Morning by Morning, May 31 - “Mantle of Revival”
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You and embrace You, here in my heart and every moment of my day – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ...
I woke up extra early this morning and couldn’t sleep, so I read an email from Dutch Sheets with his morning devotional today from “Give Him Fifteen, An Appeal to Heaven.” He was speaking of a dream about revival from his friend and prophetic intercessor, Gina Gholston. As she spoke of Evan Roberts and Welsh Revival and Moriah Chapel and a “mantle of revival” and You wanting to impart that mantle for travailing prayer and revival to us in our generation, but even growing greater, my spirit starting jumping up and down inside of me like crazy! No time to sleep! Time to get up and pray! ...
You’re stirring up in my memory my ministry trip to Wales about twelve years ago in October of 2010, hosted by with my great friend and prophetic intercessor, Heather Butler, who lives at Holyhead, just across the channel from Ireland in Anglesey, Wales. I preached and prayed, while Heather sang prophetic songs over the people, over the churches, and over the land everywhere we went. One of the most exciting parts of that ministry trip for me was our three glorious days in the home town of Evan Roberts, in Loughor, Wales, where I was so honored and blessed to literally sleep in his bedroom (now a B & B!), pray in the Moriah Chapel Sunday School room at the pew where he prayed for revival, and then preach from his pulpit in Moriah Chapel in a rare and miraculous, as Heather sang over the people!
Praise You, Jesus! Praise You for every mantle of revival and impartation of passion to join Your people to see salvation, healing, deliverance, and a wave of revival in our generation like the world has never seen!
I’m remembering an old man, “Old Harold” they called him, back at Heather’s home church in northern Wales the Sunday morning before we started our ministry journey through Wales and down to Moriah Chapel in southern Wales. Harold’s mother was saved through the ministry of Evan Roberts in the great Welsh Revival. They called it “The Singing Revival.” As soon as I met him, I kneeled down and asked “Old Harold” to pray for me to carry that Spirit of Revival from Wales, along the lines of Paul’s prayer for impartation in Romans Chapter 1:
“For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established” (Romans 1:11 NKJV). “Some spiritual gift that will help you grow strong in the Lord” (NLT).
I just now dug up my Morning by Morning prayer devotional from that next day, twelve years ago, and I pray it back to You now, Lord, with that same longing for revival in my spirit today:
Morning by Morning, October 11, 2010 - “The Time of Singing has Come!”
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are great and mighty, merciful and kind. I honor You and welcome You into my thoughts and desires and every moment of my day. …
“My Beloved speaks and says to me: ‘Arise my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land’” (Song of Solomon 2:10-12).
You are the God who gives us voice to sing Your praise and declare Your goodness. After the Sunday morning message yesterday in Anglesey, Wales, a woman came up for prayer for persistent pain in her throat and damage from many years of smoking cigarettes. She could speak alright, but she hadn’t been able to sing in years, which had been a great passion of her heart.
After we prayed, Your Spirit stirred in my heart to ask her to sing. And she did! With each verse, her voice grew stronger! By the time she came to the verse of Your healing power, the whole church was filled with her voice and Your praises! As she cried with tears of thanksgiving for Your mercy and love, she said this was such a wonderful day--not only because of her miraculous healing, but also because her husband had come with her to church for the first time in a long time! She said he wasn’t saved, but she knew he’d heard God’s Word today and it would be a deep seed planted in his heart that would surely grow.
I looked and saw him standing at the back of the church and waved him up to us. I asked him if he heard how God healed his wife’s voice. He said Yes! Then she said something about him singing with her in the past and how wonderful it would be for them to sing together again.
I asked him if he sang, and he didn’t answer. In the convergence of our Welsh and American accents, the wife thought I was asking her husband if he was saved and repeated my question to him in her version. So I asked, “Can you sing?” He said, “Yes.” I asked, “Are you saved?” He paused and said, “I think so.”
I said, “Well, you can know so. Would you like me to lead you in a prayer to ask Jesus into your heart?” He said, “Yes, I would” and prayed with me. Once again the church was filled with our voices and Your praises! No doubt the angels joined in with their voices and praises as well: “Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents!” (Luke 15:10).
They speak of the great revival in Wales in the early 1900’s as “The Singing Revival.” And just before my message, I asked an older man whose mother was saved in that revival and imparted to her son that revival spirit that’s never wavered for all these years to come pray for us to have that spirit.
O Lord, You are answering our prayers! You are releasing the spirit of revival in our hearts and in this land and throughout the earth. Heavenly Father, Your Holy Spirit is preparing a holy Bride for the coming of Your Son. Let us be a passionate people, singing to You our songs of thanksgiving for Your mercy and love, filling the earth with our voices of Your praises. “The time of singing has come!” (Song of Solomon 2:12) In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
(That morning, I included this following note for my devotional readers at the end of my prayer)
Friends, please keep us in prayer during our time in Wales and England this month for our Encounter Wales! ministry trip. We are encountering and experiencing God among the people in many diverse ways. We're so grateful to Heather Butler and her husband Bob of Hidden Treasures Ministries and Honey from the Rock Healing Rooms of Wales for making the arrangements and provision for us to come and minister and to come and receive of the impartation for revival from the heart of this land to share in ministry to the nations and at home.
Our team will travel all over to towns and villages in Wales and to Oxford, Birmingham, and Plymouth England to preach, pray, and love the people of this land, as we share the Good News of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. And we're so grateful to you, standing with us in prayer, encouragement, and provision that makes it possible to fulfill the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries at home and abroad, "Preparing the way of the Lord ... Ministering the healing love of God." God bless you, my friend!
Wales has deep spiritual roots. The great Welsh Revival, in about 1904-1906, swept the nation and in time, impacted the world. It began as a simple time of fervent prayer and testimonies of repentance, led by a young man named Evan Roberts. I'll get to speak and share at Moriah Chapel, his home church where the Revival began humbly; and I'm excited about going to drink deeply from that ancient well of world-changing revival.
Many also believe the Welsh Revival was a precursor to the famous Azusa Street Revival in California that ushered in the 20th century Pentecostal movement. Let's pray for revival and awakening in the hearts of the people and in ours. If you'd like to be part of our interactive, intercessory prayer team, please send a note to Linda back at home, our pastor of prayer ministries, coordinating our prayer team with updates, testimonies, and shared insights from prayer. God bless you!
Yes, Lord! I put You “in remembrance” of these things that You have done and ask You to do it again in our day! (Isaiah 43:26) “O, that You would tear open the heavens and come down!” (Isaiah 64:1). Yes, Lord! “Revive us again!” (Psalm 85:6) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen!
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may your be filled up and overflowing with the Holy Spirit, embracing a "mantle for revival" in your passionate prayers for revival in our hearts and in our land and to the ends of the earth in our generation, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
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