In recent international surveys, it is estimated that in the year 2000, the people who spoke in tongues and identified

themselves as Pentecostals or Charismatics numbered 570 million. (That means that probably more than half of those in the broader Protestant or Evangelical traditions would be Holy Spirit-oriented.) What can we learn about revival from history? 1. Revival comes in waves. 2. The waves seem to be getting closer together. 3. The major Tsunami waves have been 500 years apart but are also getting closer. 4. Revival comes to those who are seeking God for a deeper relationship with Him. 5. Consecration is required, at least for the initial band of seekers 6. There is a price to pay for revival: time, focus, dying to self, and the giving up of programs & plans. 7. Protracted meetings are a common trigger point. 8. There is a common thread of impartation and succession as fathers of revival stir the hearts of sons and pass on the torch. Many fires are lit from the fire of another first. 9. Humility is critical; we must not care who gets the credit. 10. Never go thinking a revival needs you but rather that you need revival. 11. He is still born in stables: small out of the way places. 12. God chooses to use men to set fires and they are always imperfect.

How is Revival Often Hindered? 1. Competition among people who want their own ministries to succeed 2. Tiredness among the workers of the revival 3. Envy and Jealousy prevent revival or spoil one in progress 4. Self-seeking and promotion or even self-preservation entering means the end is near 5. THE CONTROL SPIRIT (the larger the movement, the more the destroyer of revivals creeps in) 6. A spirit of manipulation that operates using people like Jezebel
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7. A Leviathan spirit often targets the apostolic and will twist and separate key players 8. Using it to start a movement or to be a sectarian barrier to form a separate group is to advertise our failure 9. Faking manifestations (as seen in the Azusa Street Revival showed the dangers of) while also not becoming too legalistic sometimes it is better to tolerate some flesh than to risk stopping people from receiving