THE GREAT REVIVALS!      10/83
--Every Generation Has Its Chance!       DFO1648

         1. SPIRITUAL REVIVALS SEEM TO COME IN WAVES! There's a harvesting & the Lord gets that crop & then it dies down--maybe because the authorities usually make things too hot for'm!
         2. SO MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES HAVE HAD THEIR CHANCE, they've heard--at least the former generations have--but of course you have to evangelise every new generation.--Especially when the older generation who have had the revival are not taught to witness, particularly not even to their children. So it has to be done all over again by somebody else.
         3. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE LORD ALLOWS WHAT THE CHURCHES CALL A GREAT REVIVAL, a great wave of evangelism & a tremendous wave of interest in religion & a great reaping etc. Then it seems that the Lord allows persecution--the usual pattern--or war, to really put'm through the fire & try their faith, & they have to go underground to carry on.
         4. IT SEEMS LIKE PEOPLES' FAITH SURVIVES BETTER UNDER PERSECUTION & SUPPRESSION THAN UNDER FREEDOM & PROSPERITY! It seems that too much liberty & too much ease & luxury are the worst enemies of the faith. They do better when they're being persecuted & suppressed because then they really seek the Lord & really live close to the Lord. The great revivals are usually followed by persecution & suppression to try & refine their faith in the fire & see if it's pure gold.
         5. NEARLY EVERY ONE OF THOSE PLACES HAS HAD THEIR TIME & HAD THEIR CHANCE & THEIR REVIVAL SOMETIME, & THE LORD SEEMS TO BRING IT AT LEAST ONCE IN EVERY GENERATION. Having reaped whom He could out of the older generation, then comes another wave during the lifetime of the younger generation to give them a chance, which is showing the mercy & the love of the Lord.
         6. THIS GREAT WAVE & OUTPOURING COMES WHEN APPARENTLY THE SPIRIT FEELS THE HEARTS ARE OPEN, RECEPTIVE, HUNGRY & NEEDY & SHE POURS IT ON! The Lord really blesses them, usually amongst the poor & the needy & the downtrodden who really need help & encouragement. Then once the harvest is reaped, it sort of subsides & you don't really seem to have another great one until the next generation. But anyway, the Lord's always had His days & His times if a generation was really hungry & really receptive & needy in the Spirit. The Lord has mercy on each generation & almost always gives that generation their chance. Every generation has its chance!
         7. IT SEEMS THIS IS TRUE ALL OVER THE WORLD! You can hardly find the history of any country that has not had its revivals, its Jesus Revolutions we'd say today, the great outpourings of the Spirit, the Pentecostals call it. The Lord seems to give every generation its chance. Even Russia's had chance after chance & wave after wave & generation after generation of the Gospel.
         8. SO DON'T EVER SAY THAT SOME PEOPLE NEVER HAD THEIR CHANCE--almost every nation & every generation has had its chance at some time or other. There may not have been a great revival or something, that depended on the people & how they responded & received it, but every nation, nearly every generation has had its Prophet, has had its chance, has had its Gospel & some of them have had great revivals as a result, even in the East.
         9. EVERY NATION, EVERY CIVILISATION, EVERY GENERATION HAS HAD ITS CHANCE SOMEHOW. The Lord has not been unjust or unfair or unmerciful, He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2Pe.3:9) He is merciful & He's willing to send His Spirit wherever they're hungry & needy & really open & receptive & responsive. A lot of times He sends His Prophets even where they're not, so at least they will have had their chance.
         10. SO THE LORD IS FAITHFUL, HE GIVES A CHANCE, I REALLY BELIEVE. His mercy is everlasting, from generation to generation. His mercy endureth forever. (Ps.100:5; 103:17; 118) There are a lot of verses along that line, about how merciful the Lord is from generation to generation. All these generations, He always gives them a chance, their opportunity.
         11. EVEN EGYPT GOT ITS CHANCE IN THE MOSES REVIVAL!--Ha! And later on, Babylon had its chance in the Daniel Revival--Babylon & Medo-Persia both. Those were tremendous revivals, led always by some man, some Prophet of God that gave the Truth, & thousands, sometimes millions followed. The Lord even gave Israel its last chance under Jeremiah, at least the last chance for that time, but there's a case of a Prophet who came & they rejected him. There was no revival, no response.
         12. THE LORD, IN HIS MERCY, LATER EVEN SENT HIS SON, JESUS!--Well, thank God that had a response! That was enough generations away from the old hard-hearted great grandparents that there was some possibility, & that got a tremendous response, the Early Church Revival! And of course they killed its Prophet & a lot of its disciples, but the Early Church boomed & they reached their generation! Even under the Roman persecutions there were tremendous revivals, thousands of Christians who hid in the catacombs etc. The Lord gave them another great outpouring of His Spirit & thousands were saved & filled with the Spirit, the witness sweeping the nation or the whole empire sometimes.
         13. THE LORD HAS NEVER BEEN WITHOUT A WITNESS! He's never been without a Prophet or Prophetess. He has never been without an outpouring of His Spirit, a great revival in the spirit & a great sweeping evangelistic movement of some kind, a great harvesting, a great reaping.
         14. SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE TRIBULATION'S GOING TO BE ANY EXCEPTION? I think it's probably going to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest we have ever known!--The World's last great revival, last great & mightiest outpouring of the Spirit we have ever seen, with the most magnificent miracles, signs & wonders!
         15. MY LORD, IF THE DEVIL'S GOING TO BE DOING SIGNS & WONDERS THROUGH THE ANTICHRIST & CALLING DOWN FIRE ON THE EARTH & ALL KINDS OF THINGS, CERTAINLY GOD'S PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE DOING IT! There's going to be a greater outpouring of power & the Spirit & miracles, signs, wonders, protection & provision for the Church throughout the World at the same time! God is not going to neglect His Own. He's not going to desert His Own. He said, "I'll be with you always, even unto the end of the World!" (Mt.28:20)--To the End when He comes again & finally rescues us out of it, when it just gets to be impossible, when our witness is finished.
         16. I THINK THE TRIBULATION IS GOING TO BE OUR LAST GREAT REVIVAL, our final great witness, our last great harvest of children & teenagers, probably by our teenagers! They're going to be leaders of it, like the little Heaven's Girl that I saw in the dream. (No.1623) God's going to pour out His Spirit on this generation that's coming up to lead the World in that day, in those Last Days, & manifest mighty power & faith, signs & wonders & miracles! God's going to give His provision & protection.
         17. IT SEEMS THE LORD GIVES EVERYBODY HIS CHANCE & HE'S GOING TO GIVE THE TRIBULATION GENERATION THEIR CHANCE TOO! Right now we're enjoying a period of great peace & prosperity & productivity & tremendous publications & even publicity, so you'd better make hay while the sun shines, because it's a marvellous opportunity to do the best we can & the most we can right now.--Are you doing your best for Jesus now? GBAKY busy for Jesus & souls!--In Jesus' name, amen.

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