The World On Fire: The Welsh Revival and Its Lessons for Our Times by Joyner Rick

The World On Fire: The Welsh Revival and Its Lessons for Our Times by Joyner Rick

Author:Joyner, Rick [Joyner, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Historical
Publisher: MorningStar Publications, Inc.
Published: 2013-05-14T00:00:00+00:00


Lessons From the Welsh Revival

Why the Fire Falls

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C H A P T E R 12

The first and most obvious question that researchers tend to ask about the Welsh Revival is: Why did the Lord have it there? James E. Stewart concluded simply that God sends His fire where it is likely to catch and spread, that “Wales provided the necessary tinder.” This is at least a part of the reason, which leads us to another obvious question: What is the necessary tinder?

Tinder is wood that is dry enough to burn easily. Both the Scriptures and history testify that a holy desperation precedes new beginnings. The Lord waited for Israel to get so desperate in her bondage to the Egyptians that she would cry out to Him for help. From then, the history of Israel is a repetitious cycle of their becoming complacent when blessed, which led to backsliding, which led to bondage, which led to a desperate repentance and calling out to God, which led to deliverance and then blessing again. The cycle continues through church history as well. It seems that the church will only seek the Lord so as to find Him when she is utterly desperate. Only the thirsty seek after water; only the hungry seek after food.

A call to break this cycle is given in the Lord’s words to the Laodicean church. His words to the seven churches in Revelation address possibly every phase of church growth and development. The Laodicean church seems to personify the prosperous, comfortable, and lukewarm churches that can probably be found somewhere in the world at any given time. The Lord’s rebuke to the church in this condition is terrible, but His promises to those who overcome this condition are the greatest promises given to any of the churches! They are to dine with Him and to sit with Him on His throne! This is in contrast to the great company of chapter seven that stands “before the throne.” These promises speak of receiving the very best spiritual food and attaining the very highest position of power and authority.

Because the Laodicean church seems to so accurately reflect the church in the West at the present time, many who walk in the intensity of the mission fields, or in the persecuted church, have written off the church in the West as having any spiritual relevance for this time. Actually, the opposite has been true. The Lord’s call to the church in Laodicea was to “be zealous therefore, and repent” (see Revelation 3:19 KJV). Those who have been able to overcome the lukewarm spirit in the West and pursue the Lord with zeal have been rewarded with almost unprecedented teaching and spiritual authority, which has been used to bless the church worldwide.

This is to say that to be in a hard, dry place spiritually can definitely help people to seek the Lord, but there are some who will seek Him just as zealously even when things are going very well. Many are crying



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