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"SEND THE SPIRIT
NOW, FOR JESUS CHRIST'S SAKE"
Evan Roberts' Four Principles for
Personal Revival
(Evan Roberts was
a prominent Welsh Revivalist in the early
1900's)
1) You must obtain full and
complete pardon for the sins of the past.
If the past is not right, it
must be made so now. Every sin you know of, confess it before
God.
2) Is there anything doubtful in
your life?
If so it must be removed and
done away with. Is there a habit of doubtful character in your life? If there
is, away with it !! If there is, there can be no joy in your heart until you
remove the doubtful pleasures and practices. Self denial is one of the basic
tenets of the religion of Christ.
3) Complete and immediate
obedience to the Holy Spirit. It is not "something" that prompts me to pray, it
is "Some-One", that is, the Holy Spirit. Whatsoever He says to you, Do it !! The
world may laugh, but He doesn't. You may not be here long. Bow to Him now. Don't
say "Hush !!" when someone else breaks into prayer. Resist not the
Spirit.
4) A public and personal
confession of Christ. How long will it take you to make a confession of Christ?
Stand up now! Do not look around to see who may be criticising you. Out with the
confession !!
These are the four things
leading to the "Grand Blessing".
(2 Chr 7:13-14 KJV)
If I shut
up heaven that there be no rain,
or if I command
the locusts to devour the land,
or if I
send pestilence among my people;
{14} If my
people, which are called by my name,
shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from
their wicked ways;
then will I hear
from heaven,
and will
forgive their sin,
and will
heal their land.
(1 John 1:8-9 KJV)
If we say
that we have no sin,
we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
{9} If we
confess our sins,
He is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
Psa 51:1b-17
KJV
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto
the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
(2) Wash
me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my
sin.
(3) For
I acknowledge my transgressions:
and my sin
is ever before me.
(4)
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy
sight:
that
thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
and be
clear when thou judgest.
(5) Behold, I
was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
(6) Behold,
thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
and in the
hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
(7) Purge me
with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow.
(8) Make me to
hear joy and gladness;
that
the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
(9) Hide thy
face from my sins, and blot out all mine
iniquities.
(10)
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
(11) Cast me
not away from thy presence;
and take not
thy Holy Spirit from me.
(12) Restore
unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me
with thy free spirit.
(13)
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners
shall be converted unto thee.
(14) Deliver
me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:
and my
tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
(15) O Lord,
open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
praise.
(16) For
thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:
thou
delightest not in burnt offering.
(17) The
sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not
despise.
Rom 6:1-18
KJV
What shall we
say then?
Shall we
continue in sin, that grace may abound?
(2) God
forbid.
How shall we,
that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
(3) Know ye
not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized
into his death?
(4) Therefore
we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the
Father,
even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
(5) For
if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection:
(6) Knowing
this, that our old man is crucified with
him,
that the
body of sin might be destroyed,
that
henceforth we should not serve sin.
(7) For he
that is dead is freed from sin.
(8) Now
if we be dead with Christ,
we believe
that we shall also live with him:
(9) Knowing
that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no
more dominion over him.
(10) For in
that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he
liveth, he liveth unto God.
(11) Likewise
reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin,
but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(12) Let
not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,
that ye
should obey it in the lusts thereof.
(13)
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto
sin:
but
yield yourselves unto God,
as those that
are alive from the dead,
and your
members as instruments of righteousness unto
God.
(14) For
sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye
are not under the law, but under grace.
(15) What
then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid.
(16) Know ye
not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants
ye are to whom ye obey;
whether
of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
(17) But God
be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
but ye have
obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered
you.
(18) Being then made free from
sin,
ye became the servants of
righteousness.
2Pe 1:3-11
KJV
According as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
(4) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
(5) And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge; (6) And to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness; (7) And to godliness brotherly
kindness;
and to brotherly kindness charity.
(8) For if these things be in you, and
abound,
they make you that ye shall neither
be barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(9) But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,
and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
(10) Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling
and election sure:
for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
(11) For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.
(Mat 28:18-20
KJV)
And Jesus came and spake unto them,
saying,
All power is given unto me in
heaven and in earth.
{19} Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations,
baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
{20} Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world.
Amen.
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