
By David Wilkerson
The prophet Isaiah describes what happens when the Holy Spirit falls upon a people. Isaiah prophesies, “The spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest” (Isaiah 32:15).
Isaiah is saying, “When the Holy Ghost comes, what was once a barren wilderness becomes a harvest field. A dead patch of ground suddenly overflows with fruit. And this is no temporary harvest. The field of fruit will grow into a forest. And you’ll be able to take cuttings from this forest year after year, and build on your fruitfulness continually.”
Isaiah adds, “Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field” (32:16). According to the prophet, the Holy Ghost also brings with him a message of judgment against sin. And that message produces righteousness in the people.
Isaiah isn’t speaking of a one-time outpouring of the Spirit, what some people think of as “revival.” Isaiah is describing something that lasts. Studies by Christian sociologists show that most present-day revivals last for an average of five years, and leave in their wake much confusion and dissension. I know of some churches where so-called revivals took place, but now, within just a few years, there is no trace of the Spirit left. Those churches are dead, dry, empty. Houses that once held 1,000 are now cavernous tombs, with only fifty people in attendance.
Isaiah continues: “The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places” (Isaiah 32:17-18).
Peace comes because righteousness is at work. The Holy Spirit is busy sweeping out all unrest, disturbances and condemnation. What follows is peace of mind, peace in the home, and peace in God’s house. And when God’s people have the peace of Christ, they aren’t easily moved from it: “When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass” (32:19-20).
Isaiah’s prophecy about the Holy Spirit was directed to Israel during Uzziah’s reign. Yet it also applies to God’s people today. It is known as a dual prophecy. The fact is, every generation needs an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And I believe the church today hasn’t seen anything compared to what the Holy Spirit wants to accomplish.
http://davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-holy-spirit-comes.html
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Reformation & Revival Volume 7 now on-line
The following articles are now available on-line in PDF:
Volume 7 No 1 – Theme: The Church
http://biblicalstudiesorguk.blogspot.com/2009/11/reformation-revival-volume-7-now-on.html
Evan Roberts and the Welsh Revival: ‘Bend the Church, Save the World
http://pentecostalevangel.ag.org/Articles2009/4984_Revival.cfm
““War on the Saints” is much more complicated than the Bible is”
Excellent point! But it’s not alone, by a long stretch.
Show me one popular preacher/teacher today who is NOT more complicated than the Bible?
This is an excellent topic, re: Penn-Lewis and Roberts.
Roberts foundations were faulty. Penn-Lewis can’t be blamed.
What would Paul the Apostle have counselled him after 2 yrs of the revival?
Ian, thanks.
Yes it is.
May God Richly Bless you
swarna
SLOSHED in THE SPIRIT?? – IT’s TIME TO GET SOBER
-by J. Lee Grady.
Getting “drunk in the Holy Spirit” has been a popular concept in
some churches. But is it biblical?
A few years ago a traveling charismatic minister from the West
coast passed through Florida to conduct a series of renewal
meetings. I’d never heard of the guy, but the rumor was that he
carried a “special” anointing. It was unique, that’s for sure -
especially when he took the microphone, slurred his words as if
intoxicated and leaned to the left of the pulpit as if he were about
to fall over. Then, in between some bizarre spasms, he would shout
what sounded like “Walla walla bing bang!”
His message didn’t make sense. But if he had just said “Ding Dong
Bell” or “Yabba Dabba Doo” over and over, some people in his
meetings would have run to the front of the room and swooned, even
though he never opened his Bible during his message. They wanted
what this man claimed to possess—an anointing to become “drunk
in the Spirit.”
“Let’s put the childish things behind us. It’s time for us to grow up
and sober up.”
Spiritual intoxication has been a trend in charismatic circles for a
while. Some respected preachers, citing Acts 2:13, defend the
concept that Christians might feel drunk when they are filled with
the Holy Spirit (because the early disciples were accused of being
drunk when they spoke in tongues). This teaching led to lots of
disorderly conduct in revival meetings—including nosebleeds,
bruises and more serious injuries.
Some people began to manifest what looked like seizures during
renewal services, and the bizarre behavior was defended as
“manifestations of the Spirit.” Some pastors even encouraged
wobbly saints to find “designated drivers” if they felt too drunk to
operate a vehicle when it was time to go home. Meanwhile, some
worship leaders introduced “Holy Ghost drinking songs” that
encouraged people to slosh around in the joy of the Lord while
uncorking more of His new wine.
The spiritual drunkenness craze led to other charismatic fads,
including an infatuation with angels, an obsession with golden dust
and the strange teachings of John Crowder—a confessed “new
mystic” who compares the infilling of the Holy Spirit to smoking marijuana.
Crowder, who is planting a church in Santa Cruz, Calif., this fall,
sometimes calls his meetings “sloshfests” and refers to himself as
a bartender for God. He teaches that God wants all Christians to
be continually drunk in the Holy Spirit—and he provides resources
to help you do just that, including an electronica recording that will
help you, in Crowder’s words, “trance out,” and a teaching that
encourages stigmata and levitation.
I’ll let the theologians sort out all the obvious reasons why Crowder
and other “new mystics” are treading on dangerous ground.
Meanwhile I have a less complicated concern. With all of this
emphasis on Holy Ghost intoxication, did anybody notice that the
Bible clearly commands us to be spiritually sober?
If soberness wasn’t mentioned in the New Testament, then I wouldn’t
be beating this drum so loudly. But I find numerous references, from
both Peter and Paul. “But you, be sober in all things,” is Paul’s
admonition to Timothy (2 Tim. 4:5, NASB). He tells the Thessalonians,
“But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the
breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation,”
(1 Thess. 5:8).
Peter hammers the same point. He wrote, “Prepare your minds for
action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace
to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 1:13)
and “The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment
and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer” (1 Pet. 4:7).
The soberness here is not primarily a reference to abstaining from
alcohol (although it’s worth mentioning that believers who drink will
find it more difficult to obey these commands). To be sober can be
defined “to show self-control,” “to be sane or rational,” or “to be
free from excess or extravagance.” A sober Christian knows the
heights of God’s inexpressible joy, but he is never ruled by emotions,
passions, lust or any other category of temptation that has the
power to dull the spiritual senses.
When I look at the state of our nation today, and consider our
spiritual challenges, it’s obvious the last thing we need are Christians
who are so sloshed in emotional euphoria that they can’t pray
intelligently and work diligently.
This is not a time for God’s people to be incapacitated. We need to
be thinking, planning, strategizing, researching and building—all
using the Holy Spirit’s wisdom. Yes, we need to be filled with the
Holy Spirit like never before—but He is not going to fill us so we
can act like giddy freshmen at a frat house keg party. Let’s put
the childish things behind us. It’s time for us to grow up and sober up.
-J. Lee Grady is editor of Charisma.
SOURCE – http://charismamag.com/index.php/fire-in-my-bones/
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REVIVAL OR APOSTASY
http://www.erwm.com/Revival%20or%20Apostasy.htm
The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy
Taken from Ben Israel Newsletter – Spring 1995
Lying Signs and Wonders: Deceptions of the Last Days
Some Cautionary Thoughts on the Present Revival
I would appreciate your sympathy as I try to address a subject that is already dividing many of God’s people into defensive and opposing camps. One is put into the uncomfortable, if not dangerous, even in raising elementary cautions, of seeming to oppose to what in the eyes of many is holy and of the Spirit of God. Precious and mature saints of our own knowledge testify to the indisputable blessing they are assured that they have received. Far be it from us to dispute or denigrate what is from God. Nevertheless, in fidelity to our own call and responsibility before the Lord and to His people, and after much reflection, prayer and discussion amongst ourselves, we offer the following for your thoughtful and prayerful consideration.
I venture out with some trepidation to raise some questions about a phenomenon that is already perplexing many. Unlike such previous moves of God as the Welsh Revival, noted from its inception for its unmistakably holy character, the present revival generates mixed reports from unequivocal enthusiasm to those that are dubious, critical, and utterly rejecting. Some suggest more than one stream with a fleshly counterfeit paralleling the God-given and authentic. What I have been able to observe via video tape of one principal, and evidently original stream, I found entirely repugnant. Ministers of the word were ostensibly so drunk in the spirit that they were unable to be coherent, railing finally into a collapse from their stupor. I found this entirely unbecoming to the dignity of their professed call and felt the preached word to he denigrated by joking references to the feeble results obtained by it in comparison to the effects procured now by the experiences of the ‘power’ to which they were testifying. Was it my imagination that made me sense in watching some helplessly convulsing in laughter, that what had gripped them was already panically beyond their control and was actually causing them a physical pain? It is a moot question if one would describe it as ‘holy’. On the contrary, it appears to be irreverent if not indeed demonic and hellish.
From identical meetings others report unmistakable benefit, instant release from depression and other dogged personality disorders and disabilities upon receiving ‘the blessing’. We are not in a position to categorically condemn as deception the ostensible benefits to which many testify. God is always free to bless whom He will bless. But our point is that if the enemy can succeed in bringing the Church to viewing benefit as the determinant by which something is judged to be of God, we may well have been brought to the very ground of deception itself.
For myself, I would choose to keep my distance from such phenomena, trusting that whatever I might be missing is not greater than what I am protecting and cherishing and that the Lord is not offended by a carefulness that would rather err in a jealousy for His holiness than to risk subverting what has already been given as pure and true (the residue of the knowledge of God as holy, obtained through obedience and communion, cherished and guarded over the years). What believer who has once been in that Presence could ever countenance the entertainment-carnival atmosphere that prevailed in the video cited above? I have not yet recovered, and trust never will, from the eerie experience some twenty years ago of being present on the platform at an international conference in the midst of falling bodies (ostensibly ’slain in the Spirit’) in the complete absence of the sense of God’s presence! The visible demonstration of power without the corresponding sense of God in the midst of squeals of carnal excitement and popping flashbulbs was more than could be borne. Whatever the consequence to propriety, ministerial and offended relationships, I had to leave.
Remarkable that though we are explicitly warned about end-time “lying signs and wonders”, (II Thessalonians 2:9; Matthew 24:24) we imagine that it is future and mindlessly trust ourselves in our greed for experiences, empowerments, or releases to dubious personalities who have caught the public fancy in incredible overnight popularity. I profoundly respect God’s use of the weak and the foolish thing, but I cannot for that reason endorse what is garish, cheap, and coarse as being that. “Holiness unto the Lord” is still the standard of God’s House even when it is unspectacular and unassuming in the eyes of the world—or even our own.
