We will have key leaders joining us and leading out in prayer and worship from every continent of the world!

Please join us online as you can, and consider hosting a watch prayer party on behalf of your city or your nation.

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A key question for us to ask is this – “What would it take to see a genuine move of God initiated and sustained in cities across America?

It is not enough to just see revival, we want to see transforming revival in families, communities, and cities across our nation before the return of Christ!

George Otis Jr. describes a transformed community this way…

• A neighborhood, city or nation whose values and institutions have been overrun by the grace and presence of God.
• A place where divine fire has not merely been summoned, it has fallen.
• A society in which natural evolutionary change has been disrupted by invasive supernatural power.
• A culture that has been impacted comprehensively and undeniably by the Kingdom of God.
• A location where Kingdom values are celebrated publicly and passed on to future generations.

Samuel Davies reminded us from his vantage point of the Second Great Awakening, “there are eras when only a large outpouring of the Spirit can produce a public general reformation.” He witnessed first-hand how revival and awakening brought a cultural change that nothing else could accomplish. The pastor of St. John’s-Wood Presbyterian church declared after the Welsh revival, in which 100,000 people came to Christ in nine months (1904-1905) that “the mighty unseen breath of the Spirit was doing in a month more than centuries of legislation could accomplish.”

Could we see such an awakening again in our day?

As George Otis reminds us, “the process of transforming revival in the nations is triggered when our appetite for God’s presence trumps all other hungers.” This hunger is ignited and fanned into flame through the Gospel of God’s glorious Grace!

As Leonard Ravenhill wrote,

“The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it.”

He was famous for exposing our idol-driven lives when he stated,

“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”

True revival experienced by many throughout human history has always been accompanied by extraordinary conviction of sin, fear of God and His judgment, revelation of God’s love and mercy, confession, deep repentance and people inquiring, as on the day of Pentecost, “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 2)

God is especially attracted to an environment of humility, brokenness, desperate spiritual hunger, repentance, grace-empowered obedience, and urgent united prayer. Duncan Campbell, the great preacher during the Hebrides revival of 1949-52 summed up revival well when he wrote,

“Revival is when men in the streets are afraid to speak godless words for fear that God’s judgment will fall! When sinners, aware of the fire of God’s presence, tremble in the streets and cry out for mercy! When (without human advertising) the Holy Spirit sweeps across cities and regions in supernatural power and holds people in the grip of terrifying conviction! When every store becomes a pulpit, every heart an altar, every home a sanctuary, and people walk carefully before God! This, my beloved, is truly REVIVAL FROM HEAVEN!” — Duncan Campell

Revival is Jesus-centered! It is Gospel driven! (Acts 19:10, 17). Revival challenges the status quo and changes the spiritual atmosphere until a community is ‘Saturated with God.’

Extraordinary Prayer

It goes without saying that prayer is the incubator and furnace of revival. As AT Pierson wrote,

“There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.”

Revival is preceded by extraordinary prayer. As Matthew Henry remarked,

“When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing he does is set them a-praying!”

Edwin Orr, one of the great scholars of revival was asked once,

“Does prayer make revival happen? He responded, ‘No… but it does make it possible’”

As A.W. Tozer wrote in an article entitled, “There is no Limit to Revival,”

“There is no limit to what God could do in our world if we would dare to surrender before him with a commitment that says, ‘O God I hereby give myself to you, I give my family, I give my business, I give all I possess. Take all of it Lord—and take Me! I give myself in such measure that if it is necessary that I loose everything for your sake, let me loose it. I will not ask what the price is. I will ask only that I may be all that I ought to be as a follower and a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.”