One Can Happen

January 19, 2011

The Azusa Street Revival (1906-15): The biggest move of miracles in the history of America — The fire of God’s glory on the roof! “Even the fingernails grew back!” In 1909, Seymour prophesied the next revival will come in about 100 years! We’re due!!!

From: Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural, July 14-20, 2008 | pdf of Entire Interview — I cleaned it up a bit.

Sid Roth:

My guest as a young man met elderly people
who were involved in the biggest move of miracles
in the history of America
.

It was called the Azusa Street Revival.
He tells me that he met some of the people and heard
first hand what occurred, stories such as ears
that did not exist popping back into place,
arms that did not exist coming out and growing,
these are called creative miracles.

Did you know that the Azusa Street Revival
that happened in the early 1900′s was the
first integrated church in America
?
God picked a one-eyed black man to lead the greatest
move of God’s Spirit in miracles I believe since the first
coming of the Messiah….

* * *

Sid: Tell me one miracle that you heard of that occurred with William Seymour?

Tommy: The greatest that I knew of was that Brother Seymour would tell them to sing in the Spirit and then that fire would come up out of the roof, would come down and then he…

Sid: Wait, you are going too fast for my peanut brain. A fire would go through a roof?

Tommy: Yes.

Sid: Explain what you mean.

Tommy: Okay a fire would come up out of the roof and the fire would go up about fifty feet and the fire about fifty feet away from it in the sky would come down and mingle with it.

Sid: Could people see this fire?

Tommy: Oh yes, matter of fact they got many calls to the fire department, not from people in the meeting, but from people outside that would see it.

Sid: Really, it was the fire of God’s glory.

Tommy: Yes, now it wouldn’t consume, you didn’t smell any fire, but that is when the greatest miracles would happen, and he would, he got up was telling them and Brother David Garcia was there, and he said, he was the
one that told me about it

* * *

Tommy: … And the man’s arm had been ripped out on a job related with a big machine, and it had ripped out even the shoulder.

Sid: So in other words he did not have the limb

Tommy: He didn’t have the shoulder, the arm or nothing, and he, when he prayed for him Brother Garcia said “Brother Tommy, I was standing very close where I could look right down into that socket and see the bone.”

And he said, “Brother Seymour prayed for him, and he just kind of stood there for a while with his hands on his head smiling,” “All of a sudden that bone started growing out and right behind it would come this flesh going around the bone.”

And he said it probably took about two seconds, but to him it was in slow motion. And that mans arm just grew out, and he said within a few minutes even the fingernails grew back on his fingers.

* * *

Sid: Now William Seymour prophesied about the next revival that will come, tell me about that.

Tommy: He prophesied that in about a hundred years, he did this in 1909, that there would be a…

Sid: So about a hundred years would be 2009?

Tommy: Yes, that would be about, before or after?

Sid: About, okay.

Tommy: He said another revival like unto Azusa Street only greater would come again, only this time it wouldn’t be in one place, it would be all over the world….

[But it's gotta start somewhere - jeff]

* * *

Tommy: It was the shekinah glory, it was a smoky looking kind of, one woman said kind of an orangey color, and it went on over to the young people and they all fell out in the spirit and hysterical laughter, they just couldn’t stop laughing and four brand new converts came up to Brother David and said Brother David it dawned on them and they had only the baptism a few weeks, they figured out what this stuff is and he kind of laughed and said, “What is this?” They said, “It’s God’s laughing gas.”

It’s Supernatural: “Azusa Street Revival” (Part 1 of 3)

theHanchars | February 23, 2009 | 48 likes, 2 dislikes

Sid Roth interviews Tommy Welchel who shares some of the stories of the Azusa Street Revival. As a young man, Tommy Welchel spent years listening to retired saints tell their stories of breathtaking miracles and wondrous healings in the Azusa Street Revival, which was a historic revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles, California and was led by William J. Seymour, an African American preacher. It began with a meeting on April 14, 1906 and continued until roughly 1915. (part 1 of 3)

(NOTE: We have permission by SidRoth.org to upload these videos)

Related:

Tommy Welchel on William Seymour and Charles Parham’s 100-Year Prophecy: On the same day in 1909, hundreds of miles apart, they both prophesied God’s visible shekina glory would return to earth after 100 years, but this time everywhere!

Wes Hall [IHOP] on William Seymour’s 1909 prophecy of the shekinah glory returning to the church in 100 years: “Let me tell you about the church in the book of Acts. …the fear of God was on the community, and no one dared join them. But they were highly esteemed. Why did no one dare join them?”