Certainly in all of the overwhelming endorsement of the present revival-renewal phenomenon, the sober believer will not fault this modest, hopefully redemptive voice of caution. Perhaps one of the most ominous features of the hour is the note of warning sounded about those who have some reserve as being ‘obstructions’, ‘enemies’, or ‘threats’ to this outpouring of God. The invitation seems to be to abandon all restraint (’The bar is open’)—leap in or get out of the way of others if you cannot! God is well able, I feel sure, to protect as well as perfect what pertains unto Him (Colossians 1:28). I cannot help but wonder if it is man’s interests that are being so vehemently defended and that we are at the inception of what could ultimately be finalized by the warning that “they will kill you and claim that they are doing God a service.” (John 16:2)
I would insert here a caution given by T. Austin Sparks, more appropriate now perhaps then when it was sounded decades ago, in speaking of the Corinthians’ propensity for ’sensational evidences’. How much does it suggest that we may presently be reaping is what was mindlessly and carelessly sown in the decades of the Charismatic Movement. The immaturity of many was fostered in easy ‘decisions’, Cross-avoiding indolence, undisciplined living, the giddy adulation of personalities and in the superficiality, levity and lightness of our meetings:
“We are in that kind of age today. It is becoming more and more a psychic age. It is an age of the soul just spilling over, asserting itself, taking control of everything in Christianity as well as outside of it—a soulish age… Be careful that you are not hankering for this realm again. Are you after the evidence? My, how I have seen dear Christian people just prostrating themselves, groaning and crying, almost screaming for evidence—these ’sign’ things… Christians and dear men of God, who have been greatly used, are creating an emotional, psychic situation that is involving simple Christians in things which are, sooner or later, going to be a great disillusionment and an offense. It will bring ‘offendedness’ with the Lord, and that is just what the devil is after.” (Called Unto the Fellowship of His Son, p. 46, published by Emmanuel Church, 12000 E.14th St., Tulsa, OK 74128)
Personally, I believe myself to be ready to risk all and to dare all for the Lord, but certainly not for a ‘blessing’ or dubious ‘experience’ that confers some seeming good. My own preference, and I believe that of the Scripture, is to seek out the root of depression according to the Word (usually unacknowledged disobediences). This will be accomplished primarily through that part of the Body to whom I am accountable and with whom I am authentically joined. (Ephesians 4:15) When ‘experience’ as a ‘quick-fix’ alternative is preferred to these disciplines, we put ourselves in a place of spiritual jeopardy. Is not the Lord near at hand to all who seek Him? What is the enduring benefit when we have merely received some alleviation from the symptoms that were occasioned by serious defects of character and return with these defects still remaining? Whatever the future will reveal of the present revival phenomenon, perhaps the greatest will be the profound repentance of broken thousands upon recognizing their susceptibility to deception, their lack of elementary discernment, and their haste to run after demonstrations of power in atmospheres so contrary to God’s known holiness and character.
Clearly, a power is at work. The question is, whose? Who is it that is mediating an alternative and lesser joy to the immature, the carnal, and the undiscerning? We are already discomforted to learn of the loss of interest, even the repudiation of apostolic vision once held by those who have received ‘the blessing’—as if the one were somehow antithetical or opposed to the other! Assuming that our fears are exaggerated and that the present phenomenon is of God, though admittedly marred only by certain excesses, in what ways will future ‘lying signs and wonders’ be different from that with which we are presently being confronted? By what criteria will these differences be identified? Are we presently at the level of maturity and discernment by which these important distinctions can be made? By what means shall we come to that place if we are now prone to describe as ‘enemies’ those who are only raising the questions? The very ridicule and censure brought by the advocates of this revival to those who attempt to do so makes suspect the very claims they espouse. The fact that something eventuates in blessing, release, or deliverance is no sure evidence or guarantee that it is of God. (Matthew 24:24) The same powers of darkness which have wrought the oppressions through careless or unclean living can just as easily relieve them—restoring even relationships broken and made miserable by them—in order to bring about a greater deception!
Even the most rapturous ‘love of God’ can be a pseudo-sensation produced by spirits in the indiscriminate and slothful who are unwilling for the sacrifices of seeking God’s face in truth. Is the ‘hunger for God’ in fact that, or a hunger for an experience of God that will assure the insecure soul that they are known and accepted of God? Is this not the unrecognized motive that makes many pant after present day prophets in hope of a ‘prophetic’ word of this kind? Does not this encouraged tendency promote the immaturity of such rather than encourage them in the faith of sons? Do we not prefer to be effortlessly ‘acted upon’ miraculously—rather than diligently seek God on the basis of the promise of His Word? “And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)
Are these not the last days in which we have been warned about deception and been exhorted to test all spirits? (I John 4:1; I Thessalonians 5:21) What are our eschatological expectations—the premises of our faith? Surely these views will altogether affect our susceptibilities to every new thing that promises to bless and establish us in this present life and rob us at the same time of the alertness that would and should otherwise be ours. Are we to ignore the prevalence of ear-splitting ‘worship’, high-powered offerings, calculated theatrics, carnival bawdiness, the chilling hellish shrieks and cries that punctuate the proceedings, the conspicuous absence of the preached word (except perhaps in a token way), the relentless spirit-dulling testimonies in a stupor unbecoming the dignity of God—given incoherently even by ministers of the Word? Not for a moment would such ‘phenomena’ be tolerated at the historic Welsh Revival where every care was taken to avoid even the use of instrumental music or any intrusion of man—the very things now being celebrated and employed. That revival was holiness unto the Lord so long as those standards were maintained.
Has He changed from being the God who insisted that His priests mount a ramp to the altar rather than ascend by steps lest any flesh be revealed? (Exodus 20:26) Who had them wear the golden head plate continually on their foreheads (the very place now we so readily make available for the touch that brings the ‘blessing’) ‘Holiness unto the Lord’? Who enjoined about the holy anointing oil that nothing shall be made ‘like unto that’ nor that it shall ever “Upon man’s flesh… be poured?” (Exodus 30:32-38) Our ache is that ‘Holiness unto the Lord’ be ascribed afresh on the foreheads of priestly men and women who will stand for Him in this age of sleaze and vulgarity that even now threatens to seep into the House of God. It is the cry of Isaiah 52:11, “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst other; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord”—Indeed, “let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” (II Corinthians 7:1). Viewing the world staggering in violence, war, the catastrophes of earthquake, famine, flood, and fire, the Church in its present pitiful state of shallowness and un-preparedness, should we not rather “Be afflicted, and mourn and weep: let[ting] our laughter be turned to mourning, and [our] joy to heaviness?” Forgive us if we are being too cautious. We would be naive to think that deception is only a fear for the carnal and the sensual. Final and last day’s deceptions will be spiritual “for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light”. (II Corinthians 11:14) “The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” (I Peter 4:7).
http://artkatzministries.org/lying-signs-and-wonders-deceptions-of-the-last-days/
F.J. HUEGEL -Book- BONE OF HIS BONE
FOREWARD
http://tentsofissachar.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/book-f-j-huegel-bone-of-his-bone-by-f-j-huegel/
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Lee Grady, Charisma, Balokole-ism, and False African Revivals
Kato Mivule | October 13, 2009
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/376-lee-grady-charisma-balokole-ism-and-false-african-revivals.html
I was stunned and amazed at the recent article by Lee Grady in which he details his experiences in search (research) of a Revival in East Africa commonly known as the East African Revival. According to the article Lee Grady visited East Africa for two weeks especially Uganda and he witnesses ‘remnant experiences’ or what he refers to as an 80 year old East African Revival still going on in Uganda.
Lee Grady mentions the Balokole in Uganda and how they have been central to the 80 year old East African Revival in Uganda. Lee Grady goes on to even wish that the same Balokole-ism would spread over to the USA that is already dealing with fake and false revivals. I stand and wonder what Lee Grady went to see in Africa. This is the whole trouble with “Revival seeking”…always the danger lies in “seeking” the revival verses a genuine call for Christians to repent. The result is that a pseudo revival is always present.
For those of us who have grown up in Uganda, and preached the gospel in Uganda, Lee Grady and Charisma Magazine must be talking and writing about another Uganda on a different planet other than the earth. I do respect Lee Grandy’s efforts in exposing false teachers in many of his articles and his sincerity in search for a “genuine” revival around the world. This is understandable yet at the same time a very big and large loophole for the same thing Lee Grady is fighting…falsehood in the Church.
I happen to be from Uganda, the very place that Lee Grady and Charisma visited. There is no Revival in Uganda, not even a remnant revival! What is happening is a rapid acceleration towards apostasy in Uganda and unless something is done, Evangelicalism (Balokole-ism) as we know it in Uganda ended years ago and all is left is a dead religion but still with the Pentecostal effects like shakings, goose bumps, overnight prayers, large gatherings etc…these things are mistakably called Revival by unsuspecting two week visitors to East Africa.
The Balokole (Evangelical or Saved ones, as Lee Grady calls them) have largely been invaded by the very same ills and debacles that Lee Grady writes about in Charisma Magazine, from the Prosperity Gospel, Sexual Abuse, Divorce, Greed, Materialism, etc, to other weird doctrines of devils and demons.
On Christian TV and Radio Stations, messages of repentance are extinct, instead messages of materialism and wealth are proclaimed. The Church has become political and preachers have embraced politics similar to Right Wing Conservatives Evangelicals in America. This website(YesuMulungi.com), Ugandan Secular Newspapers, Secular TV and Radio Stations have documented countless gross corruption inside the Balokole Movement, yet Lee Grady fails to even simply use Google to find out the current state of Balokole-ism in Uganda.
I still wonder what Lee Grady and the Charisma Team went to document in Uganda… Lee Grady’s Article in Charisma Magazine, a major Evangelical Publication in the USA totally paints an incorrect picture concerning the spiritual affairs of Uganda’s Evangelical Church, let alone East Africa.
The Church in Uganda is not at anytime experiencing Revival and I CHALLENGE Lee Grady and Charisma Magazine to substantiate such spurious claims of a 80 Year Old East African Revival in Uganda.
The Church in Uganda is just increasingly becoming a photocopy of the Church in America, from preaching styles, doctrine, and mannerisms. What Lee Grady experienced, was Christians still locked up in the gone days of Pentecostalism in Africa, long unending prayer meetings, long sermons, screaming, shouting, goose bumps, proclamations of Faith etc…these things to a undiscerning two weeks visiting Western Missionary sound like ‘Revival’.
Where did Lee Grady witness messages of Repentance in Uganda? Where did he witness folks coming to renounce their sins? What did Lee Grady hear on Uganda’s Christian TV and Radio? Uganda’s Christian TV and Radio do have Internet Streams and witness is there that they preach an American version of the Prosperity Gospel. What Doctrines did Lee Grady hear being taught in Churches in Uganda for instance? For simplicity and ‘revival talk’, compare Charles Finny and Jonathan Edwards’s sermons, did that occur to Lee Grady that any similarity could be found…?
Yes, there is no doubt that there existed a historical East African Revival (Renewal) probably up to the late 1980’s, but from then on a fake revival is taking place in Uganda – one spearheaded by the Prosperity Gospel movement…an apostasy is happening in Uganda’s Balokole-ism movement and there is urgent need for Sound Bible Teachers to help Christians there be grounded on solid New Testament Bible Truth and not the flattering of revival seekers.
What Lee Grady needed to do in Uganda was not “seek” revivals but to preach a message of repentance and a call for the Evangelical Church to return back to Bible Truth and Sound Bible Doctrine. The insinuating proclamations in Charisma Magazine of a ‘continual’ 80 year old East African Revival are spurious and a danger to Christians in America and Europe who have a habit of traversing geographical territories in search for revivals. From the Toronto Revival to the Florida Revivals, Christians in America have been misled into searching for the wrong thing – a Revival.
