How does revival spread? Well, here's how it happened in 1857, starting with a prayer meeting in the nation's largest city.

As people were prayed for, New York, and as they travel to different places, they took the idea.

There are people hearing about this all over the country.

This was new.

Northward to Boston, southward to Philadelphia.

Never seen anything quite like this. Westward to Cleveland and across the United States.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Brokenness,

The Heart God Revives. For April 20th, 2023, I'm Danne Gresh.

Prayer is powerful. And yesterday we heard about an event that sparked an entire revival.

If you missed that first part of this two-day series, you can hear it on the Reviver

Hearts app or at Reviverheart.com. But here's a bit of context before we continue today.

September 23, 1857, was the first prayer meeting that was held under Jeremiah Calvin Lampier's leadership.

He waited for half an hour, nobody turns up.

But by the end of the hour, five people turn up and begin to pray.

It didn't take long for the meeting to multiply.

The week after that, a few more people turn up.

In God's Providence, the explosion of this prayer meeting coincided with the country's financial troubles.

People in the city now had time to pray because they had lost their jobs.

Soon after that, a week later, the Fulton Street prayer meetings in New York met every day rather than once or twice a week.

In fact, those prayer meetings spilled over

the noon hour and ultimately the churches of New York City were crowded with people praying

from early in the morning till late at night through all hours of the day. Not only were people

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