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The point of THIS post is to express this:

That God has been on the move throughout history. That there are very few decades where we don’t see some form of outpouring. The earlier ones are the ones studied in history books. And may not account for the smaller movements like the one that happened at Asbury University this year in 2023.

This post is written for fellow sisters and brothers in the Lord… I don’t expect all people to catch the meanings of revival and outpouring…

What I do mean though is a season of refreshing of the Holy Spirits presence in the church(Acts 3:20) often in a specific or multiple geographic locations…. Often having an impact on world missions and social justice.

Spiritual movements in AMERICA. Since the nations founding

Years:1730s and 1740s

The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion
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Years: 1790s-early 1800s

The Second Great Awakening led to a period of antebellum social reform and an emphasis on salvation by institutions. The outpouring of religious fervor and revival began in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s and early 1800s
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Late 1850s-Early 1900s

The Third Great Awakening refers to a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and spans the late 1850s to the early 20th century.[1] It influenced pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism.[2]8
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1906-1915

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The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California.[1] It was led by William J. Seymour, an African-American preacher. The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
Today, the revival is considered by historians to be the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century.

1946-1950s

The Healing Revival is a term used by many American Charismatics in reference to a Christian revival movement that began in June 1946 and continued through the 1950s.
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1948-1960s

The Latter Rain, also known as the New Order or the New Order of the Latter Rain, was a post–World War II movement within Pentecostal Christianity which remains controversial. The movement saw itself as a continuation of the restorationism of early pentecostalism.[1] The movement began with major revivals between 1948 and 1952, and became established as a large semi-organized movement by 1952 and continued into the 1960s.

Late 1960s-late 1970s-80s

The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement which began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, and Central America, before it subsided in the late 1980s. Members of the movement were called Jesus people, or Jesus freaks.

1994-?

The Toronto Blessing, a term coined by British newspapers, refers to the Christian revival and associated phenomena that began in January 1994
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1995-2000, 2008

The Toronto Blessing is also reported[by whom?] as having influenced the Brownsville Revival (1995 – c. 2000) and the Lakeland Revival (2008) that occurred later in Florida, and which included similar styles of worship, ministry and reputed supernatural manifestations.
Interesting. This is a different spin on history.

Years of registered outpourings

1730s-1740s
1790s-early 1800s
1850-early 1900s
1906-1915
Debated (1948-1960s)
1960s-1970s or 80s

1994-?
1995-2000
2008
2022-2023

We have been living in somewhat of a spiritual dryspell as a consequence of comfort here in America…. But God has been on the move even here in small and big ways 🙂