This project exists to help recover Carrie's somewhat lost and forgotten voice in hopes of inspiring a new generation with wisdom from one who went before and ended well. This is a faith project and fully dependent upon God to provide for every opportunity. If God is stirring you, there are many different ways you can get involved. Listed below are only a few.
PROMOTERS
-forward and re-post Carrie's writings through your various social networks. See her FB page
-Talk to your networks to see who might be able to help distribute Spirit Flood through their channels. I can provide discount price for bulk orders.
-Help provide opportunities for me to share Carrie's story with leaders or groups who would be blessed
-get her story out through your own creative expressions
PRAYER TEAM/ PROPHETIC COMMUNITY
-intercessors who want to know what the needs and happenings of this project is so that they prayers can be offered and share any words they receive from God in relation to this.
PROVIDERS
We have several projects lined up for any who feel led to invest financially, with their time, or talents...
-biography and other book projects
-videos in relation to Carrie
-recovering and publishing more materials and compilations of her original writings
-online initiatives/website/etc
-traveling for speaking engagements
the more resources we have and people willing to invest their time and talents, the more we can do to recover her forgotten voice. Right now this project will be focused for 2011-2012 to see if we can promote Carrie's story enough to cause the "tipping point"
There are tons of other ways to be involved. Please pray about what your role in this important project might be for this season and email me what is on your heart in relation to this. See Spirit Flood Ministries for more info or Email me at JenMiskov@silvertogold.com to join the team or be involved helping raise Carrie Judd Montgomery from the "dead."
Showing posts with label Azusa Street Revival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Azusa Street Revival. Show all posts
3/04/2011
4/16/2010
Press Release for SPIRIT FLOOD
This conversation about re-discovering what Spirit baptism looks like for today will cause you to cry out for more than just “fillings” of the Spirit. As Carrie Judd Montgomery once recalled, before her Spirit baptism she had “tiny streams,” but not “rivers of living water.”The time of breaking the dam has now come.
Even if you have already once experienced the flooding of the Spirit, the rivers of living water are freely available today in new measures to all who ask.
SPIRIT FLOOD is a fusion of PhD research on revivals, a short biography on the most influential woman in the Divine Healing Movement, Carrie Judd Montgomery, and reflections from present day active ministers from around the globe who are hungry to see more of the Spirit’s outpouring for this generation. The essay included here looks at the significance that Spirit baptism played in early Pentecostal history during the Azusa Street Revival and how that emphasis may have declined. By looking at Carrie Judd Montgomery’s experience of Spirit baptism, possible ways that Spirit baptism can re-emerge and be translated into the 21st Century are presented.
SPECS:
- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Silver to Gold
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0984237011
- ISBN-13: 978-0984237012
- Product Dimensions: 6x9 inches
- Retail Price: $9.99/ £7.00
- Author: Jennifer A. Miskov with Bonnie Inkster and Rosie. McNeil
1/31/2008
Bibliography of my Published works
PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK 2011
Life on Wings: The Forgotten Life and Theology of Carrie Judd Montgomery (1858-1946)
Journal Articles:
-Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19 (2010): 94–117
Coloring Outside the Lines: Pentecostal Parallels with Expressionism. The Work of the Spirit in Place, Time, and Secular Society?
Abstract of article
This article examines the historic parallels between the development of American Pentecostalism and the formation of German Expressionism. German Expression is examined through the grid of Restorationism, African Culture, Experience, and heightened Expressions found in early American Pentecostalism. After their parallels are drawn out, significant questions regarding the role of the Spirit in relation to these separate cultural circles are explored. Answers to some of these questions encourage Pentecostal theology to look deeper into the concept of Sacred Time. Included is a look at the possible intersection of the Spirit and the artist community, calling for deeper Pentecostal engagement with the arts.
Books Published:
-Silver to Gold: A Journey of Young Revolutionaries (2009), Silver to Gold
-Spirit Flood: Rebirth of Spirit Baptism for the 21st Century (In light of the Azusa Street Revival and the life of Carrie Judd Montgomery) (2010), Silver to Gold.
Articles
-Kindred Spirits: A.B. Simpson and Carrie Judd Montgomery's Friendship in Alliance's Alife
-Article on Healing in the Streets in Youthwork Magazine, UK (2010)
-“Jesus’ Favorite Coffee” in Spirit Led Woman (2005)
Radiant Magazine
-“No Regrets”
-“Lost on the Yellow Brick Road”
-“Abundant Life”
Conversant Life
-“Needing a Breakthrough? Thoughts on Freedom and Isaiah 58” (2009)
-“Option” (2007)
-“Faith in the midst of the Credit Crunch: Carrie Judd Montgomery taking steps of faith” God’s Word to Women (2009)
Poetry
The Gift Authspot (2007)
Life on Wings: The Forgotten Life and Theology of Carrie Judd Montgomery (1858-1946)
Journal Articles:
-Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19 (2010): 94–117
Coloring Outside the Lines: Pentecostal Parallels with Expressionism. The Work of the Spirit in Place, Time, and Secular Society?
