Evans roberts biography

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Evan Roberts and the revival Comments Share this page. Evan Roberts. Share this page. Comments Post your comment Sign in or register to comment. While there Roberts attended a series of small meetings held nearby by the famous evangelist, Seth Joshua. Though he had already known some deep spiritual experiences in those night visitations, God had something more for him.

For some reason these words shook Evan Roberts to the core. Here are his words about what happened at that point:. I felt a living power pervading my bosom. It took my breath away and my legs trembled exceedingly. This living power became stronger and stronger as each one prayed, until I felt it would tear me apart… I fell on my knees with my arms over the seat in front of me.

My face was bathed in perspiration, and the tears flowed in streams. This mighty baptism in the Holy Spirit transformed Evan Roberts. Before that time he had tended to be a serious and somewhat gloomy personality, but henceforth he radiated tremendous joy. Before this experience he had been a timid and hesitant speaker, but now spoke with an authority and boldness that could hardly be resisted.

Even his health was improved. He had been physically weak and unable to walk but short distances, but now found he could walk for miles without tiring. During a church service soon afterwards Roberts saw visions of himself speaking to the young people at his home church in Loughor. He tried to get the picture out of his mind, but it kept returning.

Finally he agreed in his heart to go, and the vision dissipated, and the room was filled with dazzling light. His parents were puzzled to see their son home from college, and more puzzled still when he announced he had come to speak to the church without being invited by the pastor and was considering going through all Wales preaching and soul winning.

He decided to play it safe and allowed young Evan to speak only after the main prayer meeting was over. Sixteen people and one little girl decided to stay and hear what he had to say. Roberts wasted no time in getting to the heart of his message. He spoke about a fullness of the Holy Spirit that was available for Christians, but declared that they must fulfill four conditions:.

His teaching was accompanied with a deep sense of Holy Spirit conviction, and by the end of the night all sixteen young people and adults had confessed Christ. So powerful was this first meeting that Roberts was given a second night to share, and then a third. With each passing night more and more people came. By the second week the church was packed out, and the revival was on!

As evan roberts biography of what God was doing in Loughor spread, fervent prayer for awakening went forth all over Wales and those prayers were heard almost instantly. Within weeks the fires of revival were blazing all through the nation. The effects were astonishing. Churches which had been only half "evan roberts biography" were now unable to hold all the people eagerly coming to find Christ.

Services which had been formal and lasting an exact designated time, were now hotbeds of prayer, praise, and singing, starting sometimes at six in the evening and going on till past midnight. Within a couple of months Wales was a changed nation. Crime was reduced to almost nothing. Satan invaded Roberts with doubts about his abilities and his right to lead the meetings.

The following day the meeting was at Pisgah where some of those at the meeting the previous night testified to how changed they felt after their public confession. The confession seems to have opened their hearts to the work of Holy Spirit.

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Six more made open confession that night. The meeting lasted three hours and consisted of confession, prayer and testimony. The training Roberts had received over the previous weeks bore fruit in these meetings, as he would only do what Holy Spirit was bidding. This was also a feature of the coming meetings. If there is sin or sins hitherto unconfessed, we cannot receive the Spirit.

Therefore we must search and ask the Spirit to search. If there is anything doubtful in our lives, it must be removed — anything we were uncertain about its rightness or wrongness. That thing must be removed. An entire giving up of ourselves to the Spirit. We must speak and do all He requires of us. Public confession of Christ. The meetings continued with some success and the word got around the neighbourhood that the Spirit was stirring.

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The meeting on Friday was the largest so far, with old as well as young and Baptists as wells as Congregationalists joining the Calvinistic Methodists. The power of the Spirit in the meetings was becoming stronger and the Saturday meeting lasted for over five hours. By November 7th, the start of the second week; people in the town were convinced that some irresistible power was gradually taking hold of the people.

After speaking on the last chapter of Malachi, Roberts asked some of those who had not made a public confession of Christ, to do so. After a number had complied with his request, nearly everyone was moved to tears and many cried loudly and wept in agony. When it was about half-way the second time, the whole audience gave way before some irresistible influence, and now the evan roberts biography of things is beyond any description.

The Tuesday meeting was very hard. Many left by three, then Roberts called together those remaining. After a considerable struggle, Holy Spirit descended and he got home around 7. He was awakened at around She had felt so bad about leaving the chapel before the end of the meeting that Evan helped her in prayer until she found peace. On the Wednesday he was invited to hold the service at Brynteg Congregational Chapel, Gorseinon, and Holy Spirit broke out there as well.

He was in the same place on Thursday night and it was a very powerful meeting with people coming from further afield. For the first time a reporter from the Western Mail was at a meeting. The newspaper reported that shops were closing early to ensure that the owners got a seat and the tin and steel workers were arriving in their work clothes.

Some students from Ammanford came to one of the meetings, caught the fire and started meetings at Bethany Chapel, but the fire was not of the same intensity, so they invited Roberts to come. On the Friday the meeting was held at Moriah chapel, Loughor again and over attended, including several ministers from surrounding districts. On Saturday a long article was published in the Western Mail that was very sympathetic to what was happening in the meetings.

This article brought about an invitation from a chapel in Aberdare for Roberts to preach on the Sunday; an invitation he accepted. By now prayer meetings were being held in some houses in Loughor all day long. Two girls went to hold open air meetings near some public houses in Gorseinon and some young people went to evangelise some gypsies who had encamped near Loughor.

In both places there were salvations. That night the new chapel was filled long before the time to begin the service, so Roberts asked his friend Sydney Evans, who had just returned from Newcastle Emlyn, to take the overflow into the old chapel.

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However, in minutes that was full as well. Several of the people there that night had come to scoff, but ended up giving their lives to Christ. It was past 5. During these two weeks the fire was burning in other parts of Wales. Joseph Jenkins had a good deal of success with his meetings and he arrived at Ammanford to find the fire that had started beginning to wane.

After a series of meetings the fire rekindled and when Seth Joshua arrived on November 19th the fire burst into flame. Another flame of the Revival was in Tonypandy in the Rhondda. Holy Spirit had been stirring since the beginning of at Trinity, an English speaking the other chapels so far mentioned were Welsh speaking Calvinistic Methodist chapel.

By October had given their lives to Christ. It is difficult to work out the importance of Evan Roberts to the Revival. I know that when I first started reading about the Revival I thought that Evan Roberts was the Revival, but this is clearly not the case. Most people believe that New Quay was the start in Februarya full seven months before he was baptised by the Spirit.

Having said that there are reports of loacalised revivals even before February, but they do not seem to have spread out from their base. If you have read a selection of the Welsh biographies on this website you will know that Wales probably had a revival going on somewhere, every year from all the way through to Even though localised revivals can be traced to other parts of Wales before FebruaryI do not believe that they were part of the move of God that is known as the Welsh Revival.

I believe that New Quay was the start, with Jenkins and the young women of New Quay going out from their evan roberts biography to spread the fire to other parts. When God decides to move in this way it appears that the revival atmosphere is over a large area, but only a few people are able to ignite the flame. The way I see it is that Joseph Jenkins was used to ignite the original flame, but it was left to Evan Roberts to stoke the fire so that it spread powerfully over the nation.

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In some places Roberts brought the flame with him, in others it had travelled before him, either because someone had visited a place where the fire was burning and taken it back, or because someone had realised that revival was in the atmosphere and pulled it down to earth. Seth Joshua and Sidney Evans also stoked the fire and took it around the nation, but probably not to the level of Roberts.

There were also other men who carried the fire from place to place in a lesser way. The question is; can a local revival be stoked into a national one?