For over a year different pastors in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan met and prayed for a fresh outpouring of God’s Spirit. They met weekly to pray together asking God to send revival. God answered their prayers.
Many of these pastors had heard about the revival God brought through Duncan Campbell on the Hebrides Islands. Duncan Campbell had a vision that a revival would start in Saskatoon and spread from there. It was believed that if God moved there He could also move in Saskatoon.
A Saskatoon pastor named Bill McCleod scheduled a revival meeting. In preparation for the meeting Christians were encouraged to reconcile broken relationship and remove anything that might hinder God from moving. As these Christians did so God sent revival.
Revival came to the Ebeneezer Baptist Church and quickly spread throughout the community. Soon the crowds overflowed the church. They moved to a different church but that too soon proved to be too small a venue. Eventually the services were moved to the civic auditorium where crowds of 2,000 attended the revival. Those services stretched out for nearly two months.
The revival was started by prayer, and when God’s people began to get right with one another. Fractured relationships grieve the Holy Spirit. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit for the rest of the body.
Steps to Revival
1. Read Eph. 3:30-31. According to these verses what is one way we can grieve the Holy Spirit?
2. Is there anyone with whom you need to reconcile? If so, how will you go about this?
3. Is there anything else in your life that is grieving the Holy Spirit at this time?
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