It’s been slowly percolating across the land, a phenomenon going back at least a couple years….A college campus here and a church over there. God is moving, drawing His own. Will this move rival the Jesus Movement of the 60s? It’s too early to tell. But we are seeing the first signs….And they are wonderful to behold.
There is a scripture, we’ve probably all heard many times. It is 2Chronicles 7:14. It gives the formula for a people to return to God and receive His blessings through the healing of their land. To put it in context, let’s look at the whole section, verses 13-15. “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.”

So, in verse 13 we see that it is God that allows calamity to befall a people who has turned their backs on His ways. This is directed at a people called by God’s name. It is of course, directed first to Israel, the nation God founded. Then of course to His Church. Much of God’s Church has turned aside from His ways. And then it can be applied to America as a nation that was – at its’ founding events – dedicated to the God of the Bible. This was true at Jamestown in 1607 and again with the Mayflower Compact in 1620. It happened yet again at George Washington’s first Inauguration on April 30, 1789 with the outbreak of a spontaneous hours-long prayer meeting that erupted from what was supposed to be a short dedicatory prayer. Then, in the 14th verse we are given the formula to return to God’s graces. It is humility & prayer & and genuine seeking of God’s face & turning from sin. It is only then that God will hear, forgive and heal.
Well, that was then – and this is now. But something of that sort seems to be stirring. I know of churches in my own area of Western New York, Buffalo area that are exploding with new members and baptisms and recommitments, I have seen the Holy Spirit on the move drawing people to a relationship with the purpose of Jesus Christ.

And then there is what is happening on the national scene. We can go back to the revival that broke out at Asbury University, a Methodist institution located in Wilmore, KY. There was a regular chapel service on February 8, 2023. After the service, the students who attended just stayed. The school’s president sent out an email saying there was worship going on and inviting others to join. And so they did. The word quickly spread throughout the country and across the world. 15,000 people per day were coming, perhaps 60,000 in all over the course of the 16 days the revival lasted. Asbury U officially called it a “spiritual awakening among students with countless reports of healing, salvation, and re-dedications to Christ.”[i] [ii] [iii] [iv]
The momentum continued to grow in 2024. A group called UniteUS was leading events at places like the University of Arkansas and Auburn. Thousands were showing up and hundreds were getting baptized. Tonya Prewitt, the organizations founder explained. They “went to FSU – Florida State, the second biggest party school in the nation. We had 4,500 students come, and I believe about 350 students got baptized at that event….. We’ve had students come in and say, ‘Hey, I came in thinking I was going to take my life. I left with the most joy I have ever had. I came in not being part of any community, and now I am serving in a local church.’”[v] The movement is continuing this year. At Jackson State University, in Mississippi, prayer meetings have become weekly events. A regular speaker on campuses, Pastor John Pokluda talked about how many students were coming to these gatherings in a spirit of repentance for their past sins. “They’re coming in with guilt and shame. STDs, unwanted pregnancies, abortions. And they come here and we’re showing them the one—the only one—who can really deal with their sin, is Jesus Christ.”
And it has spread to the football fields. Before what would be a National Championship Season began, players from Ohio State lead “thousands of students in a campus-wide testimony service, which resulted in 50 baptisms.” On the victory platform, Ohio State quarterback Will Howard declared, “I just got to give my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ all the glory and all the praise, man. Amen. Amen.” [Earlier in the college playoff, I watched the Notre Dame QB make a similar declaration.] And one month after Ohio State won the championship, a massive revival was held on campus in which nearly 2,000 students chose Christ in one night.”[vi]
[i] The Outpouring, Asbury University, https://www.asbury.edu/about/revival-history/outpouring/ – viewed May 6, 2025
[ii] Monica Kast, “As Asbury revival winds down, February 22, 2023
[iii] Asbury relocates revival off-campus, Premier Christian News, February 23, 2023
[iv] Asbury revival brings “beautiful disruption”, FOX News, February 25, 2023
[v] Paul Petitte, Revival Sweeping Through College Campuses, CBN, September 23, 2024
[vi] Paul Petitte, Collegiate Day of Prayer Arrives, CBN, February 27, 2025
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