Barbara Blanchard never wants to stop praying for revival during her lifetime.

We retire maybe from all kinds of scheduled things, but we don't ever retire from being God's women.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, February 16, 2015.

I'm here in Michigan this week at our home office and delighted to be a part of an event that's being hosted by Life Action Ministries and One

Cry. We've talked about that before here on Revive Our Hearts. They're hosting a national

revival symposium. We've been listening to some wonderful messages on the history of revival,

the definition of revival and awakening, a call to prayer for revival and awakening.

And it's not just been messages. There have been extended times for those gathered here,

mostly pastors and Christian leaders, to pray for revival. And I heard that my longtime friend,

Barbara Blanchard, was going to be here at this event, and I said, we've got to connect and

asked Barbara yesterday, could you step into our studio today and let us talk about what I know

has been Barbara on your heart for a lot of years. So welcome to the Revivera Heart Studio.

Well, thank you, Nancy. It's a joy to be here. And of course, I prayed for you through the years.

So to see you in your own home setting is wonderful.

We have a group that we call Nancy's praying friends, and I'm sure they're more than are on that group, but these are people who've said over the years, we really have a heart for what you're doing, and we want to know how we can pray for you. And you've been one of those that for, I guess, probably since the 70s or 80s,

I'm not sure exactly when we first connected. But you've been praying for me and for our ministry.

And I want to say thank you. So much of what we're seeing God do through the ministry is the fruit of

friends like you. Well, you're more than welcome. It gives us joy to see how God answers.

Now, you've been praying for longer than we've known each other for revival and spiritual

awakening. And that's where I've run into you most often are at events that relate to revival

and spiritual awakening. And I'm just wondering, how long have you had that burden? How did you get it? How did God

first put that in your heart? It's really a good question. I think it was in the 70s just through

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