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I don't know where you live, but I reside in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. During our winters, we get a lot of snow, and we need to shovel our driveways. As I was shoveling my driveway in 2020, I felt God impress upon me to start praying for a Great Awakening.
In 2024, I felt God wanted me to involve others in praying for a Worldwide Great Awakening. So, I am asking you to please consider joining the Collective Prayer Network. But first what is a Great Awakening.
What is a Great Awakening.
The Great Awakening, a religious movement that revitalized religion in the British American colonies during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, created the Bible Belt. The nine states considered to be the Bible Belt are Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma.
By the end of the 17th century, the Puritan fervor in the American colonies had waned. The Great Awakening, led by figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, revitalized religion in the region. It was a reaction against the increasing secularization of society and the materialistic nature of the principal churches.
Conditions such as arid rationalism in New England, which places human reason over the Word of God, formalism in liturgical practices, and pastoral neglect contributed to the revival. Pastors often neglected their congregants on an individual level, creating a spiritual void that the Great Awakening filled by emphasizing personal renewal and authentic encounters with God.
Revival preachers emphasized the “terrors of the law” to sinners, the unmerited grace of God, and the concept of the “new birth” in Jesus Christ. Their evangelical styles of worship made religious doctrines more accessible to a wider cross-section of the American population.
In summary, the Great Awakening played a crucial role in shaping American religious life and promoting evangelical Calvinism during the colonial period, emphasizing both doctrinal truth and personal faith in Christ.
Now, 265 years later, we see America in spiritual decline. Many refer to America as a post-Christian nation. Examples include increasing secularization, the materialistic nature of principal churches, placing human reason and opinions over Biblical truth, outward expressions of religiosity rather than inner transformation, and pastors prioritizing fame, power, money, and personal agendas over God’s will.
For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:21)
I believe the hope for the World is another Great Awakening—not exactly like the first one, but the one that God the Father desires. I believe God wants another Great Awakening more than we do. He wants people who desire a Great Awakening to pray and ask Him to awaken us to Him again.
Therefore, I’m looking for a million Christians who are willing to pray for a worldwide Great Awakening that will impact God’s world with signs and wonders. That Jesus Christ will receive the reward of His suffering and see a billion sons and daughters come into His Kingdom. When the human race fell into sin, God did not lose slaves but sons and daughters. He wants to use us to bring them home through the ministry of prayer (praying for God’s Kingdom to come on earth as it is in Heaven, starting with us asking for God’s Kingdom to be seen in us—the power of Christ Jesus reigning in us with power, peace, and joy) and the ministry of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
If you believe that the only hope for our World is a Great Awakening, could you please make a commitment to God, and ask God, to put it on your heart to pray for a Great Awakening. Be obedient every time that He reminds you?
Thank you, and together, can we, as God’s children, bless God?
If you would like to learn more about the Great Awakening, please watch the video series on the History of Revival with Dr. Edwin Orr. You can find it under the Impact tab.