Azusa Street Revival William Seymour Azusa Street Seymour

Azusa Street Revival William Seymour Azusa Street Seymour Team • William Joseph Seymour, visionary • Born Centerville, Louisiana, May 2, 1870 • Parents, former slaves Simon and Phyllis Seymour • Raised Baptist • Age 25, Indianapolis, worked as railroad porter and waiter in a fashionable restaurant. • Contracted smallpox and went blind in his left eye. • In 1900 Cincinnati, Church of God. Attended integrated Bible School. 1 st exposure to sanctification, divine healing, and the promise of a worldwide Holy Spirit revival before the rapture.

Azusa Street Revival William Seymour • William Joseph Seymour, • 1903 Houston, Texas, search for family. • Lucy Farrow, Holiness church Pastor • Charles Parham. Holiness teacher. 2 years earlier created Bible school that targeted students speaking in tongues. When he created Houston Bible school to train disciples, Farrow urged Seymour to attend. • Parham held many unscriptural beliefs. Unlike AA Allen who found Texas law loopholes to not honor segregation (and was willing to go to jail if it took that), Parham had Seymour remain in a hallway –some say the alley way behind the building listening to his lectures.

• Seymour was scoped out by Parham to be a black preacher to his people. God scoped Seymour out to be the facilitator/preacher/teacher of a CA Revival that would impact 600 million people. • Seymour preached Baptism of the Holy Spirit though he didn’t have it. • He brought in Lucy Farrow from Houston and they fasted ten days. • Edward Lee got Baptism first at the Bonnie Brae Street meetings. • Seymour’s future wife Jennie Evans Moore also got it and was gifted supernaturally to play piano and sing in Hebrew. Then everyone including Seymour “got” it. They held 24/7 meetings. So many pressed into the Bonnie Brae home, the front porch fell into the front yard. No one was hurt.

Frank Bartleman asked Evan Roberts for prayer. Roberts agreed to pray to “save California”. Roberts shared four "points" for Revival: 1. Confess all known sin, receiving forgiveness through Jesus Christ 2. Remove anything in your life that you are in doubt or feel unsure about 3. Be ready to obey the Holy Spirit instantly 4. Publicly confess the Lord Jesus Christ At almost precisely 5: 12 am PST April 18, 1906, an earthquake foreshock woke San Francisco Bay Area residents. 8. 3 Richter scale earthquake followed 20 to 25 seconds later. Repeated shockwaves 45 to 60 seconds followed. The earthquake was felt from southern Oregon to south Los Angeles and inland 44 miles into central Nevada. What the earthquake didn’t destroy in 90 seconds, the fire following the town’s ruptured gas lines did. Around 700 people lay dead.

• The earthquake made Southern CA think about eternity and Azusa just exploded in size. • Azusa Street Revival crossed economic, gender and racial lines. • Ministers coming in to “correct” Seymour would supernaturally lose the ability to speak or have many other symptoms. • There was a half mile circumference that people said they experienced healing just entering. There was fire from the top of the roof. The fire department told worried neighbors: its okay. Its just God! Frank Bartleman had a fight with his wife and as he was about to enter the area, God spoke strongly to him and said go home, get your peace. He returned, set things right then went to church. • There was a ground fog that people experienced healing in. As Seymour worshipped God, the wooden crate he had his head in would turn blue. No one wanted to see if this blue box held electric charge. • Seymour taught the laymen to minister. 1000 s of people would come for a few services then take that to their areas bringing revival all over the world.

BE the One– GB Cashwell • In November 1906, GB Cashwell traveled to Los Angeles to visit the Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission. In early December, he had an experience that he believed to be the baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues. Cashwell preached the Pentecostal experience in the local Holiness church.

