Blessed are those whose strength is in you Psalm 84:5

• DAY 16 MORNING PSALM 79-81

• DAY 16 EVENING PSALM 82-85

Wesley continued to preach and travel around the country at a breath-taking pace, seeing the Holy Spirit bring conviction of sin and salvation wherever he went, and much rejoicing as a result.

Tuesday April 27th 1739.

All Newgate rang with the cries of those whom the word of God cut to the heart. Two of whom were in a moment filled with joy, to the astonishment of those that beheld them.

Sunday April 29 1739

I declared the free grace of God to about 4000 people..... I then went to Clifton, a mile from Bristol….and thence returned to a little plain, near Hannam –Mount, where about 3000 were present. After dinner I went to Clifton again.From Clifton we went to Rose Green where were ..near 7000 and thence to Gloucester Lane Society. After which was our first love-feast in Baldwin Street. O how has God renewed my strength who used ten years ago to be so faint and weary with preaching twice in one day.

‘Tuesday May 1 1739.

Many of those who had been long in darkness, saw the dawn of a great light; and ten persons, I afterwards found, then began to say in faith ‘My Lord and my God.” A Quaker who stood by... and was biting his lips and knitting his brows, when he dropped down as thunderstruck. The agony he was in was even terrible to behold. We besought God not too lay folly to his charge. And he soon lifted up his head, and cried aloud, “Now I know thou art a prophet of the Lord.” ’

Wesley left no doubt as to what was the driving motive behind his unwearying haste. Many years later in 1781, when Wesley was still on the move, he said ‘I must go on; for a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me; and woe is me if I preach not the gospel.’ He had a commission to preach the Gospel and as he preached and as revival swept the land, his testimony was that it was the Lord himself who renewed his strength.’

• Our strength is in YOU, Lord. We pray for YOUR resources and YOUR enabling to restore the Gospel to England. We cannot do it in our strength. YOU are mighty to save and YOU deliver the captives. We look to YOU Lord. Bring revival to our land, a fresh breath of your Holy Spirit ….that renews, restores and refreshes and brings revelation from above…. that the eyes of the blind might be opened, to see YOU Lord Jesus, our Lord and our God!

REFERENCES

Skevington-Wood, A. The burning heart John Wesley: Evangelist,Cliff College Publishing, 115

Wesley, J. Journal, April 27th - May 1st 1739 , Vol 1, 189, 190
Wesley, J. Works, Vol XIII , A plain account of Kingswood school, 1781, 267