Why was the woman with the vial of oil always to be remembered when the gospel is preached? Jesus said so.
Mark 14:9 and Mathew 26:13 “Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the entire world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”
She left the room with the same scent as was upon Jesus – they smelt the same. Aroma of His presence was upon her. Anointing – Power – Presence. She carried revival.
!948 -1952 was the Hebrides Revival In 2011 I went to the Island to learn from others. At the time of visiting the Island there were only six people surviving and I had the privilege of meeting 5 of them, I asked questions and this is what I learnt from them:
The gospel of a broken heart demands the ministry from bleeding hearts.
Eternity was real, Heaven was real, Hell was real…. so the real question still be asked by God is,”Adam where are you?
Truths they knew became living their reality.
Duncan Campbell said, “Revival is God going among His people, and the awareness of God laying hold of the community”.
Annie MacKinnon, “I felt as if the Spirit of the Lord was in the very air one was breathing – and it was just wonderful! The atmosphere was not just in the church it was everywhere.”
Revival is not localised – it goes with you.
Revival leaves a mark on you that cannot be erased.
Agnes Morrison, “Whatever we were doing and wherever we were, we were conscious of the presence of God. We had no desire to go to sleep. Even though we had so little sleep we were not tired.”
His presence was described as a canopy overhead.
The presence of God was so heavy, thick and swept through as in Ac 2.
A wind has a moving presence. It is felt.
People fall, go into trances, weep, sing, lie still and the after affect is deliverance man gets out the way of his flesh and participates.
Worship we simply sang the word of God, Psalms was our song sheet.
They said: “Words become arrows in the hands of the almighty – many slain.
They described worship as: I have not heard anything like it, out of this world, was powerful, like a fire going through you, glorious, almost supernatural, full of joy & spiritual power, a foretaste of heaven.”
Donald Smith: “As you sing in revival you sense the Spirits presence and know the reality of the subject which you are singing to the extent that you want to reach out and touch it.”
One of the outstanding features was joy among us all … “will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you?”
All were welcome – all denominations.
Mc Veagh described the key to preaching for revival. Formalism verses power of God.
Formalistic preaching never raised the dead.
Only a demonstration of divine power can do that.
The biggest hindrance to revival is when:
Churches pray for the manifestation of the presence of God but draw back in fear when He shows up, dynamic and sensational things happen, and many leaders do not like the sensational.
But how can you have the demonstration of God’s Spirit without having sensational things happening?
Raising the dead,
Healing the sick, when a mass of stinking rotten flesh detaches from a sick human body and falls into the floor.
Walking on water,
Pentecost, trances,
Mud in the eye,
Were these not sensational things that happened – even for our day.
OT “you have limited the Holy One of Israel” and its echo in the NT is “because of your unbelief” shall we be guilty of unbelief through our fear of God working in an unorthodox way?
Hugh Black “I have found in Lewis a great quickening of spiritual faculties. In a parcular way the veil between this world and the spiritual world seems to be very thin. The things of God become very real”