(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: The fire power of prayer ignites revival fire.
Join Gloria Copeland and special guest Billye Brim today on the
Believer's Voice of Victory, as they show you how
every move of God started on the altar of prayer.
GLORIA: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory. Billye Brim's back with us today.
She's got some really good things for us. Hallelujah.
BILLYE: Right, Gloria. And I want to take up where we
left off yesterday. GLORIA: That's great. BILLYE: I want
to talk about the Moravians and the Moravian revival. We're
talking about prayer. We're talking about prayer as an
incense that sends to the Father a sweet-smelling aroma. And
we're talking about the prayers that have preceded the moves of
God, the awakenings of God. Not one of them ever came that it
wasn't preceded by great and intense prayer. And one of the
groups that prayed--and actually, Charles Wesley and
John Wesley got saved under their ministry, the Moravians.
And you really don't know so much about them. GLORIA: Mm-hmm.
BILLYE: I happen to have--well, I'll tell you that little story
later about my granddaughter's boyfriend. And remind me if I
forget to tell you. But I want to tell a little bit more about
them here. And from this book, "Fire on the Altar: Those Who
Carried the Flame," by Frank "JJ" D-i, and then another word,
P-i-e-t-r-o. I'm guessing Di Pietro. GLORIA: Did you bring me
one of those books? BILLYE: No, I didn't, honey. And my daughter
got it for me, and I think they're going to get you some
here. And I know you're going to like it, too. And he spends
three chapters talking about the Moravians because they were
so--they had a prayer meeting that lasted 100 years. GLORIA:
That's long. BILLYE: And how the Moravians--I'll just do a
little-- GLORIA: Okay. BILLYE: There was this--and he was born
in ancient Saxony, is what it was called at the time. And it's
now, I think, in East Germany. It was--has been a time in
Austria. But he was born to the Austrian royal family, Count
Zinzendorf, and very, very wealthy. But he loved Jesus from
the time he was a child. He made a vow to live for Jesus as his
passion-- GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: --when he was just a child. Six
years old and nine years old, he made these vows. And he found a
wife that was exactly as devoted as he was. So they took all
their fortune--they laid aside all their nobility rights and
claims, and they took their fortune, they dedicated it to
God. And they bought land. They had the money to do it, and they
bought parcels--huge parcels of the land. And at the time he had
bought the land, there came a man to him named Christian David
who was representing a group of terribly persecuted people,
terribly persecuted by the Roman church. They were the Moravians.
They lived in Moravia, Bohemia, someplace else I've forgotten.
And because of their beliefs, they believed in new birth, born
again, they were terribly persecuted. So this man,
Christian David, came to Count Zinzendorf, and he said, "Can
some of these people--" They're going to be refugees. They're so
terribly treated where they are. "Can I get them out and bring
them here to live on your land?" And so he did. Count Zinzendorf
called him the Moravian Moses. He went down. He'd get a little
group of them at a time, and he'd move them across the
borders. And about 300 of them came to live there. And then
people heard about it, other persecuted peoples in the area
heard about it, and they came there. And there were--it was a
mixed group, and there were about 600 of them. And some of
them didn't agree with the Moravians doctrinally or didn't
like their liturgy, or da-da-da-da. So there was this
contention. And it's really heartening to me, Gloria, to
know that there can be divided groups, and God can get them
into one. And Count Zinzendorf, who was such a man of love, and
he--he had one passion, and his passion was Jesus. He started
visiting them in their homes. And he told them, "Start prayer
groups." He was a man of prayer, very dedicated prayer. And so he
told them, "Start some prayer groups. Invite your neighbors
in. You pray here and then one over here and one over here." So
they did it. And in five years' time, they became almost
selfless. They became so overcome by a spirit of prayer.
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And he announced, in 1727, "We're
all going to get together and have a communion service." So
they got together, and they had the communion service. And this
communion service, they had the same thing happen, that
communion service that happened in the book of Acts. There was a
rushing mighty wind. They ran to the windows to see if there was
a storm outside. There was not. And then the fire of God fell on
them, and they went under the power. Even people far away from
them, two of them were working 20 miles away, and at the very
same time, the outpouring came on them. It came on those two
workers 20 miles away. And they all were under that power. And
it was the spirit of prayer that was poured out on them. They all
became prostrate on the floor. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: It
is written here in this book which I'm reading, "God had come
down to live among them in all of His glory." He wrote about
it--Zinzendorf wrote about it when he was speaking--or he
spoke about it when he was speaking to a British audience.
