Date: October 26, 2013 ()

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  • The Revival Journey by John Van Gelderen
  • Friendship with the Holy Spirit by John Van Gelderen

The Prayer Revival

  • Panic of 1857 (economic turnmoil)
  • Jeremiah Lanphier began prayer meeting every day at noon
  • Started small in New York City, eventually grew to thousands
  • Countrywide revival seen in church records from 1858

Era of Mass Evangelism

  • YMCA and D.L. Moody
  • Estimated 300,000 soldiers converted during Civil War, from both North and South
  • Large, city-wide revivals across America
  • 1890s: prayer for new revival for 1900; Moody/Northfield conference, Keswick Convention
  • 1901: Second Boer War; POW camp conversion and revival
  • 1904: Welsh Revival; 100,000 conversions in one year
  • 1907: Korean Pentecost
  • 1908: Manchurian Awakening

To have a comparable revival by today's standards, God would have to convert a billion people: which He is able to do!

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