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America’s First Collegiate Prayer Movement in 1823
The Concert of Prayer Movement revolutionized the role of prayer in the life of the local church forever. Never before had so many different kinds of Christians prayed together at the same time in such large numbers. All across America pastors and elders were learning how to organize weekly and monthly prayer meetings for the very first time. The Concert of Prayer literally changed the face of corporate prayer in a single generation. Soon the fires of revival were burning in America.
PRAYER + FASTING at the University of Babylon
In the days of Nebuchadnezzar and Israel’s exile to Babylon, four Jewish teenagers, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, are brought into Nebuchadnezzar’s school of leadership to be trained in the language and literature of Babylon. Part of the training was a daily regiment of the king’s choice foods. What was Nebuchadnezzar’s objective in taking a handful of young leaders from a slave nation and giving them a full ride to Babylon’s “Ivy League” university, including room and board in the king’s palace and dining hall?
Salvation is Personal. REVIVAL IS FAMILY.
What if the key to revival was something so much simpler than we thought and can be discovered in Scripture from beginning to end? Family. Creation started with a family, the disciples changed the world by operating as a family, and the future revival we so desperately need will only come as we step into our identity as the family of God.