| The Hebrides Revival 1949
I believe this gracious movement of the Holy Spirit - The Lewis Awakening
in 1949 - began in a prayer burden; indeed there is no doubt about that.
It began in a small group who were really burdened. They entered into
a covenant with God that they would give Him no rest until He had made
Jerusalem a praise in the earth”. They waited. The months passed,
and nothing happened, until one young man took up his Bible and read from
Psalm 24: “Who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean
hands and a pure heart. . . He shall receive the blessing from the Lord.”
The young man closed the Bible and, looking at his companions on their
knees before God, he cried: “Brethren, it is just so much humbug
to be waiting thus night after night, month after month, if we ourselves
are not right with God. I must ask myself - ‘Is my heart pure? Are
my hands clean?’”
Duncan Campbell, quoted Arthur Wallis, In the Day of Thy
Power, p124
Evan Roberts and the Welsh revival
In encouraging his congregations in Wales to prepare for revival, Evan
Roberts would remind them that the Spirit would not come until the people
were prepared. ‘We must rid the churches of all bad feeling –
all malice, envy, prejudice and misunderstandings. Bow not in prayer until
all offences have been forgiven: but if you feel you cannot forgive, bend
to the dust, and ask for a forgiving spirit. You shall get it then.
Eiffion Evans, The Welsh Revival of 1904
Make me as holy as a saved sinner can be
It was Robert Murray M’Chcyne who, so greatly used by God in Dundee
in 1839, had prayed from his heart, ‘Lord, make me as holy as a
saved sinner can be.’ The evidence of his sincerity in this prayer
is seen in the fact that people would be moved to tears just by seeing
him in the pulpit or walking down the corridor of the church.
Quoted Brian Edwards, Revival, p53
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