Psalm 85, 6, Wilt thou not revive us
again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?
And then a couple of verses further down
in the same chapter, I will hear what
God the Lord will speak, for he will
speak peace unto his people and to his
saints.
But let them not turn again to folly.
Let them not turn again to folly.
I moved from Winnipeg to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in
Canada in 1962.
My wife and I really didn't want to
move to Saskatoon.
Saskatchewan was a province that was in economic
turmoil, down, people were leaving the province, 30
-40,000 a year it seemed.
We really didn't want to go there, but
God made it very clear.
When they voted on us coming, my wife
and I set it as high as we
could, it's got to be 95% or
we won't go.
And I was positive there were some people
in the church that didn't like me.
So I really didn't expect to get called
to Saskatoon, but we were.
And once we were called, we went.
You must keep this in mind that Canada
is only about 7% evangelical, as compared
to some 30% here in the States.
So when we give statistics, you have to
keep that in mind as well.
Saskatoon was a small city of 120,000,
and I had a church with around 100,
probably 150 members, about 175 attending.
Sunday morning the church would seat probably 300,
you could pack 350 in.
And we had quite a number of people
in the congregation who were Bible school graduates,
and everybody seemed to love God and wanted
to go ahead.
Nobody was soul winning, nobody wanted to get
involved in that.
I had a course in soul winning, and
I had a good attendance, and I thought
I'm going to get about 30 or 40
people out of this, and I only got
two.
And they were both shaking in their shoes,
you know.
And I tried something else, it didn't work
either, and I gave up on it.
And about that time I realized what we
really need around here is a revival sent
from God.
We had other problems, we had just some
people in the church that had, you know,
tongues long enough to shoot up the side
window of a car, and used his windshield
wipers, you know, this kind of thing.
And I was praying, God send these people
to the Alliance Church, or send them off
to Pentecostal Church, get them out of my
hair.
And he didn't do that.
You know what he did?
He took some of the best people I
had and moved them off to Calvary or
Vancouver, Toronto or someplace, and I was just
beside myself, I couldn't figure out what God
was doing.
A missionary, oh by the way, we had
on the average once or twice a year
an Evangelistic Crusade, Pack and Pew program, all
these things, you know.
And we had good people come, good singers,
and it was nice, a nice week of
meetings, and after they were gone, the church
was exactly the same as it had been
before.
And I got the place where I said,
Lord, I'm just not going to go that
route again, I'm not going to do it
again.
We need revival here.
Now I shared my heart burden with a
missionary who was passing through.
He said, why don't you contact Ralph from
Lusitera?
I said, who are they?
He told me, I got their address, I
contacted them, they couldn't come for two years,
they were all booked up, but said they
would consider coming in that particular time, and
so we arranged for that.
But five years before the revival, I got
concerned about revival, and so I started a
deacons prayer meeting on a Saturday night.
We had ten deacons, we averaged about seven,
and we prayed specifically for revival.
And God did something interesting the next day,
which was Sunday, because in the Sunday morning
service, we had a very unique and powerful
movement of the Spirit in the congregation, insomuch
that people were leaving the upstairs auditorium and
running off to rooms to find a place
to get away with God and pray.
It was just as if God was saying,
you're on the right track, stay with it.
Stay with it.
I used to tell people now, miss Sunday
morning if you have to, miss Sunday evening
if you must, but don't ever miss the
prayer meeting unless you're dead.
And so the prayer meeting began to grow.
Then we included children in the prayer meeting,
and finally we had thirty-five or maybe
forty kids attending the prayer meeting, so we
had a separate meeting for them and a
couple of adults who were to train the
children to run their own prayer meetings.
This meant more adults could come.
And so it went from twenty-five to
fifty to seventy-five to a hundred to
a hundred and fifty, and I think we
had prayer meetings where there were probably a
hundred and seventy people attending.
And it became the most important and exciting
meeting of the week as we prayed for
one another.
It wasn't revival, but it was a step
towards revival.
And then we ended all of our Sunday
evening services with a half hour of prayer
for revival for those who wanted to stay.
And so we'd have thirty or forty people
stay just to pray for revival, and we
told them just a half an hour long,
and people did that.
They stayed.
We had a prayer wheel, which we put
on the bulletin board in the foyer, and
people were to sign their names.
We had it cut off into fifteen-minute
slots like pie-shaped wedges, and people were
to write their name on the wedge they
would take for prayer, fifteen-minute prayer for
revival.
And after a while, we had the whole
twenty-four hours taken up, which meant that
at any time of the day or night,
somebody from our church was on their knees
praying for revival.
And then I told people, ask God to
waken you through the night to pray for
revival.
And people started doing that.
And then people were telling me things like
this, last night, pastor, I got up to
pray.
You know, normally I'm prayed out in five
minutes.
I must have prayed for almost an hour.
It was just a wonderful time.
And I was sensing the same thing in
my life.
I lived about a mile from the church.
I used to walk there every morning.
I remember walking there once on a winter
morning, and a cop car pulled up, and
they said, good morning.
I said, good morning.
They said, where are you going?
I said, I'm going to work.
May we take you?
I said, yes, you can.
So I jumped in the car, and I
told them where to go.
I didn't tell them about the church.
And so he pulled up in front of
the church.
I said, I'm the pastor of this church.
There's two cops.
They looked at each other.
You know, being Scotch, I'm really quite thankful
that I managed to get a little something
out of the government for free for a
change.
Anyway, I tried to get to the church
by seven o'clock every morning, and then
I could have two hours before the phone
started ringing when I could pray.
I sometimes thought if this church finds out
how little I'm doing the normal work of
the church and how much I'm praying, they're
going to fire me.
But I didn't know what else to do.
I had such a burden on my heart
to see God do something that you couldn't
attribute to men.
So much of man and all we do
in evangelical Christianity today, you can hardly find
God.
You know, five-star programs, five-star preachers,
the most dramatic preacher in America and all
this kind of stuff.
I was sick and tired of it all.
And we kept praying and praying.
I used to go into church every Saturday
night, kneel at the end of every pew
and pray that God would bless the people
sitting in that pew the next day.
It took a little while.
You know, God responded.
When God saw we meant business, He began
giving us what the Bible, well, Finney used
to call it, the spirit of prayer.
And Finney said, if I ever lose the
spirit of prayer, I have no more effect
in public preaching or private conversation.
The spirit of prayer.
Based on that verse in the book of
Zechariah, I will pour upon the house of
David the spirit of grace and supplication.
