Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

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32. William Henry Lewis, And He Gave Some Apostles (Bradford: Puritan, 1954), p. 101. 33. Worsfold, Origins, pp. 86, 112, 281, 284, 306. 34. Ibid., p. 184. John Hewitt commented to me: "Over the past two decades, the AC in Australia and New Zealand has moved forward with a great awareness of the spontaneity of the prophetic ministry in the Church. This has caused growth in the number of churches and size of congregations. This refreshing release of the prophetic linked with the apostolic is hav ing a beneficial influence on the AC in other nations, including Wales." 35. D. P. Williams, Prophetical Ministry, p. 97. 36. Worsfold, Origins, pp. 307-308. 37. Gerhard Friedrich,Theological Dictio nary of the New Testament, Vol. 6, p. 849. 38. George Mallone, Those Controversial Gifts (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1983), p. 37. 39. C. Peter Wagner, Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow (Ventura, Calif.: Regal, 1979), p. 229. 40. Donald Gee, Spiritual Gifts in the Work of the Ministry Today (Springfield, Mo.: Gospel Publishing, 1963), p. 10. remarkably candid, forthright and well researched-is by C. Douglas Weaver, a book made from his Ph.D. dissertation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: The Healer Prophet, William Marrion Branham: A Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University, 1987). 2. Richard M. Riss, A Survey of 20th-Cen tury Revival Movements in North America (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1988), p. 1. 3. See Frank Bartleman, What Really Hap pened at Azusa Street? (Northridge, Calif.: Voice Christian Publications, 1962). Also, Carl Brum bach, Suddenly . . . from Heaven (Springfield, Mo.: Gospel Publishing, 1961). 4. Riss, A Survey, p. 1. 5. Also, the revival at Wheaton College (Feb ruary 5-12, 1950) received national publicity. More than twenty other college revivals occurred during this period. J. Edwin Orr, Campus Aflame (Glendale, Calif.: Gospel Light, 1971), pp. 165-182. Chapter 18: The Latter Rain Movement 1. The best study I have seen on Branham

6. David Harrell, All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Mod ern America (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Uni versity, 1975), p. 162. 7. Richard M. Riss, Latter Rain: The Latter Rain Movement of 1948 and the Mid-Twenti eth Century Evangelical Awakening (Missis sauga, Ont.: Honeycomb, 1987), p. 57. 8. A source of great influence on the North Battleford brothers was a book published by Franklin Hall in 1946 called Atomic Power with God thru Fasting and Prayer. The cover pictures the great arm of the Lord holding the gifts of the Spirit behind a locked door. The key that unlocks the door and releases the gifts of the Spirit is prayer and fasting. All the major heal ing evangelists, according to Harrell, "began fol lowing his fasting regime and miracles erupted everywhere." All Things, p. 244. 9. Riss, A Survey, p. 112. 10. Ernest Hawtin, "How This Revival Began," p. 3, as quoted by Riss, Latter Rain, pp. 62-63. 11. George R. Hawtin, "Revival at Sharon," Sharon Star (1 August 1949), p. 2. Quoted from Riss, A Survey, p. 66. 12. Riss, Latter Rain, p. 63. 13. Read the firsthand account of Pastor Reg Layzell of Vancouver, B.C., who was present. The Pastor's Pen compiled by B. M. Gaglardi (Vancouver, B.C.: Mission, 1965), pp. 52-63. 14. Presbytery is the plural form of pres byter. A presbyter is an elder (presbuteros, one who is older, more experienced) or bishop (epis copos, an overseer, director, shepherd)-both terms referring to the same individual's respec tive status and function. See Acts 20:17, 28; Titus 1:5, 7. 15. Richard Riss, A/G Heritage (fall 1987), p. 17. 16. Reg Layzell, "My Testimony," The Sharon Star (1 February 1949), pp. 1-2. From Riss, Latter Rain, pp. 88-89. 17. The dedication and outbreak of revival followed seven years of regular fasting and prayer on the part of the members of the church. 18. By 1949 a number of centers for revival had arisen in North America: in Memphis (Paul N. Grubb); St. Louis (Omar Johnson); Portland (Thomas Wyatt); Los Angeles (A. Earl Lee); Cleveland (L. 0. McKinney); Port Arthur, Texas (Charles Green); and other places. 19. Time and space does not allow for a fuller treatment. See Riss, Latter Rain, p. 90ff. 20. Gaglardi, Pastor's Pen, pp. 8-9. 405.