This message covers
· How a one-eyed illiterate Negro helped to start a revival movement that you and over 500 million are now a part of today.
· An understanding of the cycles of creation, hunger and judgement that the bible shows.
· How our generation can take steps to hunger for God.
What does it mean to become who you are through hunger? Let me help you, come with me to the year 1906.
“disgraceful intermingling of the races...they cry and make howling noises all day and into the night. They run, jump, shake all over, shout to the top of their voice, spin around in circles, fall out on the sawdust blanketed floor jerking, kicking and rolling all over it. Some of them pass out and do not move for hours as though they were dead. These people appear to be mad, mentally deranged or under a spell. They claim to be filled with the spirit. They have a one eyed, illiterate, Negro as their preacher who stays on his knees much of the time with his head hidden between the wooden milk crates. He doesn't talk very much but at times he can be heard shouting, "Repent," and he's supposed to be running the thing... They repeatedly sing the same song, "The Comforter Has Come."”
That is how the Los Angeles times newspaper described the Azusa street revival.. which is commonly regarded as the beginning of the modern-day Pentecostal Movement.
Today, there are more than 500 million Pentecostal and charismatic believers across the globe, and it is the fastest-growing form of Christianity today.
This movement was birthed by a one-eyed illiterate Negro called William Seymour who got tired of getting crumbs from heaven fed to the dogs. He wanted more. This one-eyed Negro decided to hunger and thirst for the Holy Spirit and he didn’t care to be called mad, mentally deranged or under a spell. He didn’t care to hide his head between the wooden milk crates. He was searching for spiritual milk. What was the end result?
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