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Church history has known times when lukewarm believers catch fire and get redhot, and the lost are suddenly aware of their need for a Savior. Prayer is always the kindling God uses to fan into flame his smoldering Church.
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Fire!
January 16, 2009
This is what the Sovereign Lord says:“Once again I will yield to the plea of the house of Israel and do this for them….then they will know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 36:37,38
James Waddell Alexander, Presbyterian pastor in the middle of the 19th Century, revealed his heart this way...
‘In order to experience mighty and enexampled (original, not a photocopy of elsewhere) revival, what we especially need is for the whole church to be down on its knees before God.”
On September 23, 1857, a small group of New York City businessmen gathered to pray in the North Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton Street, not far from where the World Trade Center would later stand.
Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier, a lay missionary challenged "men engaged in active business to devote a portion of the time usually given to rest and refreshment at mid-day to devotional purposes."
He invited "merchants, mechanics, clerks, strangers and businessmen generally" to come to the Fulton Street church on Wednesday, from noon to one o'clock, to "stop and call upon God amid the daily perplexities incident to their respective avocations."
What was their agenda? Simply put, "the salvation of the soul." The meetings began with singing and Scripture reading and ended with a hymn, but otherwise proceeded as the Spirit led.
The rules were short but strictly enforced, and spelled out on a placard hung in a prominent place: Brethren are earnestly requested to adhere to the five-minute rule. Prayers and exhortations were not to exceed five minutes, in order to give everyone an opportunity (and to keep one person from taking advantage of the situation). We all have the best of intentions, but....
Not more than two consecutive prayers or exhortations.
No controverted points could be discussed.
So just how did it go?
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not percieve it? Isaiah 43:19
For half an hour that first day, Lanphier held his breath, waiting for someone to arrive. One by one they trickled in. Though small, there were five denominations represented.
The following week, twenty people arrived. The third week, there were forty. By the fourth week, they had decided to hold a meeting every workday. The kindling of prayer had started a bonfire!
The fire couldn't be stopped! Within months, meetings were being held throughout New York City and in other U.S. cities from coast to coast. The influence of the prayer meetings in time extended beyond the borders of the United States, and it has been estimated that as many as one million people may have come into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as a result of this prayer movement!
Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known. Habakkuk 3:2
James Waddell Alexander, Presbyterian pastor in the middle of the 19th Century, revealed his heart this way...
‘In order to experience mighty and enexampled (original, not a photocopy of elsewhere) revival, what we especially need is for the whole church to be down on its knees before God.”
On September 23, 1857, a small group of New York City businessmen gathered to pray in the North Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton Street, not far from where the World Trade Center would later stand.
Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier, a lay missionary challenged "men engaged in active business to devote a portion of the time usually given to rest and refreshment at mid-day to devotional purposes."
He invited "merchants, mechanics, clerks, strangers and businessmen generally" to come to the Fulton Street church on Wednesday, from noon to one o'clock, to "stop and call upon God amid the daily perplexities incident to their respective avocations."
What was their agenda? Simply put, "the salvation of the soul." The meetings began with singing and Scripture reading and ended with a hymn, but otherwise proceeded as the Spirit led.
The rules were short but strictly enforced, and spelled out on a placard hung in a prominent place: Brethren are earnestly requested to adhere to the five-minute rule. Prayers and exhortations were not to exceed five minutes, in order to give everyone an opportunity (and to keep one person from taking advantage of the situation). We all have the best of intentions, but....
Not more than two consecutive prayers or exhortations.
No controverted points could be discussed.
So just how did it go?
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not percieve it? Isaiah 43:19
For half an hour that first day, Lanphier held his breath, waiting for someone to arrive. One by one they trickled in. Though small, there were five denominations represented.
The following week, twenty people arrived. The third week, there were forty. By the fourth week, they had decided to hold a meeting every workday. The kindling of prayer had started a bonfire!
The fire couldn't be stopped! Within months, meetings were being held throughout New York City and in other U.S. cities from coast to coast. The influence of the prayer meetings in time extended beyond the borders of the United States, and it has been estimated that as many as one million people may have come into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as a result of this prayer movement!
Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known. Habakkuk 3:2
