Day Thirty-Seven "Angelina College Revival"

The revival was scheduled for three nights. It lasted for three weeks. There were fourteen people saved and dozens of students who came face to face with God during those weeks. Students wept openly during the invitation as they repented of sins. Students forsook sleep to pray and attend the services, which lasted at times three hours long.

The worship was intense. The preaching was hard but filled with God’s desire to restore His people and save the lost. The revival was extremely costly. It lasted through final examinations on the campus. Parents lost time with their children at night. The preacher canceled paying revivals to remain a part of God’s movement at Angelina College.

One college student from Stephen F. Austin State University was driving home past Angelina College when she felt convicted and pulled off the highway and turned into the college where she attended the service. God touched her heart that night.

Formerly timid students became bold and vocal in their faith, sharing Christ out on the campus among the other students. They even went door to door in the dormitory looking for opportunities to witness for Christ and invite people to the revival.

The move of God spread to two other youth groups in neighboring towns. Many were saved and backslidden Christians were brought to repentance. Several of these students began attending the college revival services.

God used a young student named Jonathan Baldwin during those days of refreshing. Jonathan was the campus spiritual leader. He rallied the troops in prayer. He often forsook actually attending the revival services so he could be in the prayer room pleading for God to move. He spent hours in that room interceding for fellow students. He prayer-walked the campus continually.

It was a revival of holiness. Many lives were transformed during those three weeks. Prayer sustained the revival and the hunger to see God move. After three weeks the focus shifted. It became a social outlet for college and high school students. As suddenly as it began it ended. Many believe God desired to do much more but when His revival movement was taken for granted, the Holy Spirit was grieved and the revival was quenched.

Steps to Revival

1. Read I Thess. 5:19. In what ways can the Spirit be quenched?

2. The word “quench” means to extinguish. Do you extinguish the Spirit during corporate worship? If so, how?

Revival is a gift from God. How can you steward it when it comes and not quench it?