The Prayer Meeting That Shook The World

       

 

"It Was Just A Simple Invitation to Pray"

(Prayer Meeting That Shook The World)

                                             by Michael Edds                            

 

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 pray 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. Within a weeks of the close of the prayer meeting, two strangers approached Torrey and asked him to come to Melbourne, Australia to preach. These two men had left Australia months before in search of a man that they believed God would use to bring revival to their nation. Upon meeting Torrey, they felt they had found God's man. The result of that Chicago prayer meeting was an invitation for Torrey to come to Australia.
Torrey arrived in Australia in 1902. 15,000 tried to pack themselves into a building that could only seat 8,000. 8,000 conversions took place in that one meeting. For six months, Torrey and Charles M. Alexander traveled from town to town preaching. Revival swept the nation. Torrey believed that the key to the awakening was prayer. A woman in Melbourne read his book on prayer. She was so deeply touched by his teaching on the subject, that she organized her friends into prayer circles. The groups grew to 1,700 bands meeting regularly to pray for revival. This move of God spread into Britain, Ireland and into other countries. By 1904 30,000 of God's people were enrolled in daily prayer groups. Their prayer was "Revive thy work, Oh Lord." These prayers resulted in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in 1905 in Wales, Britain, America, in India and China! Wales was rocked by a mighty awakening. London experienced a five month long revival. A mighty choir of 4,000 made Londoners wonder what music must be like in Heaven!
It is estimated that Torrey and his partner Alexander led over 100,000 souls into the Kingdom of God. All this had its beginning in Chicago with a small group of people praying, "Revive thy work, Oh Lord!"
May God raise up such prayer warriors in our day who will daily cry out, "REND THE HEAVENS AND COME DOWN. REVIVE THY WORK, OH LORD!"

SHOCKING WORLD-WIDE SIGNS

APOCALYPSE NEAR??? SHOCKING WORLD-WIDE SIGNS
                                                by Michael Edds

The Signs of the Times are ALL around us!!  A world-wide phenomena of massive bird and fish deaths are being reported from ALL over the world. The following news headline declares....

"RECENT WORLD WIDE! DEAD BIRDS AND FISH! THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!"

Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, China, Australia, Britain, Germany, Wales, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, Canada other other places are reporting either unusual bird deaths or fish kills or both.  Thousands of birds and millions of fish are mysteriously dying.  Scientist are dumbfounded.  

Isaiah declares of a time to come, "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder:  for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." (KJV)     Another translation reads:  "Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder;  the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

The prophet Habakkuk declared, " Behold ye among the heathen, and regard (take notice), and wonder marvelously:  for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told to you"

Jesus said in Matthew 16:3,  "And in the morning, it will be foul weather today for the sky is red an lowring.  O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot discern the signs of the times!"

Folks, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!!  Acts 2:19 warns us that God will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below.  Are we like the children of Issachar, who were men that had understanding of the times to know what we ought to do?  It is time for the Church to WAKE UP!!!!  It is much later than we think.  We must know what we OUGHT TO DO!!  

Copy and paste the following link on your web browser to read the startling headlines from around the world.  Click on each headline to read each individual news article.  It will astound you!!

 

http://www.thebigwobble.com/2011/01/world-wide-dead-birds-fish-and-other.html