Faith Journey

Life Stories of Revival

United States (1858)

From March to May 50,000 New Yorkers received Christ. During the next 2 years, 50,000 a week throughout the US came to Christ. There were 10,000 additions to church membership weekly. By actual count, over 1 million people were added to church memberships during those two years.

Welsh Revival (1904-05)

Evan Roberts was a Coal Miner. For 13 years, Evan prayed that God would send revival. In the space of 5 months, 100,000 people became Christians. Services began daily at 10:00 am and lasted till midnight. The nights saw 100’s continuing in prayer until morning. The morning service had no sooner commenced that people were coming to be saved. Skeptics became Christians, drunkards, thieves and gamblers saved. Confessions of awful sins were heard on every side. Old debts were paid. Theaters & pubs were closed and set up as places for prayer. Mules in coal mines refused to work, being unused to kindness! In 5 weeks, 20,000 people were baptized and joined the Church.
Shantung Revival in China (1932) – God’s Spirit touched in the prisons. This was a time when prisoners were tortured unmercifully in attempt to bring confession of their wrongdoing. They would not confess. Revival came, penetrated the prison. Most all the prisoners received Christ. The jailers witnessed an unusual event. The prisoners were lining up to make confession of their wrong. What torture could not do, Jesus Christ accomplished.

Belfast

Revival broke out among the workers of a shipyard. The men that became Christians have returned sufficient material to build and equip a sizable machine shed.

East African Revival (1994)

The Daily Dispatch, a South African paper, reports that enough stolen articles have been returned to open a department store.

Abbotsford (1970)

The Sutera Twins began a week of revival meetings at the Alliance Church, a church of 190.  It extended daily for 7 weeks, many Churches of different denominations canceled all their services so that their congregations could attend.  Many people were saved, relationships reconciled, sins confessed.  The revival ended up at the Civic Auditorium with 4,000 in attendance.

Any revival you choose, you’ll find a common denominator.  People humbled themselves, and then prayed.  (2 Chronicles 7:14, Philippians 2:8)

Word Study

Humble - G5013 - ταπεινόω - tapeinoō - tap-i-no’-o

From G5011; to depress; figuratively to humiliate (in condition or heart): - abase, bring low, humble (self).