UNBLOCKING THE WELL OF THE LIVING WORD

Each daily devotional below begins with an excerpt from a transcript of Duncan Campbell telling the story of how the 1949 Hebridean revival began. (1)

Duncan Campbell said:-

"Well, I could go on… but that was how the movement began… conviction, distress of soul… 14 young men discussing in a hall how much beer is to be brought to the parish for a dance on Friday; suddenly, one of them turns to the others and says, “Boys, let us increase the amount. I believe this is the last time beer is going to come to this parish”. And another young man was saying, “Are you suggesting that the revival is going to come to this godless parish?” “I cannot say what is going to happen; what is going to come, but something is happening to me”, and that was all that he said… Listen, my dear people… 14 young men fell on their knees in front of the public hall… They were there for over an hour and all of them saved, and 11 of them are office bearers in that church today… and that is one community where you couldn’t find a single unsaved person in the parish…"

Norman Grubb says that the Welsh revival “proved what the Holy Ghost could do through a company of believers, who were of one spirit and of one mind as on the day of Pentecost.” This was a distinctive of the Lewis revival too. Grubb says ”We had seen over and over again what the Lord could do through a yielded evangelist or pastor, such as Moody or Finney, but in the Welsh revival it was a divine power manifested through the church.” (2) In the Lewis Awakening it was similar, God’s presence breaking out across a community. When we pray for revival, we are praying for heaven to come down, a tangible expression of heaven on earth. Corey Russell said, ‘Jesus’ manifest presence is… when the holiness of God goes public, when the glory of God goes public, when God’s presence breaks in and when God shifts that landscape, where there is a tangible geographical zone, and the Lord breaks into bars and into crack houses.’ (3)

In Lewis there was a community, Duncan Campbell said, where you couldn’t find a single unsaved person in the parish… That was heaven breaking out on earth. It is time to pray… May your kingdom come, Lord!

Corey Russell says, (4)’God is raising up an army of revival intercessors across the earth, not known by men, but known in heaven. Psalm 2: 9 will be the fruit of their intercession. The fruit of their intercession will be the release of the power of God on His Word; revival breaking out and destroying every opposition in its path. The fullness of this reality will take place when Jesus returns to utterly destroy all opposition with the power of His Word. God’s word (dashing) sin, sickness, and Satan to pieces like a piece of pottery’. This is how He will rule the nations…. Jesus shares this glorious honour of intercession with His people and we can partner with Him in seeing His inheritance come forth in the nations. His “rod” will come out of the mouth of the church destroying the power of the evil one in the Earth. Corey Russell says (5) ‘Revelation of the Son’s intercession is going to fill the end time prayer movement in a deep way. We are already beginning to see it explode across the earth as God brings together the prayer and missions’ movements. Churches and ministries… are beginning to prioritise prayer like never before.’ So do you know what time it is? It is time to wake up, to break up the fallow ground and to pray!! It is time to prioritise prayer like never before!

Lord, wake us up! We line up with Your prayers and declare that the nations will be your inheritance, you will break the nations with a rod of iron. Let the kingdom of God break in… let it break into nightclubs, bars and crack houses. We line our prayers up with Yours Lord. Our food is to do Your will and finish your work. May Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, maysalvation spring up from the ground. Lord, rend the heavens and come down. Seek the lost and heal the lame. Jesus bring glory to Your name.

References

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXIZOSWvXaE

(2) Grubb, N. Rees Howells: Intercessor, CLC, Pennsylvania, 1973, p33

(3) Russell, C. One Thing Conference. 31 December 2013.

(4) Russell, C. Inheritance: Clinging to God’s promises in the midst of tragedy p73-74 paraphrase

(5) Russell, C. Inheritance, p73-74 paraphrase