I would not be surprised of Christians boarding planes to go to Kampala, Uganda in ’search’ or ‘re-search’ of the new Balokole-ism experience, since Lee Grady is in prayer that Americans would experience a similar Ugandan Balokole-ism experience.
The New Testament does not at any one time teach us to go traverse the globe in search of revivals. This is a danger that I see with the Revival seeking Christian crowd. Nowhere in the New Testament do we have Jesus Christ, Paul, Peter, John and other apostles running to and fro seeking revivals, worst of all fake revivals like the one happening in Uganda, Africa. Brethren watch out!
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LEE GRADY’S ARTICLE IN CHARISMA
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SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: The Only Thing That Will Save Us
-by J. Lee Grady.
We can learn an important lesson from the East African Revival, which transformed a region 80 years ago. The people of Uganda call it Balokole. In the Luganda language it means “the saved ones,” but the word became synonymous with the East African Revival—one of the most significant Christian
movements in modern history.
This revival had humble beginnings in September 1929, just before America’s Great Depression. Historians trace it to a prayer meeting on Namirembe Hill in Kampala, Uganda, where a missionary to Rwanda, Joe Church, prayed and read the Bible for two days with his friend Simeoni Nsibambi. They felt God had showed them that the African church was powerless because of a lack of personal holiness.
It is impossible to explain exactly what happened after this prayer meeting or how the resulting spiritual fervor spread. When God comes, unusual things happen. Within weeks after the Rev. Church returned to Gahini, Rwanda, Christians gathered to pray and confess their sins openly. A heavy spirit of conviction fell on the people. Whenever they repented for their sins and failures they would weep uncontrollably, ask others to forgive them and
pledge to make restitution.
The weeping spread to farmlands and open fields. Unbelievers who visited these gatherings were converted after they witnessed the sincerity of the Christians. Repentance went deep. Husbands publicly apologized for adultery and farmers repented for stealing cows from each other. Eventually, as the revival spread from Rwanda to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi, even the centuries-old tradition of polygamy (which was still common among professing Christians) was unraveled in some areas.
Balokole changed African Christianity forever. In a 1986 article for Christian History, Michael Harper writes of the revival: “It’s effects have been more lasting than almost any other revival in history, so that today there is hardly a single Protestant leader in East Africa who has not been touched by it in some way.”
I spent the past two weeks ministering in Uganda and Kenya, and everywhere I went I met people who still talk about the East African Revival—80 years after it began. It breathed resurrection power into dead, traditional churches and triggered aggressive church-planting movements that affected a variety of denominations.
Whether sermons were delivered from pulpits or under trees, six important themes were emphasized in those days: 1) the blood of Jesus; 2) the name of Jesus; 3) the cross of Jesus; 4) the Word of God; 5) the testimony of the saints; and 6) the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Leaders also stressed the message of 1 John 6-7: “If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His son cleanses us from all sin (NASB).” As was true in other spiritual awakenings in history (such as the Asbury Revival in Kentucky in 1970), people stood in front of
each other and admitted their sins, no matter how embarrassing. The honesty cut deep into human pride and dealt a fatal blow against entrenched sin and religious hypocrisy.
After hearing more details about the East African Revival while I was in Uganda last week, I was convinced that this type of movement is the only thing that will pull the United States out of its current despair.
We must have a spiritual awakening, or we die. Political engineering, economic policies, government bailouts and stimulus packages will not save us. No politician, Democrat or Republican, will reverse our course toward destruction.
Our only hope is that a backslidden American church—a church that is as smug, blind and lukewarm as the Laodiceans-—will “be zealous and repent” (see Rev. 3:19).
What encourages me is that God, not man, initiated all the spiritual awakenings of the past—including the First Great Awakening, which gave our country its historic Christian identity. Yes, we play our feeble part by praying, and we must storm heaven. Yes, awakenings come in response to our weak attempts to repent, and we must passionately seek a fresh baptism of holiness.
But we cannot manufacture revivals. Pentecostal fire comes from heaven alone. It is a sovereign blessing from a God who loves us and desires to rescue us from ourselves. We charismatics have generated a lot of our own sound and fury in the past 30 years, but much of what we have created is a shameful substitute for revival. We must become desperate for the real thing.
Today our movement is mired in the shallow waters of self-centered, carnal Christianity. May God mercifully send us our own version of Balokole. May gut-wrenching repentance and public confession of sin interrupt our trendy worship services. May this holy fire spread until the people of the United States see genuine Christians living the message we preach.
-J. Lee Grady is editor of Charisma.
SOURCE – http://fireinmybones.com/
Kato M is a true prophet of God and I thank him for backing up with facts my own discernment that Lee Grady is just seeking some magical “force” or “power” called “Revival” and not the individual’s need for repentance from sin.
There is a demon that goes around to these NAR types like Lee Grady — it appeared to Bill Hamon. It appeared to Paul Cunningham who decieved AA Allen. It called itself “Restoration/Revival” angel.
I also believe it is the same demon who appeared to Joseph SMith of the Mormons. “Restoration” because it falsely proclaims that the positions of the Old Testament Prophets and the New Testament APostles have been repressed throughout history and now modern church prophets and apostles are going to be on par and infallible and elite SUper Prophets and Super Apostles like Peter, Paul and Elijah.
The demon was called “Revival” because it fixates people’s minds on the “future” instead of today. It is a way of making people forget to do the work of the Gospel today, and put an undue burden of expectation on this miraculous coming “Revival” that will be like heaven on earth.
Sin and need for repentance is never part of the NAR mindset, and of course obliviated by the demon called Restoration Revival.
Smith Wigglesworth’s Vision of End-time Revival and Mass Awakening
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH’S VISION.
This account comes from Lester Sumrall’s book – Pioneers of Faith. Sumrall relates how he met Smith Wigglesworth during the dark days of World War II and gives the following account:
“… Shutting his eyes again, he said, ‘I see the greatest revival in the history of mankind coming to Planet earth, maybe as never before. And I see every form of disease healed. I see whole hospitals emptied with no one there. Even the doctors are running down the streets shouting.’
“He told me that there would be untold numbers of uncountable multitudes that would be saved. No man will say ’so many, so many,’ because nobody will be able to count those who come to Jesus. No disease will be able to stand before God’s people… ‘It will be a worldwide situation, not local,’ he said, ‘a worldwide thrust of God’s power and God’s anointing upon mankind.’
“Then he opened his eyes and looked at me and said, ‘I will not see it, but you shall see it. The Lord says that I must go on to my reward, but that you will see the mighty works that He will do upon the earth in the last days.’
“… The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa… Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world… So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth’s prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it.”
Dear friends, let us devote ourselves to prayer and fasting and practical steps of obedience so that if possible, we could be included by God as co-workers in the great revival move of the Spirit that Smith Wigglesworth saw in that vision.
http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/smith-wigglesworths-vision-of-endtime-revival-and-mass-awakening
Interesting because when people were complaining that Todd Bentley was kicking old ladies in the face, the Lakelanders would reply that Smith WIgglesworth also punched people in the stomach and called it “healing”.
For me, the Lord already has it spelled out. I always think of Todd Bentley’s brutality while supposedly “healing people” when I read this verse. Note the part about how God foretold His plan to “send strong delusion” in the Old Testament here, too:
Isaiah 66:2
“ But on this one will I look:
On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol…
As they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations…
So I will choose their delusions
And will bring on them what they dread
Bless you Swarna and your household.
AriseMyLove,
Thanks.
Reminds me of an old vision. Don’t know if you read it.
This is a vision that was posted before the ‘outbreak of the Todd Bentley revival’.
Vision: STEEL-TOE BOOTS
http://tentsofissachar.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/vision-steel-toe-boots/
love and blessings
swarna
REVIVAL – Leonard Ravenhill – David Wilkerson – A W Tozer
REVIVAL LIST 8 th October 2009
As usual, Grady is full of NAR delusion.
His arguments about past revivals in Africa make the Holy Spirit’s work an “impersonal force” that magically “moves over regions and nations”…
RATHER than what the Holy Spirit truly does… it works conviction and repentance in the INDIVIDUAL’s heart.
Strom bleeds towards this phony revivalist mentality There is no “force of revival” that will come over a land. Revival starts with one person. Then that person helping another repent. This is the source of true revival, and REVIVAL CAME AT PENTECOST, it is not an ‘event” to be looked forward to in the future.
This “future revival” thinking prevents people from living in the NOW and ministering in the NOW. This is actually very dangerous.
Those who are dissatisfied with their present state with the Lord but preach that the “Future Revival” is going to change everything, are actually standing on AntiChrist ground. Why?
It is AntiChrist Ground to mix up the time frame or present tense pronouncement of ‘Jesus Christ IS COME IN THE FLESH”.
There is no ‘Jesus Christ is COMING”
THere is no ” Jesus CHrist has come”
IT IS JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH… it is the call to courage and faith for the believer TODAY that the Pentecost has COME, and REVIVAL HAS COME and to walk in that power TODAY and not stall until TOMORROW.
Grady is living for that greaaaaat Reviiiiiivall to come.
In other words, Grady is not living in the power of Jesus Christ the same TODAY yesterday and forever. He is living for tomorrow’s false revival that has already come at Pentecost
“This is that the prophet Joel spoke of”…
AriseMyLove,
Something in what you said reminds me of a vision I saw yesterday.
The same ministries, and forums and sites that supported the Todd Bentley ‘revival’, and repented not, are ‘itching’ for yet another one. They look ready to rush to join the new ‘manufacturing’. Whatever that ‘manufacturing’ maybe…..a’ revival ‘or a’ new thing’.
The people are being’ prepared’, ‘primed’ for yet another ‘revival’/’ manufactured new thing’.
Their ‘prophecies’ will multiply. America and the world is again being ‘prepared’ to shell out more money /emotion to buy itself another ‘revival’/new thing.
Thanks AriseMyLove
love and blessings
swarna
Yes Swarna…
False prophetess Gwen Shaw and false prophetess Wendy Alec who owns GODTV have said that “Lakeland is coming to California”.
These NAR people are greedy for media attention and Hollywood stars are in their eyes. It is amazing how ridiculous they are about Hollywood. They covet Hollywood’s media power and promote their children in media careers. Cindy Jacobs, Che Ahn all do this. The now dead Jezebel Jill Austin pretended to have some secret “Hollywood authority” that was non existent. These IHOPpers and YWAMmers and NARbots just want Hollywood’s riches and glory for themselves. They covet the worldliness and glamour of Hollywood… not knowing that ‘glamour” is an old English word for witchcraft.
Bless you Swarna. Here’s to meeting face to face some day.
AriseMyLove,
When I’m led to publish that vision, I will remind you.
‘ BEWARE OF VENDORS OF HYPE’!
QUOTE
That’s very very interesting. I did’nt know that!
Yes, I look forward to meeting you too.
