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When God Shook the Colonies — and Why We Need It Again
A spiritually awakened people envisioned freedom.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Praying Friends, faith once ignited freedom in the colonies. Today, the same fire can awaken a America again.
This issue … a spiritually awakened people envisioned freedom.
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When God Shook the Colonies … and Why We Need It Again
In the 1730s and 1740s, something extraordinary swept through the colonies … the First Great Awakening.
Preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield proclaimed the Gospel with conviction, calling people to repentance, faith, and a living encounter with God.
It wasn’t just revival meetings. The Awakening reshaped culture — renewing moral standards, breaking down denominational barriers, and laying spiritual groundwork for the liberty movement that followed.
A spiritually awakened people became a people CAPABLE OF ENVISIONING FREEDOM.
The Great Awakening stirred the collective conscience. Ordinary men and women were filled with fresh zeal for Christ. Communities were reoriented around the fear of God and the reality of eternity.
Related issue — Outside the Walls: Where God Awakens Nations
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🗝️ Kingdom Prayer Key—Faith and Love
Authentic faith and love are one. Paul writes to us, “Faith works through love.” Because we are in Christ, the Beloved, our faith operates within the sphere of our love relationship with God.
God sees love holistically—our love for Him is bound up with our love for others. And love is never divorced from truth. Real love does not avoid truth. It embodies it.
So don’t frustrate your faith by neglecting your love walk … with others and God. Faith flourishes where love and truth are alive.
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Pray American DNA 🧬
Each generation needs to rediscover America’s DNA.
We can draw on America's founding prayers, covenants, documents, and early experiences as "prayer architecture" for today. Adapt the prayer language below to your prayer voice as the Holy Spirit leads.
Revive Us Again
🧬 Father, revive the American Church. And transform our society. Do not let us settle for sliding backwards. “Lord, I have heard the report about You, and I was afraid. Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known. In anger remember mercy” — Habakkuk 3.2 NASB. “Will You not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in You?” — Psalm 85:6 NKJV
Brian—I believe revival/awakening is binary. We are either in a state of being revived, or we are slipping backward. There is no static state.
🔦 Light that exposes. Judge over All, we thank You for shining your light on the truth and exposing corrupt liars. We ask for your justice to move swiftly and righteously, in accordance with your Word.
🛡️🗽 Unreasonable and wicked. "That we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith" (Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3.2 NKJV). Jesus, our Deliverer, protect America from those who hate truth, twist justice, and seek to tear down what You have designed and ordained.
🔥 As you pray, tune in to the Father’s heart. Resonate with the sharp prayer edges he surfaces in the Spirit. Leave “white space” in prayer for improvisation.
Some of our best prayer is jazz-like. Improv with the Holy Spirit.
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