Evan Roberts
Some of you may have heard of Evan Roberts, some of you may haven't, but he was a coal miner and the main revivalist God used to spark the revival in Wales, he started at a pretty young age, he would spend time with God in his teenage years, and his relationship just got deeper and deeper with God, to the point his parents noticed, that he would spend hours in his room with God. Before the revival, the current condition of Wales was lawlessness and ungodliness, he was also given a vision or a few about the current condition of Wales and how it needed turning around, Evan he was full of God, the Holy Spirit had given him a heart for the non-believers, skeptics, backsliders, drunks and the broken-hearted. He then became a young preacher, and God used him in a mighty way from there, he started of in Loughour & New Quay, and the fire spread from there, the Holy Ghost in him moved and touched many people's hearts in and around his anointed services, hundreds were coming to Jesus, then thousands were coming to Jesus, then many villages were turning to Jesus, drunks would be outside the window of the Church mocking him & God one day, then they would come in crying throwing their beer bottles away the next, and giving their hearts to the Lord.
Evan Roberts started having prayer meetings at 5am every day before work in the colliery also, and coal miners turned to Jesus, their language became clean, the managers of the colliery didn't sack Evan or see a problem with this, because after their 1 hour prayer meeting, their productivity sparked and the coal miners would be doing great work in their fastest times ever, the managers noticed a dramatic change in the work the coal miners were doing, before the revival there was a division between the miners in the union, and the miners who weren't in the union, but that changed, they were united and started having prayer meetings together, they would that sing hymns while they were working, instead of swearing.
The amount of people turning to Jesus, and attending his meetings grew massively, they turned up hours early, and they would already be praising God, it got to the point where it was packed like sardines, and Evan struggled to get through the crowd, and broke open the door of a school room, because he couldn't open it, they thanked him, and even more people came into his Church, since they were now able to fill the other room, it then started getting too big for a Church building, and his meetings had to be moved to the open fields, when the revival spread to different towns, people would cram into the village just to get a taste of it and they knew the revival was there! One of the major miracles happening among many, God was healing a lot of people from alcoholism, pubs and bars were going empty, drunks were giving up drinking, the pubs and bars were losing a customers and money, and clothing and shoe stores were gaining a lot of business, since people stopped spending it on alcohol. There was also a rise in business in bookstores, but different business, they had a big stock of Bibles they hadn't had sold in years, that stock emptied out very quick when the revival hit, and the sales of secular books dropped, they had to bring in a lot more stock every week, since they would clear it every week, they also were selling a lot of hymn books.
In the middle of his meetings, people who hadn't had spoken to each other for years due to unforgiveness and problems in between them, forgave each other in the middle of the crowd, and people would cheer and praise God, fathers were reuniting with sons, mothers with daughters, brothers with sisters, husbands and wives, enemies became friends, and different denominations united and put aside their differences, they became one accord, one Church again just like the days of the early Church in the upper room, and they were all united with love for their neighbors and love for Jesus.
The revival had a massive effect on Wales, it pretty much turned the whole country to God, the police no longer had anyone to catch, and nothing much to do, and instead they would join the meetings and watch over the massive congregation, judges ran out of cases in the court, and no one left to judge, soccer teams gave up soccer for Jesus, and came to revival meetings, they gave up their gambling too. After the revival in Wales, it continued on into other parts of world.
We need a massive revival like this today, continue to pray for revival, continue to pray for the politicians, your country, allies, enemies, the soldiers, the cops, the backslid-den, the alcoholics, the drug addicts, the atheists, the agnostics, the idolaters, the non-Christians, your fathers, mothers, brothers & sisters in Christ, the rejected and the broken hearted, pray for the Holy Spirit to pour out his presence and the peace & joy of the Lord on them and to change their lives, and the lives of those who live in your country dramatically, it's not too late for another end time revival, God is powerful and can do anything, there was a report in the Voice of the Martyrs for this month, that many Muslim immigrants in Europe are turning to Jesus, praise the Lord for that, keep up the prayer, prayer warriors, there may be a lot of division in the Church, but there's a thing or two every born again Christian should unite in, we should all unite in prayer & our love for Jesus, no matter what our differences are, our relationship with Christ is what matters the most, a lot of these revivals was the result of prayer, houses of prayer and prayer warriors in the closet, don't pray out of religion or pray because you have to, but pray out of your heart.
God bless y'all :)
