Late Tuesday night, a friend of Tony Suarez’s text him with the news that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s bid for a second term had failed. He was stunned with the news.

A pastor and the Chief Operating Officer of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Suarez had prophesied in September 2022 that Lightfoot, the first openly gay person to lead the city, would not serve a second term. Lightfoot lost her Democratic primary for the mayor’s office Tuesday to Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, who will meet in a runoff in April for the position.

When he received the text, he went straight to the Chicago Tribune’s website to affirm what Darryl Hooper had told him.

“My first reaction, and I don’t want it to sound too gimmicky, was ‘thank God,'” Suarez said in an exclusive interview with Charisma News. “I wasn’t even sure when the elections were and had even thought about it.

“Last fall when we were in Iowa, and it was spontaneous … the state of Illinois just rose in my spirit. God spoke to me and said ‘I’m sending revival to that state.’ I was born in Villa Park, a suburb of Chicago, and I had never prophesied about Chicago before. It was amazing.”

In this video taken at the Opening the Heavens in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in September 2022, Suarez prophesied: “I declare Holy Ghost revival and to the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago. Lori Lightfoot, pack your bags. God is removing you from office.”

A few weeks later at the Cleveland Tennessee Outpouring, Suarez prophesied, “The spirit of corruption will be broken in Illinois and Illinois won’t be known for corruption. Illinois will be known for Holy Ghost revival. I prophesy that God is going to remove the mayor of the city of Chicago and God is going to send revival to that city one more time.”

The first black woman to be elected as mayor of Chicago, Lightfoot lasted only one term. She is the first elected Chicago mayor to lose a reelection bid since 1983. In 2019, the AP reported, she made promises to end decades of corruption and backroom dealing at city hall.

Four of the last seven governors in Illinois have gone to prison for one crime or another.

The Associated Press also reported that “opponents blamed Lightfoot for an increase in in crime that occurred in cities across the U.S. during the pandemic and criticized her as being a divisive, overly contentious leader.”

In a time when many—including some in the church—have become cynical and overtly critical about the gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy, Suarez says he doesn’t, by any means, bring attention to himself. Rather, he says, believers need to celebrate when any prophecy that benefits the kingdom of God comes to pass.

“I don’t ever want to draw attention to myself, it has to be the Lord,” Suarez says. “It’s important that people know that this word was fulfilled. I feel like it was prudent that we share this because the prophetic is under such attack. When a word comes to pass, we must highlight it because the gits of the Spirit are for today and so another generation can see just that.”

Suarez says it’s especially gratifying to him because his children, 17 and 15, were on the stage that night in Council Bluffs and heard the prophecy.

“My children say, ‘yeah Dad, I remember being in that service.’ Our kids today are flooded with social media, with negative media,” Suarez said. “Prophecies gone wrong, church scandals, anything I would label sensationalism. It hurts their faith and it causes them to question if any prophecy is real. When miracles take place or prophecy comes to pass, they’re not given the same attention as all of these negative things.

“Even daily Christian journalists like RNS (Religion News Service), the Christian Post or even Christianity Today, all they write about it seems like is the negative stuff. If it was a scandal, they’re on it. If it’s prophecy or a miracle, it’s met with cynicism and doubt and there has to be an angle. I wasn’t going to post the video because of the attack the prophetic is under, but I also felt like it has to be an example of when prophecy is fulfilled.”

Suarez says that he is elated at the recent revival that have happened around the nation, including the Asbury Revival and the ensuing outpourings including places like Lee University, Samford University, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and even in high schools in Corpus Christi.

“We can’t push the responsibility of revival until tomorrow,” Suarez says. “But we’ve been saying this for three years. It isn’t that revival is coming. Revival is already here and it has been for three years.”

But, he says, this is no time for the body of Christ to “get sloppy.” We must carry on as the Holy Spirit directs us.

“In the past you can see that sensationalism and sloppiness killed the faith and the passion,” Suarez says. “This current revival that is happening, I believe it will continue until Jesus comes. But we need to learn certain practices, and we need to be careful about a timestamp on when things comes to pass. It’s in God’s timing, and we’re all learning. Instead of saying, ‘Thus sayeth the Lord,’ maybe you can say, ‘this is what I feel.’ You can’t retract ‘thus sayeth the Lord.” {eoa}

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Critics said it could never be done, but after decades of prayer, legal battles and faith in God instead of man, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.