One translation says the spirit of grace to
supplicate.
It's a spirit of prayer that God alone
can give.
And He gave us that.
When He saw we meant business, and we're
staying on the course after the revival came.
You know, we had Duncan Campbell, who was
the man God so greatly used in the
Hebrides' awakening in the early 1950s.
We had him in our church two years
before the revival.
Nothing happened.
Some people liked him.
Some people didn't like him because of his
Scotch accent.
He was a little difficult to understand, but
a godly man.
My brother Keith who lived in Winnipeg at
the time had arranged for Duncan Campbell to
come to Canada and arranged for meetings in
our church.
When Duncan Campbell got back to Winnipeg, he
told my brother, thankfully he never told me.
He told my brother, God is going to
bring revival to Canada.
It's going to start in your brother's church
in Saskatoon.
My brother said, well, how do you know?
He said, God showed me the other night
when I was in prayer.
The reason I'm glad he didn't tell me
was because I'd have been trying to make
it happen.
Probably got in God's way.
And he told us about the praying men
of Barvis in Scotland after the Hebrides' awakening.
These men would come home from their jobs,
whatever they were doing, and go to bed
right after supper and sleep until nine o
'clock at night.
Then rise at nine and pray until two
o'clock in the morning, then go to
bed until seven and get up for breakfast
and then go to their jobs.
They did this all year round.
They were known as the praying men.
And Campbell told us about going to a
church, trying to revive a dead church.
And nothing happened.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, about five people there.
He got a message across to the praying
men, asked them to pray for this particular
place.
It was on the Isle of Skye off
the coast of Scotland.
And the first night after these men had
prayed, two hundred people showed up in the
church.
I think eight or ten people were converted
and a revival was on.
So I asked Mr. Campbell if we could
contact these men, have them pray for revival
in our church in Saskatoon, so no doubt
they had part to do with that as
well.
Then in India we found there were at
least two groups of people in India.
One group had been praying for several years
for revival in western Canada, where Saskatoon is.
The other group had been praying for revival
in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and they didn't even know
where they got the name from.
They'd been praying for two or three years.
So the roots of the revival were certainly,
well, from God, but men praying around the
world even.
And there were probably people praying that we
don't know a thing about, probably find out
about when we get to heaven.
We started the meetings on a Wednesday night
with a hundred and fifty people there.
Three or four people responded, including my wife.
There was another lady in the church that
my wife Nadine belonged with too well.
They made things right at the altar that
night.
And the revival, you know by Saturday night
you couldn't move in the church, it was
packed to the door.
And so we contacted a neighboring Anglican church
and we could get six or seven hundred
in there.
And they said you can have it as
long as you want, but we never use
it in the evenings and so it wasn't
far from our church.
And so we packed in six, seven, eight
hundred in there.
Finally we had to use the plant for
one night.
We had all the young people come and
sit on the platform and the church was
still packed to the doors.
So we had to get out of there
and move to the Alliance Church.
It was seated around a thousand and it
was packed for only a couple of nights.
It was too small.
So then we got the largest church building
in the city, which was seated about fourteen,
fifteen hundred.
And the first night we had eighteen hundred
people packed in there.
And God was doing marvelous things.
You know sometimes we sang a hymn to
open the meeting.
We got halfway through the hymn and there
were forty people kneeling at the altar.
And all kinds of lives were being transformed.
Four preachers showed up from northern Manitoba and
they met with me before the meeting and
they said, if God doesn't meet our need,
we're all leaving the ministry.
We can't hack it anymore.
And I remember seeing that one pastor laying
on his face for hours.
Oh yes, he met with God.
Not long afterwards, a man came in his
church who had just moved to Thompson, Manitoba
from Scotland.
Paid for him to go to Scotland and
he gave him a long list of his
relatives and said, try and win him to
Christ would you?
And so he went over to Scotland.
I think he led fourteen of these guys'
relatives to Christ.
God gave us revival weather that time of
year.
It was in October.
We could have had a blizzard and three
feet of snow and closed everything down.
We had beautiful revival weather.
Sunny days, quiet days, and people could drive
and they did drive and come from all
around the country.
People were flying in from the states, eastern
Canada, western Canada and so on.
And the thing just grew and grew.
Ralph and Lucitaire, they washed out.
They had Crusades planned for two years ahead.
They washed all of that out.
And I remember the phrase they used was
this, we're just going to go where the
river is flowing the highest.
And that's what they did.
Just moving from place to place as God
was pouring out His Spirit.
And it was amazing once God broke through,
then it seemed as if revival was happening
everywhere.
You could send almost anybody that could talk
to a church and there would be a
revival.
And we have one case where they asked
us to send someone down ten churches in
Colorado somewhere and they wanted to go for
a week of revival meetings.
Could we send somebody down?
We had no preachers available.
We were all tied up somewhere preaching or
doing something.
And so we sent down two revived farmers.
Yeah, farmers.
And they preached and gave their testimony and
everything.
What happened?
They had a revival.
And I forget how many people were saved
and Christians were revived.
I was just telling some of the brethren
the other day about a truck driver from
Winnipeg.
His English was very poor and he drove
inter-province, inter-state.
He was down in the state somewhere driving
a transport and went to a little church
on a Sunday morning when he walked in
the door and Usher asked him who he
was.
He told him who he was.
He was from Canada.
And the guy said, do you know anything
about the revival in Canada?
Oh yeah, he said, I got revived last
week.
And so he told the pastor that this
fellow did.
And so the pastor made the announcement from
the pulpit with a gentleman from Canada who
was going to tell us about the Canadian
revival.
This guy in his trucker clothes and everything,
you know, went up in the pulpit, never
done this in his life and poured out
his soul.
And all of a sudden the pastor was
kneeling at the altar and other people and
a whole flock of people came to the
front of the church and began to cry.
And this, when he got, when this truck
driver got home, he shared in one of
our meetings, we're holding meetings in Winnipeg at
the time.
And he said, you know, I was counseling
those people at two o'clock in the
afternoon.
And how'd he find out how to counsel?
Did he read a book on it?
He just knew what to say because God
had said it to his heart and he
was sharing with these people.
And so things like this were happening all
over the country and teams began going out.
Some people thought it wasn't a genuine revival
because it never moved out of Saskatoon.
And a well-known revival leader had said
this in a public meeting to three or
four hundred pastors in Minneapolis.
And so they thought, they just forgot about
it, thought it wasn't real.
