It was just a simple invitation to pray that led a small group of people in 1898 to meet on Saturday evenings from 9 to 10 for prayer. They met at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago to cry out for an awakening. Within a short time, the group grew to 300 passionate intercessors. A few members remained to antagonize and intercede into the early hours one Sabbath morning. R. A. Torrey joined this small group to pray for a world – wide revival. During that intense intercession, Torrey asked God to send him around the world.

Patterns of Spiritual Awakenings
By Michael Edds

Christian History Magazine shared the following powerful information concerning revival….

“Spiritual awakenings manifest patterns that are similar, often strikingly so. While all of the following elements may be present in each instance, for the most part awakenings progress through a cycle whose phases include these various aspects of God’s working.”

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Posted February 26, 2008

For some time the Lord has been saying to me that the Holy Spirit is “hovering and brooding” over the Appalachian Mountains. As you recall from Genesis, the Spirit of the Lord hovered and brooded over the face of the deep. This was just before He said, “Let there be light.” He spoke light and life into existence. As a mother hen broods over her eggs, she imparts something of herself to them….her body heat. This causes the eggs to grow and develop the embryo within.

In the year 2000, God spoke to me that He was going to reopen the “old wells” of revival throughout this nation and around the world. The purpose of the Coming Great Awakening is to restore total truth to the church and to give the world one last invitation of mercy before divine judgment falls upon a perverse generation.
In 2004, the Lord gave me a vivid, terrifying dream concerning Chicago. In the dream, I was with a group of dedicated Christians in a suite of rooms in the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago.

When I was about 14yrs old, I wanted to start a weekly, lunchtime Christian meeting in my high school. So I asked one of my more senior friends to come with me to approach the Principal to ask permission.

We went up to his office and knocked on the door.

“Yes – come in. Who sent you up here? What have you done wrong?” he said.

“Sir, I haven’t done anything wrong.