READ: 1 TIMOTHY2:1-4
Today, we
need to rediscover the old-fashioned revival which characterized the early
church. We must pray until we are revived once again. As I read the Scriptures,
time and again, I see the need for a re-enactment of the spontaneous eruption
of Holy Ghost revival which was a common feature in the early church, as well
as in the good old days when we were new converts. For example, in the early
church, their prayers used the shake foundations. Acts 4:31testifies: “And
when they have prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken;
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God
with boldness.” The saints prayed and there was a visible earthquake.
We need to go back to the good old days. When we pray, the whole earth should
shake. I know you would wonder if such things could ever happen again. You are
mistaking. In 1979, I as in Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, USA praying with my late
father-in-the-Lord, Pa Akindayomi, and four others. As we prayed in Pa
Akindayomi’s top floor room, he told us something that led to serious prayers:
that I would succeed him. It was not a very easy day. As the six of us prayed
in the room, there suddenly came an urgent knock on the door. When we opened
the door, it was the hotel engineer staring at us in great anxiety. He asked us
what type of instruments we were playing that shook the building the way it
did. We said we were not praying any instrument but were only praying. He did not
believe us. He said, “But the foundation of the hotel was shaking!” We had t
stop our prayers for him to search our room. When he finished searching, he
still could not believe we were just praying. Mind you, this happened in 1979,
and not 100 A.D. people can still pray and shake the foundations of a building.
God has changed. What He did in those days, He can still do today.
MEMORIZE:
1THESSALONIANS5:17 –Pray without ceasing.
