Prayer meeting scheduled for 1 evening continues – for days
By Bob Unruh
A revival has broken out at a Christian College, Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, and what started out as a scheduled prayer meeting has now extended for more than a week.
Decision Magazine explains it has grown to be “around-the-clock prayer, testimonials, Scripture reading and praise and worship of Jesus Christ by hundreds of college students, faculty, staff, community members and out-of-towners.”
The report noted, “For more than 150 hours and counting, Hughes Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of nearly 1,500, has been abuzz with nonstop prayers of confession, repentance, intercession and adoration. What is being described as a spontaneous outbreak of revival followed a chapel message from Romans chapter 12 about confession, repentance and forgiveness.”
Whether it reaches the status of the top revival movements America has experienced remains in the future.
But notable past events include the First Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s when Jonathan Edwards delivered his famed “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” sermon. The Second Great Awakening was during the 1820s to 1850s when Charles Finney offered a fiery message of repentance and in big tents, meetings lasted weeks and weeks.
The Third Great Awakening from 1875-1885 following the end of the Civil War and the Great Chicago Fire, at a time when D.L. Moody was working to begin a Bible study for street children. The Azusa Street Revival, from 1906-1915 unveiled to America the Pentecostal movement, which followed prayers, sometimes for hours at a time, by William J. Seymour.