Miracles In addition to tongues, extraordinary miracles were reported. In the time before antibiotics, Tommy Welchel reported they would wipe the infections or clear the open injuries, put intestines back in, sweep the obvious teeth trying to fall out into buckets and tidy the person however possible then they would pray. Holes closed up. Limbs grew. New sets of teeth. The children loved seeing the changes. They ran for the door to be the first one to pray for the new incoming people. One girl with a 3 rd burn was carried in blackened, bones showing, walked in the next night and no one recognized her, with healthy skin. Elizabeth Montgomery (TV show Bewitched) –her grandparents brought her father Robert in, every bone broken or out of place. He was restored and he would go onto join the film industry with his supernaturally restored handsome looks. Tommy Welchel has many more documented miracles on this Revival.

• Visit a night or two, then take the fire with you. 1000 s of missionaries did, started new Pentecostal churches: Canada, Most of Europe, Sweden, Norway, UK, Holland, Denmark, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Venezuela, Chile, Liberia, Nigeria, the Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, and China. • Miss Nettie Moomau, a missionary to China, came to Azusa in October of 1906. Took back the Baptism and a healing ministry. She planted churches in Lo Pau, Shanghai, Michow, Toachow, Canton, Yunnan, Siimao, Kansu, Yunnanfu, and Beijing.

• Azusa Street Revival ultimately birthed Assemblies of God (founder bottom right corner), the Church of God (Cleveland Tennessee), Church of God in Christ and impacted the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. • Ivan Voronaev (with his family upper right) spawned several series of Russian then Soviet Union Revivals (1920 s 1937). He visited Azusa.

• Demos Shakarian who would be the founder of Full Gospel Business Mens Fellowship International had family straight off the boat from Armenia who were job hunting and heard their language being spoken. They lived down the street! They were delighted to recognize the power of the Holy Spirit at Azusa Street that they had known back in Armenia. Eventually they would help translate for Seymour at separate Bible studies held in their homes as more immigrants arrived. • Before Charles Parham found out Seymour’s meetings were integrated, he sent everyone to visit and “fill up”. When he came and saw the move of God, he was shocked by the “sensational Holy Rollers”. He set up shop down the street to correct Seymour. When his meetings fizzled, he left California.

• Charles Parham (Father of Pentecost) opened the door to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit which netted the Azusa Street Revival. Many keep fairly stable Biblical values; so its sad Parham usually picked doctrinal heresies. • It wasn’t commonly taught then that when you step forward into ministry, you want to remove the targets Satan can use to cause you misery or block your ministry. Even if you are the anointed, don’t mess with God’s anointed. Parham’s choices in many areas hurt him and his family. • Yet, both he and Seymour even residing on opposite coasts heard the same 100 year prophecy. They said that it will be an outpouring of God´s Spirit and His Shekinah glory that would be greater and more far reaching than what was experienced at Azusa. This prophecy was also confirmed by Maria Woodworth Etter in 1913.

• William Seymour (Catalyst of Pentecost) had a lot thrown at him that could have caused him to fall, yet he stayed connected to the Lord. • William Seymour welcomed the full participation of all, whether black or white, male or female, rich or poor, young or old. He was not threatened by the gifting of others. He strongly impacted many including John G. Lake. He felt all were free to bring a song, a testimony, or a message, whether intelligible or in an unknown tongue. He would often decline to preach a message himself if he thought God had already said all He wanted to say. • When the mailing list that kept his ministry going was taken north, it was apparently because a white woman who helped publish his paper (and who took his mailing addresses) apparently hoped to be his bride choice. Lucy, instead, was his choice.

William Seymour Sermon: River of Living Water

William Seymour Sermon: River of Living Water In the fourth chapter of John, the words come, “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of Him and He would have given thee living water. ” Praise God for the living waters today that flow freely, for it comes from God to every hungry and thirsty heart. Jesus said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his inmost being shall flow rivers of living waters. ” Then we are able to go in the mighty name of Jesus to the ends of the earth and water dry places, deserts and solitary places until these parched, sad, lonely hearts are made to rejoice in the God of their salvation. We want the rivers today. Hallelujah! Glory to God in the highest. In Jesus Christ we get forgiveness of sin, and we get sanctification of our spirit, soul and body, and upon that we get the gift of the Holy Ghost that Jesus promised to His disciples, the promise of the Father. All this we get through the atonement. Hallelujah!

