Mathew Backholer - Revival Fires and Awakenings, Thirty-Six Visitations of the Holy Spirit: A Call to Holiness, Prayer and Intercession for the Nations

Revival Fires and Awakenings, Thirty-Six Visitations of the Holy Spirit: A Call to Holiness, Prayer and Intercession for the Nations by Mathew Backholer.

Revival Fires and Awakenings, Thirty-Six Visitations of the Holy Spirit: A Call to Holiness, Prayer and Intercession for the Nations.

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First published as an ebook in 2013 by ByFaith Media. Updated in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020.

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Jesus Christ is Lord.

One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome actsthey shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness (Psalm 145:4, 6-7).

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34).

The works of the Lord are great, studied by all those who have pleasure in them (Psalm 111:2).

Accounts of Revivals and Awakenings

Chapters 2-11:

* Accounts of Revivals in the Bibles.

* Northampton Revival 1734-1735 - New England, America.

* American Great Awakening 1735-1760.

* Howell Harris, Wales.

* The British Great Awakening 1739-1791.

* Twelveheads Revival c.1824 - Cornwall, England.

* Blaenau Ffestiniog Revival 1830s - Wales.

* Kilsyth 1839 and Dundee Revival 1839-1841 - Scotland.

* Northern Provinces of Shantung c.1843 - China.

* Pitt Street Chapel Revival 1849 - England.

* Baldhu Church Revival 1851-1854 - England.

* Pendeen Revival c.1850-1853 and the life of Robert Aitken.

* Prayer Meeting Revival 1857-1860 - America.

* Welsh Revival 1858-1860.

* Irish and Scottish Revivals 1859-1860.

* English Revival 1859-1860.

* Charles H. Spurgeon, London, England.

* Cornish Revivals 1861-1862 - England.

* Gold Coast Revival 1875-1878 - Ghana and Beyond.

* China and Japan 1885.

* Prayer for World Revival 1885.

* The Welsh Revival 1904-1905.

* China, Korea and Manchuria 1906-1909.

* Azusa Street Revival 1906-1909 and 1911 - America.

* East Anglia Revival 1921-1922 - England (and Scotland).

* Shanghai Revival 1925 - China.

* Ngaruawahia Easter Convention 1936 - New Zealand.

* Hebridean Revival 1949-1952 - Scotland.

* Korean Revival 1950.

* Congo Revival 1953-1957.

* Buenos Aires Revival 1954 - Argentina.

* North Uist Revival 1957-1958 - Scotland.

* Indonesian Revival 1964-1974.

* Argentine Revival 1982-1997.

* Claudio Freidzon, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

* Philippines 1992 and Argentina 1994.

* Brownsville Revival 1995-2000 - America.

* Chinas Phenomenal Christian Revival.

Preface

And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; and also on My menservants and on My maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days (Joel 2:28-29).

Revival Fires and Awakenings was first published in 2006 and featured 30 Moves of the Holy Spirit. This book is revised and updated and includes an additional six accounts of revival, with the new subtitle: Thirty-Six Visitations of the Holy Spirit and includes three extra chapters. This book is not in bold font as was the 2006 edition which has enabled the author to increase the content by thirty-one percent, with extra information in every chapter without adding additional pages.

Within this book a revival is recognised as a localised event, whether in a church, village, town or city; whereas an awakening refers to a move of God which has swept further afield. An awakening can affect a district, county or country and frequently carries on for several years or decades and widely affects the moral makeup of society. An awakening could be understood to move in the same way that a forest fire is swept and moved in all directions by the wind. It consumes and covers vast sways of countryside and yet can still leap across roads and ignite on the other side, and be blown as the wind chooses to the glory of God. Some authors refer to an awakening when an individual (or a group of people) have been awakened to their sinfulness and acknowledge their need of the Saviour, though some can be awakened, yet never repent and surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ and thus stay unregenerate.

Popular Christian terminology still records certain revivals as revivals (and not awakenings) such as the Welsh Revival (1904-1905) even though it was more characteristic of an awakening as it swept across the land and ignited fires across the globe. In these instances, the author has retained the historically accepted title of such a move of God.

Revival is for the glory of God and the honour of His name. It is then for the Church, the body of Christ so that they can be revived and live holy and upright lives. Jesus Christ will be exalted, the Holy Spirit will be given His rightful place in the Church, which may cause Divine disorder as the Refiner comes and sifts and shakes. Out of this and during the same period of time, those who are outside the Church, non-Christians, come under deep conviction of sin, regardless of whether they are in a church building or within the sound of a preacher or evangelist and will surrender their lives to Jesus Christ and live for Him in holiness and righteousness.

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaching on Exodus 33:18-23; Moses desiring to see Gods glory, said, Thats a perfect description of revival; its the glory of God passing by. Thats precisely what it is, just this glimpse of God as He passes by. The God who is there in the glory, as it were comes down, pays a visit, pours out His Spirit, descends again, and He just passes by us, and we look on and feel and know that the glory of God is in the midst and is passing by, O its but a touching of the hem as it were, its but a vision of the backa revival I say is just a kind of touch of His glory, a fleeting glimpse of something of what He is, in and of Himselfthese things are possible and these things are meant for us.