Thanks
love and blessings
Swarna
P.S. Get out that vision soon and I will post it to people I know in the NAR as a warning.
Hi Helmet of Salvation,
QUOTE
Your personal relationship with him is vital
Amen.
Thanks
blessings
swarna
Should read “One of the most disturbing christian books” It was obviously not the most disturbing book ever.:)
Hi Swarna,
The most disturbing book I have ever read was a biographical book on Evan Roberts and the Welsh revival. It left me stunned and disillusioned for days and even weeks. I can’t remember the title but the book was factual and well researched.
The only comments I would like to share here are:
Evan Roberts was an instrument which God decided to use and the power of God was at work in Him. The man had a personality which, together with zeal, caused him to ‘force’ the work of God at times. We see a lot of this in the charismatic churches. He would make the people hold their arms up until the ‘power of God’ would come and some sign of the Holy Spirits’ presense was felt. He would make them stand then sit then stand then sit. At one occasion he refused to carry on his sermon until someone who made a comment would come out and repent. Apparently it carried on for so long that a certain gentleman decided to come out and repent even though it was not he who made the comment.
He would walk up and down the isle singing until he felt power or something ‘happened’. This can obviously give room to deception.
Many similar things. Yet, these problems with Evan Roberts cannot be blamed for the end of the revival. There were many others who were used by God at that time. These things were probably symptoms of something in the Welsch or Evans’ temperament. I think his ‘breakdown’ was due to his feverish efforts to make God ‘work’ in each meeting and the dissapointment and fatigue of his failures to always ‘produce’.
When he made his ‘come-back’ he soon reverted to the old tacticts of crowd manipulation to get ’something’ to happen. This obviously bothered Mrs Penn Lewis who saw these acts as invitations to demons to gain ‘ground’ in the believers’ lives.
I was so grieved by this sad sad story. Mr Roberts eventually gave up on preaching and spent his days in writing poems to newspapers. Secular if i remember correctly.
I have read War on the Saints and quite a few of Mrs. Penn Lewis books. I think spiritual warfare is an extremely difficult subject to write on and no human has it perfectly right. Overall I have benefitted from reading it although there are things which worry me.
One of the first books I read as a christian was of the missionary James Frazer. I remember a portion where he was so opressed in China that he felt like giving up and even had suicidal thoughts. He then read something by Jessie Penn Lewis which really helped him. I found a reference to that on the web from:
http://www.omf.org/omf/breakthrough/fraser_the_lisu/about_james_o_fraser
“For years Fraser had been praying for a spiritual breakthrough among the Lisu, especially after he realized that they needed to be set free from bondage to demon worship. But during a period of intense spiritual oppression he received a copy of The Overcomer, a magazine he had not heard of before. Through these articles by Jessie Penn-Lewis, Fraser realized afresh that Satan was indeed a conquered enemy. Satan had attempted to destroy him as a missionary as he had dared to invade territory the enemy had controlled for ages. However, through Christ’s death and resurrection the victory was assured.
(Frazer wrote:) “I read it [The Overcomer] over and over … What it showed me was that deliverance from the power of the evil one comes through definite resistance on the grounds of the cross. I am an engineer and believe in things working. I want to see them work. I had found that much of the spiritual teaching one hears does not seem to work. We need different truth at different times. ‘’Look to the Lord,’ some will say. ‘Resist the devil’ is also Scripture (James 4:7). And I found it worked. That cloud of depression dispersed. I found that I could have victory in the spiritual realm whenever I wanted it. The Lord Himself resisted the devil vocally: ‘Get thee behind me, Satan!’ I, in humble dependence on Him, did the same. I talked to Satan at that time, using the promises of Scripture as weapons. And they worked. Right then, the terrible oppression began to pass away.”
True the Bible is written so that the truth can simply be understood but any field which we study has unlimited complexities as with nature and science. Yet I do think Mrs. Penn Lewis went into too much detail which could lead to obsessive scrutiny.
Thanks for dealing with matters in such a nice way Swarna. Your site is a big blessing.
blessing
Francois
Hi Francois,
I am so glad that you have taken the time to share this with us.
Now, what you mention about Evan Roberts is news to me!
Please feel free to post links and any further information you may have on this matter.
Francois,thanks so much for the encouragement.
blessings
swarna
Dear Francois:
Thanks for the info.
What is floating around on the internet is that Penn Lewis was a Jezebel who destroyed the Welch Revival.
Obviously, not.
Bro.Strom, This is a song the Lord gave to me 11yrs ago The river runs deep,the river runs wide ,the river flows for my justified won’t you come and drink from the living waters of life.
Thanks Jana
blessings
swarna
Let’s not put God in a box. The way He moved in the past is past,we must not camp out there but move on. There is nothing worse than stagnant water and stale bread. We must find out what direction He is going and flow with Him. It will always turn out the way He intended it to any way.
Bro. Strom, God has never lost anything. It always plays out His way. Our Father always wins. Be of good cheer. Jana
Deliverance Comes By Deliverers By A.W. Tozer
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
–Exodus 3:9-10
Yes, if evangelical Christianity is to stay alive it must have men again–the right kind of men. It must repudiate the weaklings who dare not speak out, and it must seek in prayer and much humility the coming again of men of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made. God will hear the cries of His people as He heard the cries of Israel in Egypt, and He will send deliverance by sending deliverers. It is His way.
And when the deliverers come–reformers, revivalists, prophets–they will be men of God and men of courage. They will have God on their side because they are careful to stay on God’s side. They will be coworkers with Christ and instruments in the hands of the Holy Spirit. Such men will be baptized with the Spirit indeed and through their labors He will baptize others and send the long-delayed revival. This World: Playground or Battleground?, 20
http://www.bearinghiscross.com/awtozer.htm
Revival: Revival on Our Terms
by A.W. TOZER
I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to
another, nor My praise to carved images.
-Isaiah 42:8
There seems to be a notion abroad that if we talk enough and pray
enough, revival will set in like a stock market boom or a winning
streak on a baseball club. We appear to be waiting for some sweet
chariot to swing low and carry us into the Big Rock Candy Mountain
of religious experience.
Well, it is a pretty good rule that if everyone is saying
something it is not likely to be true; or, if it has truth at the
bottom, it has been so distorted by wrong emphasis as to have the
effect of error in its practical outworking. And such, I believe,
is much of the revival talk we hear today….
Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We
want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us
that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of
Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot
through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go,
shouting “Glory to God,” it is true, but modestly accepting a
share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of
way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely
ignoring the fact that they are our altars and not God’s.
The Size of the Soul, 8-9.
http://www.bearinghiscross.com/awtozer.htm
Revival: The Arrow of Infinite DesireBY A.W. TOZER
These words are addressed to those of God’s children who have been
pierced with the arrow of infinite desire, who yearn for God with a
yearning that has overcome them, who long with a longing that has
become pain.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for
they will be filled.”…
A dead body feels no hunger and the dead soul knows not the pangs
of holy desire. “If you want God,” said the old saint, “you have
already found Him.” Our desire for fuller life is proof that some
life must be there already….
In nature everything moves in the direction of its hungers. In the
spiritual world it is not otherwise. We gravitate toward our inward
longing, provided of course that those longings are strong enough
to move us. Impotent dreaming will not do. The religious urge that
is not followed by a corresponding act of the will in the direction
of that urge is a waste of emotion. The Size of the Soul
http://www.bearinghiscross.com/awtozer.htm
MY , MY ,MY what a dialogue . Revival and Jezebel . The Father most High all Mighty , Has trained many already for such a time as NOW . Prophets against Prophets . Penn – Lewis is not for young Christians ” period ” . eunuchs , psychic grip , charismatic witchcraft , sympathetic strongholds ………………..Be renewed in the spirit of your mind . Put on Christ . So much to share , not yet . Our Heavenly Father is not the author of confusion . I love my KING , how about you all ……… Thank you Swarna for your time and labor as your directed .
Hi Clyde,
QUOTE
The Father most High all Mighty , Has trained many already for such a time as NOW
Amen.
Thanks Clyde ,
blessings
swarna
REVIVAL LIST 6th August 2009
NOTE ABOUT the WORD & THE SPIRIT JOINED:
The world awaits a move of God that truly brings together
the strong, piercing preaching of the word along with miracles and
healings. For too long these have been separated into rival camps.
Smith Wigglesworth prophesied about a last great Revival- “There
will be evidence in the churches of something that has not been
seen before: a coming together of those with an emphasis on the
word and those with an emphasis on the Spirit. When the word
and the Spirit come together, there will be the biggest move of the
Holy Spirit that the nation, and indeed, the world has ever seen. It
will mark the beginning of a revival that will eclipse anything that
has been witnessed within these shores, even the Wesleyan and
Welsh revivals of former years…”
The piece below makes some interesting points about this:
THE WEDDING of PURITY AND POWER
by Paul Holdren.
The wedding of purity and power is a concept that the Holy Spirit
is promoting among believers in these latter days. As stated
earlier, in the late 1860s after the Civil War, a wave of the Holy
Spirit came like a mighty wind moving across the land bringing a
fresh awareness of the requirements of God to live a life pleasing
to Him. This was to be accomplished by the baptism of the Holy
Spirit. In the 1906 Azusa Street outpouring in the City of Los
Angeles, the church began to be reawakened to the powerful
manifestations of the Holy Spirit. This too was to be accomplished
by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Since the advent of the Azusa
Street outpouring, the body of Christ has been divided into the
purity and power camps.
For the past 100 years the Body of Christ has gotten as much
attention from its wild fires as it has from its Holy Ghost fire. For
the power camp the emphasis upon purity was almost anathema.
For the purity camp the emphasis upon power was almost
anathema. This was because each camp expressed doctrinal
positions that were unacceptable to the other. They vehemently
rejected each others’ positions. The power camp noticed that
purity expressed without power became both legalistic and
limiting. The purity camp noticed that power expressed without
purity became both carnal and limiting. Only by the wedding of
these two beautiful doctrines can the Spirit of God gain full
authority and appreciation within the Body of Christ.
In the present time, the Spirit of Christ is calling the Body of Christ
to be reunited in a mighty outpouring of His Holy presence – the
Spirit’s wedding of purity and power. Each doctrine has something
the other needs to hear, a compliment to and completion of God’s
design for the wholeness of the church. The power camp needs
to know of an exclusive holy love that is expressed out of a pure
affection for the Holy ONE. The purity camp needs to know a
holy power being expressed out of a manifestation of the Holy
Spirit’s gifts. The purity camp needs to share the beauty of
holiness in the spirit of humility. The power camp needs to share
the gifts of power in the spirit of humility. The purity camp needs
to exercise the power of Christ in “signs and wonders.” The
power camp needs to exercise purity in “laying one’s life down”
for another. With a discerning spirit, each can benefit from the
other, for these are perilous times in which we live.