A decade prior to this ruling, the Warren Court set the United States on a spiritual path that would see God removed from American schools and a culture steeped in darkness.

While the pro-life fight is far from over, the devil will not simply roll over and give up, the fight for prayer is now being brought to the forefront of American culture.

With the mutilation of children, violent crime rising and government oppression in the name of security, Americans have witnessed the decline of a society that removed the God on which it was founded.

Now, taking a stand against his party’s notoriously anti-God platform, Democratic Mayor of New York City Eric Adams is lamenting the impact of removing prayer from schools.

As reported by The Daily Wire, “During remarks at an interfaith breakfast, Adams spoke about the intersection of faith and realizing one’s full potential. He said people going to places of worship, regardless of religion, can help alleviate the city’s various problems, such as homelessness and domestic violence.”

“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools,” he said.

“Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state,” Adams continued. “State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies. I can’t separate my beliefs because I’m an elected official.”

He added: “When I walk, I walk with God, when I talk, I talk with God. When I put policies in place, I put them in with a God-like approach to them—that’s who I am.”

While some Democrats and Republicans may differ on their stance regarding guns and the causations behind gun violence in America, Mayor Adams highlights the root behind not just gun violence in New York City schools, but the decline of American society.

When prayer and the Bible was removed from American schools, entire generations were raised without a foundation in the God and His principles that made this country a world power.

This moral decline has been orchestrated and planned out by dark forces for decades. With counterculture movements promoting lifestyles of rampant drug use, disrespect for authority and promiscuity replacing the designs of God, it was inevitable for STD’s, violence, indoctrination, witchcraft and more take up residence in American society.

But God always provides an opportunity for repentance and restoration.

Americans see the radical shift in culture and regret it every day on platforms across social media, in news programs and even in churches. But what are they doing about it?

Well, Mayor Adams hit the nail on the head.

If parents want violence to go down in schools, bring back prayer.

If citizens want a government that works for them instead of oppressing them, bring back prayer.

If America truly wants to heal the division within her borders and become a society filled with peace and unity, bring back prayer.

Naysayers will say it can’t be done, but the Word of God says in Matthew 19:26: “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, ‘With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'”

Those same critics said the same about Roe v. Wade.

Prayer can be brought back to American society, but not without a fight. Satan will try and stop that from happening with every trick, deception and scheme that he knows.

It will take the church engaging in intercession, fasting, voting and being active members of society that extol the necessities of prayer in American society, and reliance on God and faith in Him to accomplish the seemingly impossible. {eoa}

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Here’s a quick summary of the top stories on :

Famous Lexington Arena Becomes New Site for Asbury Revival Services

Christian evangelist Nick Hall provided a space over the weekend for the Asbury revival to continue after Asbury University shut it down.

There was plenty of space at the Rupp Arena in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, located about 30 minutes from Asbury in Wilmore. And while hundreds showed up for the last-minute, low-key, free-flowing event, the revival meeting did not gain enough publicity beforehand to fill the massive arena.

Hall told WTVQ-TV he received numerous messages from people wanting to see the Awakening continue in Lexington, so he was able to get the arena.

‘Unholy Alliances’ Form to Make Bible Prophecy a Coming Reality

End-times expert Michael Snyder says it’s like “watching a really bad Hollywood disaster movie slowly play out.”

Only this time, he says, billions of people could end up dead.

On his popular website, “The Economic Collapse Blog,” Snyder recently said that, “thanks to the endless bumbling of the Biden administration, Russia and China have been pushed into each other’s arms” and seem determine to confront the western powers together.

Demons Leave Ugandans Who Trust in Jesus

An unofficial list of schools, churches and entire nations in revival like the Holy Spirit’s outpouring at Asbury University in Kentucky includes more than 31 locations.

Dr. Jim Garlow, a pastor, best-selling author, historian and commentator who has spoken and written about the Asbury awakening since it began Feb. 8, believes an official list of places experiencing revival—when compiled—will include hundreds of locations.

