Joel Hitchcock Ministry Presents: WILLIAM J SEYMOUR
The Azusa Street Revival Azusa Street Centennial Revival to be held at the First Assembly of God in Asheboro NC April 9 at 10:15 a.m & 6:30 p.m. and April 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14 at 6:30 p.m. and again on Sunday April 16 at 10:15 a.m. for Resurrection Sunday Service. NOTE: It was on April 14th, 1906 that William J Seymour and his band of believers had their first meeting on 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles CA. William J Seymour received his baptism in the Holy Spirit a couple of days earlier, and the story hit the Los Angeles Times on the 18th. (See the picture above.) Link to www.joelhitchcock.com
Read from Joel Hitchcock's book: "Ten years later a part-time African-American preacher was listening to Rev. Parham, preaching about holiness and the initial sign of the baptism in the Holy Ghost. Rev. Parham is known as the “father of the Pentecostal revival.” The “catalyst” for this revival would be this man. His name was W.J. Seymour, and he was hungry for more of God. I love the way John G. Lake describes Seymour's passion for more of God in one of his sermons preached in the early 1900's: “Later Brother Parham was preaching in Texas. A colored man came into his meeting by the name of Seymour. In a hotel in Chicago he related his experience to Brother Tom and myself. I want you to see the hunger in that colored man's soul. He said he was a waiter in a restaurant and preaching to a church of colored people. He knew God as Savior, and as the Sanctifier. “He knew the power of God to heal. But as he listened to Parham he became convinced of a bigger thing, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. He went on to Los Angeles without receiving it, but he said he was determined to preach all of God he knew to the people. He said, “Brother, before I met Parham, such a hunger to have more of God was in my heart that I prayed for five hours a day for two and a half years . I got to Los Angeles, and when I got there the hunger was not less but more. I prayed, ‘God, what can I do?' And the Spirit said, ‘Pray more. But Lord, I am praying five hours a day now.' I increased my hours of prayer to seven, and prayed on for a year and a half more. “I prayed God to give me what Parham preached, the real Holy Ghost and fire with tongues and love and power of God like the apostles had.” There are better things to be had in spiritual life but they must be sought out with faith and prayer. “I want to tell you God Almighty had put such a hunger in that Negro's heart that when the fire of God came it glorified him. I do not believe that any other man in modern times had a more wonderful deluge of God in his life than God gave to that dear fellow . Brother Seymour preached to my congregation, to ten thousand people, when the glory and power of God was upon this spirit, when men shook and trembled and cried to God. God was in him .” (1) His little mission located on 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles, California became the scene of the modern outpouring of the Holy Spirit just like in Acts 2 and in the Unicoi Mountains. But this time it spread like wildfire all over the world to where currently there are around 470 million Pentecostal/Charismatic believers around the world. Even though many denominations have sprung forth from this visitation of God, the experience was not restricted to a denomination. People from across the vast spectrum of churches have come under the glory of the Latter Rain. The reason for this Latter Rain is to ripen the harvest so that we can now reap it before the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Taken from Joel Hitchcock's book "The End Time Revival and Great Awakening.) Click here to go to
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