By James W. Goll
Forty years ago in 1967 the Jesus Movement broke out, a youth revival starting on the streets that swept across the country, exploding in college campuses and coffee houses. People were being saved everywhere. It was radical for its day. Can we not believe for something even greater in our day?
It was also during this phase—in 1967—that the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, one of the largest movements in neo-Pentecostal history, got its start. A group of professors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh sparked a fire among their students after they themselves were baptized in the Holy Spirit, and the fire quickly spread to Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and to the University of Michigan. From there it spread around the world.
Though this charismatic move had its beginning in a Catholic university, it was not limited to it. Thousands upon thousands from mainline Protestant denominations were ushered into fresh encounters with Jesus including the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Prayer gatherings resulted. Healings occurred. Celebrations of praise were the hallmark as Jesus was welcomed back into His rightful place.
Also in 1967, through a Middle Eastern war and by the supernatural hand of God, Jerusalem was taken and once again brought under the control of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. This was a signpost in the shifting of eras. The dispensation of the times of the Gentiles was now beginning to shift to the times when Jerusalem would become the last days’ focus for God’s activity in the earth.
How about a time of consecration with prayer and fasting where we join Israel’s believers crying out to God that they would see their Messiah and that they would begin to receive their greatest spiritual awakening since the days of the Apostles? Why not?
Now 40 years later we are crying, do it again God, way beyond the Jesus Movement! Way beyond the charismatic movement! Why not the Greatest Youth Awakening the world has ever seen? Do it again, God! Do it again in this generation!
The Law of Day and Night Prayer
Key Scriptures taken from Luke 18:7-8
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night...? I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly... (NASB)
Shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him...? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily... (NKJV)
Why Should Prayer and Worship Arise 24/7 Today?
• 24/7 Worship and Prayer is Done in Heaven – Let it be Done on Earth!
• 24/7 Worship and Prayer Releases God’s Justice on the Earth!
• 24/7 Worship and Prayer Fuels the Great Commission
• 24/7 Worship and Prayer Hinders the Plans of the Devil
• 24/7 Worship and Prayer Releases Revival Breakthrough
• 24/7 Worship and Prayer Prepares the Way for Christ’s Second Coming
The Role of Prayer in Student Revivals
In order to understand revival, we must understand the role of prayer in campus revival history. J. Edwin Orr, the famous revival historian said, “Young people in student led prayer cells have been at the forefront in almost every awakening.” The Moravian 24/7 prayer and missionary movement, for example, was started in 1727 by Ludwig Von Zinzendorf. At the age of 16, Zinzendorf graduated from Halle School after having started no fewer than 7 different prayer groups, and he continued his prayer disciplines while he was a student at the University of Wittenberg from 1716 to 1719.
The First Great Awakening that swept hundreds of thousands into the Kingdom in Europe and North America were ignited by a Yale University graduate named Jonathan Edwards, and by Oxford students John Wesley and George Whitefield at Oxford University in 1729. The Second Great Awakening was sparked by Timothy Dwight, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, at Yale University in his 1797 message to Yale students. Nearly half of Yale’s student body came to Christ in a few short months.
The Student Volunteer Missionary movement, which sent more than 20,000 college students overseas on foreign missions during the span of a few decades, was started by Samuel Mills and the Haystack 5 at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1806. It was five students, praying under a haystack on a rainy day for revival and world missions, saying, “If we will, we can!” The rest is history and the list of student revivalists goes on.
Will you be the next one to change campus revival history? If so, the key is extraordinary revival prayer. Let us give ourselves to hourly prayer that the greatest youth awakening the world has ever seen will come forth in our day. Let the PrayerStorm come forth!
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