Garlow posted on his Facebook page a page of revival hot spots that includes six locations in Kentucky, and places as far away from where the outpouring began in Wilmore as Maine, Minnesota and Michigan in the United States, with awakenings from nearly coast to coast. {eoa}

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Living a life serving God and His purposes isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. In fact, the more you seek to advance God’s kingdom on earth, the more spiritual warfare you will face in your life. Former Satanist John Ramirez shares what he has learned over the years to defeat Satan in times of warfare.

“You’ll make Jesus Christ proud at the end of your journey if you fight the fight. Instead of lukewarm, pocketbook Christian, why not be God’s best and stand up for the battle,” Ramirez says in our Charisma magazine interview.

In his new book “Fire Prayers: Building Arsenals That Destroy Satanic Kingdoms,” Ramirez talks about the importance of taking the battle to the spirit realm and why being equipped with God’s warfare weapons is one of the most life-changing experiences of all.

God has a special purpose for your life but the enemy will try to use people and troubling situations to derail you. “Why do you live by the opinions of people? God always told me ‘I will always do my part but I won’t do yours,'” he says.

If you are allowing the opinions of others to influence God’s plans for your life pray for a renewed fear of the Lord. David Jeremiah describes the fear of the Lord as not being scared of God, it’s just not wanting to disappoint Him.

“I thought that was the coolest thing when I heard that. I had a hallelujah going this morning in praise and I had to step on my toes and say ‘Lord help me to never disappoint you,'” Ramirez says.

In our interview, Ramirez talks about the wilderness journey between every promise land. You will face hardships, questions, moments that try your faith and seasons that uproot all of the dirt and junk you didn’t know was hidden inside. In this life, you have the opportunity to show God you have faith in His plans and purposes.

Recently Ramirez was in Bakersfield, California praying for a woman walking through a dark wilderness season. She was diagnosed with stage four cancer and was living with a small oxygen tank.

“She came up to the prayer line and I prayed for her. She fell into the seats because the Holy Spirit fell on her so hard. She left without the oxygen tank, she left completely free,” Ramirez says.

He shared another testimony of a Muslim woman he met a few years back. She came to a service he held in Queens, New York. She was serving Allah and had no faith in Jesus, yet during her darkest hour she knew Jesus was the answer. She was riddled with cancer and had six months left to live. Ramirez prayed for her and visited the church one year later. Awaiting him at the doorsteps was a woman filled with joy and a smile from ear to ear. He didn’t remember her at first until she reminded him of the last time she met.

The formerly Muslim woman had given her life to Jesus the day Ramirez prayed for her. Her cancer disappeared and she has been inviting everyone she knows to come to church and encounter the Jesus she had.

“You have to have target arrow precision prayers. It’s like being a spiritual sniper. These kinds of prayers will hit the root of the issue,” Ramirez says.

Tune in to the rest of the video to hear more about prayers for marriage, finances and children. Check out Ramirez’s book “Fire Prayers” to read the manual that will equip you with a spiritual warfare arsenal that will leave Satan and his kingdom trembling.

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Have you ever really paid attention to the events in your life that seemed to be orchestrated? Things that were not supposed to happen, but did, or things that were supposed to happen that didn’t, which ended up turning out for the better?

During my life as a believer, I can point to hundreds, if not thousands of examples of occurrences that seemed to have been scripted so that the result would bring a blessing to me and my family. Yet, even though I have experienced these moments over and over, I can’t say that I was praying for these events to take place.

This all changed over the course of the past two weeks.

Before leaving on a trip to Israel, we asked everyone traveling in our party a question: What are you praying for on this trip? The answers varied from person to person. Some wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the Scriptures. Others wanted to receive a touch from G-D, such as healing or peace of mind.

About halfway through the group, my daughter-in-law said she was praying for divine appointments. When she said those words, something happened deep within my spirit. I knew that I have had many divine appointments in my life, but I could not remember a time when I prayed directly for divine appointments.

The truth is that I didn’t even pray when she shared her prayer with us. I did, however, purpose to take notice and keep a list of any divine appointments that might take place during the trip.

Below is my list:

On our first night in Tiberias, while shopping, I happened to meet a Jewish believer who had spent two months in my home town and knew several members of my synagogue.

While in the same store, the sales clerk who was helping my son with his purchase, looked up and said, “You’re Rabbi Eric Tokajer.” It turns out he follows my social media and was very excited to meet me in person.

