Is the Asbury revival of God? Yes! And I will show you why.
The Asbury revival began in a Methodist church, when a student confessed his sins, his faults, the things he was struggling with. The atmosphere changed as the Holy Spirit moved upon the young man. And then spread through the students that were assembled.
Now a word of warning! What these students need now is an apostolic covering, a man or woman of God who is led by the Spirit of God, to teach these students the ways of the Lord.
There are many leaders in the church, who are still using the Holy Spirit, to build their little kingdoms, who will prostitute this revival for their own advantage.
What eventually happens is through the prostitution of the gifts of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit will eventually leave and then they will be operating in another spirit, who counterfeits everything the Holy Spirit does.
What we need to understand is that there is a progressive indwelling of God within our lives.
We receive the Holy Spirit and through the Holy Spirit we keep Gods word so that Christ is formed within us and then the Father can make his home within us.
When the Holy Spirit comes within, His working is still at our initiative, we have to invite His working in our lives. We have to partner with Him, to glorify the Lord.
And this is where ministries miss it; they use the Holy Spirit to promote their ministries, their little kingdoms, instead of entering into the Kingdom where Jesus is Lord.
As the seed of God grows in our spirit, Christ begins to take over; our life is more under His Lordship.
When the Father comes in, everything must be surrendered completely and absolutely to Him.
When we receive the Holy Spirit, we don’t understand that we can still follow our own way in many areas. This is why we need to get all our spirit, soul and body gateways open and flowing in the life of God. https://glorytogodministries.site/our-spiritual-senses/
To understand the Asbury revival we need to understand a little of the history of its founder, He was a circuit rider, and he is now in the cloud of witnesses interceding that what The Lord started through Him, He would finish in others.
When He died, his life was a seed that would bring forth a great harvest in our time. He was one of many, whose legacy lives on through the harvest that seed produces.
Asbury University is named after Methodist leader Francis Asbury (1745-1816), who was only 26 when he came to evangelize the American colonies. He became a leader of the 2nd Great Awakening.
It’s estimated that he traveled 270,000 miles on horseback preaching and planting Methodist churches. But circuit-riding wasn’t glamorous; prior to 1847 more than half of Methodist circuit riders died before the age of 30 because of animal attacks, exposure to bad weather and the hardships of travel. Their sacrifice was a seed that died in the ground and produced a massive spiritual harvest.
Francis Asbury’s life was marked by white hot spiritual fervor. After being sent to our shores by John Wesley, Asbury wrote: “We must reach every section of America, especially the raw frontiers.
We must not be afraid of men, devils, wild animals, or disease. Our motto must always be FORWARD!”
Like a modern Joshua, Asbury possessed the land, in spite of his frequent ailments. He never married, perhaps because he knew his sacrificial lifestyle would be difficult for a wife.
He was so loved by his Christian brethren that more than 20,000 people followed his coffin when he was buried in Virginia after his death at age 70.
Asbury University is named after this giant of faith. I think it’s fitting that the revival that has begun there on the campus is a fruit of the faithfulness of his life, may his spirit live on through these young people.
We do not want to be skeptical of the music being sung at the revival, or which denominations are represented in the audience.
It is this judgmental Phariseeism that quenches the Holy Spirit. Francis Asbury is thrilled to see young people repenting and worshipping Jesus. May this holy fire spread within their hearts, and may an army of young Francis Asburys be raised up, to walk in far more revelation that Francis had.
What are the expressions of revival?
They are the expression of the three main feasts of the Lord we are to experience.
There are Passover revivals, Pentecostal revivals and the coming move of God in the earth which is a tabernacles revival, which is still yet to come.
Many in these days will carry the mantle of past revivalists, and some of these revivalists were, let’s just say, different in their expressions.
Quite often, God will offend our minds in order to reveal our hearts.
We need to understand the various aspects of the move of God that is breaking out around the world. They will have different emphasizes, until we enter into the latter rain outpouring which will express the heart, and mind of our heavenly Father.
Some of the revivals will be at the level of Passover.
In these revivals, thousands of people are being saved and enter into and experience the feast of Passover.
In the days of King Josiah, a revival broke out while Israel was keeping the Feast of Passover.
The story of this revival is recorded in 2 Kings, chapters 22 and 23 and 2 Chronicles, chapters 34 and 35.
Josiah experienced the greatest revival in Israel’s history:
2 CHRONICLES 35:18 And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Other revivals have a holiness emphasis, like this one at Asbury University.
However, the church is now moving on from the Feast of Passover to Pentecost to the Feast of Tabernacles, and one of the emphases of the latter feast is the manifestation of the glory of God, as shown in 2 Chronicles 5: 2
CHRONICLES 5:13-14
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD 14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
This was not a Pentecost revival. It was a Tabernacles’ revival, and it manifested the glory of God.
This great move of God broke out while Israel was keeping the Feast of Tabernacles in the seventh month.
As the church begins to move on to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, we will see a manifestation of revival that we have never seen before.
All we have seen in the past will eventually be incorporated into the present revivals, along with much more.
As these revivals begin to merge with other revivals of different emphasis, we will begin to see something greater than any in the past.
Pentecost revivals will merge with holiness revivals or Passover revivals and this will begin to manifest and usher in this last great feast — the Feast of Tabernacles- a Tabernacles revival.
When this happens, the church will experience a harvest revival that will be beyond anything we could have imagined.
