It’s our desire to see a massive full-scale revival and awakening erupt in America!
We have been asking for another historic move of the Holy Spirit to sweep across our land and awaken a generation to wholehearted love and surrender to Jesus!
It’s all about a Christ-awakening, where the Spirit of God uses the Word of God to re-awaken God’s people back to God’s Son for all that He is!
We want to enter into the power and pleasure of being obsessed with the magnificence of Jesus. He is the dominating personality in this age and in the age to come!
We are longing for a Gospel Explosion, a tsunami of revival to come crashing in on the beaches of our nation for the spread of his fame, for the extension of His reign, for the increase of His gain and for the honor of His claim of that which rightfully belongs to Him, from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea!
“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Hab. 2:14).
In the words of the Moravians “May the Lamb who was slain receive the due reward for his sufferings.” Let’s pledge our allegiance not to the ‘stars and stripes’ but to the ‘scars and stripes’ of the worthy Lamb!
We are in desperate need of revival in America. Many of our churches are prayerless and plagued with pride. Many of our homes and marriages are broken. Believers are said to only tithe 2 percent of their income in one of the wealthiest nations of the world.
The overall church growth in America is stagnant. With over 40,000 denominations in America, the church and it’s leaders are struggling to walk in John 17 oneness.
Our nation is divided politically, and socially. As we know only a united church can heal a divided nation.
America has had a rich history of sending missionaries to carry the Gospel to nations around the world. Wherever I travel throughout the world I hear other nations gratitude for American missionaries. And yet today, I believe we need the Lord to send missionaries to our nation.
I believe we need to humble ourselves and ask the nations for help, for intercession.
After hearing from many global leaders, we have decided to call 7 Days of Prayer culminating in a Global Day of Prayer for America on Sunday September 22nd, with an online meeting taking place 7:00am – 10:am (EST).
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.
Register for updates and watch at www.gdop-america.org
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...
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.”
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.’
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.”
May the church in America bring our minds and hearts before the bonfire of God’s all-consuming Son, the Lord Jesus, asking for greater revelation of Who He is, where He is headed, what He is doing and how He is blessed. Let’s ask for a glorious Gospel Explosion to erupt in this nation for his renown!
Thank you for helping us to get the message out about this significant gathering.
All Glory to the Lamb!
Dr Jason Hubbard – Director
International Prayer Connect