And they didn't know.
We just quit counting teams going out.
After 2,000 teams had gone out, we
quit counting.
Teams went to every province in Canada, every
state in the United States.
They went to foreign countries, South America, India,
the Philippines, and Europe and so on.
When I think back, it's just bewildering.
People were, we just couldn't keep track of
it anymore.
There was such deep and powerful conviction of
sin.
Much restitution, much restitution.
The chief of police, his name was Kettles,
Mr. Kettles in Saskatoon, issued a statement to
the newspapers.
And they gave us some publicity about the
only thing they did as far as the
revival was concerned.
But he was saying that, I'm not a
church person, not a Christian, but he said,
I know the difference between ordinary church work
and revival.
And revival has come to Saskatoon because we
have all kinds of people coming in and
confessing the crimes they've committed.
And one man who was the head of
the telephones for the province of Manitoba, I
was holding meetings at a place called Brandon
Manitoba with ten churches, and God was working
in a powerful way.
And this fellow came and told me, he
said, I've never been in your meetings, but
he said, we've had all kinds of people
coming in, paying up bad debts they'd overlooked
for five or ten years.
So he said, they told me they'd been
in your revival meetings.
Of course, he was all for revival.
Wanted to help bring the money in.
But it was interesting because people were really
serious about it.
Now I'll never forget one day when my
telephone rang in my office, and a man
from my church, he gave his name, and
then he started to bawl, and he cried
and cried, and he couldn't make himself coherent.
I didn't know what was on his mind,
except he was really upset about something.
He worked at the university, and finally I
said, why don't you come on down to
the office?
He was there in fifteen minutes, and he
just ran in the door, and knelt at
the desk, put his head in the desk,
and just bawled.
And I got down beside him and put
my arm around him.
I thought maybe one of his kids had
died or something terrible had happened.
And finally, when he was composed enough to
speak, he just said, Pastor, I was sitting
at my desk at the university in my
office, and I was thanking God that Irma
had gone forward because she really needed it,
and Pete needed to meet with God, and
Harry, it was good to see them at
the altar, and then God ripped my heart
wide open.
He said, Pastor, I can never explain it.
He tore my heart wide open, and he
showed me every sin I'd ever committed from
the time I was a child until that
day.
He said, Pastor, it was like looking into
hell.
He said, it was awful.
I have so much to make right.
To be morally indiscreet, he had to go
make things right with his wife, and then
he falsified a workman's compensation form and got
some thousands of dollars from the government when
he was hurt off the job.
He got some friends to witness that he
was hurt on the job.
This is how he got the money.
He had to go make this right.
And when he got before this committee in
Regina, and he said they tried to let
him off the hook.
They said, well, we really appreciate your coming,
your honesty and all, and don't let it
happen again.
He said, listen, guys, don't let me off
the hook.
Give me everything you can give me because
I want to get this taken care of
properly.
I remember him saying, I don't care if
I lose my job.
I don't care if I lose my family.
I don't care if I have to go
to jail.
I don't care about anything.
I've got to be right with God.
I can't stand this pressure of God's Spirit
on my soul.
Dear people, that's revival.
We had two brothers in our church, both
graduates of Bible college, men in their 40s.
One of them had been disciplined on a
serious charge by another church in Saskatoon some
years before.
In our church, I wasn't pastor then.
I don't think it would have happened, but
the church had taken him in as a
member because he had two brothers in the
congregation and no questions were asked.
He's a very critical person.
He used to talk to me and say,
Pastor, you know, this church isn't going anywhere.
My kids are all going to hell and
they've got no program for the kids.
And he'd yak on and I'd say, well,
wait a minute, brother.
What about other people?
Their kids are doing okay.
Could the problem be somewhere else?
And he'd just walk away.
During the revival, his older brother, just a
few years between them, came forward and met
with God.
And so the next night I said to
this older brother, isn't it time you and
your brother made things right?
He said, God's been telling me the same
thing.
So I got a hold of his brother
and he grudgingly, kind of sneeringly agreed.
Then we went down in the lower auctorium.
I told the congregation what we were going
to do.
I said, now you people pray.
So we go down in the basement and
I had a deacon with me.
We sat this fellow down.
His brother stood there and the brother who
had met with God went to his brother
and put out his hand and said, my
brother, can you find in your heart to
forgive me?
And he sat like this.
He said, it's about time you came.
Wouldn't move his hand even.
And so his brother looked at me and
said, I knew he wouldn't forgive me.
And he started for the door and I
just prayed and said, God, don't let him
go through the door.
And he didn't.
He stopped at the door with his back
to us.
And I poured a truckload of Bible verses
on this guy, you know, and it did
nothing.
He just sat there and smirked.
So I said to my deacon, Ken, let's
just pray for him.
And so we started to pray for him
and suddenly he gave a shout.
I looked at him, he got to his
feet and he ran to the wall.
He began kicking the wall with his feet
and beating with his fists and begging God
to have mercy on his soul.
People, it was like a storm.
It went on for 10 minutes.
He just was screaming to God, Oh God,
have mercy on my soul.
And he poured out this fountain of junk
that had been in there for all these
years and went on and on.
So we just kept quietly praying.
And finally it was quiet.
I looked, he was sitting there, he had
the light of heaven on his face.
I looked at him and pointed to his
brother.
He ran to his brother and just cracked
his ribs, you know?
And so we went upstairs and we went
upstairs.
The congregation all got their feet and turned
to see what had happened.
And these two brothers came marching down the
aisle, arm and arm to the front.
And they turned and started to share and
their wives came.
The wives had been fighting and all the
kids came.
And pretty soon they all knelt in a
big circle at the front of the church.
They were making things right.
And I'm at the back of the church
at this time and my heart is just
going thump, thump, thump.
I said, boy, what a wonderful way to
die.
Anyway, we moved just about that time to
the Alliance Church.
And these two brothers, they used to sing
duets together.
I never knew that.
They'd never sung while I'd been there.
And I'd been there ten years.
And so they were going to sing a
song.
But it was in the Alliance Church.
And this was a church that had disciplined
him years before.
And so he couldn't sing until he'd made
things right.
And so he made things right with the
congregation.
And when he did, an Alliance fellow jumped
to a seat.
There was everybody that was mixed up like
a dog's breakfast, you know, Pentecostals, Baptists, Mennonites,
everything, you know.
And so a guy, a nice guy, jumped
to a seat and said, I move that
we restore our brotherhood to fellowship in this
congregation.
