Where is The Bride's Revival?
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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, They stumbled and fell.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
Introduction
Introduction
Asbury Revival
Bro. Branham tells the story of a group of visitors asking a policeman for directions to the Welsh Revival.
He said, “We are here from the United States. We’re a delegation. We come over here to investigate the Welsh revival, so-called. We are Doctors of Divinity, and we’re here to look it over.” He said, “We want to know where the revival is, and where it’s held.”
He said, “Sir, you have arrived. I am the Welsh revival.” Amen! “The Welsh revival is in me. Here is where it’s at.” 64-0726E - Broken Cisterns
If we are looking for the Bride’s revival we need to know what it is and where it is.
1. What is the Bride’s Revival?
1. What is the Bride’s Revival?
The Bride’s revival is a Word Revival.
The Bride hasn’t had a revival yet. There’s been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. We’re looking for it now. It’ll take those seven unknown Thunders back there, to wake Her up again, see. Yeah. He’ll send it. He promised it. 63-0320 - The Third Seal
But watch, when the spiritual Bride, when She begins to have a revival, when She begins to come back and line Herself up with the Word of God. Watch then again, you see, how that the Scriptures, at that time, there’ll be a Message sweep out to catch that Bride, catch that Woman, Elect. 65-1125 - The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ
Not an intellectual revival, a Word revival.
Pentecost was a Word Revival.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Education can never bring Life. It takes the Spirit of God to bring Life, and that Life must not come out of just the intellectual revival. It’s got to come out of the Bible, Word revival, and that Word is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And when It falls today, and quickens, you get the same results you did in Acts 2. Exactly. It always has, and it always will be, because it’s the Spirit of God that conditions the atmosphere. 65-0123 - Broken Cisterns
The Bride’s Revival is a Quickening of the Mechanics of the Word by the same Holy Ghost that fell on Pentecost.
Not to have Him explained. Today, with great intellectual messages, we can explain It till you can see the picture. But, that, that isn’t what we’re looking for tonight. We’re not looking for the mechanics, we’re looking for the dynamics of It. 63-1112 - Sir, We Would See Jesus
Let me say something, too; this uniting time, to see churches uniting, nations uniting. It’s a uniting time of God and His Bride, too. And I say this with reverence and respect. I believe that the Bride of Christ is called. I believe She is sealed in the Kingdom of God.
I believe the mechanics is there. They’re waiting for the Dynamics that’ll take Her off the earth, into Glory, in the Rapture. I believe it with all my heart. Yes, sir. We don’t know how He’s going to do it, but He shall do it.
He is the Dynamics. We just become members of the machine, of His Body, forming ourself into His image, and see Him uniting Himself with us, in His works, with His love gifts, as He hands them to us just before the Wedding Supper. And we’re waiting, watching for that.
The Dynamics of this Church will be a refilling of the Holy Spirit that we have worked in a small measure while the Headstone is coming down to unite with the Body.
But when that Head and Body unites together, the full power of the Holy Ghost would raise Her up just exactly like that; even the dead, that’s dead in Christ, for hundreds of years ago, will rise in the beauty of His holiness, and take a flight to the skies. The Dynamics is the Holy Spirit. 63-1124M - What Shall I Do With Jesus Called Christ?
The Bride’s Revival is a rapture revival.
So where are we at? We see nations breaking, and Israel awakening, the signs that this Bible foretold for this day. We see the mechanical things taking place. Now the Spirit, the dynamics of that promised Word, to get into His Church and drive them into Calvary yonder, and to the Rapture! And there we are. 63-1127 - The World Is Again Falling Apart
Listen, we say about Satan’s big machine up there, ready to move, that’s right, to crush down; but, remember, God’s little flock that believes the Word, its mechanics is ready too. It’s ready for the Dynamics to set it afire with the Holy Ghost.
“Fear not, little flock, it’s your Father’s good will to give you the Kingdom.” The Holy Ghost will strike a little Church that’s come out from the world, women that wears long hair, Nazarite, to prove they’ve separated themselves from the…
The Nazarite is one who…What? A one that separates themselves, for the Word of God; not short-wearing, painted faces, Jezebels, calling themselves Christians; no, sir; man, so wishy-washy, that’ll stand for a denomination, and hold onto their coat tails, of some Caesar or Herod, instead of standing for the Word of God.
But God has got loyal people, genuine flock of God, who don’t care what the world says. They believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 64-0126 - What Shall We Do With This Jesus Called Christ?
The Bride’s Revival is our escape.
All is written in the Book will escape it. Now we find out, the little flock is ready for the Dynamics to move It up into the skies, to escape all this tribulation. 64-0126 - What Shall We Do With This Jesus Called Christ?
2. Where is the Bride’s Revival?
2. Where is the Bride’s Revival?
Christ is the anointing, the dynamics.
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Behold, I have told you before.