"We needed to come to the communion with a sense of the
loving nearness of the Savior. On this day, 27 years ago, the
congregation of Herrnhut that had assembled for communion were
all dissatisfied with themselves. They came to seek
the noble countenance of the Savior." GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: "In this view of the man of sorrows acquainted with
grief, their hearts told them that He would be their patron
and their priest who at once changed their tears into oils of
gladness and their misery into happiness. This firm confidence
changed them in a single moment into a happy people which they
are to this day. And they have led many thousands to the
heavenly grace once given to themselves." GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: It was a young congregation when this
outpouring came, the spirit of prayer. Zinzendorf was just 27
years old, and most of the congregation were about that
age. And--but they were so overcome that then they had to
start having three meetings a day, 4:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., and
8:00 p.m. they had their prayer meetings. "Prayer was the main
catalyst that fueled the revival. Zinzendorf, at this
time--" Now listen to this, Gloria. GLORIA: Okay. BILLYE:
"--received a verse from the Holy Spirit which inspired the
incredible Moravian 100-year prayer vigil--" GLORIA: Oh, my.
BILLYE: "--that they launched that year." The verse that he
received was Leviticus 6:13, which says, quote, "A fire shall
always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out." And, of
course, that's what the priesthood was told in the Old
Testament. On that altar of incense, on that altar of--where
they offered the sacrifices, the fire must never go out. GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: And they saw--God gave them that verse
because our prayers, Gloria, are offered on the altar. We--like
Paul said, when you treat them well--the people well, you're
heaping coals of fire--you're praying on the altar for them.
GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: And so that's what our prayers are.
They ascend like incense unto God. And the scripture they
got--and it lasted them a hundred years. GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: "A fire shall always be burning on the altar;
it shall never go out." GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: "Count Zinzendorf
knew the fire of the altar signified the prayers of the
saints, and he viewed this word as a literal command to restore
unceasing prayer before the Lord." You know, the Lord says,
"Pray without ceasing." Church history and world history would
never again be the same. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: So they
decided they're going to have 24-hour prayer in their prayer
tower he had built. So this is--this is how it worked: "Two
weeks into the revival on August 27, 24 men and 24 women
covenanted to pray one hour each day in scheduled prayers. Soon,
others enlisted, and before long, all members shared in what
became known as the hourly intercession. At home and
abroad, on land and sea, this prayer watch ascended
unceasingly to the Lord. They recognized the power in the--is
in the key of the Lord revealed in Leviticus 6. So they decided
to accept the task of keeping a continual fire of prayer,
intercession, and worship burning before the Lord's
presence." I doubt if they realized they would actually
keep the fire burning and pure for more than a hundred years.
GLORIA: My goodness. BILLYE: "But they began by making
personal commitments to the task. Two men prayed together
and two women prayed together for a one-hour watch until the
next team arrived to relieve them. This pattern continued
around the clock, day after day, week after week, for more than
100 years." GLORIA: A hundred years? They persevered, didn't
they? BILLYE: 100 years. "The fervent prayer--heat generated
by the sacrificial fire of their sustained prayer ignited revival
fire that launched their pioneering missionary efforts,
and in later years--" listen to this. GLORIA: Okay. BILLYE:
"--helped birth the Great Awakening in America--" GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: "--through their godly influence on men
such as John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, all who
were huge parts of the Great Awakening from which America was
birthed. They were influenced by the prayers of the Moravians and
by actually meeting the Moravians." GLORIA: Wow.
BILLYE: "Was there ever in the whole world of Church
history such an astonishing prayer meeting as that which
began in 1727, and went on for 100 years? It was
known as the 'hourly intercession,' and it
meant that by relays of brothers and sisters, prayer without
ceasing was made to God for all the work and wants
of His Church. This intense prayer vigil birthed in the
hearts of the Moravians a hunger and a passion for the
lost. They had 600 saints. And prayer, they saw as a catalyst
to revival is as gasoline to a fire. Unlike any movement before
or since, the Moravians never stop pouring out their hearts to
God. They became literally captured by God Himself and
never tired of being His watchmen on the wall. As they
matured spiritually, they became increasingly concerned about
those who had never heard of the Savior. Six months after the
beginning of the prayer watch, Zinzendorf suggested the
challenge of a bold evangelism and aimed successfully to reach
those in the world from whom--'for whom no one cared.'
