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Revival, the Will of God
Wesley Duewel

Wesley Leonard Duewel (1916–2016). Born on January 26, 1916, in Nashville, Illinois, to missionary-minded parents, Wesley L. Duewel was an American missionary, pastor, and author renowned for his writings on prayer and revival. At age five, he felt called to missions while playing in his sandbox, a conviction that led him to serve nearly 25 years in India with One Mission Society (OMS), starting in 1940. There, he pastored, evangelized, and held leadership roles, including president of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. After returning to the U.S., he served as OMS president from 1964 to 1982, later becoming President Emeritus and Special Assistant for Evangelism and Intercession. Duewel earned a Doctor of Education from the University of Cincinnati and an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Taylor University. He founded the Duewel Literature Trust, authoring 10 books, including Mighty Prevailing Prayer (1990), Ablaze for God (1989), Touch the World Through Prayer (1986), and Revival Fire (1995), with over 2.5 million copies in 58 languages, urging believers to deepen their prayer life. A global speaker, he ministered in over 45 countries, edited Revival Magazine, and served on boards like the National Association of Evangelicals. Married to Hilda, with one daughter, Carol, he died on March 5, 2016, in Greenwood, Indiana, at 99. Duewel said, “Prayer is God’s ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.”
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the power and presence of God in bringing revival. He shares a story of a coal miner who was so gripped by the presence of God that he ran home to pray, leaving his lunch kit behind. The preacher encourages the audience not to hesitate in seeking revival, as God is a God of revival and will pour out his spirit on the thirsty land. He references Isaiah 44:2-3, where God promises to pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground, symbolizing the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The preacher concludes by urging the audience to open their hearts to God and pray for his glory and mighty arm to be revealed.
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This is my 56th year with OMS International. Went out to India as a young man and had 25 years serving the Lord in and for India, and they tied me down, made me a vice president, then they made me a president, and when I got young enough I could turn that work over to other people, and now I am giving myself to the Ministry of Writing. I feel like it's a third period in my life, actually, and becoming more fruitful all the time, and also in holding prayer retreats, pastors' conferences, and things like that in the USA, nearby places, and farther places. So I ask your prayer and indulgence. I'm getting older all the time, my wife tells me that, and that means that I forget names very quickly, so forgive me if I have to look at your name tag carefully, even though I have met you before, and I also do not hear as well as I once did, so I may have to ask you to repeat occasionally. Now may the Lord bless us. Shall we just bow our heads for one more moment? Dear Jesus, you are the Lord of the Church, you are the Lord of the Harvest, you're the Lord of Revival, you are the Lord of our lives. Oh, we have given ourselves to you, but we want to give ourselves to you again, and we pray that you would be with us, and that you would guide and anoint in this session. Be our teacher, we ask in your holy name, amen. Revival is the will of God. I want you to be very, very convinced of that. When I wrote my first book, Touch the World Through Prayer, the Lord in his goodness has allowed that to be in 34 different languages or national editions around the world, to my amazement. But in that I had a section of one of the chapters where I spoke about always prayers. There are many prayers which we need God's guidance to know the will of God. Healing, we do not always know the will of God until we seek his guidance. Paul had to be guided in that regard. But there are some things that are always God's will. It's not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. The salvation of a soul may be one of the most difficult kinds of prayer answers to obtain, but it is always the will of God. Charles Finney, I mean George Mueller, who is the great example of faith and obedience in regard to finance and other things, was a great soul winner also. George Mueller tells us toward the close of his life that in his journals he has a record of more than 50,000 prayers that were answered the day he asked them. That is an amazing record. But when he prayed for the salvation of his friends, shortly after his conversion, he began to pray every day for five of his young friends. And he prayed for, I believe it was seven years before the first one was saved. And after 15 years, two more were saved. And after 35 years of praying, number four was saved. And shortly before his death, he said, I have one more. I have been praying for him for 52 years, and he's not saved yet, but he will be. If I don't live to see it, he will be saved. And