Ezekiel added this dimension when he wrote of the prophecies
involving the requirements of how the priests were to keep the
holy law of the temple (Ezekiel 44-45) and when he wrote of the
river flowing from under the threshold of the temple (Ezekiel 47:
1-12). The purity of the priests was revealed in that they were to
have a certain appearance, conduct themselves in a particular
manner, and serve others in a specific way. Everything about
the Holiest of All is pure: pure oil, pure clothes, a pure man
placing the lamb’s pure blood on the pure gold of the mercy seat.
This was to be a pure presentation of righteousness, given to a
pure and Holy God. The “Holiest of All” is the place of purity. It
is here that the river of life has its head waters, emanating from
the holiness of God.
The power of the river of God continually increased. The farther
away from the temple it flowed, the deeper and wider it became.
As the river flows, healing comes to everything in its path. Notice,
however, it is the purity of the waters that allows it to contain
healing virtue. It is the river’s purity that allows the river to be
saturated with holy power. By comparison, only powerful men
can serve, but powerful men must serve with a pure love for God
and their fellow man. It is time for a wedding of purity and power.
-From “The Wedding of Purity and Power” by Paul Holdren.
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REVIVAL LIST 21ST MAY 2009
POLITICS, POWER and PRIDE:
How U.S Evangelicals Lost the Culture War and the Way Forward.
-by Eddie Hyatt.
Evangelicals may finally be realizing that political activism is not
the path to preserving the Christian character and culture of America.
After 30 years of the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition and the
religious right, America, last November, elected what are probably
the most liberal president and congress in its history. Since that
time 5 states have legalized homosexual marriage and others are
poised to follow suit. Chuck Schumer, the influential, liberal senator
from New York, gleefully declared that, “All this talk about family
and traditional values is a thing of the past.” In the midst of all this,
Dr. James Dobson, whom many would consider the most prominent
voice of the religious right, solemnly announced, “We (evangelical
Christians) have lost the culture war.”
Although this turn of events is disturbing for evangelical Christians,
this could be the starting point for a national awakening unto God;
but only if we admit our failures and turn from the notion that we can
change America by our own efforts, political or otherwise.
We (Evangelicals) Have Been Wrong
Please understand that I am not suggesting that we should not
be good citizens and participate in the political process; nor am
I suggesting that God does not call some to civil service and
statesmanship. But I am convinced that evangelical Christians in
America crossed the line in trying to change America through
political activism. We thought that if we could get enough Christians
elected to Congress and elect a Christian president that we would
preserve our Christian culture and heritage. Instead, politics, power
and pride became characteristic of American evangelicalism, rather
than prayer, compassion, humility and spiritual power. We forgot
that America has a history of Spiritual awakenings and that this
“revival heritage” has been the preserving force of our Christian
culture.
God Will Not Ride in on Either an Elephant or a Donkey
Hopefully, some are beginning to realize that God’s purposes for
America will not be realized through a political process or political
party. As Dr. Tony Evans once said, “God will not ride into our
midst on either an elephant (symbol of the Democrat party) or a
donkey (symbol of the Republican party).”
In seeking a political solution to our spiritual problems we,
as evangelical Christians, identified ourselves with a particular
political party and, thereby, alienated ourselves from over half of
the American populace. This is not good! Neither Jesus nor the
earliest Christians identified themselves with any of the many
political parties that were operative in their day; but, instead,
preached a transcendent government or kingdom of God that
would transform individuals (and thereby society) from within. We
need to take a closer look at the New Testament in this area and
adjust our thinking accordingly.
Let’s Remember Our Revival Heritage
Spiritual awakenings are an intrinsic part of American history.
They are a vital part of who we are as a people. Perry Miller,
the late professor of church history at Harvard University, said
that the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was a direct result
of the preaching of the evangelists of the First Great Awakening.
Awakenings such as the First Great Awakening (1726-1750), the
Second Great Awakening (1801-1840) and the great Prayer Revival
of 1858 have preserved the Christian character of American culture
at crucial times in our history. These were not religious excitements
generated by the fleshly machinations of professional revivalists, but
divine visitations in answer to the fervent, faith-filled prayers of God’s
people.
It’s Time For Repentance & Change in the Church
America is in dire need of another national awakening. Such an
awakening cannot be organized or strategized by skillful religious
marketeers. Such awakenings are conceived in the womb of prayer
and given birth through the absolute trust and simple obedience of
God’s people. If evangelical Christians are ready to admit that
political activism is not the way to change America, this could be
the beginning of our finest hour. If we will repent for our politics, for
seeking power and for pride and call out to God with all our hearts,
there is no reason why God will not answer with another national
Spiritual awakening.
A Prayer For Spiritual Awakening
Here is a prayer that I offer for Spiritual awakening in this hour; and
I pray that individuals and groups throughout America will begin to
pray prayers such as this.
Oh LORD God, we come to You in the name of our LORD Jesus
Christ. We acknowledge that we have missed the mark in all our
efforts to save this nation. We repent of self-reliance and pride, and
for imagining that we could make a difference in this nation by our
own human efforts and through a mere political process. Oh LORD,
we acknowledge that only you can change the heart of this nation
and restore to it the fear and honor that belongs to You alone. We
pray today that you will turn our hearts to you. Send the fire of your
presence, power and love once again to this nation. We pray for
another Great Awakening!
-SOURCE: http://www.biblicalawakening.blogspot.com/
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REVIVAL LIST 2ND APRIL 2009
THE DEVIL’s EXTREMES – Audio
Two weeks ago Andrew Strom gave a teaching to a Bible School
class in the UK – about the “two extremes” that the devil is trying
to push Christians to in these days – and also how to discern
True vs. False. Below are the two audio’s. Take a listen!-
PART ONE-
http://www.churcheditmedia.co.uk/media/1/1-1237668360.mp3
PART TWO-
http://www.churcheditmedia.co.uk/media/1/1-1237673002.mp3
God bless you all.
REVIVAL LIST 2ND JANUARY 2009
DOES GOD WEEP for WALES?
-HIS LOST “LAND of REVIVALS”
-by Andrew Strom.
One of the reasons that I am writing on this topic is that I got a
very negative response to my announcement last week that we
will be holding a Gathering for prayer and preaching in Wales –
literally at the birthplace of the Welsh Revival. Even though I stated
that I have become very burdened for Wales, people replied that
God does not care for any nation in particular – and they accused
me of all kinds of things. Some of the comments were quite
vindictive and nasty, which I guess I should expect by now.
The fact is, since before Christmas I have found myself weeping
profoundly whenever I start praying for Wales. I did not seek such
a burden – neither did I ever expect such a thing. It came out of
the blue very suddenly – and I have to believe it is God.
The thing that gets to me most, whenever I ponder it before the
Lord, is that for almost 150 years Wales was the most powerful
“Land of Revivals” in the world. Her preachers were some of the
most anointed that have ever lived in recent centuries – Howell
Harris, Christmas Evans, David Morgan, Daniel Rowland, John
Elias, Evan Roberts and many more. I’ve found lately that whenever
I go to prayer I simply cannot help but weep when I think that for
a hundred years now Wales has lost her Revivals. The greatest
Revival nation on earth has been taken down – lost to the enemy.
(And America looks set to follow). Wales is now down to 7 percent
church attendance – and is a literal shadow of her former self.
Before this burden hit me I was not thinking that there is some
“hope” for Wales. Not at all! I have to admit, after visiting there
last year, things seemed utterly hopeless to me (in the natural).
And I still do not comprehend the fulness of what God is trying
to say. But I do know that if He opens a rare and unusual door to
gather and pray in the very place where the last Revival broke out –
to plead and cry out to Him for that lost nation – then I had
better do it.
What is planned at Moriah Chapel in April is not just another
“preaching conference”. PRAYER will be a huge emphasis. We
have to cry out to God. I have even been wondering if it shouldn’t
be called “WEEP FOR WALES” or something similar – for isn’t
that what is so desperately needed?
Yes – there will be speakers. But that is not the main thing. We
truly have to SEEK GOD. And for those who do not wish to
participate in such an event, that is fine. Nobody is forcing you to
come. But for those who feel led to join us in crying out for these
“lost” Revival nations – you are most welcome.
To the ones who want to write further attacks in response to all
this, I just want to ask you one question:- Isn’t it possible that
God Himself still cares deeply about Wales and the fact that He
has lost one of His most beloved Revival nations of all time? And
isn’t it possible that this burden that we feel is directly from Him?
Points to ponder as you comment, my friends.
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Strom ,My dad was English , Scottish and East Coast Native American New Yorker . For the last three weeks Scottish and English People are coming across my path regularly for a reason . Two Countries God is dealing with NOW . North America – Washington DC and UK – England. Have you ever seen a white rhino ? third largest land – animal – has two horns . The Lord should me they are layed down pushed back . for a reason . Find a garden or a forest and pray without mans approval in the Royal sacred Court and have Court with the Father – Holy of Holies and his Son our Savior Strom. Three mature saints with one mind – Christ … words bring victory . What did Jesus Do ? I could give a hoot what people say , what did Jesus say . Ask the Father why no revival , get the answer from him . I’ve had my full mary go round .If we get under the Tree of Life in the Center and look over at the tree of good and evil ! Seeeeee jealousy and envy between Nations . Gods Prophets and Apostles confront kings and queens etc . Strom ,you will get answer . pull down strongholds
The ax or axes , Do a word search . The Father will give revelation . Ax head under the waters – People want ear tickling messages , falsehood , prosperity preachers etc . The World has put the Church in a position . Ax , rise up , handle , sharp edge , pruning shears & Sword. If you have had prosperity preachers lay hands on you , cut of all transferring of evil . Repent , separate yourself onto the Lord . Ask the Father to restore your rightful place in Christ . Thank Him , Praise Him , Worship Him and give Him all the Glory . Be free in the Body of Christ to do the work of the Kingdom . According to your TRUST in Him believe Him to free others . How Big is your Heavenly Father to you . My wife in the late 80’s had a well known prosperity prophet lay hands on her . I was lead to ask her if she ever had hands lay ed on her . She is free . Prayer walking , remit the sins and curses of areas . Ask the Father . Be lead by the Spirit of God , say only his words .THE WORD WORKS , JESUS CHRIST. Be lead by the Holy Spirit . The Lord Loves you ; Spirit , soul and body . This might be strange to some , but ask the Lord God to help you ask questions about your walk with him and the way to live in the world as it is today . Also what would he like done for this area or that at his timing . Your personal relationship with him is vital . Ear gate , eye gate and thoughts , protect . Put a guard on you tongue . I hope this makes sense to you , young and old . Work out your Salvation . This applies to me .
As to the “Friend’s comment” on War on the Saints, how then are we to “test the spirits”?
Penn Lewis was following the Bible’s admonition:
“Test the spirits my beloved, for the spirit that counterfeits Christ, the antiChrist, is already in the world.”
Hi AriseMyLove,
Thanks for your comments.
Neither have I, AriseMyLove, nor am I an expert in these matters.
What I do remember though, was that I was uncomfortable and uneasy when I had read some portions of the book. Hence, I had mailed my friend in the U.S. seeking his opinion. I have shared with you here, the excerpts from the mail.
Posted here is also a review by apostasynow, the site where you can read the book online.
They recommend it.
