Christian revival at Kentucky university draws THOUSANDS to praise God

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The Post Millennial

"Jesus is alive and at work. 101 hours and counting of revival at Asbury University. Praise the lord."

Joshua Young Youngsville North Carolina

Feb 16, 2023

 

In Wilmore, Kentucky a seven day, 24-hour a day prayer revival has been ongoing since February 8 inside a chapel in the small Christian college of Asbury University, and thousands have started traveling to Wilmore to join in as viral videos of the worship session were posted on TikTok.

According to NBC News, university President Dr. Kevin Brown said, "The first day we had a very ordinary service, I would call it unremarkable," but afterwards some students remained in the sanctuary and eventually more and more people began to join in. The scenes of worshipers singing and praising God have traveled across social media.

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On Thursday, another TikTok user posted, "Drove 3 hours to see what God is doing at Asbury… THIS IS WHAT REVIVAL LOOKS LIKE"

Similar revivals have started in schools as NBC reports, "students at Lee University in Tennessee started a nonstop prayer vigil Monday morning that is still ongoing, said Brian Conn, director of communications at Lee University. Other schools with similar reports include Anderson University in Indiana, Ohio Christian University near Columbus, and a handful of others."

 

 

 

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Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours

‘You need to come back to chapel, something is happening.’ On the ground at the Asbury Revival.

Olivia Reingold

February 19, 2023

For the last four years at her Christian college, Gracie Turner had been keeping a secret.

She had lost her faith.

In high school, she watched cancer ravage her great-grandmother. Then she saw her family fall apart. One fight drove her to call the police on a relative. 

“I just remember thinking, why is this happening? How could this happen? And my first thought, or first person to blame was God,” Turner, a 21-year-old film major, told me. “I would lay in bed sometimes and just pray to God, like, it would be really nice if I didn’t wake up tomorrow.”

When she got to Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, she was required to go to chapel three times a week for college credit. But she never believed God would fix anything, since life only seemed to be getting harder between the anxiety, depression, and recent back injury that brought her to a “breaking point.” 

But last Sunday, something changed. She woke up and spontaneously blurted an idea to her roommate: What if, instead of doing homework, we went to chapel today?

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Feb. 24 2023

Thousands have been flocking to Asbury University in Kentucky after a chapel service turned into a 24/7 revival outpouring. Justin is joined by guests as he asks: What are the true marks of revival? What are the blessings and concerns that accompany this student-led awakening?

Timothy Tennent, president of Asbury Theological Seminary shares what has been happening on campus. Author and podcaster Alisa Childers voices her thoughts and concerns about the revival, and pastor and author Gavin Ortlund shares his thoughts on the awakening, and how it maps onto historic moves of God.

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A professor who was an eyewitness to the incredible spiritual events at Asbury University last year said the "outpouring really hasn't stopped." Dr. Sarah Thomas Baldwin, author of the soon-to-publish book, "Generation Awakened: An Eyewitness Account of the Powerful Outpouring of God at Asbury," told CBN News the behind-the-scenes details of the Asbury revival, what she sees happening now, and why she believes the impact is still being felt.

A routine chapel service on Feb. 8, 2023, quickly developed into something many have described as a revival; Asbury has officially labeled it an "outpouring," noting that the student-led event — which lasted around the clock for 16 days — "attracted college students from hundreds of other colleges and universities" as well as people from across the globe. Despite the event officially being brought to a close last February, Baldwin said "hardly a day has gone by" that she doesn't hear something about the ways in which the outpouring has reached people across the world.

"It's really exciting," she said. "And so it's been many stories from people all over connecting to share their testimony." As for the students Baldwin works with, she said it's been powerful to see the "spirit of revival" they are carrying with them and what God is doing in their lives because of it. There's no doubt the Asbury outpouring had a profound impact on the Christian college campus in the immediate, but Baldwin affirmed the long-lasting and powerful ways the school was transformed.