Mel Tari received the message from the Lord, "You have one message for the people in America: that is the need to get back to the simplicity of the Word of God. Not only back to the Bible, but back to the simplicity of the Word."
This statement amazed me as I read Like A Mighty Wind to learn about how the revival occured in the island of Indonesia, which is just south of the two countries I had visited as a child, below Thailand and Philippines. There something strange took place when 200 people gathered together on September 26, 1965 to pray. Like in Acts 2, they spoke in different languages and the police saw that the church was on fire, so he sounded the fire bell. And as the revival goes on, some crazy people began to confess their sins. Even a wife received the word of knowledge and she scolded her husband for his sins, but the Spirit of God came upon him and he confessed. Someone had also ministered to this angry wife so that she also confessed her sins, probably of her scolding! It was hilarious!
It's easy for me to begin analyzing those situations to understand why the revival had occured in this country. "Back to the simplicity" tugged me to stop. It's not about how many books I've had read. It's not about what I've had done. But it's all about forgetting.
"But that night those Presbyterians started to forget the written order and the prayers in front of them and began to pray in the Spirit - at first one by one, and before I knew it, they all began to pray at the same time."
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