The next morning, while in the dining room of our hotel, I ran into two rabbi friends from after receiving a Facebook message from a friend who lives in Jerusalem saying she hoped she could connect with me while I was in the Land, we found out she happened to be visiting Magdala at that very moment while we were there.

Also at Magdala, I looked up to see Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and television host, who graciously took a photo with me and made a short video with me greeting my synagogue family back home.

If the above list doesn’t convince you G-D is ordaining and ordering your steps and that G-D Himself is the author of these divine appointments, this next one will.

A few years back, I learned that I had a distant relative who lived in Israel. Finding this out was amazing because, after the Holocaust, there were so few remaining living members of my family. I was able to connect with this person through the internet and had several short, but pleasant conversations.

Knowing I would be traveling to Israel, I asked him if he would be open to meeting face to face. Unfortunately, he answered that he had a very busy schedule and that he was also uncomfortable meeting with me at this time. I was saddened by his response, but told him I respected his decision and hoped that in the future we could meet.

One morning of our trip, due to a strike and political demonstration taking place, we had to cancel one stop on our tour and rearrange our schedule for the day. This change to our itinerary made Shilo our first stop of the day and the time much earlier than we originally planned.

We arrived at the site, exited our bus, and walked through the entry building. As I walked toward the glass entry door, I could see that on the other side of the door was my relative. Time stood still for a moment as my brain processed what was happening. Right in front of me was my relative who I had prayed for the opportunity to meet face to face. We were literally face to face on opposite sides of the door.

Once I came to myself, I opened the door and called him by name. We greeted each other and shook hands and he introduced me to his son. Then he explained that he was also supposed to be somewhere else, but because of the strike, he decided to take his son to Shilo for the morning instead. After chatting for a bit, he said to me, “It is clear that G-D wanted us to meet.”

I had somehow managed to keep from crying as we met and spoke, but as he and his son walked away to continue their visit of Shilo, I took the time to cry a little and thank G-D for answering my heart’s cry.

Just thinking about all of the separate things that had to happen that morning to bring about what some might call our “chance” meeting. However, I knew as I stood at the place where G-D answered Hannah’s prayer and gave her the desire of her heart, G-D also answered the desire of my heart in such a powerful way that it can only be seen as an answer not only to my prayer, but also to my daughter-in-law’s prayer, for divine appointments.

This experience has caused me to pray for and enter each day looking for and expecting divine appointments. I hope sharing my experience with you will cause you to pray for and watch for divine appointments also.

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Eric Tokajer is the author of Overcoming Fearlessness, What If Everything You Were Taught About the Ten Commandments Was Wrong?, With Me in Paradise, Transient Singularity, OY! How Did I Get Here?: Thirty-One Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Entering Ministry, #ManWisdom: With Eric Tokajer, Jesus Is to Christianity as Pasta Is to Italians and Galatians in Context.

There is something spiritual happening deep within the culture of America today. Despite the blatantly demonic performance at the Grammys and pagan statues enshrined in New York City, there is an awakening taking place in the hearts of everyday Americans.

Many Christians never share their faith because they think it’s hard work. Many are under the impression that unless you partake in elaborate schooling, you’re not really qualified. Well, there’s good news. Barry Meguiar, the founder of Meguiar’s Car Wax, has been an outspoken Christian for many years and he’s demystifying the process of sharing your faith with others.

“There’s no greater high, there’s nothing more addictive. Once you start doing it, you’re off and running,” Meguiar says enthusiastically.

In his new book “Ignite Your Life,” Meguiar shares just how easy it is to witness for Jesus. I interviewed him for my “Strang Report” podcast to give you some practical tips to implement in your everyday life.

The Bible tells all of us to go into the world and preach the gospel. There is a world of people out there that don’t know Jesus and look at everything going on in the news with fear and despair. Amid that crisis, only 1% of Christians tell others about their faith. “That’s the problem,” Meguiar says.

Thankfully what has happened at the Asbury University revival and the new movie “Jesus Revolution” is blowing up across social media. “Jesus Revolution” hit number three at the box office on its opening weekend.

“It would appear there’s a sovereign move of the Holy Spirit across America and around the world. I saw one survey by Pew Research said 40% of Americans now believe we’re in the last days,” Meguiar says. If 40% of Americans believe we are in the last days they are certainly more open to hearing about eternal life.

Meguiar has been sharing his faith for 50 years and says it’s getting easier to share with people now than ever before. People are open to the gospel.

