REVIVAL!
“The PRAYER of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us - he PRAYED EARNESTLY.” James 5 v16. Elijah faced an impossible situation; the nation of Israel was totally backslidden and idolatrous. Elijah was a man of PRAYER and fearless courage. He prayed for God to bring Revival to his nation. He saw Revival, the fire of the Lord fell which swept aside 850 false prophets of Baal. God answered PRAYER.
The 1903 Welsh Revival began in a prayer meeting. Newspaper reports - “A great Revival is sweeping the whole country of Wales, from towns and city to the coal mines underground”. Methodist Recorder “Wales is in the throes and ecstasies of the most remarkable religious revival it has ever known. Police and courts are hardly necessary, bars and pubs are deserted, churches filled. In a few months 20,000 conversions recorded.”
The leader of the revival is a young man of 26 years of age called Evan Roberts, a colliery boy. He used to take his Bible underground with him. A serious explosion occurred, the Welsh revivalist was unhurt, but the leaves of his Bible were scorched by the blast. The page where the explosion struck was 2 Chron 6 - where the young man Solomon prayed for Revival! Amazing!
We need to see a Spiritual Revival in this nation today which has backslidden and turned its back on God. The answer is still James 5v16 “The PRAYER of a righteous person is powerful and effective”. Elijah proved it, Evan Roberts proved it, we can prove it! Amen!
- Pastor John Morgan