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REVIVAL FIRES Ultimate Collection REVIVAL FIRES Ultimate Collection Edited by Micael Grenholm This booklet contains accounts of many times where the Spirit of God moved in groups of people and in churches to produce 'Revival', an awakening of devotion and service to God. Many of these accounts show how Christians had to be truly 'revived' in their faith and practice before the fire of God could spread like a forest fire among the unsaved. May these texts inspire you to seek God more intensively and thirst for His power and peace. All of these texts come from the website of the Jesus Army: http://www.jesus.org.uk/ja/ mag_revivalfires_date.shtml. Many of them appears in the booklet “Revival Fires; Stirring accounts of Christian revivals around the world”, which can be bought on http:// www.jesuspeople.biz/shop/books/revival.html. © Jesus Army 2010 !1 Pre-1600s principles that he had based his own life on: love, patience, celibacy, gentleness and humility. Hate all peace that comes from the flesh, he taught. Gain your FIRE IN THE DESERT brother, and you have gained God. Offend your brother, and you sin against Christ. In the 4th Century, an astonishing movement Finally, Antony withdrew deeper into the desert, where of revolutionary Christianity was started - in he lived to be 102. He appeared only twice: to the desert strengthen persecuted brethren in Alexandria, and (at 101) to preach against a dangerous heresy. His burial place was kept secret, since he feared men's idolatry. IN OCTOBER 312, the Roman Emperor, Constantine, Today, Antony is acknowledged as the father of the claimed that the Christians' God had helped him crush monastic life; the man who broke the mould and let his enemies and secure power at the Battle of Milvian passion for Jesus create a new, living 'wineskin' for the Bridge. This marked the end of persecution and the Holy Spirit's life. apparent promotion of the Church to a privileged position in society. "Christendom" was born - the Church was wedded to the political power of the day. Father to thousands… In reality, Christendom was a dreadful deception. The PACHOMIUS was born in Egypt about AD 291. As a Church for the most part abandoned its call to be a young man he was press-ganged into the Roman countercultural embodiment of the Kingdom of Jesus - army. One day some Christians showed such care to which He had described as "not of this world". Empire his unit that he determined to find Jesus himself. He and Church were mingled. The proclamation of the was converted in his twenties. In AD 318, he was gospel was largely drowned out in the clamour of the walking in the desert when he felt God prompt him to marching feet of imperial armies. "Love your enemies" found a monastery at that very spot (an old Roman fort morphed into "slay the barbarian". called Tabennisi). So he and a friend did just that. Some, however, resisted this development. Men such as Numbers grew rapidly, and in time there were seven Antony, Pachomius and Macarius and other Desert monasteries for men and two for women, several Fathers forsook wealth and influence and moved to the numbering over a thousand souls! There were major desert. Here they formed visionary communities which differences between Tabennisi and the collection of demonstrated the need for God's people to be an hermits that St Antony had formed. This was a alternative culture to the violent, power-hungry world carefully structured organisation where the brothers system. lived together at all times, followed a Rule (set of precepts) and had their set jobs and ministries for the good of all. Radical pioneer The monks lived in communal houses according to the Antony was a true pioneer, whose influence is still felt work they did (carpentry, basket- weaving, etc.). Each today. Born in Egypt about AD 251, his parents died house held around 40, and there might be 30 houses when he was young, leaving him a small fortune. One to a monastery - a large undertaking! There was a day he heard a Christian quote Jesus' words: If you senior leader (abbot) over the whole monastery, and would be perfect, go sell all you have, give to the poor, leaders for each house. At weekends the whole and come follow Me (Matt.19:21). They cut him like a monastery met for worship and the bread and wine; in knife. He sold his estate and became the disciple of a the week they met together in their houses. They wore godly pastor. a simple white tunic and shared two simple meals a Yet his heart grew restless. He didn't belong to the world day - unless they chose to fast. Their crafts and he saw around him. He felt a strong pull to the desert industry were such that they had their own boats on beyond the Nile. Here hot and cold, flood and drought the Nile to ferry goods to market. engaged men in a daily, physical battle for life itself. To Pachomius was a gifted leader. What he built was not Antony, this mirrored the human soul in its battle equalled for 1,000 years. He was a deeply spiritual between flesh and spirit, love for God and love of self. and loving man. He spoke in tongues and saw Here too was a pioneering adventure, where only the frequent visions, but kept his monks focussed: The real would make it. greatest vision you can have, he taught, is of a pure So Antony went to live alone in the desert. Friends sent and humble man. His leadership style was to insist on food every few days; the rest depended on his survival the same basic rules for everyone, for the sake of self- skills. His experiences were later dictated to a follower - discipline, while encouraging brothers to go beyond it and what reading they make! He fought boredom and according to their zeal and strength. Spiritual guilt, sexual temptations and hunger for possessions. fatherhood was a key issue for him. He taught that a He gives graphic accounts of battles with demons, but leader must be a man of scripture, prayer, humility, also of sweet times of intimate communion with Jesus. service and miracles. In all his communities it was a He also learned the importance of manual work for rule that leaders should serve: lay tables, answer the focussing the mind; he wove reed baskets and sold door, and tend the sick. He led the way himself. He them in town. truly loved the monks as sons, frequently addressing Gradually his reputation spread, and men came to the them as 'my little children'. No wonder he became desert to be near Antony. Reluctantly, in AD 305, he left father to thousands. his solitude and spent six years drawing these disciples into a community of hermits. In time, some 5,000 were with him. They lived alone or in pairs in the week, then Underground healer came together on Sundays for worship, fellowship and Macarius was born in Egypt in AD 300, of Christian mutual support. He taught them the foundational parents. He had a soft conscience and strong sense of !2 justice. He was called the "aged youth" in his village, churches and establishing centres at Melrose, Jarrow because he had great spiritual wisdom even in his and Whitby. By the time he died in 651, Northumbria twenties. For a while he worked as a camel-drover, but was almost wholly evangelised. in 330 he withdrew to the desert and sought out St Aidan succeeded by developing key relationships with Anthony to disciple him. those who helped to expand the work and by wise and He relocated to Scetis, south-west of the Nile Delta, and creative planning. He didn't do all the work himself - at at first lived as a hermit. But soon other men were first, he couldn't even speak the language but needed joining themselves to him and a community began. It interpreters. He appointed and trusted many workers. was particularly active in healing ministry. People from Other noted Celtic saints, Hilda, Chad and Cuthbert, far and wide made their way to the desert to be prayed built up important ministries under his covering. for by Macarius. According to his biographer, there was But Aidan was a communicator. He could empathise. an average of five or six healings a day. He always had Any gifts he received from the wealthy, he gave to the other monks with him, to learn healing. He also taught poor. This included a fine stallion given to him by the them to use spiritual gifts of words and discernment. king. The king was furious, but Aidan replied: "Is the Sometimes Macarius withdrew - with the help of an son of a mare more important to you than a son of underground passage to a remote cave - because he God?" The humbled king knelt and asked forgiveness. heard the praise of men. Aidan's primary witness was through the genuineness Another mark of his community was fatherly humanity. of his life. He refused personal gain, showed no He urged full renunciation of money and property on all partiality (rebuking kings when they needed it), and the monks, but at times broke his own rules out of love. practised rigorous self-denial. If the king came to Once he travelled to Alexandria in person t buy some Lindisfarne, he had to eat the same food as the monks sherbet to soothe the throat of a young brother who had and beggars.
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