For the past few years, CBN News has been reporting about revivals taking place at college campuses, but now one at a local Texas church is getting attention. The spiritual outpouring at Waco’s Mercy Culture Church comes after years of prayer.
Pastor Nikki Cody told us how four years ago they started holding services in a tent, something that forced them to depend on God while cultivating a deep hunger for his presence.
“What He literally did was put us on our face, on the ground, crying out for our city, like nothing between us and the ground, nothing between us and the earth. Our tears penetrated the concrete to where, when we got up from prayer, we were literally pulling rocks off of our forehead because we would cry out for hours on the ground,” Pastor Nikki explained.
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Now in a state-of-the-art building, the women leaders of Mercy Culture Church recently took part in their annual 40-day fast. This year’s focus was on freedom in the nation. It is a movement that was launched by Mercy Culture Senior Pastor Heather Schott, who, along with her husband, Senior Lead Pastor Landon Schott, leads 10 campuses across the country, including an online campus that reaches nations around the world.
“She invited a group of women into this 40-day fast, which turned into now every campus,” said Pastor Nikki. “Every campus has their own group that leads this 40-day fast. Every year, we feel like the Lord is asking us to cry out for revival in our nation.”
As part of its motto of taking people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters, the Fort Worth-based ministry hosts what Mercy Culture calls “Marked Night,” a time for women from various churches to unite in worship, prayer, and spiritual renewal.
Pastor Nikki said, “We’re seeing miracle signs and wonders at our Marked Nights. We are prophesying over the city and establishing God’s reign.”
Many who attend report stories of supernatural intervention and deliverance.
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