What I believe Charles Finney did not understand is that some people (including him) carry a strong revivalist/evangelist anointing. This means that people with this anointing can come to a church, the presence of God will come and people will be saved, but that is not an awakening. George Jeffreys (1889-1962), the founder of Elim, […]
read moreWhy does Revival come? This is a question I have puzzled over, but have now settled on an answer. It all depends on how you view the Sovereignty of God. An American revivalist called Charles Finney believed that you only have to do A, B and C and revival would come. He therefore believed that […]
read moreIn my last post I mentioned RENEWAL or REFRESHING and AWAKENING, but hopefully the move of God will not stop there. Once the Awakening has immersed an area one can hope for a REFORMATION. This happened after the Great Awakening of 1735, but it took many years. Part of that Reformation was the abolition of […]
read moreI would like to give you my definition of Revival. It is very important to understand what we are talking about when we use the word. Also, be careful when you hear Americans using the word; they can use it slightly differently. For instance, they might say they are off to a revival meeting, which, […]
read moreYou 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’.
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