Mark 13:11 says, ” But when they arrest you and hand you over, take no thought beforehand, or premeditate what you should speak. But speak whatever is given you in that time, for it is not you who speaks, but the Holy Spirit.”

You don’t have to have a theology degree to be able to share the gospel. It is the Holy Spirit who speaks through you.

Not only does the world need to hear the gospel, but you also need to share the gospel to strengthen your own faith. Isaiah 43:10 says, “You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me.”

“Ignite Your Life” has a message directly for pastors as well. “You’re robbing your people. You wonder why they’re not growing, you’ve really crippled them by not telling them the one thing they’re supposed to do more than any other, share their faith and be salt and light,” Meguiar says.

Meguiar’s grandfather wasn’t a chemist, but he trusted in the Lord. In 1901 the Lord gave him a formula that we now know as Meguiar’s wax. All of us should believe in God for those kinds of miracles in our own lives.

There have also been moments in Meguiar’s life where he almost lost his company, had deaths in the family and had other hardships. In the midst of life’s greatest challenges, he’s learned to have joy in the Lord in all things.

“Nothing bad can happen to me unless God wants it to happen to me. He allows bad to come into my life, it’s not really bad, it’s good. He’s going to use it for good. So we’ve stopped saying ‘God get us out of this mess,’ we thank God when it comes,” he says.

Learn how to share your faith boldly with those around you and face life’s hardest moments with an innate trust in God, that He will be by your side directing your steps because that is His promise.

Tune in to the rest of the podcast with Barry Meguiar for a time of powerful prayer. {eoa}

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There’s a scene halfway through the new film “Jesus Revolution” in which Greg Laurie, a fatherless teenager who’s been searching for life’s meaning through drugs and Janis Joplin concerts, is baptized in the Pacific Ocean by a hippie preacher named Lonnie Frisbee. Before Lonnie dunks Greg in the water, he leads Greg in a salvation prayer.

It’s the only time I’ve heard someone pray those words on the big screen. When Greg comes up out of the water, Lonnie asks him: “How do you feel?” Looking stunned, Greg replies: “Alive.” As the camera pans the crowd gathered in that spot near Newport Beach, California, we realize that hundreds of young people are making the same decision Greg did.

This really happened. “Jesus Revolution” isn’t fiction. Thousands of aimless teens and 20-somethings embraced Christianity during an era that was marked by racial violence and the Vietnam War. It was known as the Jesus Movement.

“Jesus Revolution” is a two-hour snapshot of that revival. It focuses on the true story of Chuck Smith, a pastor (played by Kelsey Grammer) who opens his struggling church to welcome an influx of bare-footed young people who are leaving their acid, LSD and free sex to embrace Christian faith. Toward the end of the movie, we learn that Time magazine devoted a cover story to the Jesus Movement in 1971.

I’m not surprised that “Jesus Revolution” is a hit. It offers a mega-dose of hope at a time when we are drowning in negativity. The film surprised Hollywood by raking in a bigger-than-predicted haul of $15.5 million on opening weekend, and fans gave it a rare A+ rating on CinemaScore.

It’s entertaining and inspiring (it made me cry at least three times!), but it also offers some prophetic warnings for those of us who are praying for a similar spiritual revival to shake our generation. It was no coincidence that the film hit theaters exactly two weeks after the Asbury Revival erupted among college students in Kentucky. I believe God is saying to us: “I will do it again.”

If we are going to experience another Jesus Movement, then it would help to learn all we can from what happened five decades ago in California. I took some notes during my first and second viewings of “Jesus Revolution,” and I found these leadership lessons:

1. Don’t let revival critics stop you from obeying God. When Chuck Smith opened his church to Lonnie Frisbee (played by Jonathan Roumie of “The Chosen” TV series), Pharisees came out of the woodwork. Religious critics will always try to stop revival. Smith had to choose between the needs of broken and abused youth and hard-hearted Christians who cared more about keeping their church’s carpet clean.

I was shocked to hear so many mean-spirited comments from religious people when the Asbury Revival began in February of this year. Armchair critics were ready to pounce on those meetings just because they didn’t approve of the worship style, the raised hands or the sight of young Christians on the floor repenting. They sound like Chuck Smith’s critics in 1968! Smith not only opened his church doors to hippies, but he had to show some religious hypocrites the exit.

