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In order to understand revival, we must understand the role of prayer in campus revival history. J. Edwin Orr, the famous revival historian said, “Young people in student led prayer cells have been at the forefront in almost every awakening.” The Moravian 24/7 prayer and missionary movement, for example, was started in 1727 by Ludwig Von Zinzendorf. At the age of 16, Zinzendorf graduated from Halle School after having started no fewer than 7 different prayer groups, and he continued his prayer disciplines while he was a student at the University of Wittenberg from 1716 to 1719.
The First Great Awakening that swept hundreds of thousands into the Kingdom in Europe and North America were ignited by a Yale University graduate named Jonathan Edwards, and by Oxford students John Wesley and George Whitefield at Oxford University in 1729. The Second Great Awakening was sparked by Timothy Dwight, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, at Yale University in his 1797 message to Yale students. Nearly half of Yale’s student body came to Christ in a few short months.
The Student Volunteer Missionary movement, which sent more than 20,000 college students overseas on foreign missions during the span of a few decades, was started by Samuel Mills and the Haystack 5 at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1806. It was five students, praying under a haystack on a rainy day for revival and world missions, saying, “If we will, we can!” The rest is history and the list of student revivalists goes on.
Will you be the next one to change campus revival history? If so, the key is extraordinary revival prayer. Let us give ourselves to hourly prayer that the greatest youth awakening the world has ever seen will come forth in our day. Let the PrayerStorm come forth!
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