two weeks after his death, number five came to the Lord. Where the human will is involved, it's difficult. It takes time. Give God time to answer your prayers. Hold on and don't give up. So salvation is always the will of God. Revival is always the will of God. My subject this morning is that revival is the will of God. God is the will of that kind of a God. He is a reviving God. You cannot produce revival. You can prepare the way of the Lord for revival. Praise God. And we'll be talking about that some of these days. But you cannot control revival. You cannot manipulate revival. You cannot start revival. You can only obey God and live for God. But God is a God of revival. And when you're praying for revival, you always know you're praying in the will of God. God wants to revive his people. God wants to revive his church. I pray God that he will revive and send an awakening in your nation and mine. We need revival. I do not need to take time to convince you that we need revival. God knows far more than we how desperately we need revival. But revival is the will of God. I want you to get courage in your prayer. I want you to be strong in faith, giving glory to God. I want you to pray with hope that you will see revival. My last book, Revival Fire, is primarily a history of revival. It's not so much teaching revival, but telling what God has done. The purpose is to make people hungry for God to do that again in our days. To realize that God can exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. To help us to realize that revival is the work of God. So I'm praying that God will use that to multiply prayer for revival, to deepen hunger for revival, to strengthen expectancy and faith for revival. Because I believe God's willing to send revival again. And this is God's day. And the age of the church is an age of revival. This is a dispensation of revival. Till Jesus comes again, we can expect God to fulfill his covenant and to fulfill his promises. God is a God of revival and revival is the will of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Praise God for that. Psalm 85 6. Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Wherever revival comes, there is rejoicing. When revival comes, God's people are blessed. When revival comes, new life, new refreshing. Things which I like to call the autographs of God, that only God could do. Man cannot produce and man would not expect, but God in his own sovereign way works. There is always rejoicing when God comes in revival. And though in the Old Testament times we had many occasions which we can legitimately call revival, they're often quite different from some of the revivals which we speak of in the age of the church. But they were manifestations of God's awesome, holy presence and power. They were visitations of God. They were outpourings and workings of his Holy Spirit. Revivals are so varied. They're so different. You cannot pattern revivals. God works in his own holy way, but revival is God's will. And the psalmist was led to pray, will you not revive us again? You may have experienced revival in gracious ways. I hope you can testify personally to having been revived by the Holy Spirit. But you can pray that prayer, will you not revive us again? I don't care if you have had an outpouring of the Spirit in your local church. I hope you have. And you look back and you like to tell what God did during those days. But you can have revival again. Will you not revive us again? As you study Old Testament revivals, you see that there were some revivals that came fairly soon after a previous revival. Asa's revival was a mighty work of God, but Jehoshaphat's revival was even greater. And revival can come at different times. It can come when we're desperately in need of it, like the revival of Great Awakening in the days of Wesley Whitefield. What hopeless situation, who would ever believe that revival could come in a time like that? But God sent revival. And it's never too late for God. God can send revival in our day today. But it may be that it's a long time since you've had a mighty movement of revival. It's too long now. Oh, we've had many local revivals. We've had somewhat regional revivals here and there. But a sweeping revival that were the farthest leap from country to country, it's about 90 years since God did something like that. It's time for God to work again. Will you not revive us again, O Lord? I thought your people may rejoice in you. Psalm 80, 17 and 19. Let your right hand rest upon the man at your right hand, the son of man that you have raised up for yourself. Revive us and we will call upon your name. Restore us, O Lord Almighty, and make your face shine upon us. God has to place his hand upon us when he chooses to use someone as his instrument in revival blessing. He places his hand upon that one and that person is sovereignly used by God. And in passing, let me say that if God sends a mighty revival this year, we do not know where it will begin or who God will use. It might be someone in this room would be used of God to light the fire that was sent off a chain of revival blessing and work, because I believe that the greatest revival is yet to come. Let your right, let your hand rest upon the