You will probably have noticed in my first post that I used the words ‘revival’ and ‘awakenings’, describing the same event. Why did I do that? Well, it was basically so I could lead into my second post! The word ‘revival’ is used in the UK and around the world, but many people do not […]
read moreThis is an extra post and is quite long, but I make no appology for that, because I could not remove one sentence from this moving account. For most of my adult life, triggered by glandular fever when I was 12 years old, I have suffered with M.E.(Cronic Fatigue) It is a truly bewildering and […]
read moreIn 1813 Macdonald became minister at Urquhart, Ross and Cromarty, where he remained until he died. He became known as the Apostle of the North, as he trekked all over Northern Scotland, to the most inhospitable areas and in the harshest of weathers. During his first year at Urquhart Macdonald’s wife died and an awakening […]
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John Macdonald was born in 1779 in Ray, in the far north of Scotland. It was a sign of the future that the minister had to break the ice on a pool in order to baptise him. When he was about 20 he went through a major time of distress, seeing that he was heading […]
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Review of Michael Marcel’s Prepare for Revival by John Peters, CWR Today magazine (May 2013) [quote]This judiciously priced book is an important and welcome contribution to the increasingly vast corpus of materials on revival. Important because it is wide ranging, thorough and scrupulously researched. Welcome because its author writes out of a ‘heart’ that is, […]
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My job in the Body of Christ has been to pray open the ‘wells’ in the UK.
Although it was not something God asked me to do, I felt that doing all this research without recording it would be a waste. So I set up a website, www.ukwells.org, to record all the information I found. I thought that people in future generations would want to research the same information at some point, so if I put everything I discovered onto a website, then future generations could build on what I have done, rather than having to ‘re-dig the wells’.
read moreWhen God calls you to do something my advice to you is DO IT! Soon after the Lord asked me to pray over the ‘wells’, I had a phone call from my brother to say that his business was in trouble and could I come and help him. I am/was an accountant, and I […]
read moreThe next stage in my journey was to find out what God wanted me to do. In 2001 He told me to fast for 40 days and then I had a dream where the Lord told me that I would soon find out what my ministry was to be. A couple of weeks later I […]
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So why am I posting stuff about ‘revival’? I suppose my journey towards revival began soon after I became a Christian, twenty-five years ago. I had a love of history and I was soon being stirred up through reading the biographies of some of our great Christian heroes; such as Wesley, Whitefield, Wilberfoce, John Newton, […]
read moreAwakenings in the nineteenth century and beyond would generally spread through families and communities. Many of the revivals were amongst the Methodists, and would take place in Agricultural communities, Fishing communities and Mining communities. The populations within the communities would often have households with 10+, including three or even four generations. If one of the […]
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