Topic: The Earthquake
Text: I Timothy 2:1-4

Today, we need to rediscover the old-fashioned revival, which characterized the early Church. We must pray until we are revived once again. As I read the Scriptures, time and again, I see the need for re-enactment of the spontaneous eruption of Holy Ghost revival which was a common feature in the early church, as well as in the good old days when we were new converts.

For example, in the early Church, their prayers used to shake foundations. Acts 4:31 testifies: “And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.” The saints prayed and there was a visible earthquake. We need to go back to the good old days. When we pray, the whole earth should shake. I know you would wonder if such things could ever happen again. You are mistaking.

In 1979, I was in, Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, USA praying with my late father-in-the-Lord, Pa Akindayomi, and four others. As we prayed in Pa Akindayomi’s top floor room, he told us something that led to serious prayers: that I would succeed him. It was not a very easy day. As the six of us prayed in the room, there suddenly came an urgent knock on the door. When we opened the door, it was the hotel engineer staring at us in great anxiety. He asked us what type of instruments we were playing that shook the building the way it did. We said we were not playing any instrument but were only praying. He did not believe us. He said, “But the foundation of the hotel was shaking!” We had to stop our prayers for him to search our room. When he finished searching, he still could not believe we were just praying. Mind you, this happened in 1979, and not 100A.D.

People can still pray and shake the foundations of building. God has not changed. What He did in those days, He can still do today.

Memory Verse I Thessalonians 5:17 - “Pray without ceasing.”