The revivals at Samaria (Acts 8:5-8), Antioch (Acts 11:19-26), Philippi (Acts 16:25-34) and Ephesus (Acts 19:1-7 and 18-20) were all preceded by prayer. A Sample Revival Prayer is found in Acts 4:29-31 NIV . "Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly."
The Welsh Revival of 1904. "Two of the more famous History characters of the Welsh revival were Florrie Evans and Annie Davies. Florrie Evans is now seen as one of the first people recorded to see an outbreak of the Holy Spirit in New Quay in West Wales. On Feb 14th 1904, She stood up in a meeting, interrupting the speaker and cried out ‘I Love the Lord Jesus with all my heart’, this took the whole church on a collision course with Revival. Annie Davies, when the revival some months later had captured the heart of Evan Roberts, used to travel as part of a small group – five young girls and Evan. Annie often stood outside pubs and started to sing, alone, and working through the ridicule, often saw the hardest of men slowly become silent, and then broken by the power of the Holy Spirit, many a drunken man being led to the Lord by these powerhouses of prayer – The ladies of the 1904 Revival. Extracts from the book Carriers of Fire, used by kind permission of the Author – Karen Lowe.
The Hebrides Revival of 1949-1953 began with two sisters: Peggy and Christine Smith. One was 84 years of age and blind, the other 82 and crippled with arthritis. They were greatly burdened because they'd been told no young person attended public worship at their church. They decided to pray twice a week. On Tuesdays and Fridays they got on their knees at ten in the evening, and remained there until three or four in the morning; two old women in a very humble cottage.
