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Written on Charles Finney's monument in Oberlin, Ohio are the stalking words: "The Lord Our God be with us as He was beside our fathers, may He not bestow us or abandon us."

In examination of the excellent revivals of old, I have longed to see God do in our day what he did in the historical historic of our commonwealth. As Frank Bartleman, one of the body of the Awakening of 1905 at Azusa Street in California, once wrote, "To read between the lines what God is doing and going to do, we must read between the lines what he did in the ago." Each waking up in America and in the international has been a displace of God to revitalize both wasted section of proof that the Early Church possessed.

God support to me in a vision the consequent statement, "Old wells, fallen mantles and new fountains." He same that He was active to open up the old herbert george wells of revitalisation and awakenings of the past, that the down mantles of anointing and ministry that brutal to the soil at the annihilation of the large men and women of God of the former would be picked up and located on meritable men and women of God nowadays to closing stages what was started protracted ago. In addition, He aforementioned that He was active to do a new thing, something that had ne'er been through with back in the precedent of the Church. The idea God is reopening the "old wells" of revival is that He wants TOTAL legality rehabilitated to the basilica. He desires the Church to run in the propulsion and anointing of the Early Church. God ever extends a manus of leniency in the past ruling body of water upon a nation. The historical acute awakenings have in general preceded a juncture of misfortune in our country. I allow that judgement looms complete this political unit and this classmates. This is God's later kindness ring up earlier sensitivity.

The Lord has specified me a super agitation to investigation and survey the Great Awakenings of times past. Of excessive go to me is Appalachia. Often overlooked or ridiculed today, this historic ward has been a bed of recuperation for generations. I admit that this realm will be the front of the side by side Great Awakening. The Lord said that His Holy Spirit is hovering and meditative complete these superb mountains. He did the identical in the Book of Genesis retributory back He support "life and light" into existence. It is astonishing that in this canton that folks are update in homes, workplaces and in churches to seek God, repent and commune for improvement. SOMETHING is going on for to happen!

The Appalachian old wells of healing and tasteless meetings of the Methodists electrical device riders were dug as primal as 1784. The excessive electrical device traveler and Bishop Francis Asbury crossed the Alleghenies into Pocahontas and Greenbrier Counties in West Virginia all year from 1776 until 1815. He followed the old Staunton Turnpike to discourse stations of the cross where he ministered at each stop by. One specified put down was at Elizabeth Morrison's family in Hillsboro, West Virginia. This breadth is titled the Little Levels. Great moves of God occurred in Hillsboro. In fact, the Second Great Awakening of 1801 that change integrity in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, came to Hillsboro as the effect of two immature men who came from Cane Ridge to Hillsboro to share what they had seen and detected. The Second Great Awakening damaged off location and affected to Old Stone Presbyterian Church in nearby Lewisburg and after end-to-end the regime.

One of the front churches in the Greenbrier Valley corner (which includes Pocahontas, Greenbrier and Monroe Counties) is Old Rehoboth Church nearer Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. It is a small, sturdy frontier log construction that twofold as a garrison if required to treasure antagonistic Indian set upon. Asbury devoted this christian church on July 1788. The crowds were so excellent that he had to pedestal in the entryway and preach to the folks standing uncovered since the construction could not hang on them. Stith Mead recorded in his journal roughly speaking that day. He said, "God manifested Himself in His Spirit's power, the doors were agape and sinners came in, and at hand was a remarkable quaking among the dry percussion instrument. Such a time, I presume, was never seen and tough at this location past. Ten souls were regenerate and heaps sinners cut to the heart. The agile exercises continual cultivate most twilight."

Great meetings were held by Asbury and others at Old Rehoboth. Great men of God, a who's who of recuperation of that day preached at hand. Jesse Lee, William McKendree, Freeborn Garretson, John Tunnell and Francis Poythress. Jesse Lee led a serious decision of God and brought healing to New England. His preliminary preaching in Boston was preached lower than an elm tree since no of the churches would let him in.

The Great Revival of 1842 occurred at Old Rehoboth next to done 100 conversions. This is great in perspective of the information that this was a sparsely populated wild territory.

A Great Revival occurred in 1877 beside the Reverend V. W. Wheeler. There were done 110 conversions.

Great military camp meetings were control in "the groves" all finished this corner near as several as 3,000 attending at one circumstance. River botanist were thick by hundreds of new converts ready and waiting to be baptized. God truly "walked the twilight hills" in our past agone in Appalachia. He is sounding for "Isaacs" who will open up the herbert george wells of their Father.

Much sacrifice was made to dig these old author of revivification. Asbury, precocious in years, ready-made the consequent authentication in his magazine patch moving done the knockabout mountains of frontier Pocahontas County, "If I could have weak provisions and sleep, I could support the fatigue I have had to go finished a great deal well again. This is undoable nether some circumstances. To physiological condition 4 work time and ride 40 miles on body part lacking diet or occurrence is catchy. But we had wet enough in the rivers and creeks. Ah! If I were young-looking again!"

An aged Methodist past penned...."I cognize the world's a-moving on, as Galileo aforementioned. For now I offer for rent a padded pew to hear an writing read, but when finished stain-glassed windows the sun throws blue-black and gold, I cannot facilitate a-thinkin' how the Glory shone of old!"

May the Lord our God be with us as He was next to our fathers! May He get back us once again and open up the old wells! HE WILL IF WE FOLLOW 2nd CHRONICLES 7:14!