REVIVAL SPIRITUAL AWAKENING/Dr Pat Holliday/Dr Sabrina Sessions/Marshall Perot

REVIVAL SPIRITUAL AWAKENING USA We must speak to the powers that be, fast pray, bind and cage and God will restore our Church and land. Jesus said, occupy until I come. Dr A. T. Pierson once said, ‘There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.’ Acts 8, the Spirit was poured out on the Samaritans through the apostles. The same thing happened with the Gentiles in Acts 10 and with the followers of John’s baptism in Ephesus (Acts 19). These transitional outpourings of the Holy Spirit follow the pattern of Acts 1:8. As Paul later stated, the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Rom. 1:16). That gospel must be verbally proclaimed for the power to come through. In the wake of the American Revolution (following 1776-1781) there was a moral slump. Drunkenness became epidemic. Out of a population of five million, 300,000 were confirmed drunkards; they were burying fifteen thousand of them each year. Profanity was of the most shocking kind. For the first time in the history of the American settlement, women were afraid to go out at night for fear of assault. Bank robberies were a daily occurrence. What about the churches? The Methodists were losing more members than they were gaining. The Baptists said that they had their most wintry season. The Presbyterians in general assembly deplored the nation’s ungodliness. In a typical Congregational church, the Rev. Samuel Shepherd of Lennos, Massachusetts, in sixteen years had not taken one young person into fellowship. The Lutherans were so languishing that they discussed uniting with Episcopalians who were even worse off. The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, Bishop Samuel Provost, quit functioning; he had confirmed no one for so long that he decided he was out of work, so he took up other employment.