THIN SPACE
This week, Prayer Hour continues the theme of REVIVAL.
We’re going to be checking out revivals from as early as 1727 to revivals that are still going strong in 2020!
Today… it’s all about the MORAVIAN REVIVAL.
Before 1727
Religious persecution led to a group of Moravians being forced to leave their home in Moravia (Czech Republic) and being offered refuge on the estate of Count Nicolas Zinzendorf in Herrnhut, Saxony (Eastern Germany).
Disunity and division erupted amongst those Moravians due to their differing denominational backgrounds – some were Brethren, some Lutheran, some Reformed, some Anabaptist
1727
On May 12th, 1727, the community at Herrnhut signed a covenant of unity and peace together.
On August 13th, 1727, at a communion service, there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
All were baptised in the Holy Spirit
All present had such an experience of Jesus that they didn’t know if they were still on earth or had gone to Heaven.
Self-love and self-will were replaced by a flood of love and grace
There was a hunger for the Word of God and so daily church services were held at 5am, 7.30am and 9pm.
The Results
The Herrnhut Community (which never numbered more than 300) started an around-the-clock prayer meeting that lasted more than 100 years!
The community sent the world’s first ever Protestant missionaries
In the first 25 years, they had carried the Gospel to such diverse places as Greenland, Suriname, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, South Africa as well as most countries in Europe.
More than 100 missionaries were sent in the first 25 years
More than 3000 missionaries were sent in the first 200 years
The Herrnhut Community became a spiritual retreat centre, visited by people from all over Europe who were seeking salvation or Spirit baptism.
The Herrnhut Community was the direct inspiration for John Wesley, the Methodist Church, the Salvation Army and 24/7 Prayer
Moravians, Male and Female
Prostrated in Prayer
Prayer
Come Holy Spirit – shake us, fill us, transform us, drive us to our knees, send us out.
Worship
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