It’s past midnight here in Bombay.
So more later…………..
Thanks
love and blessings
swarna
I have not analyzed all the material on PennLewis. Since she did not “call herself a prophetess” as far as I can see, but instead was attempting to be a teacher with her admittedly very cautious book that attempts to detail the spirit of the Lord from any counterfeits, the accusations laid at her feet that she was a “Jezebel” don’t quite ring true.
For her to have been a Jezebel, she would have had to think of herself as a major modern day prophetess.
For her to have been a Jezebel, she would have had to inculcate idolatry in her followers; idolatry of one form or another.
For her to have been a Jezebel, she would have had to be teaching the “so called deep things of Satan” as the NAR leaders do about Strategic Spiritual Warfare with too much emphasis on Satan’s power — which, as it did in ancient Elijah, inculcates FEAR in the Jezebel’s followers of the extent of Satan’s power.
For Penn Lewis to have been a Jezebel, she would have had to have demonstrated that her followers were sexually immoral or perverse in one way or another.
The above mentioned writers who accuse Penn Lewis of shutting down the Welsh Revival have not proved her to be a biblical Jezebel by any means.
I’ve read their critiques online before and they seem idiotic to me. It looks like they are trying to blame someone for the lack of continuity of the Welsh revival. Where can it be verified that Evan Roberts became a recluse, and suffered from depression? As far as I can tell, this is not a symptom of Jezebel, either. These writers seem uninformed and misogynist to me.
Plus they do not bolster their arguments with true historical research on the Penn Lewis situation with Roberts; it reads like fear mongering conjecture.
Penn Lewis seems to me, from her own words, to be concerned that the manifestations were truly from God during the Welsh Revival. I don’t see errant doctrines, false prophecy or lax sexual mores in her work at all. In summary, the accusations against Penn Lewis by that Jon Hamilton are shallow screeds with no Biblical evidence offered nor historical research done. Plus, Hamilton and whoever wrote the other Jezebel critique of Penn Lewis, DO NOT BOTHER TO RECKON WITH Penn Lewis’ observations on the false prophesies, strange fire and demonic counterfeits she was witness to with Roberts.
In other words, Penn Lewis’ critics are stupid about the Lord and seemingly misogynist in their shallow, unbalanced critiques.
‘revivals’ Lakeland-Brownsville-Toronto
http://tentsofissachar.wordpress.com/?s=brownsville
http://www.churchinwestland.org/id667.htm
Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861-1927)
The Divine Commitment to Jessie Penn-Lewis
http://www.churchinwestland.org/id289.htm
Jesse Penn Lewis Destroyed the Welsh Revival
Jon Hamilton
The Spirit of Jezebel By Jon Hamilton
(taken from the book “The Nature Of Our Enemy”)
In the book of Revelation, the Lord speaks to the church at Thyatira “Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.”
At first glance we might ask “What? Jezebel? Didn’t she die back in Second Kings? How can Jezebel be threatening the church in Asia?”
Obviously, the literal person of Jezebel was not present in Thyatira. The reference is a prophetic parallel. Just as John the Baptist was “Elijah” because he came in the spirit and power of Elijah, this person or influence in Thyatira was under the spiritual control of the same demonic influences that controlled Jezebel of old. Thus, there is a type of demonic influence in society and the church that can rightly be called by the name Jezebel
This spirit obviously existed long before Queen Jezebel, but she was so totally controlled by its nature that she has become its namesake. In scripture, Herodias is also a type of this force. As Jezebel opposed Elijah, so Herodias opposed John the Baptist. A third example is found here in Revelation 2:20 Queen Jezebel
Jezebel, the Biblical character, first appears in First Kings 16, when she marries Ahab, king of Israel. Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, the king and high priest of the Baal worshipping Sidonians. Baal worship was closely associated with obsessive sensuality and often involved sex acts. Jezebel, as a daughter of this perverse kingdom, was raised in an atmosphere where sex was a path to power and influence.
Ahab, King of Israel, was completely subdued and dominated by Jezebel. Jezebel then introduced the worship of Ashtoroth to Israel. This goddess, represented in Canaanite culture by the moon, was a power-hungry goddess of love and sensuality. Priestess-prostitutes filled her shrines and serviced her worshippers. The lure of these legal, readily available erotic encounters was more than the men of Israel would resist. By Jezebel’s influence, 10 million Israelites left the worship of God for Baal and Ashtoroth. Only 7000 people in the entire nation were not swayed by her control. The Characteristics of the Jezebel Spirit
A Jezebel spirit seeks control through manipulation. It has a deep hatred of true spiritual authority, and uses emotional pressure, witchcraft and obsessive sensuality in its pursuit of power. It uses subtle persuasion to gain influence and get close to those in control. It then uses this position to gradually dominate.
In the Hebrew, the name Jezebel means literally “without cohabitation”. She will not live or “cohabit” with those she cannot dominate and control. She will have no equals. Control is what Jezebel wants more than anything. Even when Jezebel appears to be submissive, it is usually out of a carefully wrought plan to gain influence.
Although it may be common to refer to Jezebel as “she”, we obviously must conclude that as a spirit, Jezebel is gender neutral. Jezebel certainly has as many male slaves as female. However, since Jezebel initially tends to establish control without the actual use of physical force, she is more easily associated with classic feminine persuasion techniques.
Jezebel likes to appear close to leaders, and use their influence. She likes to use the power and influence of others to accomplish her goals and control her environment. In 1 Kings 21:8 we read ” Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles of the city.” This is typical of Jezebel. She prefers to remain concealed in the background, while she manipulates situations and leaders.
Jezebel is often associated with pleasure, especially sexual pleasure. She will use any form of sensuality at her disposal to gain influence and control. Jezebel uses sensuality, but make no mistake, Jezebel is seeking CONTROL. Lusts are merely tools used to weaken others in order for her to accomplish her goal of control. In many cases sex is not involved at all.
Jezebel’s greatest enemy is true spiritual authority. As Jezebel opposed Elijah and Herodias opposed John the Baptist, so Jezebel today opposes righteous authority. In her heart, she despises all moral authority. .Jezebel in Society
In America today, Jezebel is the arrogant, angry spirit behind abortion, crying out “It’s MY choice! Don’t tell me what to do!” She has cleverly manipulated debate and positioned herself behind seats of power.
She is the power behind the rebirth of witchcraft in our culture. She calls to millions of teenagers via popular music and movies, telling them that new age witchcraft will give them power. She is the force behind the psychic hotlines, which control and manipulate millions. She is also the spirit at the center of Hollywood. Jezebel is the reason so many homosexuals are drawn to the entertainment industry, desperately seeking recognition and acceptance.
In an attempt to weaken righteous leadership, Jezebel is the force that draws millions of Christian men into hours of television. She is behind the explosion of Internet pornography. Today she is luring men of God into secret lives of bondage and condemnation. Some leaders, once powerful men of prayer, are now too ashamed to even sneak into the throne room. They are wracked with condemnation. They have been reduced to being mere eunuchs of Jezebel. Men with the calling of David have become pleasure shackled Ahabs. (God still wants to free these!)Jezebel in the Church
Jezebel is not only visible in society. Jezebel is quite at home in the church pew.
1 Kings 21:9 In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.”
With a heart of ice, Jezebel gained control of Naboth’s vineyard under the pretense of a FAST. She suddenly got religion when she needed it. Remember the adulterous woman in Proverbs 7? She first lured the foolish young man with, “I’ve just finished making my peace offerings, and have come looking for you.” She made sure he knew she was a good religious woman before she seduced him! Likewise, Jezebel doesn’t let her sin keep her from church.
Jezebel often manifests within the most “spiritual” people you will ever meet. In the Church, Jezebel will first attempt to get close to the pastor or other leaders with flattery. She will attempt to gain his confidence. She “calls herself a prophetess” and often manipulates others with her spirituality. Her deep “truths” usually result in condemnation and burdens for those in her care.
If the pastor, like Elijah, sees and opposes her deceptions, he will find himself in a fight for his life! He may find himself unemployed! Many a man of God has unwittingly had this spirit of control drive out his godly leadership. While Jezebel often claims to have inspired messages, (she “calls herself a prophetess” according to Rev 2:20), she usually discourages other prophetic voices unless they are under her control. She will attempt to cause leaders to be suspicious of true prophetic messengers, which bear the testimony of Jesus (Rev. 19:10)
This same controlling spirit may manifest in very different, even opposite ways. For example, a controlling, super-spiritual, self righteous, manipulative mother (the kind that wants to run the church), will often be horrified when her daughter grows up to be sexually immoral. Little does she know that she released that very spirit into her child’s life! Demonic Depression and Loss of Vision
Jezebel steals your vision. Jezebel will even make you depressed and anxious when there is nothing significantly different in your circumstances. If there are difficult circumstances, this spirit will tell you they are insurmountable, impossible, and overwhelming. Jezebel will make you feel like dying when in reality, you are God’s of the hour. (Rev 2:20)
For seven years, God had carefully protected Elijah. God fed him in the wilderness. When Ahab’s armies sought to kill Elijah, they were unable to lay a finger on him. Finally, in a showdown at Mt. Carmel, Elijah called down fire from heaven and resoundingly defeated and killed the priests of Baal. All Israel fell at his feet in repentance, worshipping the true God. Elijah was the man of the hour. He was vindicated, victorious, and clearly in charge.
Nevertheless, when Jezebel sent Elijah a single threat, he suddenly turned coward and fled to the desert. Anxious, depressed, and miserable, he begged God to kill him! Think about this. It makes NO sense. Elijah enjoyed supernatural protection for seven years. He watched fire fall from heaven and defeat his enemies, yet when a single angry woman threatened him one time, he lost every shred of vision and ran away. He moaned in self-pity and depression, begging God to kill him! This is a great example of Jezebel’s powerful demonic “anointing” to intimidate, create fear, and cause men of God to withdraw
Jezebel’s witchcraft will attack key leaders in her targeted area through intimidation. Those under attack may awaken one morning to find it takes effort just to breathe. All joy seems to depart. Spiritual life seems irrelevant. Demonic voices will echo in their minds “something’s wrong with you!” They may suddenly find themselves in unreasonable anxiety, fearing tragedy or death. Much of what is called “depression” in the ministry is simply Jezebel!
Jezebel wants to paralyze with fear, condemnation, depression, apathy or whatever it takes until we withdraw. The only answer for those under Jezebel’s attack is perseverance in battle. We must remain on course no matter how long it takes! This is War
The war continues today between Jezebel and Elijah. Like all wars, there are casualties. Leaders sometimes fall. Soldiers sometimes withdraw. Jezebel wants to keep the church within its present boundaries. She claims to decide the extent of the church locally. We must not tolerate this.
A Victory for Jezebel
The Welsh Example
The great Welsh revival of 1904 is a shining example of a true move of God. It has been called the “pentecost greater than Pentecost.” Sadly, the revival’s demise is also an excellent example of how Jezebel works against the church.