man of your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself. Revive us and we will call upon your name. Now, I'll speak later about the role of prayer in preparing the way of the Lord for revival. When it not only prepares the way of the Lord, it leads to mighty praying. When revival comes, there are people who pray that have never prayed before. When revival comes, the church prays as it never prayed before. When revival comes, people learn a lot in Christ's school of prayer. Praise God. A school, by the way, you will never graduate from. Habakkuk 3.2. Lord, I have heard of your fame. Praise God. You and I have heard of revival. I like to go over those revival stories again and again to rekindle my faith and my zeal. God has done such great things in the past. Lord, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. When God comes in revival power, his awesome presence is revealed. It's always a new revelation of God. It's a new visitation of God on a people, among his people. It begins, of course, with the house of God, but it doesn't end there. In the more profound of revival, the more widespread it begins to spread, and the awesome presence of God can grip the unsaved. In times of great waves of revival power, sinners have been gripped by the awesome power of God. People who did not come inside the church building have been gripped by the power of God. The awesome presence of God. Brother Duncan Campbell told me how, incidentally, I hope to be at Barvis where the revival began. I hope to be there in a couple of weeks' time, but God woke up people. God got people out of bed in the middle of the night to come to the police station. No meeting announced, but the awesome presence of God gripping people. They're pulled. They're drawn. The awesome presence of God. When the awesome presence of God came to Loha in Gorsinian in the Evan Roberts revival or the Welsh revival of 1904-5, there was one night when the people were gripped. Two o'clock in the morning, and they started for the church. No meeting announced, but the people were gripped, brought the awesome presence of God. I have heard of your fame, and I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. I was in the Evans home having tea with them, and they told me when revival came, a coal miner returning from his shift in the mines, walking down the street with his lunch kit in his hand, so gripped by the awesome presence of God, he had to get home to pray, and he started a little faster, and he started a little faster, and he got to walking faster, and he finally he started running down the street. He was gripped by the awesome power of God, and he got by their house. He couldn't make it any further. He just ran, pushed the door open, and his lunch kit slid across the floor, and he went across the floor on his hands and knees, beginning calling on God for mercy. He couldn't wait till he got to his own house. The awesome, awesome power of God. That doesn't happen all the time. No, I'm not saying that, but I'm saying God can make his awesome presence known. And Habakkuk, he knew something of the awe of God, the reverence of God, and he said, I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time, make them known. May the Lord grant you and me the privilege of seeing some revelations of God beyond anything we have ever known. They'll not be the same as at other times and places, but may God be pleased to give us a visitation of his divine, holy presence that will change us, change the church, and change society. Isaiah 57, 14 and 15. Build up, build up, prepare the road, remove the obstacles out of the way of my people, for this is what the high and lofty one says. He who lives forever, whose name is holy, I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. Praise God. What is revival? Who can define revival? Many attempts are made and they have a lot in common, but God's revival can begin with the individual. If no one else experiences revival, you can have revival, if you meet God's conditions. Revival can be family. God has revived families again and again. When widespread revival comes, many families are revived. Many of them have a family, almost, you might say, visitation of God, in the midst of a general visitation of God. They tell us that in the 58, 59 revival in the states that then leaped across the ocean, went from place to place. Perhaps one of the first really international revivals. A family of deaf and dumb people, gripped by the spirit of God, the awesome presence of God. A whole family, saved, around the dining room table, without a preacher being present. There's a family revival. Family revival. Praise God we can have family revivals. Many people during revival times have been gripped in their homes. In the time of Wesley, a sinner so gripped by God, he was knocked off his chair on the floor in his own home. No preacher present. God can work in our homes. There's no place too difficult for God. Let's ask God to work in his own sovereign way. Build up. Build up. But you see, there's something for us to do. We can't bring revival. We can't earn revival. But we can prepare the way of the Lord. Build up. Build up. Prepare the road. Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people. Oh, the obstacles in homes, and the obstacles in churches, and the obstacles in communities that are in the way of the Lord. But praise God any believer can begin removing obstacles by prayer and obedience to God. And when the obstacles are removed, revival may begin most anyplace. How far it will spread, I do not know. Maybe I'll touch a little on that later. There's something, there's much mystery about revival, just as there is much mystery about prayer. You can't earn revival. But you can obey God. And you must obey God. And God uses people that obey him. And God gives his Holy Spirit to those who obey him. And when Evan Roberts was used of God's son, say he never did preach a sermon. But he'd walk up and down the aisles and say, obey God. Obey the Lord. Obey God. And there's something very, very strategic in holy obedience. And God uses those who obey him. And you will never know what he will do through you until you begin to listen to his voice and learn to experience his touch and his holy guidance. One of the many works of the Holy Spirit, the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of the spirit is so profound during times of revival. And it takes the obedience of many people to help revival spread. In Ulster, a butcher had to obey God, but when he obeyed God, it reached thousands of people. Never would he have dreamed that he would be the instrument of God for something like that. But when we obey God, we help repair the way of the Lord, remove the obstacles out of the way of my people. For this is what the high and lofty one who says he who lives forever, whose name is holy. Oh, for a revelation of the holiness of God, how our generation needs a revelation of the holiness of God. What convicts sin, people have sinned like a revelation of the holiness of God. Perhaps one reason why the Welsh revival took off so rapidly. There'd been so much good, sound preaching on God and the holiness of God and biblical doctrines among the Welsh people for years, but it took God to light the fire. But when there is a preparation, when people understand who God is, alas, your generation and mine have lost the understanding of the holiness of God, of a reverence of God. We need God somehow to reveal himself again and what it will take. I do not know, but God knows that he can do it. So the high and holy one whose name is holy. I live, says God, in a house. He lives in a high and holy place. The seraphim and the seraphim bow before him. Holy, holy, holy Lord God almighty. I live in that holy place. I live, I must live in a holy place, but also, praise God for the also, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit. I live with him. Praise God. I live with a contrite holy person. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God and he will lift you up. I live with that person to do what? To revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. Praise God. Praise God. Oh, there's so many places that prove to us that revival is the will of God. Isaiah 41, 18. I will make rivers flow on barren heights. The barren places where we need the waters to flow. I will make rivers flow on the barren heights and springs within the valleys. I will turn the deserts into pools of water and parched ground into springs in this beautiful symbolism of the Old Testament. He is giving us a further picture of refreshing and the outpouring of the streams of blessing. The Holy Spirit in both Old Testament and New Testament is likened to water, an abundance of water, streams that flow. I will make rivers flow even on the barren heights and springs within the valleys. I will turn the deserts into pools of water. That's abundance of water. Pools in the desert. Praise God. That doesn't happen naturally. That happens supernaturally. And then Isaiah 44 verses 2 and 3. Isaiah, the great prophet of revival. Praise God. Thank God for Isaiah. Thank God for the book of Isaiah. He could speak with the authority of God. This is what the Lord says. I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit. Yes, it's the water of the spirit he's talking about back there in Isaiah's day. I will pour water. We love that gospel song. I will pour water on him who is thirsty. I will pour streams upon the dry ground. Open your heart for the gift I am bringing while you are seeking me. While you are seeking me, I will be found. That's the God of revival. That's the God of revival. The will of God is revival because God is a God of revival. This is his general plan in the universe. This is his spiritual plan for the church. Believe it. Don't hesitate to seek revival. God is a God of revival. I, this is what the Lord says, I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit. Praise God. Oh, can you feel that holy satisfaction in the heart of God? I will pour out my spirit. What does it take to awaken the church? What does it take to help us to believe the word of God? What does it take for us to realize the heartbeat of God? As I was flying on the plane last night coming here, I said over and over, oh Lord, help me to give you a heartbeat. Help me to help us realize your heartbeat, the heart of God, the God of revival, the almighty God who longs to pour out his blessing