CHRISTIAN DO YOU WANT TO BE INSPIRED?

Then go to Revival-Library.org

Here you will find what our Great and Marvelous God has done

In Continually breathing LIFE to His Church.

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Home to the largest collection of digitised Revival and Pentecostal texts on the World Wide Web!

We have masses of Revival books and Pentecostal materials in the Library including histories, biographies and other resources to inspire, educate and motivate you to seek God with us for a mighty end-time Christian revival. Many of these resources can be accessed freely on this site.

We also have a number of Revival and CD collections available at the online shop, together with a new service - instantly downloadable and affordable Revival and Pentecostal books, some in Word and others in PDF format. We plan to add to these throughout 2011 making this the most comprehensive, inexpensive and accessible revival resource online today.

In addition we have included a number of downloadable classics on the ministry of healing, with biographies of healing evangelists as well as our regular CD collections of Evangelical Revivals, Pentecostal periodicals and collections of Pentecostal ministries like Smith Wigglesworth, J. A. Dowie and the 1950's healing evangelists.

We plan to add to the library each week so be sure to re-visit us regularly. Our purpose is to inspire you to seek God with us for a great end-time revival!

Following is one example:

20th Century Awakenings

It would not be difficult to conclude that the twentieth century was an era of Pentecostal Revivals and that Evangelical Revivals had become merely history. But such is clearly not the case as there have been innumerable outpourings of the Spirit which have resulted in a restoration of Christian faith and zeal and which have ushered many new converts into the Kingdom of God,

There were four major Pentecostal revival waves during the twentieth century. The first was the initial outpouring which found its genesis at Azusa Street, Los Angeles. The notable characters of this revival were Charles Parham, William Seymour, Frank Bartleman and William Durham. In the aftermath of the initial outpouring there came more pioneering revivalists, like Aimee Semple McPherson, Florence Crawford, A. H. Argue, R. E. McAlister, A. C. Valdez, Carrie Judd Montgomery, Charles Price, Raymond T. Richey, and a host of others in America. John Alexander Dowie began to discover divine healing before the turn of the century, as did Maria Woodworth Etter, who exercised a powerful Pentecostal ministry before and after Azusa.

In Europe T. B. Barratt, Lewi Petrus, Alexander Boddy, Smith Wigglesworth, George and Stephen Jeffreys, and other ministries furthered the work. Other nations had their own carriers of the Fire.

The second wave was called the “Healing Revival” which occurred in the late forties and fifties in America. William Branham and Oral Roberts were the most influential figures.  Jack Coe, A. A. Allen, T. L. Osborn, W. V. Grant, Don Stewart, Kathryn Kuhlman and Morris Cerullo  were among about ninety healing evangelists who traversed the land with their message of healing and hope. It brought a new harvest of converts and renewed hopes of national revival all over the world.

The third wave was the less known “Latter Rain Revival.” This movement originated at Sharon Orphanage and Schools in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. George Hawtin led the movement which began in a Bible school when students experienced an amazing outpouring of the Holy Spirit on February 12th 1948. Fasting and prayer had preceded this move and there began a fresh flow of spiritual gifts to the group. Tongues, interpretation and prophecy became common and healings soon followed. Suddenly the ailing Pentecostal ministry of the church received new life from heaven. As people became aware of these events they flocked to North Battleford from all over the world. The distinctive of the movement were fasting, the laying on of hands, the restoration of the Baptism of the Spirit and spiritual gifts, singing in the Spirit, the restoration of ministry gifts including apostles and prophets and the autonomy of the local church.

This movement laid foundations of truth and practice which were to have a striking effect on the embryonic charismatic movement.

The fourth wave was the charismatic renewal movement. This found expression in two groups – the mainline denominations and the new apostolic churches.

Men like Dennis Bennett and Michael Harper led the denominational streams and Ern Baxter, Derek Prince, John Poole, Bob Mumford, Don Basham and Charles Simpson were the most notable leaders of the new church streams. Though the distinctions were rather blurred in the early days they became clearer as each movement matured. The charismatic movement has brought untold blessing to the worldwide church as it has returned to the original design God gave in the New Testament. Nowadays, wherever there are Charismatics there are a love for God’s word, the activity of the Spirit, preaching of the Gospel and, of course, authentic conversions.

Evangelic revivals in the twentieth century began with the Welsh Revival but they certainly didn’t end there. Despite two world wars there were occasional outbreaks of local evangelical revival.