God is raising up a younger generation of
revivalists for the end time Great Awakening.
Great revivals and spiritual awakenings have
occurred throughout history in many nations.
Great revivalists blazed the trails of great awakenings
in the past, and passed the torch to a younger generation of revivalists.
This younger generation of revivalists are the Young
Fires that God is raising up to set the world on fire with the Message of
Christ, to accomplish His purpose in the end time generation.
The Young Fires look back and learn for the
flaming revivalists of old, then look at our current generation, and cry, “Wilt
thou not revive us again?”
I wrote this book in 1999 under the title, The
End Time Revival and Great Awakening. At the time I had a tremendous
passion for God to move in our generation in a mighty way. I prayed that God
would use me and raise up others to usher in a mighty end time revival and
spiritual awakening.
I have changed the title of this book to Young
Fire – End Time Revivalists for the Great Awakening, because not only was I
much younger when I wrote it, but it is my deep desire that young people that
read it will catch the spirit of revivalism, and be used by God in their
generation.
As this book goes into yet another printing, I
reflect on what the Lord has done in our generation. I see how God has raised
up many powerful men and women, who were unknown youths at the time that I had
written this book.
God has indeed raised up some great revivalists. I
now look forward to what God may do in the next 20 years and beyond. I wonder
what kind of nation-shaking revival God may grant us.
Regardless of the powerful revivals that God had
blessed this nation with, they all seem to fall short from the awakenings in
the USA, South Africa, Wales, Hebrides and others from early 1700s through the
early 1900s.
Yet we cannot underestimate what God has done
recently. Countless lives have been changed and the impact of this move of God
will only be appreciated to its full in time to come.
Yet our world seems in a horrible spiritual state.
Perhaps these most recent revivals were but tremors before the big one
hits. I believe this may very well be the case.
Authors are sometimes hesitant to republish their older
works without completely re-editing it, or perhaps rewriting it altogether. The
reason for this is because authors views on certain things change, they may
have come upon greater clarity on certain topics, their audience is no longer
the same as the one present when they initially wrote their book, and their
writing skills have also changed or improved.
However, I am putting this book back into print, much
the same as it was in 1999, with some changes here and there. I also deleted a
couple of chapters and added a little. The reader may notice that the style of
the author reflects that of an unpolished, on-fire young man, eagerly expecting
a mighty move of God.
After serving God for many years, and after over
25 years of full time ministry, I am as on fire now as I have ever been. The
spirit of revival is more caught than it is taught. It is my prayer that this
work would stir a passion for revival and spiritual awakening in us and in our
younger generation…