The revival started on February 8th in a small town of around 6,000 people at the Ashbury university in Kentucky.
Zach Meerkreebs, with the Christian and Missionary Alliance organization Envision, was the featured speaker that morning and spoke on the importance of knowing God’s love. He cited 1 John 4 “We love because he first loved us.”
1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
“Some of us need to sit in the love of God. Some of us need to taste and see and experience the power of the Holy Spirit,” Meerkreebs said. “They need a bunch of Christians experiencing the love of God so they can pour out the love of God.”
“Not through their own efforts and not through their own knowledge but because they’re filled with his love,” Meerkreebs said. “So become the love of God by experiencing the love of God.” He concluded, “Jesus, do a new thing in our midst. Revive us by your love.”
Around 18 students, moved by the Holy Spirit, lingered. More students came daily, praying and singing around the clock, taking shifts between classes and mealtimes, and even at bedtime to the point the chapel never emptied.
Soon, reports of similar around-the-clock prayer sessions were popping up at other college campuses. God has used Social media and the young generation, where reports first hit Tik Tok, Twitter, and Facebook.
People there praised and prayed in different languages as well as English. From the younger generation to the elderly, hands were lifted as voices sang praises to the Lord as the presence of the Holy Spirit was felt. Tears of repentance from the audience, with people raising their hands and singing and praising or kneeling to pray.
With over 20,000 people coming to Asbury over the weekend, filling five overflow buildings and a 2.5-mile backup of cars going into Wilmore.
With all the craziness and evil going on for the last two years with Covid and the lockdowns and political turmoil, people are looking for answers to the world’s problems. The hashtag #asburyrevival has 77.9 million views on TikTok as of Feb 20, 2023.
The superintendent of the Kentucky District Church of the Nazarene, a network of over 100 congregations across the Bluegrass State, tweeted: “Joy, purity, unity, passion are few words that come to mind in describing the Asbury Revival.”
“The Holy Spirit is resting in this place in a special way. Call it revival. Call it what you will. All I know is that we need more of it.” He said.
Pray for the young people experiencing this revival and the people worldwide experiencing the fire of the Holy Spirit. Pray others will come to the knowledge of the Truth.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
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1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men.
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Psalms113:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.
Psalms113:2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.
Psalms113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord‘s name is to be praised.
Psalms 147:1 Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Isaiah 25:1 O Lord, thou art my God;I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;
for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Psalms 28:7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
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