Just like the town of Moonta in South Australia, which was the site of revival many times in the nineteenth century, the methodist college at Asbury in Kentucky, USA, has seen revival again and again. Reports indicate it may be happening again.
“On the morning of February 8, a seemingly normal chapel service took place at the campus’s Hughes Auditorium. It included a message about confession and repentance, according to reports , says Ministrywatch an independent news service. After the service was over, a group of students stayed behind to continue worshipping. Then more joined them.
“According to reports being shared on social media, students have been in the chapel for over 24 hours reading scripture, praying, singing, and sharing personal testimonies.”
those online reports include this from Asbury Theological Seminary Vice President of Formation Matt Barnes.
“God is on the move in a special way at Asbury University and Asbury Theological Seminary!
“Beginning during their chapel service at AU, God began pouring out his love among the students in a profound way. The students continued praying and worshiping even though chapel had concluded, very reminiscent of the 1970 revival in Wilmore.
“And a few minutes ago when I left at 1030pm, there were still hundreds of people there worshiping, being prayed for, repenting, and beginning to follow Jesus!
“Pray for this move of the Lord to continue! Pray for people’s hearts to be fertile ground for the move of the Spirit! Pray that all of this would be to the glory of the Father!”
Revival is defined as a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit that invoves repentence and seeking god, followed by witnessing of the changes bought about it peoples lives. A revival in 1970 at Asbury saw classes cancelled for a week and 2,000 witnessing teams were sent out from Asbury to churches and colleges across the country.
Alexandra Presta, an Asbury senior and executive editor of The Asbury Collegian, the student newspaper told the Roys Report that she was impelled to skip a class on wednesday and return to chapel when she heard the choir still singing.“And I was like, ‘That’s weird. Why are they still going?’” she said. “And then I just felt the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, told me to go back upstairs. And so I did.”
As of Saturday the meeting was still going with students coming from other campuses in the region. Once again classes and assigmnets at Asbury have been cancelled so students can take part in the prayers and worship,
Revival has happened in Australia.
Historians stuart Piggin and Robert Linder report a large number of revivals in australia in the ir two volume historyy of evangelicalism in Australia Fountain of Public Propserity and Attending to the National Soul. Of the Moonta revivals among cornish miners they reportpreading through the branches of Methodism.
In 1902 in Melbourne evangelist R.A. Torrey drew 250,000 people a week to the at the Exhibition Building out of a population of 500,000. In the Illawarra, revival came the same year. As Piggin recounts “the pit ponies in the mines stopped work as they could not undertand their instructions” as swearing had ceased.
I pray that this spreads to Wisconsin!!!!! Keep it going.