Before the count could finish speaking, 26 Moravians had
stepped forward to go wherever the Lord led." GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: Now, missionary evangelism was not known in
those days. "This was the beginning of an era of Moravian
missionary work which spread to Greenland, Lapland, Russia,
Surinam, Guinea, South Africa, Amsterdam, Algeria, the North
America Indians, Ceylon, India, Romania, Constantinople (modern
Istanbul)." And they even went to the Atlantic circle and to
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Now listen to this: "Organized
missionary work and world evangelism as we know it today
did not exist in the Western world until God lit a fire in
the hearts of the Moravians through the watch of the Lord.
It was no accident that God restored the fire on the altar
first and then ignited a passion for lost souls in the world
through prayer." He had ignited that--a spirit of prayer fell
down on them that day. And in that prayer--it wasn't long,
only six months, until they had the heart of God for the lost.
GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And so they were praying in--and
whenever Count Zinzendorf said, "We have to do something about
the lost," then they had 26 Moravians step forward to say,
"We'll go." "And 3:00 a.m. on the morning of August 21, 1732,
Count Zinzendorf drove two men in his own carriage to the
Copenhagen harbor as they boarded a Dutch ship headed for
the West Indies. He blessed them and said, 'Go and do all in the
Spirit of Jesus Christ.'" GLORIA: Hmm. BILLYE: In less
than a year, they had sent more than 200 people out. They went
out on missionary endeavors. There were no mission boards.
There was nothing like this. They just went out because they
got this heart for the lost. And they--they "were about to enter
places--go into places that from the beginning of time were
controlled by Principalities and Powers. These lords of darkness
ruled unhindered for eons, dragging millions of souls into
a crisis eternity. So, into this deep darkness, the Moravians
came, shining the light of Salvation." "It is a documented
fact--" listen to this, "--that the Moravians would pack their
belongings in coffins and then send them ahead so they would
have something to ship their bodies back home in. If they
could save one person in a dying world, death mattered not" to
them. I mean, they went into places where there were
headhunters, where there were, you know, I mean, you're not
allowed. They--some of them had sold themselves into slavery in
certain lands because there was no other way to reach the people
in that land, to reach the slaves. They sold themselves
into slavery. Now listen to these ones right here: "A New
York newspaper reporter was on a ship traveling back to the
states after finishing an overseas assignment. On that
same ship there just happened to be five Moravian families. The
ship came to a stop off a secluded island, and he noticed
a distress among the missionaries' families. The
wives were crying and holding on tightly to their husbands. The
men then knelt in prayer and blessed and hugged their
children. The five male missionaries were then lowered
into a small skiff and began rowing toward the island. The
reporter then understood that the sorrow was caused by
everyone saying goodbye until the men could be picked up again
when the ship returned. His heart began to sink when, using
the captain's spyglass, he read a sign on the beach of the
island: 'All are forbidden to enter. Leper colony.'" GLORIA:
Oh. BILLYE: "'All who enter this place cannot return.'" And so
they left their families to go into the leper colony. And it
tells about the people they saw there. And a man who had no
feet, they were eaten off-- GLORIA: Oh. BILLYE: --was
carried on the back of a man, and this man was carried on the
back--he had hands. And the man whose back he rode on, he
had--he had no hands, but he did have feet. So the two of them
went together, and they were sowing crops. GLORIA: Oh, my
goodness. What a story. BILLYE: And they brought them--they
brought them the message of Jesus Christ. GLORIA: My, my.
BILLYE: And this all was sustained--have you ever gone
out, Gloria--I do. I go out. And you go out, and Ken. We all go
out a lot. But I'm always conscious that back there at
Prayer Mountain, they're praying for me. And it seems sometimes,
when I go, I kind of like ride along on their prayers, you
know? GLORIA: Mm-hmm. BILLYE: Even sometimes if I'm taking a
tour to Israel, I'm teaching all day long, and it seems like
sometimes maybe I didn't have as much time to pray that morning,
but I know they're praying back there. GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: And so Count Zinzendorf, in 1741, he himself went on to
the mission field, and he went to North America. Now, you're
thinking 1741. We haven't even had 1776 yet. We haven't had the
Revolutionary War. And he started a settlement in
Pennsylvania, and he called it Bethlehem. And that community
was his base for his missionary work among the Indians, and it
has now grown into a large city. And my little granddaughter, who
Is studying to be a pharmacist, and she has a young man that
she's been dating for a few years, and his grandmother
invited her to come for Christmas about a couple of
years ago. And his grandmother lives in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, and she's of a Moravian stock. GLORIA: Is that
right? BILLYE: And she's a guide in a Moravian museum that they
have there in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. So it was about
this time that John Wesley was introduced to the Moravians. He
was on a ship bound for America, and it had a group of these
Moravians on the ship. Now, he had been to America. He
has--he's open--he wants to mission--he wants to minister to
the Indians in Georgia, but he's not born again, he's not saved.
