PRAYER MTG. that SHOOK the WORLD
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
-by Michael Edds.
A small group of people in 1898 met on Saturday evenings from 9
to 10 to pray. They met at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago to
cry our for an awakening. Within a short time, the group grew to
300 passionate intercessors. A few members remained to
agonize and intercede into the early hours of the 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 lady in Melbourne read his book on Prayer. She was so moved
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, " REVIVE THEY WORK, OH LORD!"