“Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.” Joel 1:14.
What can we learn about
revival from the story of “An Appalachian Dawn”? For one thing, the people were desperate. Young people were dying at an alarming rate
and parents and leaders felt powerless to turn it around. Church leaders led the way—they put
aside their denominational differences and repented that they had been
more concerned about their buildings and programs than they were about the
people. People came together to cry
out to God, and God responded to their prayers. The movement of God began with a handful of
people. They believed that God would act and they behaved as if they
knew He would act. They began
warning the drug dealers that they would either “get saved or get busted”. When God began to move, it affected not only
the churches, but city hall, the schools and the drug dealers. In the second
chapter of Joel, God says: “I will repay you for the years the locusts have
eaten…and you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders
for you”.
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of what happened in Manchester,
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