JENNIFER: And so April 9th, 1906, William J. Seymour, that’s the African American, blind in one eye, man of prayer who hid under the box. He was preaching on Acts chapter two before he’d even had his own baptism of the Holy Spirit encounter. He’s preaching about it because the word of God says so. As he is preaching, this woman named Jennie Evans Moore falls to the ground in the spirit, starts speaking in tongues. She gets up out of her seat, goes over to the piano, sits and plays in the anointing, never played the piano in her life. And that was the catalyst of what later was known as the Azusa Street Revival.
SID: This affected the whole world. And I’m told that it didn’t remain just black. It was probably the first black, white congregation in America where the racial divide … not only could people play the piano in the glory and not only could children play hide and seek because the glory was visible to the eye and they would just disappear in these clouds, but people would get their destiny there and … and go to the four corners of the earth. Tell me some of the stories you’ve heard about that revival.
JENNIFER: Oh yeah. People would come from around the world to Azusa Street, which is the place they moved into in Los Angeles a week after that because the front porch fell through because too many people came. But they came from around the world, not necessarily to see a famous preacher or to hear an amazing worship band, but they wanted an all consuming encounter with God. And they would wait and tarry in that place until they had this experience, at that time known as the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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