Abstract of article
This article examines the historic parallels between the development of American Pentecostalism and the formation of German Expressionism. German Expression is examined through the grid of Restorationism, African Culture, Experience, and heightened Expressions found in early American Pentecostalism. After their parallels are drawn out, significant questions regarding the role of the Spirit in relation to these separate cultural circles are explored. Answers to some of these questions encourage Pentecostal theology to look deeper into the concept of Sacred Time. Included is a look at the possible intersection of the Spirit and the artist community, calling for deeper Pentecostal engagement with the arts.
Books Published:
-Silver to Gold: A Journey of Young Revolutionaries (2009), Silver to Gold
-Spirit Flood: Rebirth of Spirit Baptism for the 21st Century (In light of the Azusa Street Revival and the life of Carrie Judd Montgomery) (2010), Silver to Gold.
Articles
-Kindred Spirits: A.B. Simpson and Carrie Judd Montgomery's Friendship in Alliance's Alife
-Article on Healing in the Streets in Youthwork Magazine, UK (2010)
-“Jesus’ Favorite Coffee” in Spirit Led Woman (2005)
Radiant Magazine
-“No Regrets”
-“Lost on the Yellow Brick Road”
-“Abundant Life”
Conversant Life
-“Needing a Breakthrough? Thoughts on Freedom and Isaiah 58” (2009)
-“Option” (2007)
-“Faith in the midst of the Credit Crunch: Carrie Judd Montgomery taking steps of faith” God’s Word to Women (2009)
Poetry
The Gift Authspot (2007)
12/10/2007
A NEW KIND OF "HOLY" CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Is there even more freely available to us in this moment if we just ask? See what one woman of God wrote over 100 years ago in relation to this...
“There is no joy that in any way compares with the joy of the fullness of the Holy Ghost. Reader, do you know the joy of the Lord? Have you received that peace that passeth understanding? Are you able to bear ridicule for Jesus’ sake, with sweetness and forbearance? Are you able to give witness day by day in your daily life, and by your words, of Jesus’ power to save? If not, then you need to be empowered by the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire to live a victorious life, and to obey the command to Jesus to make disciples. Matt. 28:19,20. Let me urge you to seek this great blessing which was promised to us by the Father. ‘How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.’ ‘Ask and it shall be given you.’ Luke 11:13,9.”
Written by Minnie Abrams in 1906 and taken from her booklet The Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire. She was a missionary with Pandita Ramabai in the Mukti Revival in India.
Have we experienced this full measure of God’s presence and Spirit in our lives today? It was at the heart of the Azusa Street revival and other global centers during the birth of the Pentecostal movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. People hungry to experience the Holy Spirit completely through Spirit baptism is at the heart of early Pentecostal history.
I do think it is important to not become too obsessed in seeking out an experience. But at the same time, what if we are missing out on something because God has such a wonderful gift He wants to give us, yet we are not seeking it out, not taking hold of the already promised gift. This already promised gift that people in the early twentieth century took hold of affected their lives greatly. From 1906-1910, more than 50 countries were visited by missionaries that came out of the Azusa Street revival. That is a pretty amazing statistic coming from a movement that at its core was made up of people hungry to experience the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The gift of tongues following that experience was also of great importance for the people back then. Many people experienced greater anointing, increased satisfaction in Christ, more conviction to evangelize, and deeper love than they had before.
So what if this CHRISTmas time, God wants to give us a new gift, a new present that we haven’t experienced thus far. This gift won’t save us, for we have already received His Son. But this new present coming in the form of the Holy Spirit rather than a baby wrapped up in swaddling cloths may have a significant and profound effect on our lives as it did others a century before us. This CHRISTmas time, maybe it is time to specifically ask God for a new gift. It doesn’t hurt to ask and the results may be astonishing, as they were in the early 1900s. And even if we have already experience this Spirit baptism, why not ask to be baptized again in the floods of His immense love? Holy Spirit flood us afresh today I pray!
To hear my honest introduction to Spirit Baptism that came just a few years ago go here.
“There is no joy that in any way compares with the joy of the fullness of the Holy Ghost. Reader, do you know the joy of the Lord? Have you received that peace that passeth understanding? Are you able to bear ridicule for Jesus’ sake, with sweetness and forbearance? Are you able to give witness day by day in your daily life, and by your words, of Jesus’ power to save? If not, then you need to be empowered by the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire to live a victorious life, and to obey the command to Jesus to make disciples. Matt. 28:19,20. Let me urge you to seek this great blessing which was promised to us by the Father. ‘How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.’ ‘Ask and it shall be given you.’ Luke 11:13,9.”
Written by Minnie Abrams in 1906 and taken from her booklet The Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire. She was a missionary with Pandita Ramabai in the Mukti Revival in India.
Have we experienced this full measure of God’s presence and Spirit in our lives today? It was at the heart of the Azusa Street revival and other global centers during the birth of the Pentecostal movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. People hungry to experience the Holy Spirit completely through Spirit baptism is at the heart of early Pentecostal history.
