John Wesley: Mr. Hall, Kinchin, Ing­ham, White­field, - TopicsExpress

John Wesley: Mr. Hall, Kinchin, Ing­ham, White­field, Hutchins, and my brother Charles, were present at our love-feast in Fetter-Lane, with about sixty of our brethren. About three in the morn­ing, as we were con­tin­u­ing instant in prayer, the power of God came might­ily upon us, inso­much that many cried out for exceed­ing joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we were recov­ered a lit­tle from that awe and amaze­ment at the pres­ence of his Majesty, we broke out with one voice, “We praise thee, O God; we acknowl­edge thee to be the Lord.“[1] Many may wish to inter­pret this expe­ri­ence in charis­matic terms, but they are com­pletely unjus­ti­fied in doing so. The Wes­leys’ lives and min­istries from this point for­ward increased in power and use­ful­ness, extend­ing to all the British Isles, and through the Methodists, to Amer­ica. From the begin­ning of Method­ism in the late 1720s, while the Wes­ley broth­ers were still at Oxford, to the end of their days, the Wesley’s believed that God had raised them up to “spread scrip­tural holi­ness across the land.” In nineteenth-century Amer­ica, the mes­sage of Chris­t­ian purity estab­lished Method­ism as the largest Protes­tant denom­i­na­tion in the land. Not since the early Chris­t­ian Church had such evan­gel­i­cal stress been placed upon the need for Chris­t­ian purity, as was empha­sized by the Methodists of those early gen­er­a­tions. As a result, eighteenth-century Eng­land wit­nessed a remark­able spir­i­tual awak­en­ing that his­to­ri­ans believed saved the British Isles from a bloody rev­o­lu­tion sim­i­lar to that which the French expe­ri­enced at the hands of the deists, agnos­tics, and atheists. Great move­ments of God have nearly always been pre­ceded and accom­pa­nied by great moments of prayer. In Amer­ica, the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion was pre­ceded and estab­lished upon the First Great Awak­en­ing, and when pas­tors and church lead­ers had given their lives upon the bat­tle­fields of the Rev­o­lu­tion and a spir­i­tual vac­uum resulted, the Sec­ond Great Awak­en­ing (1790s and fol­low­ing) gave new life to the Chris­t­ian Church in the newly-birthed nation—because of prayer. The Revival of 1859 removed the spir­i­tual tar­nish from the hearts of many Amer­i­cans and was the rea­son for revival in the British Isles later in that same cen­tury and the early twen­ti­eth century. image Wash­ing­ton Pray­ing at Val­ley Forge For many of us, we have never wit­nessed our nation in a darker moral or spir­i­tual era than that which we presently expe­ri­ence. This dark­ness has laid its cold grip upon Amer­ica and many other por­tions of the globe. If Amer­ica is to be saved, Chris­tians must find once again what Wes­ley and the other con­gre­gants of Fet­ter Lane found on Decem­ber 31, 1738 and the open­ing hours of Jan­u­ary 1, 1739—the pri­macy of prayer! Eng­land was spared the dark­ness and dev­as­ta­tion of a French-styled rev­o­lu­tion, but Amer­ica will not be if the Church fails to turn and pray!

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