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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    So, as usual, people decided to try to 'manage' it...so if we looked at each revival and boil it down we could say PEOPLE getting in God's way..
    Yep. Pretty much.

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    Blowing Up The Dam

    ...Now there is no doubt that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is given to produce in the world a Church that in one respect is the exact counterpart of the first century Church. If we have been baptized by tbe Holy Ghost, the river is intended to flow through us. "He that believeth on me ... out of his belly [innermost being) shall flow rivers of living water." We are part of this great Pentecostal fellowship through which true rivers are supposed to flow. If these rivers are not flowing, then we who have been laid hold upon by God, to bring the waters to the world. are damming up the river instead of being the channels God has chosen us to be.

    Thousands of people have been baptized in the Holy Ghost all over the world, and that purpose is to bring benefit to the ends of the world and to bring it so rapidly and universally that Jesus can come before very long. Jesus cannot come until the rivers get out there with their benefit to the world. The baptism of the Holy Ghost creates flowing rivers. Every religious movement that God has raised up was intended by God to be flowing rivers, but after they flowed a while, instead of actually being part of the flowing current, the human instrumentality has become a dam across the river.

    Then God has gone to work on that dam. He has put the dynamite of the Word in the dam to blow it up and get it out of the way so that the river could flow. And as fast as God dropped sticks of dynamite to blow it up. they patched it up again, and made a denominational dam. God waited with patience and tried and tried with His heavenly dynamite to blow out the obstructions. Every once in a while there would be an explosion here or there, and people on the other side of the dam would get wet, but each time men would patch it up again and the dam would hold back the flow. Are we building a Pentecostal dam? What a responsibility is ours! God is bringing us to the place where we can see a little more clearly as we look back on our lives, and a little more clearly as we look ahead. just what He wants to do...

    - W.I. Evans "This River Must Flow" 1956




    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    So, as usual, people decided to try to 'manage' it...so if we looked at each revival and boil it down we could say PEOPLE getting in God's way..
    More often than not. But I like what Doc Brown said at one of his 10am Brownsville bible studies. He said "it is the nature of revival to dissipate, get in it now!".

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    Quote Originally Posted by GodismyJudge View Post

    Blowing Up The Dam

    ...Now there is no doubt that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is given to produce in the world a Church that in one respect is the exact counterpart of the first century Church. If we have been baptized by tbe Holy Ghost, the river is intended to flow through us. "He that believeth on me ... out of his belly [innermost being) shall flow rivers of living water." We are part of this great Pentecostal fellowship through which true rivers are supposed to flow. If these rivers are not flowing, then we who have been laid hold upon by God, to bring the waters to the world. are damming up the river instead of being the channels God has chosen us to be.

    Thousands of people have been baptized in the Holy Ghost all over the world, and that purpose is to bring benefit to the ends of the world and to bring it so rapidly and universally that Jesus can come before very long. Jesus cannot come until the rivers get out there with their benefit to the world. The baptism of the Holy Ghost creates flowing rivers. Every religious movement that God has raised up was intended by God to be flowing rivers, but after they flowed a while, instead of actually being part of the flowing current, the human instrumentality has become a dam across the river.

    Then God has gone to work on that dam. He has put the dynamite of the Word in the dam to blow it up and get it out of the way so that the river could flow. And as fast as God dropped sticks of dynamite to blow it up. they patched it up again, and made a denominational dam. God waited with patience and tried and tried with His heavenly dynamite to blow out the obstructions. Every once in a while there would be an explosion here or there, and people on the other side of the dam would get wet, but each time men would patch it up again and the dam would hold back the flow. Are we building a Pentecostal dam? What a responsibility is ours! God is bringing us to the place where we can see a little more clearly as we look back on our lives, and a little more clearly as we look ahead. just what He wants to do...

    - W.I. Evans "This River Must Flow" 1956




    I have preached that (1998)

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