Someone said, I second the motion.
And all the Alliance people raised their hands.
So he's a member of the Alliance Church
and the Baptist Church at the same time.
And who cared?
You know.
And so it just went and it went.
And I got a call, a phone call
from my brother in Winnipeg, if I wouldn't
come.
He'd been talking with a pastor there, pastor
of a German language congregation.
And he said, we both feel strongly after
much prayer together that God wants you to
come to Winnipeg.
Soterios had moved to Regina and great things
were happening in Regina.
And so I asked my brother if he
could get ahold.
There's a certain church called Elam Chapel in
Winnipeg, inter-denomination, will seat about 1,200,
well located, and see if he can get
that church for some meetings.
And so he phoned back.
He was able to get it.
We'd have it as long as we wanted
in the evenings because they didn't have any
kind of evening meetings either.
And so we started.
Now let's forget, you know, with two days
notice no church was cooperating because this German
language church couldn't be involved.
There were new people, new immigrants from Germany.
And so we really didn't have any backing
at all.
Here we had a building seating 1,200
and there was a half a dozen of
us, my brother and a couple of others
we met for prayer before the first service.
And one of the men said, you know,
he said, I'm really feeling scary.
He said, we're going to go upstairs and
find about eight people sitting there.
Went upstairs and found 600 people sitting there
because God was in the thing.
And before long it was packed to the
doors.
And Leonard Raidenhill phoned Woody Wirt, Sherwood Wirt,
who was Billy Graham's right hand man.
He edited Decision Magazine for 25 years.
And Raidenhill told Wirt, he said, there's a
revival in Canada.
It's next door to heaven.
You better get up there.
So he flew up.
He phoned me.
I don't know where he got my phone
number.
And he flew to Winnipeg and he was
in that one meeting.
And he was sitting in the third pew
down over here.
And while I was preaching, people were coming
forward pretty soon.
The whole front of the church, before I
gave an invitation, was packed with people kneeling
and praying.
We filled the platform.
Then we filled the choir loft.
Then we started emptying the pews.
First people in the first pew moved to
the back of the church to make room
for people to pray.
And then we did the second pew.
Then we did the third pew.
And that's where Woody Wirt was.
And finally he came up to me and
he said, you know, I've been involved in
evangelism on the largest scale for 25 years,
but I've never seen revival.
He said, this is revival That night there
were some very powerful testimonies.
And a couple had given their testimony.
Harry Neville and Thiessen, he was a civil
engineer and he took early retirement.
So if you go on the road as
a revival team, and they did that, were
great news of God in many places.
And he heard their testimony that night and
it was the story of his own life.
He and his wife did not have a
good relationship.
And he'd been more or less blaming her.
And that night he met with God and
met more fully with God shortly afterwards, because
he invited the Thiessen's down to Minneapolis.
And he asked him to conduct one of
these afterglows.
An afterglow is an after meeting that you
have after the major meeting is over.
Most people have gone and have a smaller
meeting somewhere where you can get chairs in
a circle, maybe have two, 300 people or
less or more, and have a, just a
time of sharing and praying and counseling and
so on.
And so he asked the Thiessen's to conduct
one of these meetings and they did so.
And nobody responded.
They had a chair in the middle.
Nobody went to the chair.
So Woody Wood told me later on, he
said, you know, I thought, well, I better
go to the chair so I can set
an example.
So he went and knelt to the chair.
And then when he knelt to the chair,
Harry said, now confess your sins.
He said, what?
He said, I said to myself, confess my
sins in front of this crowd.
There's no way, you know, no way I
can do that, you know.
And so Harry had his hand on his
shoulder and he tried to get up and
Harry wouldn't let him up.
And so finally he did.
And then he broke.
And he really met with God.
He broke over Galatians 2.20 when Harry,
when he was going to get up after
he'd done his confessing and Harry said, no
brother, you're not ready yet.
You have to meet God at the cross.
He said, I said to myself, what theology
is this?
I've never heard this before.
But he stayed and met with God.
Three months later, his wife met with God.
He phoned me long distance.
I was in meetings in Beulah Alliance in
Edmondon, Canada.
And he phoned me, tell me what happened
in their home.
He said, our house is like heaven now.
And they were conducting afterglows, Billy Green crusades,
after crusades, Sherwood Woodford get in behind the
bleachers or somewhere and have an afterglow, get
as many people together as they could for
an afterglow and try and get people revived.
And so this is going on.
Many things of this kind happen.
My mind is just flooded with, right now
with, with things I might share.
I don't know where to go, how long
I've got yet, but all right.
Restitution, a spirit of love.
There were two ladies in Saskatoon.
They had the same first name and they
had the same problem that their husbands had
left them with children.
And they used to get together twice a
week and drink coffee and curse the women
that stole her husband's.
And then they both met God in the
meeting.
You know what happened?
This one lady, she wrote a letter to
the gal who stole her husband.
Her first name was Alice.
And she just said, Alice, I've hated you
with a passion and God has shown me
how wrong that is.
I'm a Christian believer and I want you
to forgive me for hating you the way
I do, the way I did.
And I want you to know that I
love you with the love of God.
And I'm just hoping and praying that someday
you'll come to know Jesus Christ as your
personal savior.
Gals, could you write a letter like that?
Without the grace of God?
But she wrote it and meant it, read
it to the congregation, mailed it the next
day.
We don't know if anything ever happened.
I don't think anything did happen there.
The other gal, one day her husband dropped
in.
He took one look at his wife and
he said, what happened to you?
She didn't have to tell him a thing
he could see.
It was not the gal he'd left.
And she told him what had happened.
He started attending the meeting and seven days
later he found Christ as his personal savior
and that home was saved.
Then I was down in the New Brunswick
in meetings and I couldn't believe it.
In this church there were two ladies that
had the same first name as those two
in Saskatoon and both their husbands had left
them.
And I didn't dare tell that story out
of Saskatoon or they'd think I was concocting
it or something, you know.
But many things of this kind.
One gal, well she'd gone through four doctors
and three psychiatrists and the last person to
see her, I think she was a doctor
then, he said, we're going to try hypnotism
and lady if this doesn't help there's nothing
we can do.
You just have to live with it.
She used a walking post, you know, a
cabbage.
And she met God in one of the
meetings.
She gave her testimony and a night or
two later there was an unconverted psychiatrist in
the meeting and after he heard this testimony
he said to some of us, he said,
I wish that lady's story could be written
in a book and scattered around the world.