2. Working with young leaders always requires risk. “Jesus Revolution” is a feel-good movie, but it has some sad parts. Frisbee was an anointed preacher who spoke the language of his generation, but in the end he imploded because of spiritual pride and his own deep human flaws. I’m so glad the directors of the film didn’t whitewash that part of the story. Smith was willing to give Frisbee his pulpit, but in the end he had to correct him—and he watched this gifted man backslide.

Thankfully, Smith also had young leaders like Greg Laurie (played by Joel Courtney), and the pastor eventually gave Laurie the chance to lead one of his Calvary Chapel congregations. Laurie eventually become one of America’s best-known evangelists—proving that it’s always worth it to give your disciples a chance to lead. When Laurie tells Smith, “I can’t do what you do,” the pastor replies: “No, you’ll do it better.” I pray older leaders today can be as affirming.

3. Spiritual gifting must be grounded in strong character. In one painful scene, Frisbee feels compelled to pray for healing for people in the audience, and Smith has to sit him down because he realizes that all the attention is going to Frisbee’s head. The young evangelist couldn’t handle Smith’s correction, so he ends up leaving the revival he helped start. It’s a scary reminder that spiritual gifts can turn people into monsters if they don’t stay humble.

I’m convinced we are on the verge of another Jesus Movement, and many Lonnie Frisbees and Greg Lauries will emerge during this season. My prayer is that we will have the same grace that was on Chuck Smith to steward revival carefully. Let’s take the risks, speak the correction needed, and have the sense to stay out of God’s way when He moves.

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J. Lee Grady was editor of Charisma for 11 years and now serves as senior contributing editor. He directs the Mordecai Project (), an international ministry that protects women and girls from gender-based violence. His latest books are “Follow Me” and “Let’s Go Deeper” (Charisma House).

With the embers of revival fire spreading to more college campuses, students at Asbury University are filled with the renewing power of the Holy Spirit and sharing what the Lord has taught them.

In a world that batters people in a seemingly endless cycle of despair, hopelessness and fear, these young believers are invigorated with a hope and joy that only the Lord could pour out upon them.

This is causing other students to recognize what is going on in the hearts of those filled with Christ and making them want it as well.

“They’re seeing joyful people, they’re seeing fulfilled people and they’re going, I don’t know what they have, but I’m interested in that,” said Asbury senior Isaiah Friedeman in an interview with Fox News.

Friedeman, like many of his generation, has searched for answers to the issues they see plaguing the world today.

How do they fix it? What is the answer to life’s problems?

“Something that everyone can agree on whether you’re a Christian or not is that the world is messed up. We look around; we see brokenness and poverty. We see hurt and pain. So, the question is, what is the remedy to that?” Friedeman says. “I think we’re starting to see that politics isn’t the remedy to that. There aren’t human leaders that can be the remedy to that. Every time we put our faith in those things, they fall down.”

The amazing outpouring of God’s Spirit brought with it the healing love that mends relationships between quarreling parties.

Asbury Student Body President Alison Perfater shared about the unity that came with the presence of the Holy Spirit and how it healed division among her fellow students.

“The amount of people that are in Hughes who I know that hated each other for decisions they made are now praying together, worshipping together and laughing together. However, I can, in little human words, express the opposite of pain; that’s what it is,” she said.

Graduate assistant Mia Lush joined her fellow students in pointing back to the remedy for all of these issues confronting these young adults in today’s society.

“It’s not social media, it’s not sports, it’s not academics, it’s not self-identity, it’s Jesus,” she said. “We’re in this place where we don’t know what’s happening to the world, and it’s hard being a Christian today. I think it’s something we’ve needed so bad, and I don’t even think we knew we needed it.”

As revival for the Asbury students enters into a new season, God is far from finished moving within America.

Reports of revival, and prayers for revival, have sprouted up across the country at places like Lee University, Cedarville University, Baylor, LSU and Bakersfield, California, just to name a few.

God is looking for repentant hearts that are willing to die to themselves and allow Him to mold them and shape them into His righteousness.

America does have a chance at being great again, to being a united country filled with love and hope instead of division, anxiety and depression. And it all begins with putting Jesus Christ, the hope and salvation for all of humanity, front and center. {eoa}

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