upon his church, who longs to see his church revived, who longs to see his church empowered by the Holy Spirit as our brother was getting to this morning. Praise God. He is a God of holy power, spirit power, almighty power, but power for you and me. Amazing grace. Why would God want to clothe us with power? The divine God, why didn't God use angels or seraphim? But he chose us and he's been patient with you and me. And even though our churches are far from what we know God wants them to be, we may feel like almost like giving up. Is there hope? Yes, there's hope. Because God is God and because God is a God of revival and because God is determined to do his holy work. 2 Chronicles 7, 14. That beautiful covenant of God that God gave way back to Solomon. I know it is given in a specific circumstance. It has national implications. It is in accord with the whole plan and purpose of God. This is the God we have. This is the God we serve. If my people. If. Well, listen to that. If. If my people who are called by my name, they're supposed to be mine. They're supposed to be at my service. They're called by my name. If they will humble themselves. Oh God, help us to learn this. How can we humble ourselves? If they will humble themselves and pray and seek my face. When I hold prayer seminars or prayer conferences, I speak about different levels of prevailing prayer, especially in my book, Mighty Prevailing Prayer. And I try to point out what a little, give a little hint of what it means to seek God's face. This isn't just asking. Praise God, we can ask and receive. But there are situations where we will only get the results if we seek and then we will find. Seeking goes clear beyond asking. Seeking involves something of holy determination. Seeking probably involves something of heart hunger, gripping out, reaching out toward God. Seeking means that we're not taking no for an answer. Seeking means that if we don't get the answer quickly, we say, did I misunderstand you, Lord? Is there something that I'm not getting quite straight? Seeking says, Lord, is there anything in me that's hindering? Is there anything I can do to help repair the way of the Lord? Am I a stumbling block anyplace? Oh God, show me if I'm in the way, help me to get out of the way. Seeking means we're serious about wanting the answer from God. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves rather than think how dry or how disobedient somebody else is, humble themselves and pray and not only pray, but pray and seek my face. Oh, God loves to give things to those who seek him. Praise God. And turn from their wicked ways. As our brother said this morning, we don't think of not being filled with the spirit as being a wicked way. We don't think of some of our things, our weaknesses, as we call them, as being wicked. But if they hinder the work of God, if they cripple the church of God, if they block what God wants to do, if they bring discredit on God, or if we could see ourselves in God's sight. God help us to see ourselves. Well, if we saw it totally, it would overwhelm us, I'm sure. But if we could begin to get a glimpse of how we are in God. Yes, he loves us so much. Think of how much he loves us, how much he puts up with, how often he waits for us. Think of God's amazing grace and mercy and love. That's because he's a God of revival. He's a God of redemption. That's the kind of God we have. Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, praise God, and will heal their land. Oh, I've been trying to emphasize this as I go from place to place. Last month in Korea, yes, Korea needs healing. They're ashamed, they're broken. Two of their presidents, ex-presidents in prison in the Orient, that's face losing. That's disgrace. But God wants to heal our lands. When OMS moved to Indianapolis, we thought it was a lovely area, a quiet area. We were grateful. We moved from Los Angeles, from the Hollywood section, by the way. We're gangs. Fought with chains outside the windows of our office building. And our secretaries were several times chased down the street and came running frightened and almost hysterical. The community become that debased. Yes, there are American cities that have that kind of a situation, many of them today. The crime in our cities, what a disgrace. What a disgrace. Yes, my land needs healing. Your land needs healing. All of our lands need healing. It must have been true to some extent way back in Solomon's day. God said that there, I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land. Oh, may God heal our land. May God heal our land, but it's never too late for God. Never too late for God. Praise God. When the great awakening began, God got a group of little, a little group of mighty little men, formed a holy club. They didn't have full light yet, but they were going after it. They were trying to, they were seeking God. God brought them in clear light and then God sent that Wesleyan revival. It wasn't safe. To go out in the suburbs of London, it wasn't safe to go from one town to another unless you had armed guards with you. The famous prime minister had been living in immorality for 20 years. The whole nation knew it. Some of the great names of their society knew it. On everybody's