I preached this last week on impartation. It is a subject that is addressed far to infrequently. Hebrews 6:2 and 2 Timothy 1:6 were my main Scriptures.
But I mainly told the story of Lonnie Frisbee. This guy got wacked by the Holy Ghost. After being radically saved, he got hooked up with Chuck Smith, who at the time had a nice church called Calvary Chapel and was curious about the hippie movement. Lonnie Frisbee came in and set the world on fire. Today the map of Calvary Chapel locations looks like this: 
Lonnie’s idea of church was a little too New Testament and not quite Greek enough for Calvary so he got the heave hoe. He wound up with John Wimber near the beginning of the Vineyard movement and now there are 800 of those.
Time went on and about 20 years later John Arnott’s Vineyard church began to have an outpouring when Randy Clark, another Vineyard pastor from St. Louis ministered. A few years after that 
a missionary couple from Mozambique visited. God turned their world upside down and since that day their ministry has planted 8,000+ churches in southeastern Africa.
Lonnie Frisbee was booted from Calvary. The Arnotts were given the left foot of fellowship by the Vineyard. The Bakers were unsupported from TSC.
See a pattern? If you really want revival you must decide in your heart that you want to be as popular as Jesus in Jerusalem, or Paul in Ephesus. If that is too abstract, become as popular as these folks.
Popularity: 22% [?]
The last move folks always seem to have some difficulty with the current move people. Though I believe many leaders are beginning to fight that tendency and seek to be in place to catch the next wave.
Those who seek Revival need to be ready to shed the old wineskins and make place for the new. What is encouraging to me is that there are individual churches all across this country with all sorts of different nameplates that are looking and preparing.
One minor correction to your history- when John Wimber invited Lonnie to minister in his church it was a Calvary Chapel.
You would know! I thought that
I thought that John’s church became one of first handful of Vineyards right off the bat. I did not know that he had lead a church that transitioned.
And mind you, I am not giving Lonnie all the credit for either movement’s spread but surely he had something to do with it.
We know things did not end well for him but that is the same story of so many great men in the Bible and does not take away to his contribution to the advancement of the Kingdom in my opinion.
Great post! It’s very true, when yopu decide you really want revival and to move into God’s order, you WILL have to decide to move with God or be cut off by man…and being cut off by men the vast majority of the time happens!
Send me some 411 on what’s going on wiht you guys…I’ve been praying for you