Here's Mary Peckham.

And I would leave my loom and go upstairs, and I would pray and travel through the whole

village, every family, every home, every person, and then to the ends of the earth.

God had opened my eyes. I wasn't my own anymore. I was bought with a price.

It's Wednesday, March 28th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Sin isn't a very pleasant topic to think about, but recognizing sin and then grieving over it is the first step to incredible joy. We're going to hear about some people who discovered this in a powerful way.

Nancy?

This matter of intense, searching, Holy Spirit conviction of sin is something

that you read about in many of the accounts of revival history. And it's something that we're going

to hear about today as we listen to the continuation of Mary Peckham's testimony. And I believe that

this conviction of sin is an important part of the conversion process,

the process of coming to true faith in Christ.

And yet it's something that we don't often see today.

I believe that when God moves in genuine revival in our day,

that this will be one of the marks of that revival,

that people will not be making decisions

for Christ in a flippant or half-hearted way, but that they will come with a desperate sense of

their need to flee to Christ to be delivered from their lost, sinful condition. Mary Peckham was a hard-hearted

teenager who had no interest in the things of God.

And yet when God began to stir in the island of Lewis, off the coast of Scotland there in the early 1950s,

and Mary came home to see what God was doing, she was caught up in this irresistible sense of the presence of God.

She couldn't run from it.

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