The Next Great Awakening

Main message: The preacher argues that Joseph’s story is a template for how God reveals, provides, and raises unexpected faithful people in times of spiritual famine, and that American history shows roughly 50-year cycles of such revivals. These examples of ordinary, overlooked people leading awakenings suggest God may be at work again today.

Key points:

• Joseph’s example: faithful, discerning service in a complacent season models how God prepares storehouses for future need.
• 1734 — Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God helped spark the First Great Awakening in the colonies.
• 1801 — Cane Ridge, Kentucky: massive frontier revival with thousands convulsed and converted.
• 1857 — Jeremiah Landfire’s (Lanphier in some accounts) Fulton Street prayer meeting grew from a lone prayer to daily gatherings and widespread conversions after economic crisis.
• 1906 — Isuza (Azusa) Street and William Seymour: a racially diverse Pentecostal revival that spread nationally and globally.
• 1970 — Jesus Movement in Costa Mesa (Chuck Smith) reached millions of young people; speaker links these historical patterns to recent baptisms in their own church.

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