He said, I've never heard anything like it.
And she finally went to see the doctor
about hypnotism and they talked a little bit
about generalities and then he said, well let's
start with the hypnotist.
No, she said, I don't want that.
He said, what do you mean you don't
want it?
She said, I'm okay.
What do you mean you're okay?
Well, I'm healed.
What do you mean you're healed?
How did you get healed?
Well, through a revival she said.
He said, what's that?
So she spent an hour or so explaining
what revival was and he said at the
end, well lady, I don't understand all of
this but I'm sure for it.
It's wonderful to see you the way you
are.
And people, she didn't turn back.
She stayed that way.
She was healed by God just in a
second.
I remember seeing a Ph.D. friend of
mine in one of the meetings and in
afterglow and I said, Hugh, what do you
think of what you're hearing and seeing?
He said, Bill, I never thought I'd live
long enough to see this kind of thing
where people are getting absolutely transparently honest before
God and their brothers and sisters and making
things right.
He said it is incredible and it was
incredible but it was a work, dear people.
It was born in heaven and carried on
by the Spirit of God.
There was very little of man in it.
Ralph and Lucitae were so careful in that
area.
They deflected any attempt to put them on
a pedestal.
They were self-effacing.
They were always staying out of it, staying
in the background.
Do you know what they did?
This is crazy but, well I shouldn't use
the word crazy but I mean by some
standards what we consider crazy.
Sometimes they'd say, hey brother Bill, you're preaching
tonight.
One time I woke early in the morning
and God gave me two brand new messages
just out of the blue.
And later that day Ralph told me you're
preaching twice at the two services tonight.
We're going to have double services you see.
Then I understood why God had given me
these two messages.
Why am I preaching?
Are you guys not able to preach?
Well that's not it but God told us
you were to preach tonight.
And sometimes they might ask one of the
other pastors to bring the message, you know.
That's unheard of.
Ever heard of an evangelist inviting the pastor
to bring the message?
And it didn't seem to make any difference.
I mean people responded just the same.
Because God was in control.
God was doing it.
Men were not doing it.
I was telling somebody the other day how
one time I was in meetings and God
was working in such a powerful way.
You know I didn't hear any voice or
see a vision or anything but it was
a very strong communication going on.
One went like this, now the Lord is
saying to me, now Bill there's a coffin
on the platform.
I want you to crawl in that coffin
and just lay in the coffin.
You can keep the lid open to watch
what I'm doing but if you get out
of the coffin I'll stop.
I knew exactly what God was saying.
Stay out of it.
Don't interfere.
We didn't try to control things.
We watched things.
There were some things we had to stop.
And perhaps the Mormon or somebody else in
the testimony time began giving their testimony.
We stopped that.
But apart from that I mean we just
let the thing flow.
Let God do what he wants to do
and say what he wants to say.
One of the afterglows.
These afterglows I should explain after the regular
meeting was over.
For those who wanted to stay we'd have
an afterglow.
We'd get another auditorium and have a circle
of chairs.
Maybe 50 or 100, 150 chairs with two
openings so people could move in and out.
A couple of chairs in the center where
people could kneel and pray.
We'd sing and share testimonies and pray a
little bit and then we'd invite anybody that
had a personal need, wanted to be prayed
for in council to come and kneel at
the chair.
And I'll tell you there were some meetings
that were, oh, some of those meetings were
so powerful.
So powerful.
Where people were meeting with God.
There was a backslidden Alliance Evangelist.
His name was Bowker.
And he was in one of those afterglows.
I never even knew about him.
Had never heard of him.
And he was in this meeting.
He and his wife were not living together
any longer and she was sitting five or
so away from him and all of a
sudden this afterglow she got up and walked
and stood in front of her husband and
she said something like this.
She said, you know dear, you backslidden so
terribly you went right to the bottom.
I know that.
And she said, God has been showing me
that I'm partly responsible, largely responsible because I
was not sympathetic to you in your ministry
and I didn't really support you and I
didn't love you the way I should have.
And she just said, could you find it
in your heart please to forgive me?
And just like there's only two of them
in the room.
And he got to his feet and he
ran for the chair and she with him.
And the two of them fell down at
the chair in the center, the two chairs
in the center of the room.
And he just started to pray.
And it was almost scripture from beginning to
end.
And he was revived after fourteen years at
the bottom of the heap.
Thank God.
Things like this, you know, you couldn't.
And I remember one night a girl about
sixteen, a beautiful child with blonde hair and
everything, she got to the mic and she
just said in the afterglow, you know, I
used to be, I couldn't stand old people.
I just didn't like them.
I guess she thought she wasn't going to
get old herself someday.
But anyway, she said, I just didn't want
to be like them.
I didn't want to talk to them.
And I just walked away when they came
around.
And she said, God's really broken my heart
over this.
And she said, you know, you old people
here tonight, there's lots of them there.
And she said, I just love you with
all my heart.
And an old lady, she must have been
eighty-five or more.
And we'd run out of chairs.
She was standing at the wall.
And she spoke and said, oh, dearie, she
said, those are such sweet words.
You know, she said, that's the first time
in my life that anybody ever said that
they loved me.
And so the young were getting blessed.
The old were getting blessed.
The young people decided they'd like to try
revival meetings on their own and it was
a total failure.
It didn't work.
And so they came back and said, we
want to get back with the adults where
the action is.
Maybe the action was with the adults because
they had more sin.
That's likely true, you know.
But anyway, we needed them.
They needed us.
It's thrilling to hear young people testify.
There were two young men in our church
and they'd been talking on the telephone.
And one of the mothers had been listening
in, which mothers shouldn't be doing, but they
were listening in.
One of them was.
And they were promising each other, now this
revival thing is straight emotionalism.
So we're not getting involved, right?
Okay.
Now remember, we'll go to the meetings to
keep our parents happy, but on Sundays, but
that's it.
Okay, okay.
So it all figured out.
So what happened?
One Sunday morning, this, the one of the
two kids, they, I was in my, I
forget exactly what was happening.
The meeting was over.
It was Sunday morning.
And we were constant with people in my
office and they brought this boy in.
And they said he wants to get saved.
Oh, great.
Praise the Lord.
So he knelt.
And I tried to get him to pray.
And he kept saying, no way, no way,
no way.
And I couldn't get his attention really.
I said, well, didn't you want to be
saved?
He kept saying, no way.
But it was an unfinished sentence.
And finally he finished the sentence.
