As we pray for God’s hand to move in our church and community, here is a prime example of the power of prayer. Revivals have never been dominated by eloquent or clever preaching. If you could have timed the meetings with a stopwatch, you would have found far more minutes given to prayer, weeping, and repentance than to sermons. At the “Prayer Meeting Revival” of 1857-59 there was virtually no preaching at all! Yet it apparently produced the greatest harvest of any spiritual awakening in American history. Estimates of converts in the United States alone climb to 1,000,000. Of that one million converts, one of the most notable was a 21-year-old shoe salesman in Chicago who attended a gathering at the Metropolitan Theater to pray. It was there that Dwight L. Moody received his call to Christian work. The rest, as they say, is history. Do you really think that we lack preachers, books, Bible translations, or doctrines today? What we are missing is the passion to fall upon our faces and call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself faithful. Won't you join me in July as I pray and fast seeking the fires of revival to fall upon us?
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