Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! —2 Corinthians 5:17
One of the marked characteristics of the Welsh Revival in 1904 was an inescapable sense of God’s presence. Church services that had been cold and formal began to throb with new life. Believers and unbelievers alike came under intense conviction of sin; confession and restitution—sometimes costly—became the order of the day. Churches were crowded day and night—not in response to promotion or advertising efforts or celebrity speakers but as people were irresistibly drawn by the Spirit of God. Within five months, 100,000 new converts had been added to the churches.
The impact of the revival was felt in every nook and cranny of society—the gambling and alcohol businesses lost trade; brothels were closed; outstanding debts were paid; the illegitimate birth rate was reduced by forty-four percent in two counties; mules in the mines had to be retrained because the coalminers no longer used profanity when giving orders. Life as they knew it had been changed by the power of God.
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Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival
©2009 Life Action Ministries
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Pray that God would work in the hearts of believers and unbelievers that we might see a revival like this in our day.