The prophet said that He had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed. So we get healing, health, salvation, joy, life —everything in Jesus. Glory to God! There are many wells today, but they are dry. There are many hungry souls today that are empty. But let us come to Jesus and take Him at His Word and we will find wells of salvation, and be able to draw waters out of the well of salvation, for Jesus is that well. At this time Jesus was weary from a long journey, and He sat on the well in Samaria, and a woman came to draw water. He asked her for a drink. She answered, “How is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me who am a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans? ” Jesus said, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of Him and He would have given thee living water. ”

O, how sweet it was to see Jesus, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, that great sacrifice that God had given to a lost, dying and benighted world, sitting on the well and talking with the woman; so gentle, so meek and so kind that it gave her an appetite to talk further with Him, until He got into her secret and uncovered her life. Then she was pricked in her heart, confessed her sins and received pardon, cleansing from fornication and adultery, washed from stain and guilt of sin and was made a child of God, and above all, received the well of salvation in her heart. It was so sweet and joyful and good. Her heart was so filled with love that she felt she could take in a whole lost world. So she ran away with a well of salvation and left the old water pot on the well. How true it is in this day, when we get the baptism with the Holy Spirit, we have something to tell, and it is that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. The baptism with the Holy Ghost gives us power to testify to a risen, resurrected Saviour. Our affections are in Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. How I worship Him today! How I praise Him for the all cleansing blood.

Jesus’ promises are true and sure. The woman said to Him, after He had uncovered her secret, “Sir I perceive that Thou art a prophet. ” Yes, He was a prophet. He was that great prophet that Moses said the Lord would raise up. He is here today. Will we be taught of that prophet? Will we hear Him? Let us accept Him in all His fullness. He said, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall ye do, because I go unto my Father. ” These disciples to whom He was speaking, had been saved, sanctified, anointed with the Holy Spirit, their hearts had been opened to understand the scriptures, and yet Jesus said, “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. ” “John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. ” So the same commission comes to us. We find that they obeyed His commission and were all filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, and Peter standing up, said, “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. ”

Dear loved ones, we preach the same sermon. “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dreams; and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. . . The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. ” That means until now and to last until Jesus comes. There are so many people today like the woman. They are controlled by the fathers. Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator. Listen to what the woman said, “Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. ” So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures—not in the mountains—not in the hills, but in God.

For God is a Spirit. Jesus said unto her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh and now is, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. ” So many people today are controlled by men. Their salvation reaches out no further than the boundary line of human creeds, but praise God for freedom in the Spirit. There are depths and heights and breadths that we can reach through the power of the blessed Spirit. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the hearts of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love Him. ” The Jews were the religious leaders at this time, and people had no more light upon salvation than the Jews gave them. The Jews were God’s chosen people to evangelize the world. He had entrusted them to give all nations the true knowledge of God, but they went into traditions and doctrines of men, and were blinded and in the dark. Jesus came as the light of the world, and He is that light.

“If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. ” Let us honor the Spirit, for Jesus has sent Him to teach and lead us into all truth. Above all, let us honor the blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls. We will be able to talk of this common salvation to everyone that we meet. god will let His anointing rest upon us in telling them of this precious truth. This truth belongs to God. We have no right to tax anyone for the truth, because God has entrusted us with it to tell it. Freely we receive, freely we give. So the gospel is preached freely, and God will bless it and spread it Himself, and we have experienced that He does. We have found Him to be true to His promise all the way. We have tried Him and proved Him. His promises are sure. http: //www. sermonindex. net/modules/articles/index. php? view=art icle&aid=39711