We are continuing from yesterday’s meditation on what preceded the revival in Argentina. The country was prepared for a major revival after God healed President Peron's skin condition. The prayer team for revival rented the Atlantic Stadium, which seats twenty-five thousand people. At first, the crowds were small, but God began demonstrating His incredible power to heal and save, and news of what the Lord was doing started to spread. Larger and larger crowds began to gather to witness God's healing and salvation of the spiritually hungry. Ushers soon worked twelve-hour shifts, and the bleachers were filled hours before the event. Many people had to stay outside, prompting the team to set up speakers around the stadium so they could listen. So many people came that the streets and sidewalks were filled for several blocks.
Thousands were healed and saved under the simple preaching and prayers of Tommy Hicks. He merely prayed from the platform and asked the people to raise their hands toward God. Thousands raised their hands and wept as God's power surged through the crowd inside and outside the stadium. Wheelchairs, crutches, canes, and braces were abandoned, and blind eyes saw as God moved in mighty revival power.
The crowds were so large that the organizers rented the enormous Hurracan Stadium, which could hold 180,000 people. The masses surged into the stadium, filling it to capacity. God was moving, and His plan for Argentina was unfolding. The Gospel was making a significant and lasting impact on this nation of 20 million people. Night after night in the Hurracan stadium, the power and glory of God flowed and surged. Remarkable healings and salvations took place, too many to record. The crowds again grew too large, and the streets around the stadium filled with people searching for the God who lives and acts today. A little child over three years old had been unable to walk without heavy steel braces. When Tommy and the crowd prayed, the mother removed the braces, and the child ran up and down the aisle. The crowds began to cry and shout as faith grew, with spontaneous miracles happening. Some people brought a twenty-year-old man into the stadium on a stretcher, who had never walked. When the power of God flowed that night, he left the stretcher behind and ran home with the news. The next night, he appeared at the stadium, having walked on legs healed by Jesus’ power. As the healings continued—disabled and lame walking, blind seeing, deaf hearing—the newspapers and magazines of the land reported the massive miracles happening at the crusade.
Accompanied by their doctor, the sister of the Vice President of Bolivia brought her children, hoping that the Lord would touch them. One of her boys was considered incurable and had suffered greatly. Both boys were healed at once, and when the doctor who had attended them saw them both running as healthy children, he rushed up to Tommy, fell to his knees, and embraced Pastor Hick’s legs. He looked up with tears falling down his cheeks and cried out, “Tell me about your God; I want this God! I want this Jesus! I can serve a God that will do this for little children!” The seismic impact of the Hicks healing crusade rocked Argentina. The topic on everyone's lips was the crusade. When a critic spoke against the healing, ten people would stand up and share their own experiences or those of a relative who had been healed.
Oh, children of the Living God, can we impact our country like this?! We need to pray and keep praying until God's power touches our land again. [1]
These testimonies are part of a series called “On Fire with the Holy Spirit,” found on the All Studies page. The study is titled “Revival Changes Nations.”
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[1] Dr. Edward Miller. The Secrets of the Argentine Revival, http://www.evanwiggs.com/revival/portrait/tommyhicks.html