And here was the sentence.
No way can I ever doubt the reality
of Jesus Christ again.
He revealed himself to my heart.
I know him.
And the other day the other boy came
forward on the other side of the church
the same morning and he got saved.
He's a civil engineer today down in Colorado.
I remember meeting him several years ago, still
walking with God.
Thank God for that.
And so it went on and on.
After the revival, the first 12 months after
the revival, the Alliance denomination in Western Canada,
they reported a 100% increase in the
number of souls saved in their churches in
that 12-month period.
The Baptist denomination I was with, for the
first time in their history, they went right
over the top when it came to their
financial budget.
The Western Tract Mission has 3,000 tract
distributors, their headquarters in Saskatoon, and they reported
an almost 300% increase in the number
of tracts sold and distributed in that 12
-month period.
And so it had an effect in many
ways on churches, on individuals, on families.
I was holding meetings in this place called
Brandon, Manitoba, and a lady had told me
about her husband.
She said he's a very kind person, but
not a Christian.
And she said, I brought him tonight, that's
him standing over there.
So she introduced me to him.
So I talked to him about the Lord
and I'll preach, she said.
This is good stuff, he said, you know,
I appreciate your interest.
But you know, no, I'll listen.
So the meeting goes on.
Halfway through the meeting, he grabbed his wife,
he said, honey, I'm going to hell.
He said, I can see the flames.
He got a hold of his wife, he
shakes his wife, what can I do?
What can I do?
Then he started throwing me hand signals to
stop preaching so he could get to the
altar.
And I couldn't see it, the crowd was
too big for that, and so he got
up and just ran to the altar and
got saved.
They gave his testimony the next night.
I quoted that verse, you know, in Hebrews
about doing despite to the Spirit of Grace,
and I explained it meant insulting the Spirit
of Grace.
He said, God took that truth and burned
it into my soul, and he showed me
I'd been insulting the Holy Spirit.
And he got saved that night.
And then there was a wonderful aftermath.
They went home.
They sat on the floor and they talked.
They usually didn't talk very much.
And they said something like this, I don't
know whether he said it or she said
it, it went like this.
Why don't we get honest with one another?
We've never done that, have we?
No, they haven't.
You know, married 11 years, had four kids.
Well, he said, honey, let me start.
He said, you know, I never loved you.
I married you because I felt sorry for
you.
Ladies, how would you feel if somebody said
that to you?
And she looked at him with her white
eyes and she said, well, honey, that's why
I married you.
And she said, they sat on the floor
and they just laughed.
She said, this is crazy.
What are they going to do?
We can't split.
We've got four kids.
And we're both Christians now.
You know what they did?
They prayed and asked God to give them
a love for each other.
Did he?
Immediately.
They sat in the meetings holding hands, looking
at each other.
Half the time, I don't think they were
even aware there was anybody else around.
But that was so beautiful to see.
And one other man got saved in some
meetings we had.
He was wanted in three Canadian provinces.
He raped a girl in Ontario.
He was living in Common Law with some
gal.
He'd left his wife with some guy in
Ontario somewhere.
They had two children by their marriage.
And he got saved.
He gave himself up to the chief of
police in Brandon, Manitoba the next morning.
They checked his story out.
He talked to the father of the girl
he'd raped.
And he gave his testimony.
He told the dad what had happened.
He was asking his forgiveness.
And finally the dad said, oh, he said,
if I had met you, I'd have smashed
you in the face.
But he said, after listening to what you're
telling about Jesus Christ, he said, we forgive
you.
We don't want to lay any charges.
And you know, nobody would lay any charges
against a guy.
And he flew back to Ontario and he
got his wife and his two sons.
They came back to Brandon and she got
saved the next night.
I remember talking to her before the meeting.
She said, well, I don't know what's happened
to my husband.
Can it happen to me?
And it happened to her.
And she found Christ.
And so it spread across the country.
I had meetings all across Canada in the
Maritimes, Woodstock, New Brunswick.
There's a Woodstock, South Africa, Woodstock, New York,
Woodstock, Ontario, and then Woodstock, New Brunswick.
It's a small place, maybe 5,000 people,
but there were 50 little churches in the
area.
And they had gone together for the meetings.
And it spilled over and we had to
go for five weeks.
I was scheduled to start in Denver, Colorado,
with 40 churches or so.
And it spilled over and we had to
keep going.
So I phoned my contact in Denver, told
him what happened.
I said, Bill, we've got thousands of mailings
out.
You can't leave us.
You can't hijack us this way.
And I said, well, brother, we just don't
feel God is through here yet.
He said, well, if you really feel that
way, we'll accept it then.
You know what God did?
He sent a big snowstorm to Denver, Colorado.
So they were quite satisfied.
They couldn't have meetings anyway.
And so we stayed that fifth week in
Woodstock.
And God touched life after life in some
deep and marvelous ways.
You know, one time on a Sunday morning,
I preached in a neighboring church.
And the pastor told me of the church
in Woodstock, now be sure you're back by
1130, because I don't have anything in the
program after 1130.
I almost never made it.
I'd put in your wife down in the
curb.
It was in the wintertime.
It was icy and stuff.
And I wasn't in a hurry to get
back.
And I got there.
The place was packed.
And there was a door over here.
And I got to this door and I
could see the platform.
And on the platform must have been 12
people waiting to give their testimony.
And there was a lady giving her testimony
to people.
She must have been 90.
You should have heard her.
I'm telling you, it was thrilling.
They didn't need me.
I never got the publical 5 to 12.
That's revival.
No, would the God He would do it
again.
Would God not revive us again?
But dear people, there's a price we have
to pay.
It just doesn't happen.
There are no personalities that will make it
happen.
There are no plans that will make it
happen.
It's seeking the face of God in prayer,
fasting in prayer, calling on God, obeying God,
letting God lead.
I'm sure God wants to do it again.
I'm sure in my own heart that God
will do it again.
I don't know what will have to happen
first.
Maybe we'll have to rattle our cage a
little louder than He has been.
I know the flood in Winnipeg certainly made
a lot of people think about God.
Yes, and it made some people pretty bitter.
Some people are very bitter right now.
Their houses are gone and they're not getting
any money from the government that was promised
and this kind of thing.
But God has His hand in all of
this.
Not a thing can happen, but God knows
all about it.
Other things relative to revival.
I was telling some people again the other
day how that, you know, before the revival,
if I had evangelistic meetings in a church
in a town 50 miles away, I never
expected to see any of my people there
and I was never disappointed.
