The 1857 Prayer Revival, Ep. 2

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It sounds surprising, but in the months leading up to the Civil War, the nation was in the midst of a great revival which spread north and south.

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0:00.0	How does a revival spread? Well, here's how it happened in 1857, starting with a prayer meeting in the nation's largest city.
0:08.0	As people were prayed for New York, and as they traveled to different places, they took the idea with it.
0:15.0	There are people hearing about this all over the country.
0:18.0	This was new.
0:19.0	Northward to Boston, southward to Philadelphia.
0:21.0	Never seen anything quite like this.
0:24.0	This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgemuth, author of Brokenness,
0:31.3	The Heart God Revives.
0:33.0	For April 20th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresch.
0:39.2	Prayer is powerful, and yesterday we heard about an event that sparked an entire revival.
0:45.0	If you missed that first part of this two-day series you can hear it on the Reviver Hearts
0:49.6	app or at Rev Our Hearts.com.
0:53.0	But here's a bit of context before we continue today.
0:57.0	September 23rd 1857 was the first prayer meeting that was held under
1:03.7	Jeremiah Calvin Lampiers leadership.
1:07.0	He waited for half an hour, nobody turns up,
1:10.6	but by the end of the hour, five people turn up and begin to pray.
1:16.0	It didn't take long for the meeting to multiply.
1:20.0	The week after that, more people turn up.
1:25.0	In God's Providence, the explosion of this prayer meeting coincided with the country's financial
1:30.0	troubles.
1:31.0	People in the city now had time to pray because they had lost their jobs.
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