Are We In Line for Another Great Awakening?

Are we in line for another great awakening?  Yes. We are.  Looking at the moves of the past generations and you can see God's hand at work with a specific goal and design.   In 380 AD Christianity became the official religion of Rome and with that came the dark ages.   The Edict of Thessalonica, also known as Cunctos populos, was issued in 380 AD. It ordered all subjects of the Roman Empire to profess the faith of the bishops of Rome and Alexandria, making Nicene Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.   Ultimately by the time the restoration movement happened in 1517 Salvation through Christ was no longer being preached.  Martin Luther came along professing that faith in Christ alone through grace brought Salvation.   That no rituals were necessary, but only faith in Christ.   This was the beginning of the restoration of the pure gospel that was based on the teaching of the Apostles.   Martin Luther and many others died for their boldness to preach the truth.  

  Some 200 years later John Wesley built on to that foundation by preaching the message of Sanctification.   In 1739  John Wesley started the Methodist Society in England preaching the message of Sanctification.  So now the message of faith (Martin Luther) and  holiness (John Wesley)  were restored to the church.  And after another 175 years William Seymour began preaching the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  The Azusa Street Revival was a historic Pentecostal revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles, California and is the origin of the Pentecostal movement. It was led by William J. Seymour, an African American preacher. It began with a meeting on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915

So by the turn of the 20 century you have faith in Christ (Martin Luther), Sanctification (John Wesley), and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (William Seymour)  restored to the church. This was the model of the New testament church in the book of Acts.  For the past 500 years God has been restoring  his church to the truth.   This leads us to today.  What is next?  To answer this question lets look at the book of ACTS. 

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Through out the past 500 years we see God bringing the church back  to the foundation that was laid by the Apostles.   The church went from persecution, to being legal, to being the official church of Rome, to apostasy, to a return to faith in Christ, a restoration of Holiness, a Restoration of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit for what purpose?  So that we would be witnesses.  The next great awakening is the body of Christ rising up to go out on the streets to be a witness, to do what?  To do the works that Jesus did and even greater works.   Not just preachers and evangelist doing the works of Jesus, but the body of Christ.   And they will proclaim the same thing that Jesus proclaimed:

Isaiah 61:1 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

In the restoration process with Martin Luther we believed and professed,  with John Wesley we repented and yielded, with William Seymour we received and manifested, with the  next great awakening we will Go and witness, freely we have received, freely we will give.   The no-names and the everyday common people will rise up in the power of God and lay hands on the sick, cast out devils, and preach the good news to every creature.  

Are you ready to fulfill your place in destiny?    It is time to raise up in the power that you have been given and change the world.