Sid Roth: The missing ingredient, speaking in tongues — “I believe that God wants to restore this gift for the last great push of God’s spirit”

The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 by J. Edwin Orr: A Countrywide Asbury-like REVIVAL! The 4 Points: #1 Confess any known sin, and put any wrong done to man right again. #2 Put away any doubtful habit. #3 Obey the Spirit promptly. #4 Confess your faith publicly.

Asbury Revival, 1970: “‘Dr. Kinlaw, I am a liar. Now what do I do?’ … Three days later, she came to me radiant, and she said, ‘Dr. Kinlaw, I’m free!’”

Can ‘Christians’ use Paul’s “Forgetting the things which are behind…I press on” statement as an excuse to not get right with those they’ve hurt? Paul also said: “I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.” What if you don’t repent? And what will happen when you do? The Third Great Awakening can start with us!!! We can all be happy — ‘ONE’!

9 Comments »

  1. The greatest miracle would be if we as the church could get back to what is plainly commanded of us in Scripture and to stop generating our own miracle marketing schemes to attract unbelievers. Too many in the church have declared that faith in Christ is not enough– miracles are needed to validate who He is and (more importantly) who we profess to be. Let’s be honest, most of these miracle-mongers want the self-validation that they have “power” above that which humbly (i.e, non-spectacularly) glorifies Christ.

    Comment by PhileoTruth — January 19, 2011 @ 12:30 pm | Reply

  2. I have never read the whole story of this movement. I have been filled with
    the Holy Ghost ans speaking in tongues for 50+ years. We MUST GET a new outpouring
    of the Holy Ghost before the Bride of Christ will ever be ready for Jesus Return John 14.
    He will reveal to us all the False Preaching that is covering the air ways in America. Juanita Pike

    Comment by Juanita Pike — March 26, 2011 @ 9:49 pm | Reply

  3. I read this for a project, I began to shake to the point where I burst in the bathroom where my dad was at at 5:30 in the morning. I told him he needed to come quick. We ran across the house and I said read this. He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, “Zoey, are you telling me..?” “Yes daddy, the prayer group me, Samantha, and Lali started at school. I believe this is it. You said if it does get big it will take a couple of years to get nation wide. I don’t think it’ll be that long.” I’m only 12 years old, and yet I feel God is calling me to start something that impacts the world right before the Rapture. I’m so thankful for my two friends, Lali and Samantha. They are the ones who stick with me even though we have a whole lotta trouble Satan is giving to the whole group. I’m so excited to get this HUGE revival/AWAKENING started. My heart screams, “LET’S GO GOD! LET’S GO! I’M READY!”

    Comment by Anonymous — October 17, 2011 @ 2:55 am | Reply

  4. The move is coming beloved! The Azusa Street Revival was the revival of faith in God’s word alone. It began with people who chose to believe Acts 2:38 over the established doctrine of their time; a doctrine that had been en force since 325 AD. They insisted on believing God rather than men and God responded by sending the latter rain. The power descended and a new day dawned. The Spirit has been witnessing that the time elapsed since then is sufficient for the wheat to mature for harvest. The wheat can only mature if it feeds on the nutrients from its roots. Get ready for a move that shakes the powers of heaven in us and completely changes the faith paradigm for those who can believe. What we consider miracles are common things to God. Our objective is full maturity and our instructions are: “Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is the truth.” It is time to start believing what he told us, “The Spirit of truth will lead you into all truth.” Let us make sure we have plenty of oil in our lamps! We will only achieve our objective by “staring attentively into that light that shines in darkness until the day dawns and the star of the morning arises” in the heart of each one of us. We are called to be one perfect man of the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ! That is our perfect maturity!

    Comment by Francisco Gomez Luna — January 8, 2012 @ 10:16 pm | Reply

  5. Shaking, babbling, acting drunk, bedlam, being thrown to the ground in violent tremors, jerking, screaming, howling, barking like dogs, and crawling around on all fours like animals. It is a terrifying, disgraceful scene which calls to mind stories of demonic oppression. We are the image-bearers of the Most High God. He has given us a spirit of power, love, and self control…not degradation, not sending us out of our wits to roll on the floor and scrape on the ground like animals. What delight our enemy must take when he sees us in that disgraceful posture! It is well-documented that this Revival attracted spiritists, witches, and mediums who drew from the spiritual energy that had been unleashed at Azusa Street. However, the presence of God is usually REPELLANT to these people as it leaves them powerless. The leaders of the revival themselves–each one walking in equally well-documented sexual immorality–acknowledged that the Revival was out of control. Test the spirits. Even Pharaoh’s magicians were able to work wonders.