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
When is it? Right now. Where is it? Right Here.
And as He, being the Groom, the Bride has to come forth, ’cause It’s part of Him. And It can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all the revelations any others has spoke of the Bride; It can only manifest.
If it does something different from the Groom, it isn’t the Bride. Because, She is flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone; Life of His Life, Power of His Power! She is Him!
As man and woman are one, and woman taken from his side; She had taken a Spirit, the feminish Spirit, from Him. The flesh from His side, made both Mechanics and Dynamics, the Wife. The Spirit of Him and the flesh of Him, and put it together, and made Mechanics and Dynamics. 65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
If He, the Word is here, if She, the Bride, is here, then the revival is here.
It’s your attitude towards the Word that brings it to pass.
(Soldiers vs. woman who touched Jesus)
It’s your approach. The attitude is what it takes. And that’s what it is tonight, dear friend, it takes the attitude. We are, and believe that we are, in the Presence of Jesus Christ, but it’s your attitude that brings the results. The mechanics is here, and so is the dynamics. If you can just get started, God will do the rest. 65-0426 - Proving His Word
If you want to be in the Bride’s revival, you must be in the presence of the fulness of the Word.
The ministry of William Branham was to show us Christ is here (John the Baptist)
How can we have revival in our churches? Preach the Word. Preach all of it, preach it’s possibilities and its promises.
Joshua had to cross the Jordan to be in the promise.
I had gotten up, and I looked where, in front of me, and I was coming down to the Jordan. Looked like I was standing on the map of Palestine, and I was coming down to the Jordan. And seemed like I could hear the song, I’m Going Down To The Jordan, someone was singing it.
And as I drew near the river, I looked back and seen which a way I had come, and I was two thirds of the way there, to the Jordan. And I looked across Jordan, and I said, “Oh, praise God, just on the other side is where all the promises lay! Every promise lays in the promised Land.” 61-1210 - Paradox
He went into another vision about the Mamba. Power to Bind Him, the Worst, or Any. The worst has been defeated by the Spoken Word.
The Third Pull is the Bride’s Revival.
Said, “Now make your First Pull. And when you do, the fish will run after the lure.” Said, “Then watch your Second Pull,” said, “because It’ll only be small fish.” He said, “Then the Third Pull will get it.” 63-0324E - The Seventh Seal
Notice, the very day when this messenger…Not when he starts on, but when he begins to declare his Message. The First Pull, healing; Second Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the opening of the Word, the mysteries revealed.
No more, there is no more higher order to reveal the Word, than prophets. But the only way the prophet can be vindicated is by the Word. And, remember, the Third Pull was the opening of them Seven Seals, to reveal the hidden Truth that’s been sealed in the Word. 65-0725M - The Anointed Ones At The End Time
The Bride’s Revival is Rapturing Faith
(Widow and the unjust judge)
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Now that’s the question. ...He said, “In the days of the Message of the seventh angel, the mystery of God ought to be finished.” Here is the question, is, if you follow in that line in this hour, will it be finished?
“Will I find the Faith?” Will Malachi 4 be fulfilled in this time, “Restore the Faith of the children, back to the Faith of the fathers, the original, the Word”? 65-0725M - The Anointed Ones At The End Time
We must have rapturing faith.
We know. We’ve lived the time out, at the time of the Rapture is at hand, and we’re looking for a rapturing faith that can pull the Church together and give It some supernatural strength, that can change these bodies that we live in.
When we see a God that can raise the dead off the floor or out of the yard, and bring him back to life again and present him before us, when we see a God who can take a cancer that’s eat a man to a shadow and raise him up to a strong healthy man, that ought to give rapturing faith to the people.
That, when that Light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the Body of Christ will be quickly gathered together, and changed in a moment and taken into the Heavens. 63-0714M - Why Cry? Speak!
And I am looking for a time of a break forth, of the Spirit of God, in these last days that we’re now living in; for another surge of the Holy Spirit, into the Church; for a rapturing faith, just before it comes.
And everything is sitting straight in order for that. And I believe that we’re now at the time that the Word should have preeminence. I believe that the time to lay aside our creeds and our thoughts, and come back to the Word. 63-1128E - The Token
And everyone knows that, for, as certain as the First was identified, so has the Second been identified. And if you’ll think real closely, you who are spiritual. As the Bible said, “Here is to him that has wisdom.” The Third is properly identified. We know where it is. So, the Third Pull is here.
It is so sacred, that, I mustn’t say much about it. As He told me in the beginning, said, “This, say nothing of it.” You remember that, years ago? It speaks for itself.