In just two years, over 100,000 people were saved. Welsh society was revolutionized. Entire towns recorded no arrests for over a year. Places that formerly were hotbeds of vice suddenly became transformed. Police departments were forced to lay off idle officers. Professional sports teams disbanded because no one was willing to miss church for a game. Services continued virtually around the clock and there were demonstrations of God’s presence and power.
When God begins a work, he usually begins with a man. During the Welsh revival that man was Evans Roberts. Evans was only 26 years old at the time. Most of his leaders were only in their late teens and twenties. Evans was deeply devoted to the Lord, and his devotion to wait upon the Lord released a shower of blessings that was a marvel to the Church. Pastors and leaders from around the world streamed to Wales to behold it.
Many people became associated with the revival as it grew. Among these was a well-to-do woman named Jessie Penn-Lewis. For years Penn-Lewis had considered herself a Bible teacher, but she had never found a broad acceptance for her teachings. She had largely been rejected or ignored by most church leaders in Wales. At first, Jessie Penn-Lewis appeared as a friend and financial supporter to Evans Roberts. She gained his confidence, and began speaking into his life.
Long time friends of Evans Roberts expressed concerns that she appeared to isolate Roberts too much, but Roberts trusted Penn-Lewis completely. She began to minister certain messages to Roberts, which appeared to him to be profound corrections from the Lord. These filled him with condemnation. He was convinced her deep “truths” were things he needed to hear.
Mrs. Penn-Lewis began to express her “concern” to Evans that with the revival’s great success, perhaps too much glory was going to Evans Roberts instead of to God. The thought of stealing God’s glory horrified the sincere young man. He began to think that perhaps others should lead for a while. Penn-Lewis convinced Evans Roberts to withdraw from public ministry, and to move into the Penn-Lewis home.
Evans Roberts never returned to the ministry. The Welsh revival ended quickly and quietly.
After a short time in the Penn-Lewis home, Evans Roberts began experiencing severe bouts of depression. Often he was unable to leave the bed for days at a time. He appeared nervous and anxious. By today’s standards he was in severe clinical depression. It took a toll on his health.
Meanwhile, Penn-Lewis began writing articles and letters in Evans Roberts’ name, and on his behalf. These were published in both Roberts and Penn-Lewis’ name, and eventually, in her name alone. According to many former close associates of Evans Roberts, some of the works attributed to him could not possibly have had his approval. Certain publications were highly critical of other movements, especially the newly emerging Pentecostals. Unfortunately, few people were able to see or speak with Evans Roberts. He was kept guarded in the Penn-Lewis home. He was completely dominated.
Evans Roberts spent many dark years of depression in the house of Jezebel. Mercifully, he eventually broke all ties with Penn-Lewis, but not until his health was broken and his ministry just a shadow of its former glory.
Evans Roberts made contributions in two years of ministry, that most never see in a lifetime. His memory should be honored. Nevertheless, he is a sad reminder of the old proverb “Age and treachery will always defeat youth and enthusiasm.” A revival that in 24 months saw 100,000 salvations and a glory some called greater than Pentecost, was destroyed by a single unwitting servant of Jezebel, seeking control in order to gain recognition and acceptance.
Trampling Jezebel
First, we must rid ourselves of Jezebel’s ways. We can not cast out lust when we harbor lust in our lives. We can not bring down a spirit of control if we use manipulation and hype to control our congregations. We must examine our own ways, and repent of Jezebel.
Second, it takes Jehu. Although Elijah was Jezebel’s enemy, it took JEHU to trample Jezebel.
Jehu took no prisoners and showed no mercy to Jezebel. He had singleness of purpose and was driven. As he approached Jezreel those who saw his chariot noted he “drives furiously” (2 Ki 9:20) When others offered peace and compromise, Jehu responded “How can there be peace as long as the harlotries and witchcrafts of Jezebel are many?” (2 Ki 9:22)
Jehu would not rest until Jezebel was dead. Her pleasures could not attract him. Her threats did not deter him. He would not tolerate Jezebel.
Jesus says we too can not TOLERATE Jezebel. (Revelation 2:20) We must learn the prophetic power of the word “No!” We must give no ground!
When Jezebel attempted to captivate Jehu, he did not even allow himself to be drawn into conversation with her. Instead, he called on her eunuchs to cast her down from her balcony. Those with the Jehu anointing will call to Jezebel’s emasculated slaves, and they too will cast her down!
http://www.jonhamilton.org/jezebel.htm
WAR ON THE SAINTS
by Jessie Penn-Lewis, with Evan Roberts
World Wide Web Edition (Based on Unabridged 1912 Edition)
http://www.apostasynow.com/wots/Contents.html
http://www.apostasynow.com/wots/Review.html
by Jessie Penn-Lewis, with Evan Roberts
World Wide Web Edition (Based on Unabridged 1912 Edition)
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http://www.apostasynow.com/wots/Unabridged.html
Jessie Penn-Lewis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861-1927) was a Welsh evangelical speaker and author of a number of Christian evangelical works. Her father was a Calvinist Methodist minister. She was married to William Penn-Lewis. She was involved in the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival, one of the largest Christian revivals ever to break out, although the revival was abruptly shortened with the mental and physical collapse of one of the leaders, Evan Roberts.[1] Penn-Lewis traveled internationally to take her message to audiences in Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, the U.S., and India. She is a controversial figure among Christians today due to the nature of her writings.
Penn-Lewis was close to Evan Roberts and there is some controversy associated with her influence over him. After the breakdown by Roberts cut the revival short, he stayed with the Penn-Lewis’s for a couple of years, but never fully recovered. Ultimately, Penn-Lewis declared the failure of the Welsh Revival to be the work of Satan. Penn-Lewis, along with Roberts, wrote a work on spiritual warfare called War on the Saints, which purports to show the work of demons on Christians, the theme for which Penn-Lewis is most known.
Penn-Lewis was influenced by the reformed South African writer Andrew Murray among others, and her books contain quotes from him and references to his works. Frank Buchman credits Penn-Lewis with helping him to turn his life around from depression when he heard her speak at a Keswick Convention.[2] Buchman was the founder of the Oxford Group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Penn-Lewis
WAR ON THE SAINTS
REVIEW
http://www.librarything.com/work/211888/reviews/
The Sixth Worldwide Awakening of 1904 – The Welsh Revival
http://www.revival-library.org/catalogues/1904ff/index1904.html
Todd Bentley’s Lakeland ‘revival’
http://tentsofissachar.wordpress.com/?s=todd+bentley+
The False Revival (comparison)
Revive Us Again – A sermon by Duncan Campbell (Part 1 of
Grieving the Spirit of Revival
By G.D. Watson
A true revival is preeminently the work of the Holy Spirit, and the depth and magnitude of the work depends largely on the number of people who are in perfect union with the Holy Spirit. In times of revival all spiritual forces come to a crisis, both good and bad. Satan is on hand to muster all his children against a thorough work of grace. He will also be busy in society, devising all sorts of social matters against revival. He will influence all weak, half-hearted believers in every way against a thorough work. He will do everything to discourage workers. He will make them sick or cripple their zeal, or tempt them in some way to grieve the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is more frequently grieved by hidden things than by things which are outward and visible. In times of revival it is almost impossible to get six persons out of a large community, who in heart perfectly agree. There may be an outward profession of unity, and no one may detect any definite sign of disharmony, yet the human heart is so deceitful, and the interior conditions of perfect harmony require such utter unselfishness and transparency of spirit, that very few persons ever comply with them in the sight of God. The following are some of the things that grieve the Holy Spirit and hinder Him in revivals:
1. A CRITICAL SPIRIT. I do not mean the open rebuke of sin, for this is commanded in God’s Word. Neither do I mean the just rebuke of ill-behaved persons in a meeting, for this is a necessity, and no company of worshipers should be disturbed by misconduct. But I mean those who claim to be in sympathy with God’s work, yet they have a critical spirit against the leaders of the meeting, or the methods of work that may be adopted. Even though this criticism is not outspoken, it greatly hinders the Holy Ghost. There is often in the church a whimsical stubborn fault-finding disposition. A watching for defects among God’s children, a picking out of blemishes in the singing, or the praying, or the preaching. All this forms an enormous barrier to the flow of the Holy Spirit. Such persons are deceitful, hard to please, and whatever excellencies they may have they are a definite hindrance to God’s work. There is always a company of evil spirits that cluster around such persons to neutralize all the good they attempt to do.
2. THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. Timidity, moral cowardice, the fear of public opinion, the fear of relatives and friends, which prevents persons from taking a bold, decisive part in the church. Which prevents them from leading in prayer, or giving public testimony, or speaking to souls on personal salvation, all this fearfulness of spirit greatly grieves the Holy Ghost. Some are afraid that God will overburden them with work, or make demands of consecration beyond their strength, and so they fail to yield themselves fully to the Lord. While they may try to busy themselves in the church and think they are helping wonderfully, yet by that HIDDEN, miserable fearfulness of heart, which is the very essence of disobedience in the sight of God, they greatly hinder the power of the Spirit!
3. SELF-OPINION GREATLY GRIEVES THE SPIRIT. Many a revival is utterly prevented because prominent ones in the meeting stubbornly hold on to a wrong education, or to old theological notions. Some may have anti-scriptural views concerning inbred sin, or growth into heart purity, or the annihilation of the wicked. Others may be prejudiced against the manifestations of the Spirit, or divine healing. These things are unseen hindrances to the operation of the Spirit. Teachableness of mind, a perfect willingness to have only scriptural views, is a prerequisite condition for the descent of the power of God.
4. A SPIRIT OF RESERVE WITH GOD IS ANOTHER GRIEF TO THE HOLY GHOST. In every revival there are so many whose inner nature is tied up with a cautious conservatism, that persistently holds them back from a full abandonment to God and His work. They will boast of wanting such wonderfully great things. Yet there is an unexpressed unwillingness to be and do all the Lord wants, or to suffer all the Lord wants them to suffer. They are consciously holding themselves back, lest they should slide down some steep place and get drowned in the ocean of God’s will. This internal checking of themselves not only prevents their own full salvation, but hinders the Spirit from using them for the blessing of others.
5. SELF-PLANNING AS TO GOD’S WORK. At the beginning of most every revival, it is almost a universal thing for those who are most interested to form some plan in their own mind as to how God ought to come and how the work ought to be done. Each one forms a standard as to who should lead the work or how it ought to be conducted, or what divine demonstrations should occur. So there are a large number of mental schedules which are invisible to mortal eyes, but which bristle like antagonistic bayonets before the all-seeing eye, and the blessed Holy Ghost who reads the thoughts and interests of the mind, finds Himself dictated to, by the very people who outwardly profess that they want God to have His way.
6. THE SPIRIT IS GRIEVED BY OUR HAVING LIMITED VIEWS OF CHRIST’S POWER. Oftentimes God wants to begin with the leaders of a meeting and lead them into a fresh baptism of fire or into a new depth of self denial. But their rigid and narrow views of God’s saving grace is a definite hindrance to the Spirit’s power. As a result, the people under such leadership often suffer with limited views of Christ’s saving and sanctifying power.