tongue, Lord Chesterfield taught his own son how to seduce women. Is it too late? Some bishops prided themselves that they didn't bother to go near their diocese. One bishop prided himself he'd only gone one time to the area of his diocese. The church is so dry and the church is so dead. What can God do? That's the way it was with Savonarola before Martin Luther. When the church was so immoral and society was so immoral, too late. What can God do now? God got one young man. One young man and for eight years turned the tide and sent revival until people went from house to house calling on little children going from house to house in Florence calling on people to give up their sins. Who was his prayer team? What citywide committee was it? None. One young man who loved God, who was hungry for God to work, who believed God could change things. One young man. What kind of a revival team? Where is a revival team? And yet he could turn an emperor and his army back single-handed. When the hand of God comes upon someone in Old Testament times or even to this day, that's a different person after the hand of God's on him while the hand of God is on him. You saw that picture on the TV when in Tiananmen Square in the confrontation in China a couple of years ago and one young student standing before a mighty tank and stopped it. That was Savonarola. He went out to the French army. He had prophesied. God had given him a prophecy that this nation is going to be invaded and in answer to his own prophecy it happened. And then Savonarola starts out there to meet the French army. They're already across the Alps. They're all ready to march in the land. Too late. No, it's not too late. God has someone that will obey him. If God has someone with a burdened heart, someone that's seeking his face, fasting so much until he was so weak he could hardly stand up at times. But he was a man. God had somebody he could use. If God could do that back in those days, brothers and sisters, think of all the evangelicals across Canada and the United States and Europe. Think of all the people that are available to God today. Are we available? Do we have ears to hear? Can we sense the touch of God? Are we available to God? If God could do that in other days, do you remember I just read this, said Habakkuk, Lord, I've heard of your fame. That's what God has done. That's what God has done. He's the same God today. Oh Lord, renew the work in our time. In our time make known. Yes. So God is a God of revival. This is not contrary to God's nature. This is in accord with God's nature to come at the most desperate times if he has people that he can use. Oh, are we usable? Are we available to God? How available is our prayer life to God? Oh, that God would make us mighty in prevailing prayer. God could do such great things in our days. This is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. This is a dispensation of revival. If God could do great things in Old Testament days, what could he do today? If God could do great things in the Middle Ages, inspire the surrounding darkness, squelching out the light. If God could do great things, if he had an instrument, someone who would fast and pray and hold on to the horns of the altars, and refuse to let go. What can God do today with all the people that love him? The pastors and the evangelists and the singers and the gospel workers and godly women and men in the churches. Oh, that God could arouse us and convince us that this is the day of revival. This is the day of grace. The day of wrath is coming. The Bible is very clear. But this is the day of grace. This is the day of the God of grace, the God of revival. It's not too late for God. God is always a God of grace. Oh, he's a God of judgment. He's a God of wrath. That's true. And he will pronounce that judgment on sin and evil. He's been very patient. Count the Lord's long-suffering that he hasn't visited the earth with greater judgment before this. But he's a God who hears and answers prayer. Do you know that we're the only religion in the world that has a sacred book with promises in it? Did you know that the Hindus don't have any book of promises? In fact, if you know orthodox Hinduism, it's blasphemy to pray. Because since I am God and I am you and I am everything else in this world, that's Hindu philosophy. Then why should I pray? I'm just talking to myself. What do they have to offer the world? Or if you believe in Allah, who is too great to make a promise, too great to have character. Because if you had to live up to your character, then God would not be free. He would be bound. What certainty does a Muslim have that he will go to the heaven that Muhammad and his followers described, where every faithful one has 70,000 spirit concubines? What chance do you have to get there? It depends upon the whim of Allah. He doesn't guarantee that all Muhammadans will go to heaven. On the last day, he will say to some, to the right, to heaven, and I care not. He'll say to the left, that's to hell, and I care not. He's too great to care. I remember when we got a student who had been converted from Islam in our seminary in Allahabad, India. We had to teach him the Christian truth. We had to teach him who the Christian