I’ve tried to explain the others, and I made a mistake. This will be the thing, that, to my opinion…I don’t say the Lord tells me this. This will be a thing that will start the Rapturing faith, for the going away. 63-1229E - Look Away To Jesus
If the Third Pull is here, Rapturing Faith is Here. If Rapturing Faith is here, The Bride’s Revival is Here. We are in the land where all the Promises lay. We have supernatural access to Christ.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Hattie Wright
In that crucial moment…Think of the men and the people that I’m acquainted with. God bypassing all the celebrities, and everything, to give a poor, little ol’ humble woman, can’t hardly sign her own name; and He knowed that what she’d ask for. And that was the greatest thing; for her sister is now dead, and her mother and father has to die, the money would’ve perished, but the souls of her boy is Eternal!
And that was the hour for them to catch It. And just as soon as I said, “I give you your boys, in the Name of Jesus Christ,” there they fell across their mother’s lap. How many in here knows that to be Truth, you know it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] See? That’s right. Yes. Why? Inspiration!
Now: “I have heard of Thee, that Thou could create squirrels; I’ve heard of Thee, that Thou could create a ram; but now I see Thee, with mine own eye!” The manifestation, the vision made visible. When God promised anything, that’s what He’ll do.
Notice, when you have a need, perhaps like Joshua. He had a need; he never thought of the circumstances, he spoke it, and it was God! Do you believe the sun stood still? So do I. How did it do it? Don’t try to figure it out, but it did it. Joshua did it, and raised his hands; in that crucial moment he had access to God, and that’s what happened. It was timely.
The Spirit of the Living God had seen the need of it, and pushed upon Joshua to say it. The same God seen the need of Abraham. The same God seen the need of confirming this Scripture to me, that that Scripture’s true, too! The same God seen the need of those two predestinated boys, and it was that moment He proved it and confirmed His Word. 65-1127E - I Have Heard But Now I See
Where is the Bride’s Revival? The same Place the Third Pull is. The Same Place the Quickening Power is. The Same Place the Rapture is. It’s in You.
There are no more sweeping worldwide revivals.
So there can’t be no organization left, neither can there be any further advancement than what’s going right now, for she’ll burn before the day breaks again. The revival is over, across the nation.
There ain’t going to be no more revivals, big sweeping revivals; this nation never receive it. You might have a intellectual gathering. But, I mean, a Spiritual revival, we’ve seen all of it. I hope you’re catching it. I’m saying it in such a way that I hope you get it. See? It’s over.
A fine minister said, a while ago, said, “Brother Branham, if I could just have the joy of the Lord in my heart!” I said, “Son, the revival is over.” Now the stabilizers has been put on the ship.
Great fearful waves are out here before us; but we know, just beyond that wave yonder, we’re nearing the shore. We’re nearing the shore. Just stay stabled. Just stay in the Word. Stay with God. No matter how you feel, what anything else; stay right with the Word. 65-0822M - Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word
We aren’t looking for a sweeping Revival, but a personal revival.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
You call for revivals, you wait for your church to have a revival. Well, that ain’t the revival for you. The revival ought to begin right in you, when you begin to thirst for God. There might not be another member, of the church, wanting that revival. If it breaks out in you, it will break out other places. But, see, you neglect that thirst. 65-0919 - Thirst
Now, if there’s anybody got the mechanics for a revival, is our noble brother, Billy Graham. But the mechanics is all right, but the mechanics won’t move it, it takes the dynamics to move it. You can build an automobile, put fine seats in it, make fine pistons and prove by science what it can do; but unless the dynamics is there, she’s just a dead piece of goods.
So, in the Welsh revival, one of our late revivals before our Pentecostal, no one knowed what started the revival, just a bunch of people.
Now, when we get all…our friend, Billy Graham, will get all of the Presbyterians, and Lutherans, and Pentecostals, and everything together, go into the city and there they’ll have a great gathering together of thousands, and thirty thousand will come (in two weeks) and give their hearts to Christ; go back another two weeks and you ain’t got a one. See, that’s the mechanics.
But let God in His sovereign grace just speak to some little nitwit, as so to say, a little nobody; let His Spirit fall into the city and men can’t go to work, women can’t wash dishes, the maid can’t make the bed, screaming and crying with their hands up in the air. That’s revival, that’s in the will of God.
It was said that some noblemen from the church went over to the Wales to understand, or figure out what all the mechanics was in the revival, during the Welsh revival. And when they got off the ship with their tall hats on, and their round collar, seeing, coming down the street, a little policeman, swinging his club around and around like that, whistling, they said, “My good man, could you tell me where the Welsh revival is?”
He said, “Yes, my brethren, you’re standing in the middle of it!” He said, “You understand, I am the Welsh revival,” said, “because the Welsh revival’s in me.”
That’s sovereign! That’s what God does, and He alone has a right to send a revival. Not get the mechanics together, it’s pray for God to send the dynamic. 65-1127B - Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God's Will
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Do you want to participate in the Bride’s Revival? Are you willing to do what it takes? Stand with me and let’s all pray for a Holy Ghost Revival in each individual, that will spread through the church. Oh Lord, Once More send the dynamics.