Revival in the Hebrides and Its Impact

There was a great revival in the Hebrides

in the early

1900s.

Began to move.

Moved up to

the pleading for it into the '40s.

Maybe we could say it topped out in the early '50s.

Two old women, one was eighty-four years old and one was

eighty-two years old. One was blind, and one was humped over so

badly with

spinal stenosis, just, just arched over.

But they had passion for revival. They wanted God to work.

This, this is what happened.

They couldn't even get out to the church to pray.

They couldn't even get out to the church to worship.

Their house became a place to meet. People came in.

They got so passionate about revival coming to their isle, the Isle of

Lewis.

They got so passionate about it.

They confronted the preacher and wanted to know if he

was thoroughly right with

God.

And they prayed and prayed and prayed.

And they'd seen the Lord, they said, with the church filled up,

and God blessing in a great overflow.

And the fire of God struck that tiny little obscure

place off the coast of Scotland.

And when it happened,

there was a young teenage boy that got saved in it.

His name was Donald. And the preacher became so dependent upon

Donald and so close

to Donald, he would ask him to lead in public prayers

and help him with the

meetings, and he did.

Oh, how God worked.

People began to hear about it, and the revival fire spread.

It spread.

And God blessed in a, in a great way.

Those two old women, the people, kind of

people people don't want in their church anymore.

And

from that same island,

there was a, a young girl who was a cousin to Donald Smith,

who immigrated to America.

Her name was Mary Ann

Smith McLeod.

She came to America in 1936.

She met a man named Fred,

and they were married. They fell in love. They were married.

God blessed in a great way.

And those old women were her aunts,

and they came out of that fiery revival. That fiery revival.

They really experienced revival.

And

they sent a Bible,

a copy of the Word of God that had been used in a special way in

that

revival,

to Mary Ann.

She started having children.

I think it was 1937 she had her first child. They named him after his father,

Fred.

Then she had her second child,

named after herself, Mary Ann.

Then she had her third child, Elizabeth.

Then she had her fourth child, and she was so impacted by this teenage

boy God had used in that

revival in the Hebrides.

She named him Donald.

And she gave him that Bible, that Hebrides revival

Bible.

He was born in 1946.

He's now the forty-fifth president of the United States.

And that revival Bible is in the Oval Office.

I'm saying to you, I don't know how, why.

I don't know how it all comes together,

but I, but I believe God is putting some things

together to give us just a window. Just a window.

If He, if He could find some open people

who know what the window's for.

Can this be the time the window's open?

Providentially, God has prepared the moment,

and we will become a people of prayer,

pleading with God. This is a plea. Will Thou not

revive us again? Will you, will you, will you be a part of that?

Will you?