Amazing Grace for Unlikely People
March 7, 2024

Jonah 3:1-10

Revivals throughout “His Story”

The Revivals in the “former days”: (Old Testament)

For example, Judges, I Samuel 7:1-13, II Chronicles 15:1-15, II Kings 11-12, Ezra 8, and…Jonah 3!

The Ten Greatest Revivals in the “later days” (Beginning with Pentecost)

  1. Pentecost, the Beginning of Revival, A.D. 30
  2. The Pre‐Reformation Revivals, 1300‐1500
  3. The Protestant Reformation, 1517
  4. The Great Awakening, 1727‐1750
  5. The Second Great Awakening, 1780‐1810
  6. The General Awakening, 1830‐1840
  7. The Layman’s Prayer Revival, 1857‐1861
  8. The Revival of 1904
  9. The World War II Revival, 1935‐1950
  10. The Baby Boomer Revival, 1965‐1975s

The Nine Faces of Revival

  1. Repentance Revival: emphasis on cleaning up one’s life and society.
  2. Evangelism Revival: emphasis on winning souls to Christ.
  3. Worship Revival: emphasis on magnifying God.
  4. Deeper Life Revival: experiencing God’s indwelling.
  5. Spiritual Warfare Revival: battling demons and Satan.
  6. Holy Spirit Revival: emphasis on the Spirit’s manifestations.
  7. Reconciliation Revival: removing barriers to racial harmony.
  8. Liberation revival: freeing from corporate and personal bondage to sin.
  9. Prayer Revival: an enormous movement of intercession and prayer

Characteristics of All of These Revivals:

  1. Each began in the heart of a consecrated servant of God who became the energizing power behind it.
  2. All resulted in a return to the worship of God.
  3. Each revival rested on the Word of God, and most were the result of proclaiming God’s Word with power.
  4. They occurred in times of moral darkness and national depression.
  5. Each witnessed the destruction of idols where they existed.
  6. In each revival, there was a recorded separation from sin.
  7. In every revival the people returned to obeying God’s laws.
  8. There was a restoration of great joy and gladness.
  9. Each revival was followed by a period of national prosperity.