Why do we want to encourage young people to be part of Pray for Wirral…
# Samuel heard God when he was a teenager – 1 Samuel 3.1-4
# David was told that he was too young? to fight Goliath because he was just a teenager – 1 Samuel 17:33
# Josiah, the boy King started a revival – 2 Chronicles 34:3
# Jeremiah, the young prophet – Jeremiah 1:6-7…
# John the Baptist was about 30 – Mark 1:4-8
# Jesus began his ministry at about 30 years of age so the disciples who followed Jesus probably ranged in age from 17 to 29.
# John Calvin was converted at age 25 and within a year had completed the first draft of a now famous book, Institutes of the Christian Religion – a book called “the single most influential book on theology in Church history.“
# Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon where young men when they kick-started the Reformation.
# George Whitefield , one of the greatest preachers of the 1700s began to preach at age 21.
# Jonathan Edwards, one of the most influential Christians of his day was in his mid twenties. Edwards walked in to a mill one day and the presence of God was so tangible that the mill owner had to close the mill down. Too many workers had fallen to the floor weeping for God’s mercy.
# Early 19th Century revival that swept America started with students praying at Yale college
# The 1857 Revival started in Chicago with young people who were led by D.L.Moody
# 1st Welsh Revival in1859 – Young people praying
# 2nd Welsh Revival in 1904 – 100,000 converted in five months – young people praying a 26 year old nobody called Evan Roberts
# 1948 Canadian Revival – Young people prayed together for 30 days, it started a revival around the world.
# Billy Graham – 1949 many thousands of young people show up at Billy Graham meeting and get saved – Youth for Christ begins as a result.
# Major revival in l967, stared with a small group of conservative Catholic college students praying.
# The church in China is growing incredibly – 72,000 people a day – being led by house churches run by people in their 20’s and 30’s.
# 2010 Wirral – Major revival kick-started by young people praying!!! Well why not!!!