God is. Oh, he thought he knew. He said to me one day, oh, he said, I fear God. Yes, he had a terror of God because he had the carryover of all that he'd been taught in Islam. That's the kind of God of wrath that you can't depend on. According to the whim of the moment, Allah will decide this or that or something else. But we have a God of promise. We have a God of character. We have a God of mercy. We have a God of love. Mercy triumphs over judgment. And we can have revival. God's word is full of it. God longs to do it. Oh, may God help us to seek his face. If my people will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, really mean it, really be determined to obey God, to seek my face, to take whatever step is necessary to get God's answer, to qualify, to humble themselves. When God sent revival to China, Jonathan Goforth had seen it in Korea. Someone gave him a copy of Finney's autobiography in his lectures. He said, if Finney is right, then we'll see revival. I think I'd invite you to go with the secretary from the office in Canada here to take a peek, see what's happening in Korea, if it's genuine, if it's the real thing. When he came back, he was on fire. Jonathan Goforth, one of your greatest Canadian missionaries, when he got back to China, said, oh, Mr. Goforth, don't expect that here. Don't expect that here. We don't lose face. People will not humble themselves. People will not confess their sins. Don't expect that. Don't expect anything in public like that. But Jonathan Goforth was a man of revival. Thank God for every man of revival. From that time on, wherever Jonathan Goforth went, revival came, usually within five days' time. That's amazing to me. That's amazing. Within five days' time. Sometimes the missionaries at the station he would go to hadn't been praying. Apparently hadn't been praying that much. And they were skeptical. They said, oh, don't expect it here, Mr. Goforth. Yes, he expected it, and he got it. Sometimes the revival didn't break until the fourth day and sometimes till the fifth day. But he expected revival. He had that power of the Lord on him you were talking about this morning, Brother Sibley. Praise God. Oh, God, come upon us all today. Oh, God, make us, us, men and women of God. It's not too late. Believe it. God is a God of revival. God is a God who keeps his covenant. He dares to make his promises and he'll fulfill his promises. No other God like him in the world. Our God is God. Praise God. I don't want to speak anymore. I want us to pray. I want us to take the last minutes and one right after another, open your heart to God and pray as God leads you. Pray comparatively brief. You can say more than one or two sentences. But let's obey God. Let's open our hearts to him. Be free in the Lord. Yes. Lord, help us. Jesus, Jesus. Yes. Amen. Oh, God. Praise God. Praise God. We want to see your glory. We want to see your mighty arm made bare. Amen. Praise God. Praise the Lord. We love you, Lord Jesus. Thank you for your unchanging love. Thank you for your infinite patience with us. You were patient with Israel in the Old Testament. You have given us so much more gospel light in the New Testament. And yet we have disappointed you again and again. Oh, God, forgive us. Forgive us. Lord, we pray that you would continue to talk to us. Help us to hear your voice, Lord. May your words become living words to us. We want to see your glory revealed in our day. We want to see sin rebuked in our day. We want to see evil disgraced and cast out of our land. We want to see people repenting and turning from their sins and making things right with God and man. And what a new sense of morality. Oh, God, among the people.
Revival, the Will of God
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Wesley Leonard Duewel (1916–2016). Born on January 26, 1916, in Nashville, Illinois, to missionary-minded parents, Wesley L. Duewel was an American missionary, pastor, and author renowned for his writings on prayer and revival. At age five, he felt called to missions while playing in his sandbox, a conviction that led him to serve nearly 25 years in India with One Mission Society (OMS), starting in 1940. There, he pastored, evangelized, and held leadership roles, including president of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. After returning to the U.S., he served as OMS president from 1964 to 1982, later becoming President Emeritus and Special Assistant for Evangelism and Intercession. Duewel earned a Doctor of Education from the University of Cincinnati and an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Taylor University. He founded the Duewel Literature Trust, authoring 10 books, including Mighty Prevailing Prayer (1990), Ablaze for God (1989), Touch the World Through Prayer (1986), and Revival Fire (1995), with over 2.5 million copies in 58 languages, urging believers to deepen their prayer life. A global speaker, he ministered in over 45 countries, edited Revival Magazine, and served on boards like the National Association of Evangelicals. Married to Hilda, with one daughter, Carol, he died on March 5, 2016, in Greenwood, Indiana, at 99. Duewel said, “Prayer is God’s ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.”