The concept of prayer circles is about saturating a nation with prayer by establishing a network of prayer groups everywhere, while praying for unsaved people, revival, churches and the nations. (Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans).
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Revival
Preparing for revival
In recent years the Holy Spirit has been prodding many of God’s servants on the coming revival, so as to prepare His Church for what some predict will be one of the greatest visitations of God in history.
The Holy Spirit in the life of the believer
The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood member of the Trinity. He has been treated as if He were an outsider in many Christian circles. However, the Bible clearly states what the Holy Spirit does for us, in us and through us as Believers.
Why conversion and revival are Biblical
Some in the Church wonder whether conversion, and its corporate expression, revival, are not just manifestations of Western individualistic thinking. What does the Bible say?
Hear our Prayer: James Edwin Orr for Revival
In the words of a hymn written by James Edwin Orr, he asks God for revival. Pray fervently that God will bring us revival in our lifetime, and that He would start with each one of us.
Hear our Prayer: Charles Spurgeon for revival
In the series, Hear our Prayer, we look at prayers of saints who have gone before us. May this prayer of Spurgeon stir a desire for revival in your heart.
Scripture prayers concerning revival
A prayer for revival from Scripture that can be read together as a group or by individuals as part of their prayer or devotional times.
Brokenness
We may know failure and lack of fruit; but the Lord is never defeated. There is no limit to His power. How can His power be shown in our hearts and lives? How can we serve the Lord in His power?
Seeking God for revival
Revival comes through Divine intervention from God. To be granted revival calls for believers to seek God in faith and with prayers that are saturated with the Word of God.
Establishing prayer groups
The multiplication of small prayer groups has proved to be the simplest and most effective strategy for saturating towns, cities and a nation with prayer, and mobilising prayer for renewal and revival in the church. We look at how to establish such prayer groups.
Like a mighty rushing wind
God poured out the Holy Spirit on the first believers and that sparked a revival in Jerusalem which spread to many countries in the Roman Empire. Reading the Book of Acts gives us a biblical picture of what normally happens during a revival.
History of 10 days of prayer before Pentecost
In 1861 in Paarl, South Africa, a small group prayed together every evening during the ten days between Ascension Day and Pentecost, like the first Christians who waited to be baptised with the Holy Spirit. There was great expectancy and they were not disappointed.
Effect of prayer groups on revival
There is nothing more central and important when preparing for revival than prayer, especially prayer in small groups. This has happened in some form or another in more than 90% of all recorded revivals.
The revival during the Second Anglo-Boer War
The Boers asked why it had to happen, but God had a bigger plan in the midst of their suffering. Boers who went to the camps as prisoners of war unsaved returned as true born-again Christians, filled with the Holy Spirit. God worked powerfully in these camps.
What is revival?
“Revival is a going of God among the people. It is an awareness of His presence, His holiness, His fear, and awareness of the need to walk softly before God, lest I grieve Him.”
The Zulu evangelist and revival
Nicholas Benghu had a dream in which he heard the words, “Africa must turn back to God.” Out of this was born his ‘Back to God Crusade.’ For forty years, his crusades toured systematically through South Africa.
Pray for personal revival
Every believer can experience personal revival daily and in fact, should experience it.
Seek My Face
This is a practical guide on how to watch and pray for one hour, seeking God’s face. (Ps.27:8)
4 Lessons on money during revival
John Wesley not only turned 18th century England around with his preaching, but he made lots of money in the process. Here is a story about, and advice from, a man who knew how to make money… and even more importantly, how to spend it.
The Hour that Changes the World
In his book, The hour that changes the world, Dick Eastman suggests that one divide an hour into 12 periods of 5 minutes each. After 5 minutes you change to another form of prayer. The following is Dick Eastman's groupings Praise and Worship Waiting on the Lord...