They never did come.
But here I am holding meetings in Edmond
and 385 miles out of Saskatoon, there's a
bunch of my people sitting there, a whole
row of them, throwing me kisses.
I go to Winnipeg, 500 miles from Saskatoon,
there's a whole pile of my people there
that come all the way from Saskatoon, 10
hours driving on the highway, just so they
can help, you know.
A businessman who had been revived in Saskatoon,
he paid for five of us to fly
to Toronto to share in a seminar in
Toronto.
And let's see, there were two Baptist preachers,
myself and another Baptist preacher and three Alliance
people.
One of them was a son to Pastor
Bolt, who was the pastor of the big
Alliance church in Saskatoon at the time, wearing
cowboy boots and all.
We got to Toronto, got into this seminary,
it was the longest meeting I was ever
in.
People went on for 14 hours.
What a time.
Our team, they gave their testimonies.
After it was all over, a lady got
up and said she wanted one of the
gals to give her testimony again.
She couldn't believe what she'd heard.
Can I hear it again?
So she gave it again.
And we had a chair out in the
front.
The man got to his feet and he
stood like this and he said, my name
is, and he gave his name.
He said, you people all know me, I'm
the son of most of your churches.
He said, I'm listening to these people up
at the front there.
I don't know if it's real or not.
Could anything happen to me?
He said, my name is not Don Moore.
He said, my name is Don Sewer.
He said, that's the kind of a mind
I have.
I need to be changed.
Can God change me?
So we invited him to come.
He knelt at the chair.
We gathered around him, our team, and we
prayed with him right there in front of
the whole group.
Remember, this is a seminary.
He got to his feet and he was
radiant.
Then it was just a steady stream, kept
coming and coming and coming and coming and
coming.
Finally, one of the professors came.
I can see him yet.
He was half running down the aisle and
he got to this chair and he fell
across the chair.
In a stentorian voice, he cried, oh God,
he said, all my life I sought and
talked the academic and now I want the
spiritual.
Fill me, God, fill me.
God touched his life in a marvelous way.
We heard of some after things out of
that.
A day or two later, he was walking
across the campus and he happened to pass
a male student and they just said, good
morning, that was all.
And the male student, he gave his testimony
in one of the meetings and he said,
I saw Jesus Christ in his face.
This man was a chaplain for the seminary.
He said, I saw Jesus Christ in his
face.
And this kid ran off to his room
and got on his face before God and
stayed there until God had touched his life.
He got in many ways, many ways of
working.
We were in a church in Toronto right
after the seminary and this Pastor Bolt's son,
the one with the cowboy boots and everything,
he was preaching and telling how he had
a new love for everybody, for all people.
There was a lady sitting there, she had
a great big hat on, you know, sitting
about six pews down.
And she spoke up and said, oh, it
was so good to hear young people that
like older people.
And he came running down off the platform
and grabbed her and gave her a great
big kiss, you know.
And when he was running back to the
platform, she said, her hat was off to
one side and she said, oh, I love
that boy.
This stuff was not exactly rehearsed, you understand.
And a boy about 10 ran to the
pulpit in one of the meetings, just crying.
And so Ralph moved over and the kid
took over and he begged.
There was probably 700, 800 people there and
this kid just poured out his soul.
And he begged the sinners to get saved.
And he begged the Christians to get right
with God.
And he couldn't say anymore.
He just stood there weeping and his daddy
came up and took him back to his
seat again.
And it was just part of what God
was doing, part of what God was saying.
You know, it's interesting, 1972, that's when Jack
Taylor saw a revival.
That's when this ministry began.
That's when the thing started in Saskatoon.
And in 1972, before the revival in Saskatoon,
there was a Bible college in Steinbeck, Manitoba.
And at the Bible college, a bunch of
girls began having prayer meetings at night.
So they checked this out because it was
going on for hours at nighttime.
And so there was nothing fanatical about it,
so they let it go.
And suddenly a revival broke in the Bible
college.
And it touched the whole school.
And the dean of the college told me
later on, he said, for a whole year,
he said, we never had one single problem
in the Bible college at all.
God just sweetened the whole thing up.
And that was in 1972, just before it
happened in Saskatoon.
So God was on the march, many areas
of the continent, at work.
Revive us again.
Oh God, that your people may rejoice in
you.
You know, if we got an extra thousand
dollars somehow, we'd be rejoicing, right?
Would we?
Why?
But to meet with God and to come
into a personal relationship, a new personal relationship
with God, that's worth a lot more than
a thousand dollars.
And we thank God for all he did,
what has happened since.
People often ask the question, what about today?
What's happening in Canada?
Well, I'd say we need another revival.
That was, you know, 25 years ago.
We certainly need a revival again.
It accomplished all that God had in mind
at that particular time.
You know, teams went all around the world.
I must share something that happened in Argentina,
out of the Canadian revival.
I went down there.
I had a contact with the Gospel Mission
of South America.
And he'd arranged for us to come and
set up some meetings.
But I was writing him letters in big
envelopes, big stamps.
And in the post office in some of
these foreign countries, if they liked the stamp,
they'd take the letter home.
So I never got my last two letters,
didn't know when we were coming.
My wife and I arrived in Buenos Aires,
a city of 11 million people.
Nobody's there to meet us.
And the only Spanish word we knew was
sea.
And we waited and waited.
And we prayed and nothing happened.
Nobody showed up.
And I thought I had his phone in
my pocket.
I didn't have it.
I think God took it away.
And he had something else in mind.
And so we waited and waited.
Nothing happened.
Didn't know what to do.
And then I found a bank of phones.
He didn't have a listed phone.
He had just moved to Buenos Aires from
Santiago, Chile.
And nobody knew him.
I phoned the sailors' mission, the Latin American
mission, other missions.
Nobody even heard of the guy.
And I began to think we'd been taken
on a ride of some kind by this
guy we'd been riding.
And then a stranger walks up, about 50
years of age.
And he bowed so politely, began talking in
beautiful Spanish.
And I let him understand I didn't know
any Spanish.
But I said, my amigo, friend, my friend,
Lyle Eggleston.
Ah, he grabbed the phone book.
I said, no, no, it's not there.
So he just walked away and came back
a few minutes later, handed me a slip
of paper.
And on the paper it said, Lyle Eggleston
Obligado 35, his phone number, and the whole
bit.
When I told Lyle Eggleston about it, he
said, nobody in this world knows me, Bill.
