The following is a case study to inspire us; Herrnhut is a small village in what was formerly East Germany. The greatest revival in modern history was begun in Herrnhut by Count Nicholas Von Zinzindorf. In 1727 a group of Moravians was fleeing persecution in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Germany. Count Zinzindorf allowed them to settle on his estate. They came and built a village they called Herrnhut, “the Lord’s watch”. Early in their history, one of their prophets, Malchoir Schafer, gave a prophetic word, “God will place a light oh these hills that will illumine the whole world”. Here is a group of three hundred people in a Little village. They are refugees, having been kicked out of their own country. They are living in an obscure place in a backwater corner of Germany, and they receive a prophecy that God will do something there that will affect the whole world. On August 13, 1727, they went to a nearby village of Bertlesdorf to meet together in the Lutheran Church for a communion service. Count Zinzindorf got up to lead the service and got partway through when the Spirit of God fell. No one who was there ever gave a detailed description of what happened. They just said the fire of God fell, there were signs and wonders and miracles, and they were never the same again. The next week they said, “How do we keep this going? God’s presence is here with us. How do we keep it?” They turned to their bibles and found instruction in Exodus 29, God gave instructions on how to live in His presence. “If you keep the fire burning on the alter, I will dwell with you.” They divided the clock into watches and took turns praying 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! They continued in these prayer watches for the next 120 years. The result was that the glory of God rested in their midst. The Spirit of God began to send them out as missionaries. From this tiny village in Germany, missionaries went all over the world. It was said that they averaged sending one missionary for every 60 people in their body. They went to Greenland,North America, South America, South Africa, among Australian Aborigines, England and Tibet. On a personal note, Moravian missionaries founded the Oaks Mission among the Cherokee here in Oklahoma. These missionaries actually walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee people. Missionaries from Herrnhut literally changed the world.

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