    John 4:48 “Will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?”

    Comment by John — May 19, 2012 @ 8:40 am | Reply

    • John,

      You are trying to convince people to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Demonic forces will always try to put out the fire of the Holy Spirit, and they have succeeded in all revivals in church history.

      Jesus prayed that His people would be ‘ONE’ — that He would give us His glory so we could be ‘ONE,’ and then the world will know — John 17. But ‘ONE’ requires holiness, and where there is a chink in our armor, demons will get in. So we need to shut all doors of sin and lust, and get our doctrines right so we can be ‘ONE,’ and stay ONE.

      I’m not a historian who studies the traditional revivals in great depth, but I have been to a number of the more recent moves of God, and have learned much from them as to how mixture gets in. I think the main reason real Christianity, ‘ONE’ isn’t happening is because of widespread false doctrine which results in a lack of holiness from a lack of fear of God. And then when revivals do happen to a degree, the lack of holiness keeps them from becoming what they should become, which is ‘ONE’ happening. And we’ll know when ‘ONE’ happens, because then the world will know (John 17) — which I believe is just what is supposed to be normal Christianity — last chapter of Mark, John 15,  Ephesians 4:11-16, etc..

      William Seymour didn’t have the team of wise, spiritual people whom he needed to keep Azusa St. going without mixture getting in and tainting the very real move of the Holy Spirit. Satan will send his own people into churches and meetings to turn them sour. And Seymour didn’t know what to do. For example:

      http://www.revival-library.org/pensketches/am_pentecostals/parham.html

      Seymour also needed help with handling spurious manifestations that were increasing in the meetings. He wrote “urgent letters appealing for help, as spiritualistic manifestations, hypnotic forces and fleshly contortions…. had broken loose in the meetings. He wanted Mr. Parham to come quickly and help him discern between that which was real and that which was false.”

      Seymour was asking for help from someone he thought could help, but apparently Charles Parham was one of the compromised leaders you are speaking about, and he didn’t come, which was probably a good thing, if he was indeed compromised.

      I haven’t heard of William Seymour having problems in the sexual immorality area; though, I’m not a Seymour expert. But from what I understand, William would try so hard to be led by the Holy Spirit in the meetings that he would even put a box over his head to try to really tune into what God was saying.

      It sounds to me like this became more than what he was able to handle. I have heard that he lived upstairs, and when he could tell things were spiritually off, he would stomp on the floor to hopefully help them get back on track.

      Seymour wasn’t planning his whole life on how to keep a holy move of God holy, but some of us now have. We’re ready. But there are many scoffers who are praying against (James-3 cursing) those of us who are trying to help Jesus’ heart-cry for His people to happen.

      Satan will try to do everything he can to keep ‘ONE’ from happening, because he doesn’t want the world to see the glory that God wants to reveal through His people when they are ‘ONE’ with each other truly in Him.

      And by the way, when the presence of God touches a person mightily, it often affects the person physically — which is a good thing.

      And my guess is that some of the manifestations you described are not what you heard about Azusa St., but perhaps Toronto or somewhere else more recent, but they could have also happened at Azusa. Some of these things are probably not from God, but it’s not the end of the world if someone barks some howl of joy or something, thinking they are Spirit-led in doing so.

      Some of us have very keen discernment of spirits gifts to be able to discern what is going on. But the main thing is for the people to shut the doors to evil themselves, knowing they have to in order to be going-to-heaven Christians. When a group of people like this gets together and worships God in Spirit and in truth, demonically empowered people will be afraid to even visit [so my guess is that the Azusa St. revival was not really strong, the glory of God — His manifest presence, when this mixture happened], just like what happened in Acts 5, the passage that also follows the story of Ananias and Sapphira being killed by God for lying.

      When the glory of God shows up powerfully, willful sinners will be greatly conscious struck. Many will repent, like in Asbury and many of the other revivals. It’s when the presence of God subsides somewhat that the mixture can then take over. And the presence of God subsides because the people no longer draw near to Him, but start willfully sinning again.

      This is what happened in Acts 5:12-16

      By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord ['ONE'] in Solomon’s porch. None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them. More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women. They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them. Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.

      This is real Christanity, ‘ONE’ happening. They not only had a reputation for being alive (Rev. 3:1-6), but they were alive. This is God’s will for His people no matter what the naysayers may think and say.

      Sincerely,

      Jeff Fenske

      Comment by Jeff Fenske — May 22, 2012 @ 4:48 am | Reply


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