I do think it is important to not become too obsessed in seeking out an experience. But at the same time, what if we are missing out on something because God has such a wonderful gift He wants to give us, yet we are not seeking it out, not taking hold of the already promised gift. This already promised gift that people in the early twentieth century took hold of affected their lives greatly. From 1906-1910, more than 50 countries were visited by missionaries that came out of the Azusa Street revival. That is a pretty amazing statistic coming from a movement that at its core was made up of people hungry to experience the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The gift of tongues following that experience was also of great importance for the people back then. Many people experienced greater anointing, increased satisfaction in Christ, more conviction to evangelize, and deeper love than they had before.
So what if this CHRISTmas time, God wants to give us a new gift, a new present that we haven’t experienced thus far. This gift won’t save us, for we have already received His Son. But this new present coming in the form of the Holy Spirit rather than a baby wrapped up in swaddling cloths may have a significant and profound effect on our lives as it did others a century before us. This CHRISTmas time, maybe it is time to specifically ask God for a new gift. It doesn’t hurt to ask and the results may be astonishing, as they were in the early 1900s. And even if we have already experience this Spirit baptism, why not ask to be baptized again in the floods of His immense love? Holy Spirit flood us afresh today I pray!
To hear my honest introduction to Spirit Baptism that came just a few years ago go here.
11/05/2007
Baptism of the Holy Spirit?
One of the things I have come across in my studies of the Azusa Street Revival is the emphasis that they placed on Baptism of the Holy Spirit. For those of you who haven't heard much about Azusa Street, it was a revival in Los Angeles in 1906 that was started by an African American named William J. Seymour (some scholars believe that Charles Parham, who was white, started it). Although also still controversial, many people believe that Azusa Street was the start of Pentecostalism, or at least it played a very big role in the roots of the American movement. For a time, even in the midst of Jim Crow laws, blacks and whites worshiped the Lord together, people were radically baptized in the Holy Spirit and empowered.
Many people, after they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, within days or even hours of their experience, left for the mission field. Missionaries went to all parts of the world from Los Angeles in those few years and people from all around the world were drawn to Los Angeles to be a part of this "Pentecost" experience there. One of the key things God used to stir people up then was putting a deep desire and hunger to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and to speak in tongues. Spirit baptism was one of the main focuses of the revival itself.
What I personally have been pondering lately is, where is Spirit baptism today? I don't know when the last time was that I heard, in any church, the pastor have an altar call for people who wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. I can't remember the last conversation I had on that subject before I got to school here. It seems to have faded away and maybe a reason is because it has become a bit more normal in our era than it was 100 years ago. And I am sure it is still alive and well in some circles. Either way, it makes me wonder. And I know that God likes to do new things with different people. But I still can't get out of my mind the whole importance and drive that Spirit baptism was for the people back then. They were so hungry, not just for a little of the Spirit, but to be totally immersed in His presence, empowered and anointed even more to spread the Gospel.
If hungering for the baptism of the Holy Spirit was key in causing a revival that spanned the globe and birthed the Pentecostal movement and then later contributed to the Charismatic movement, might there be something there for us to reconsider and look at again in our own day? What if more and more people were not just "touched" by the Spirit or "filled" by the Spirit today, but instead were fully immersed in and covered from head to toe in the Spirit? I think it might be something to prayerfully consider.
Just my random processing thoughts which might totally change in a month or so but I am open to dialogue and hear others thoughts on this subject. I would also be VERY interested in hearing your story of your baptism of the Holy Spirit if you are willing to share. Thanks for listening,
Jen
Many people, after they were baptized in the Holy Spirit, within days or even hours of their experience, left for the mission field. Missionaries went to all parts of the world from Los Angeles in those few years and people from all around the world were drawn to Los Angeles to be a part of this "Pentecost" experience there. One of the key things God used to stir people up then was putting a deep desire and hunger to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and to speak in tongues. Spirit baptism was one of the main focuses of the revival itself.
What I personally have been pondering lately is, where is Spirit baptism today? I don't know when the last time was that I heard, in any church, the pastor have an altar call for people who wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. I can't remember the last conversation I had on that subject before I got to school here. It seems to have faded away and maybe a reason is because it has become a bit more normal in our era than it was 100 years ago. And I am sure it is still alive and well in some circles. Either way, it makes me wonder. And I know that God likes to do new things with different people. But I still can't get out of my mind the whole importance and drive that Spirit baptism was for the people back then. They were so hungry, not just for a little of the Spirit, but to be totally immersed in His presence, empowered and anointed even more to spread the Gospel.
If hungering for the baptism of the Holy Spirit was key in causing a revival that spanned the globe and birthed the Pentecostal movement and then later contributed to the Charismatic movement, might there be something there for us to reconsider and look at again in our own day? What if more and more people were not just "touched" by the Spirit or "filled" by the Spirit today, but instead were fully immersed in and covered from head to toe in the Spirit? I think it might be something to prayerfully consider.
Just my random processing thoughts which might totally change in a month or so but I am open to dialogue and hear others thoughts on this subject. I would also be VERY interested in hearing your story of your baptism of the Holy Spirit if you are willing to share. Thanks for listening,
Jen
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