How could this happen?
So we finally got it figured out.
The Lord sent an angel.
We were in trouble.
There's no other way we could explain this
thing.
He said, Spanish people, they can't pronounce my
name.
They can't spell it.
They never get it.
It was all perfectly spelled and everything else.
Why would he come to me?
In an air terminal, there's hundreds, thousands of
people moving back and forth.
Why did this guy come to me?
Anyway, while we were down there for about
nine weeks, I think I preached 105 times
or something.
And I went down to Rosario, which is
a city of a million people, some distance
away from Buenos Aires.
There were six Baptist groups that went together
once a year for a refreshing weekend.
And the year before they did this, when
they compared statistics, the churches had averaged two
converts a year for the whole year.
And they rightly figured this is awful.
We need to repent.
We need to have revival.
That's what we need.
So they set up a committee to plan
for the program the following year, not knowing
a thing about me going to South America.
And they told the committee, you're not to
ask anyone to speak.
We're all going to pray that God will
send us somebody from somewhere in the world
to talk about revival.
So I'm down there.
I speak in a Southern Baptist seminar in
Buenos Aires.
And a professor comes running up after me
and said, Bill, what are you doing this
weekend?
I got up my little book and it
was the only weekend I had free.
Oh, he said, listen, we have a gathering
of six Baptist groups and they want someone
to talk about revival.
Would you do it for that weekend?
See how God can set things up?
Beautiful, you know.
Church was seated a thousand.
There was probably 1400 people that were standing
all around the walls.
Aisles were packed.
I couldn't give an invitation of any kind.
So we just preached Friday over Sunday.
And I had a tremendous interpreter.
Of course, the Latin Americans, they have a
kind of a low boiling point, you know,
they're easily moved.
Anyway, he did a great job.
And in the last meeting, I had to
do something.
So I said, maybe God's spoken to your
heart and you want to be saved.
Or maybe you need to be revived.
You feel in need of Jesus Christ having
control of your life.
Just stay behind, would you?
About 700 people stayed.
And then I had to counsel these 700
people through the interpreter, which was a little
difficult to do, but we did it.
And out of that came all kinds of
blessings.
As a matter of fact, there's a revival
in Argentina that's been going on for several
years.
I think I've heard at least that some
of the roots go back to what happened
back then in 1974, I guess it was.
So God is doing it around the world.
You have the book, Operation World.
If you don't have it, get it.
If you don't get it, I hope you
feel guilty.
Use it.
It gives you information on every country in
the world.
It tells you all about how many evangelicals
there are in the country and what their
needs are, the political situation, the economic situation,
and all these things.
And I use it as a sort of
prayer manual.
I pray for at least two countries every
day.
Just go through the book, go through it
again, go through it again.
And people, it gives you a passion for
the world.
You know, God's world is not North America.
It's a world.
A Christian in Africa or Malaysia or Nepal
or Bhutan or any country is as precious
to God as any person could be here
in Canada States.
And revival can come to any country in
the world.
You know, I remember reading not long ago
about a young man.
It was over in India.
He got saved.
And he started four churches in three years.
Then he came to missionaries.
You know what he said?
He said, I think maybe I should go
to Bible school now.
Isn't that kind of reversing things a little
bit?
But it was real revival.
The Spirit of God was resting on him.
Can I share one other thing?
There's a buffer state between India and China.
It's called NIFA, N-E-F-A.
And in Tezpur and Assam, there's a Christian
hospital.
And there's a lot of missionaries in Assam.
And they wanted to get into NIFA and
there was no way they could.
The government forbade it.
Nobody could go in there.
So they prayed.
And one day, a kid named Bhattai, B
-A-T-T-A-I, he came out.
He was sick.
And they got him to hospital and they
led him to Christ and they sent him
back.
Six months later, he came back and he
said, how do you start churches?
And they said, why are you asking?
Oh, he said, hundreds have been saved.
You know, Bhattai went back.
They gave him a little diploma.
He wanted to go to Bible school, so
he was in Bible school for three weeks.
He couldn't read or write, so they gave
him a little diploma.
And the diploma said, Bhattai has done his
best.
And he went home.
Half his life with this diploma, you know.
He started soul winning.
And it became a tribal movement.
And finally thousands were saved.
You know, when they baptized converts, it was
up in the Himalayas, you know.
And the streams are cold.
They used to get a couple of deacons
standing down here.
He'd be baptizing the river up here.
And sooner or later he'd flake out.
And these deacons would get him, take him
up on shore, stick him beside a bonfire
in Thamud, stick him back in the river
again.
Because he was baptizing 60, 80 or 100
converts at a time.
Bhattai, no education.
Nipah.
Who's ever heard of Nipah?
But a deep and genuine work of God.
But he found a man, want to close
with that verse.
It says, the eyes of the Lord run
to and fro throughout the whole earth, through
this crowd, throughout the whole earth, to show
himself strong in behalf of those whose heart
is perfect towards him.
Do you qualify?
Why?
Wouldn't you want to be a person to
whom God can demonstrate his power and change
lives, bringing glory to Jesus Christ?
Won't thou not revive us again, that that
people may rejoice in thee?
I will hear what God the Lord will
speak.
For he will speak peace to his people
and to his saints.
But let them not turn again to folly.
O Father, thank you that we can prostrate
ourselves before your throne and confess that you
are King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the
blessed and only power holder, who only has
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man
can approach unto, whom no man has seen
or can see, to whom the honor and
power everlasting.
O God, you're so great and so good,
but how little a portion has heard of
him, how little a whisper has heard of
God.
Father, in times of revival, we don't hear
a whisper, we hear a shout.
And God, we need these times of revival.
And on our faces now, Lord God, we're
asking you to remember us.
Lord God, to send a revival again to
the churches in the states in Canada and
then around the world.
God, let it not be something that we
keep to ourselves selfishly, but that we spread
abroad as far as we possibly can.
And then, Father, in our own circle of
influence, and as these teams go on their
own shortly, O God, may there be, we
pray, revival in churches, revival in hearts and
families.
God, don't let the devil have it his
own way.
Father, you're greater than Satan is, we know
that.
We've had a time of hurt, we need
a time of healing.
O God, heal us, we pray.
Send your spirit among us in new power.
Convict thousands, Father.
Convict us first of all of our sins
and our coldness, and then revive our hearts,
O God.
And just do it again, do it again
for your own glory and honor.
We pray, Father, with thanksgiving in Christ's name.
Amen.