04/29/2025
MY BODY IS FULL OF ELECTRICITY 🔥
It was common in Evan Roberts meetings for members in the congregation to suddenly fall on their knees and pray aloud.
Waves of joy would flood the congregation. Women fell to their knees, and men lay in the aisles weeping, laughing, and praying. All the while, there was no Bible reading or instrument playing.
A few were inspired to stand and sing hymns. It was even said the congregation was so caught up in God that they would forget to go home for Sunday dinner.
This was unheard of in southern Wales in those days. As the day progressed, the evening service would become a continual prayer meeting.
Evan could be seen walking up and down the aisles swinging his arms, clapping his hands, and jumping up and down.
Though his success had become the talk of the nation, many still didn’t know what to think of Evan Roberts.
They were used to the fiery eyes of the old-time preachers, and Evan never raised his voice. Sometimes he was called the “silent preacher.”
If Evan didn’t sense the unction to preach, he remained quiet. On one occasion, Evan sat on the front row for three or four hours, then rose up to preach for only fifteen minutes.
Also in that day, most people were accustomed to the preachers with stern, dignified faces. But Evan was the opposite. His face constantly beamed. Once when a minister read from a list of thirty-three converts, Evan threw his arms around him and exclaimed, “Is this not glorious?”
As a result of the revival, local stores couldn’t keep Bibles in stock. The Welsh coal-mining industry also took on a new look. Their workhorses had previously been trained to respond to instructions that included profanity.
But with the coal-mining crew having been born again, they found that their horses had to be retrained because the animals didn’t know how to follow a command without a curse word in it.
Of course, there was the usual concern. People were murmuring because there seemed to be no order in the services. And Evan was operating around the clock without rest.
When asked about it once, he replied:
“Tired? Not once. God has made me strong and manly. I can face thousands. My body is full of electricity day and night and I have no sleep before I am back in meetings again.”
It is a documented fact that Evan Roberts slept and ate very little during the first two months of this great revival. In fact, he slept only two or three hours a night.
- God’s Generals ( Welsh Revivalists )
- Spiritual Notes