7. THE SPIRIT IS OFTEN GRIEVED WHEN TESTS OF OBEDIENCE ARE SHUNNED. It may be a question of restitution or reconciliation, or the confession of a backslidden state, or the giving up of some indulgence. There have been meetings where two or three conspicuous persons utterly failed to obey God on some test point, and the work was a failure; the Spirit was grieved away, Satan and his black angels triumphed and the work of God was put back for years.
8. THE SPIRIT IS OFTEN GRIEVED BY OUR UNWILLINGNESS TO GO BEYOND OTHERS. God often wants some of us to go out into His will on lines of prayer and faith and obedience, even beyond what other professors of holiness will consent to. When He calls, if we stop to measure ourselves with others, and compare ourselves among ourselves we may greatly hinder a work of grace. God can overcome the open and recognized hindrances to His work a great deal easier than He can the hidden barriers in the hearts of His people.
http://articles.christiansunite.com/article2496.shtml
Whoever wrote this checklist is under the Delusion.
There is nothing to “go beyond others” in terms of the Holy Spirit. what is he talking about? He says the Spirit is grieved when we are unwilling to “go beyond other people’s consent to holiness” and then mixes up the argument by saying we are not to compare ourself with others?
This is NAR thinking, not Christ.
1. If it is a true revival, it will overcome the critical spirit this man seems to be so afraid of. What he is really saying is that there is a magical “atmosphere” of the Spirit that is broken by people who are thinking with their brains. When the Spirit fell at Pentecost in the book of Acts, the Spirit was NOT HINDERED by the mockers; thousands were saved that day!!! This guy is a NAR liar.
2. Fear or fear of man is a sin and yes, it should be dealt with. But if it truly is a revival of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit will convict that person or persons of sin. THE SPIRIT IS NOT HINDERED as if it is a FORCE or magical substance of the atmosphere because there are some people there who have sin. Again, the mockers who accused Peter of being drunk on the day of Pentecost did NOT hinder the work of the Holy Spirit that day. Perhaps the mockers themselves were not convicted of sin, but God’s word never comes back void, even on those mockers!
This man’s checklist is a list of NAR deceit.
3. Self opinion does NOT hinder the Holy Spirit of the one true and Holy God. The Spirit’s job is to reveal sin and convict us in Christ’s kindness. Again, this man is making a presumptive NAR argument that there is a magical spiritual “atmosphere” that happens in revival. He writes an outright LIE when he states that “Teachableness of mind, a perfect willingness to have only scriptural views, is a prerequisite condition for the descent of the power of God.” Really now? My Bible begs to differ with this man… the power of God fell upon Saul as he was going about murdering Christians on the Damascus Road. In my Bible, there is no prerequisite, or formula that compells God manifest His power.
He will have compassion upon whom He will have compassion!
Plus this guy takes a dig at Cessationists who do not believe in the Gifts here: “Others may be prejudiced against the manifestations of the Spirit, or divine healing..” which is true, but if the Spirit is at work, these people will not long be Cessationists. Again, this is a checklist out of the NAR playbook.
4. The man really goes to town against those who do not believe in the charismatic gifts again, betraying his NAR roots: ……”there are so many whose inner nature is tied up with a cautious conservatism, that persistently holds them back from a full abandonment to God and His work. They will boast of wanting such wonderfully great things. Yet there is an unexpressed unwillingness to be and do all the Lord wants, or to suffer all the Lord wants them to suffer. They are consciously holding themselves back, lest they should slide down some steep place and get drowned in the ocean of God’s will. This internal checking of themselves not only prevents their own full salvation, but hinders the Spirit from using them for the blessing of others….”
Hello, what exactly is this person trying to say? That God only manifests himself in Revival by overpowering someone in the Spirit so they fall down and flop around shaking on the ground? This guy needs to learn that the Holy Spirit’s only concern is for the SINFUL HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE in order to lead them to repentance. Manifestations, such as at Toronto,Lakeland and the like mean NOTHING in terms of sin and repentance. PLUS, this guy is not teaching a discernment of spirits to charismatics during a false revival. He is dictating a checklist that will make sure the sheep are silent even if the teachings are whacked out.
I can’t even go on. The only problem that the Lord and the Disciples ever warned the sheep about was false teachers and false prophets and Paul also warned about Alexander the Coppersmith “who did me much harm” and who did much harm in the spreading of the Gospel.
Revival only happens when the Word is preached and the people repent. Repentance is the only necessary ingredient to Revival.
Swarna, watch out for NAR false teachings. There is a demon called “Restoration-Revival” that has its roots in the NAR. It is touting a false end times revival. The Revival is already HERE. It came at Pentecost. It is our sin that prevents the spreading of God’s word as men are ashamed of Jesus Christ’s humble power to save us from Hell!
Hello AriseMyLove
Thanks for your comment.
I think you are referring to G.D. Watson?
You may be familiar with this writing of his:
AriseMyLove,
Who amongst those who blogged about Todd Bentley’s Lakeland ‘revival’ can forget the role NAR played in all of it?
On the web, I come across writings of some who seem continually to speak of revival.
Much has been written and said about revivals.
I lived in North Wales, U.K., for 13 years. During the time I lived there, ( and before I was born again) , I used to spend a considerable part of my time ‘pub-crawling’.
Saturday nights at the pubs, the chapel-going men, considerably inebriated, would burst into hymns. Now many may know that the welsh, amongst other things of course, are known for harps and their beautiful singing voices.
As the last bell was rung at the pub, crowds of us would gather around the lager/bitter/guiness-laden tables of these older men.
They would sing the most beautiful welsh hymns which would continue till late. As the night progressed, there would be absolute silence from the listeners. Those who could sing, joined in the choruses. Others just listened.
Now bear in mind, I was NOT born again then, and was a hindu.I did not have the right understanding about christianity, just some surface knowledge.
Some nights, these men sang, what I then called ’slow numbers’.
The hush, the silence, some damp eyes, were all part and parcel of most saturday nights at those pubs in North Wales, where these old men, mostly farmers/ farm workers ‘congregated’.
I remember being told then, that long long ago, there had been a revival in Wales.
In all the years that I lived there, all I seem to recall of these chapels was that quite a few were either empty, sold / converted to commercial properties / rented out / forsaken……………some in a state of disrepair…….
In 1989, I was born again.
Though most of the older local welsh population were chapel-going, when I tried to share the gospel with a few, ( young and old) the friendliest of them, would convey to me by their bodily gestures and posture that they did not want to hear anymore! They had heard enough!
One particular person was enraged! Now bear in mind, the welsh are known to be very warm and hospitable. But the mention of the gospel brought forth a side I had not seen before, in those I spoke to. Bear in mind, some of these were people I had known for years.
After, I was born again, and on fire for the Lord, as I looked around in Wales, it was difficult for me to believe the little that I had then read and heard, about the welsh revival.
Had nothing been left over from that revival?
Spiritually, all around was cold and frozen.
Where was the fire? Where was the legacy of that revival?
How had people gotten so cold? How could a revival which people claimed had been of God, had long after, left the welsh, spiritually so cold, so stiff, so frozen?
Why do some people ‘crave’ for revival?
Why do some people ‘create’ ‘revival’?
So, what then is revival?
Is it simply all about falling around in the streets and churches for a brief period of time? And later going into the deep-freeze?
more later…………….
Thanks AriseMyLove
love and blessings
swarna
Swarna: yours is a fascinating testimony of the Welsh revival. You have read the book written by Jesse Penn Lewis about the deceptions they saw in false manifestations at the Welsh revival? The book was written in 1912.
Sorry if I went off on the old dead dude, if that’s who wrote that checklist for revival…
Wish you were in the States, I would love to meet you and your husband and hang out.
Blessings on you, SJ, and all that you set your hand to.
Hello AriseMyLove,
Thanks. This book seems familiar.
I’ll skim through some more to see if it’s the same book I think it is, before I make any comments on it.
Yes, we’d love to meet you too! The one and only time I visited U.S. was in 1980! Beautiful country!
thanks again
love and blesings
swarna
REFORMATION – NOT Just REVIVAL-by Andrew Strom
http://tentsofissachar.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/reformation-not-just-revival-by-andrew-strom/
God Sent Fire: A History of Christian Revivals
“Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains would tremble before You!”
(Isaiah 64:1)
This was one of the first pages I ever designed. The idea for this page was to write up some articles about various Revivals and place them here for people to use for personal research and encouragement.
For some of the articles, I’ve link to other sites that have much more information than I could ever provide. I hope and pray that it blesses you.
Ever since Pentecost, God has ordained to send revivals to individuals, churches, communities, and nations. Unfortunately, most people today have no idea what a true revival is. The object of these pages is to be a reference center for God-sent revivals of the past and present in order to show what we may expect in the future. It is my prayer that if you have never known what a revival is, that through the reading of these pages and listening to these eyewitness accounts, God will birth in you a vision for revival in your life, church, community, and nation.
Be sure to check out “The Watchword: A Call to Watch and Pray for Revival.” You won’t regret it. The same goes for the Forerunner.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
What Is Revival?
The Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening
Charles G. Finney
The Prayer Revival and the 1859 Worldwide Revival
The Welsh Revival of 1904
Revivals that sprang from the 1904 Welsh Revival:
In India
In China
In Korea
In Africa
In America
The Pentecostal Outpouring at Azusa Street
The Shantung Revival (in Real Audio by C.W. Culpepper)
The Congo Revival (in Real Audio by David Davies)
The Hebrides Revival (in Real Audio by Duncan Campbell)
The Indonesian Revival
The Jesus Movement (Wow! This is well-documented.)
Asbury College, 1970
The Future Revival
How are we to get revival?
How to conduct prayer meetings for revival.
Do We Really Want Revival?
Don’t Market a Revival!
When God Stepped Down From Heaven
Works Cited and select books to read and tapes to listen to.
http://smithworks.org/revival/index.html
Religious Revival in Civil War Armies
by Gordon Leidner of Great American History
During the American Civil War, several significant spiritual revivals took place in both the northern and southern armies. This web page discusses religion during the Civil War, provides a few anecdotes about religious activities, and lists resources for further reading.
http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/revival.htm
The Christian History Blog
http://christianrevivalnetwork.blogspot.com/
A LAST DAYS FICTITIOUS REVIVAL
http://tentsofissachar.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/a-last-days-fictitious-revival-2/
Facts And Fallacies Of The Last Day Revival #1
Facts And Fallacies Of The Last Day Revival #2
Thanks Rich for mailing me this link.
blessings
swarna
Revival: Then, Now, and Continuously (Part 2 of 2)
Hi AriseMyLove,
I said earlier that this book seemed familiar.
I just checked my mailbox, to be absolutely sure.
On 3rd May 2008, I had written to my friend in the U.S.A, regarding this book. I had skimmed through enough of it, to be disturbed by it.
Excerpt of my mail to my friend in America
Excerpts from the response by my friend in the U.S.
Friend’s comment:
Found here:
http://www.truthinhistory.org/the-welsh-revival-of-1904-1905.html
Found here:
http://www.freewebs.com/jehu44/
Friend’s comment