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Credo | Week 5 | Preparing for Revival | Pastor Don Ross | Life Center Tacoma Isaiah 43:16-21 (NIV) Big Idea: We can awaken a hunger for the reality of God. 1. The Great Awakening, 1734-1743. “It pleased God to display his free and sovereign mercy in the conversion of a great multitude of souls in a short space of time, turning them from a formal, cold and careless profession of Christianity, to the lively exercise of every Christian grace, and the powerful practice of our holy religion.” -Jonathan Edwards 2. The Second Great Awakening, 1800-1840. 3. The Businessmen's Revival, 1857-1858. 4. The Civil War Revival, 1861-1865. 5. The Urban Revivals, 1875-1885. 6. The Revivals of 1905-1906. 7. The Azusa Street Revival, 1906. [Picture of Vereide half slide] 8. The Post-World War II Awakening. 9. The Charismatic Renewal and Jesus Movement. 10. The Mid-1990s Revivals. Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV) Isaiah 43:20-21 (NIV) Matthew 5:6 (NIV) 10 Characteristics of Spiritual Revival 1. Timing 2. Prayer 3. The Wor