Dwight Lyman Moody met the evangelist Henry Varley during a visit to Britain. They sat together in a park in Dublin and Henry Varley said, “The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully consecrated to Him.” ( The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully consecrated to Him. )
DL Moody reflected that he said “man” without defining what kind of man he was talking about, but simply a man, any man. The words kept ringing in his mind, and he decided to try to become that man.
So Moody began to seek God’s power and on one occasion on the streets of New York he experienced being filled with the power of God’s Spirit.
When he then visited England in June 1872, a strange thing happened. In a church where Moody was preaching, the Spirit of God came and when he invited those who wanted to become Christians, several hundred people stood up. Moody thought they had misunderstood him and asked those who wanted to become Christians to come to the prayer room. There was a queue and Moody did not know what to do so he said that those who were really serious should come and talk to the pastor the next evening.
Moody went to Ireland but received word a day or so later that he would return to London because the revival had broken out. On Monday night, more people had come to the counseling room than on Sunday. Moody returned and had a 10-day meeting campaign. 400 people became members of the church.
And so it continued. Moody came to the major cities of the United States and crowds of people gathered everywhere. Thousands became Christians. When the leader of the Swedish Missionary Union, PP Waldenström, came to the United States, he met Moody. A church historian believes that Moody’s revival campaigns played a greater role in the formation of the SMF than many have realized.
Moody was a man of prayer and the Bible. He began to try to memorize the Bible and did it between 4 and 6 in the morning. He studied, among other things, by subject until he completely knew the subject in question. It is estimated that Moody led 1 million people to Jesus.
Charles Finney and DL Moody were the great revivalists in the United States during the 19th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, 1 in 16 people in the United States were members of a church. By the end of the 19th century, 1 in 4 belonged to an evangelical, Protestant church.
Excerpt from the book Great Revivals by Stig Hällzon and the following: http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/evangelistsandapologists/dwight-l-moody.html
A full biography on the Internet:
http://www.biblebelievers.com/moody/
