The best revival meetings ever documented have had no apparent leader other than God.
The Holy Spirit can move upon His people in such a way that they are all led by the Spirit to usher in His words, grace, power, and love in these revival atmospheres. You must be open to God's Spirit speaking to you, listen, then act in faith and obedience to what He suggests.
However, even in such meetings it is typical that God appoints spiritual facilitators that can be there to monitor the flow of the Anointing and make sure that the Holy Spirit is not grieved, that things continue to flow in the direction the Holy Spirit desires, and that nobody gets out of order or oversteps their liberties. This is true spiritual authority at work.
Out of relationship with the Holy Spirit such elders in the body of Christ, regardless of man appointed position or title, can be those God uses to bring order in such a setting. God's order, not man's order; free of rules, free of methods, free of religion, free of timelines.
This is in great contrast to typical Sunday morning church services where there is a set time of service; an expected time to preach with a certain amount of time given to an altar call. In true revival meetings everyone there may not know one thing that is going to happen or for how long.
This is also in contrast to typical tent or stadium evangelism or healing meetings. Finney, Edwards, Wesley, Moody, A.A. Allen, William Branham, and even modern examples such as Benny Hinn, may very well have led "anointed," meetings but the gifting and attention still focuses on them and the Word of the Lord through them. A true revival atmosphere has very little attention on any one man. A great example of a Revivalist that I aspire to flow in the Spirit like is Evan Roberts of the Welsch revival. He simply showed up and prayed. God did the rest and God got the glory!
Continue living a lifestyle of revival!
Matt Skamser
www.youarerevival.com
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