And there comes a horrible storm, and it breaks the ship's
mast. And all the people are crying out, all the Englishmen
are crying out, they're doomed, they're doomed. And here's these
Moravians, and they're singing, and they're calm. He was
challenged by them. And they were--people were offending
them. They were treating them terribly, but they never struck
back. "And many perceived these German missionaries as cowards
until a great storm broke over the ship. As the main sail split
and the sea began to pour into the ship, the English panicked,
their terrified screams rising above the tumult of the storm,
but the Moravians sat quietly, singing their hymns. Afterwards,
when one of the Moravians was asked if he was afraid during
the storm, he answered, 'I thank God, no.' Then he was asked if
their women and children were afraid and replied, 'No. Our
women and children are not afraid to die.' Wesley recorded
this in his diary and added, 'From them, I went to their
crying, trembling neighbors and pointed out to them the
difference in the hour of trial between him that feared God and
him that feared not.'" GLORIA: Oh, my. Yeah. BILLYE: "'At
twelve, the wind fell. This was the most glorious day which I
have hitherto seen.'" And so Wesley then entered into his
journal that he went among the Moravians. GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: And the Moravians, then, he saw that he had not been born
again. And he became-- "The Wesley brothers were saved and
went on to see--" GLORIA: So they were saved. BILLYE: They
were saved under the Moravian ministry. And they were "saved
and went on to see, in meeting after meeting, thousands come to
Christ--" GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: --in the Wesleys'
ministries. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: But this had happened
because they had come into contact--I'm sure God led them
into that. And He probably would have led them later into it, you
know, but it was the Moravians whom--in whom they saw the light
of God and in whom they saw salvation by grace through Jesus
Christ. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And then you know what
the Wesleys did. GLORIA: Now, are there--are there Moravians
still here? BILLYE: There are Moravians today. I don't know
how many. I do know they have the Moravian museum there in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which my granddaughter went to. But
that--that--I wanted to bring out about that part about their
prayer. 100 years, they prayed. And--let's see, 1727 to 1827, in
that prayer tower. And then the missionaries went everywhere.
And as a result of their missionary work, which was
backed by prayer, the Wesleys got saved. And, man, that's a
part--that's-- GLORIA: Awesome. BILLYE: --historical fact what
happened in the ministries of John Wesley and Charles Wesley.
GLORIA: Yes. BILLYE: And George Whitefield also came
into contact--he was already born again by the time--he was
born again before the Wesleys were. And when
he was already come into--he sought out their
fellowship. He sought them out. And everything starts
on the altar-- GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: --of prayer.
There's not a move of God that came, there's not a
revival--we're going to talk about Azusa tomorrow. GLORIA:
Good. BILLYE: Not any of it came without a prayer first. And if
we do what they did, we can get what they got. If--that's what a
man did who brought a great revival out of which Hilo,
Hawaii, was born. I'm going to be going there soon. But Hilo
became a city because a man who was ministered to in the
ministry of Charles Finney, great revivalist--and Finney was
a man of prayer, and Father Nash who prayed before him. And that
young man who was influenced by Finney and his prayer life and
his revivals, he said, "If I do what Finney did, I can get what
Finney got." And he went to Hawaii, and a great, huge move
of God came because he prayed. That's what Finney did. GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: And that's what they all did. And if that's
what we'll do, then we can have what they had.
GLORIA: Oh, yes. Hallelujah. BILLYE: We can have--
GLORIA: It's time. BILLYE: --Jesus, our passion, but it's
going to take prayer-- GLORIA: Praise God. Glory to God.
BILLYE: --from the Body of Christ-- GLORIA: Hallelujah.
BILLYE: --who is the priesthood on the earth and can lift up--
GLORIA: Amen, amen. BILLYE: --men and nations
to God. GLORIA: Billye and I'll be right back.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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