Hosea 14:8(NIV 1984) I am like a green pine tree; your fruitfulness comes from me.
The Lord says He is like a green pine tree. Pine trees are evergreen.
They flourish at all times and in all seasons.
God is always fruitful, but we are often incapable of taking part in what He is doing.
God is always in Revival, but we are too absorbed in our own agendas to have time for that.
The problem is not just whether we are willing to take part in fruitful activities,
but whether we have the least idea what they are!
We see God do things, we misunderstand what happened,
then we try (and fail) to duplicate the symptoms of Revival
because we are incapable of recognising the causes.
To be in God's perpetual revival, we need to look at former revivals
and learn to tell their causes from their effects.
This page will point to online resources which can help the reader tell one from the other.
"We must obey the Spirit", is the watchword of this revival.
— Evan Roberts
The Revival of 1904-5 saved at least 100,000 people in a tiny country in under one year.
Evan Roberts is the first name which comes to mind whenever the Revival is mentioned,
but this was not a one man Evangelistic mission. People did not just go to church, they utterly changed.
Drunks stopped drinking, bars and dance halls closed, miners stopped swearing and the courts often had no cases to judge.
Wales was changed for a generation, and retained a distinctive religious culture
separate from the rest of Great Britain for more than a lifetime.
