It was a rainy night - the wind was howling ferociously, the rain was beating down hard on the roof, and the windows were trembling. Hundreds of people stood, sat, and prayed in silence, as they remembered the story of an evening just like this approximately 150 years ago.

Almost exactly 148 years, Andrew Murray stood in front of a crowd in Worcester, South Africa and witnessed a revival unknown to those parts. During this revival, God began moving in the South African’s hearts and they began to fervently seek His face. Many people cried out to God during this severe storm, as they felt the “fear of God” and His holiness pervade the church.

Fast forward almost a century and a half and another fierce storm was taking place while the Heart Cry South African Revival was in the midst of commencing. Sammy Tippit was one of the speakers at this meeting, which was birthed out of the dream of Francois Carr, the director of Heart-Cry South Africa.

Carr’s dream was to expand the Heart Cry conference’s that have taken place over the past several years in The United States to the place where Andrew Murray experienced his great revival – in Worcester. Two years from now, Carr is planning on having a 150th celebration of the anniversary of the great revival with many speakers, including Tippit attending. They will celebrate with calls to revival as well as having a 24 hour prayer chain in the church hall where both the mighty storm and revival were said to have taken place. Tippit met with several of the pastors from various denominations to prepare for this historic meeting to come.

“There was an intense spirit of unity and devotion among the pastors,” said Tippit.

God also moved mightily this year at the Heart Cry conference. Many people were touched by the Spirit of God.

“I believe God is stirring in the hearts of South Africans to seek His face during these days. We believe what God did 150 years ago, He can do again today,” said Tippit.

Tippit also visited the city of Wellington while on his trip in South Africa. Wellington is the city where Murray wrote most of his books and where he also served as pastor of another church. Pray that God will use these next two years to begin to impress on the South African’s hearts a sense and call to revival as He did those many years ago.