Happy Thursday Family of God! What an exciting time to be alive!
I saw the coolest thing on YouTube the other day- a segment from CBS News about how America is in Revival! And they even spoke about it very positively!
When revival is being covered like this by mainstream propaganda media, you know that it is BIG. Many are even calling it a Great Awakening, and for good reason. People are coming out of the darkness and running to the Light like we haven’t seen for generations.
On that note, check out these clips from the Revival service I went to at the University of South Florida two weeks ago:
It was part of a national movement called Unite, and this was the 19th school they did this at. They estimated that 7000 came, over 1000 made decisions for Christ and about 300 were baptized. It was also their first location since Charlie’s murder, which I feel is significant and prophetic.
And check out this FOX News article about the recent surge in Church attendance:
And according to pastors I know who are nationally connected, this is happening everywhere.
So, how wild that our trip to New England (which we had been planning for nearly two months), happened right in the middle of such a Mighty move of God!?
Here’s the genesis of the trip…
As you may know, we are in a Jubilee year in America. I spoke about this a few weeks ago at Hope International Ministries and I’d encourage you to listen to that portion of my message if you haven’t yet. Just click the link below:
Several months ago, when the Lord began to grip my heart with this revelation, I began to pray into how He would want me to follow the instruction in this passage:
8 ‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. 9 You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10 You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 25:8-10
I felt so strongly that He said that I needed to go to the place where Liberty in America was established- Plymouth Massachusetts. As you probably know, this was where the Pilgrims landed and planted the first Biblically based, Christian colony in America. It is also where the idea of religious liberty, free speech, democratic voting, a republican form of government, and economic capitalism based on private property were established in America as well. You can VERY easily make the case that what the Pilgrims did in Plymouth laid the foundation for the entire American experiment.
Here is a teaching on this by one of my all-time favorite historians, Bill Federer
So, we gathered together on the Day of Atonement, in the year of Jubilee, at the birthplace of Liberty, and we interceded for America, blew the shofar and proclaimed that our nation would be liberated from the anti-Christ agenda that has been corrupting it for generations. Here was our crew standing right by Plymouth Rock.
Here’s a few clips from our time there:
While reading from Daniel 9, I had several waves of intense grief come over me which led to some serious travailing prayer. I could really sense through this that God was downloading His heart into mine- an intense sadness over how far our nation has fallen from its Kingdom foundations.
Someone took this pic during one of those waves.
Next, we went up the hill to the Pilgrims first church and interceded for the church in America to come back to these foundations.
Sadly, what happened to the Pilgrims first Church is illustrative of what has happened to the body of Christ across America- it was taken over (via democratic vote) by Unitarian Universalists in 1801 and has been under the stronghold of heresy ever since.
Next, we went to the gravesite of William Bradford, who was the Governor of Plymouth for over 30 years (and re-elected every year). He was also the Pilgrims biographer, and he wrote their entire story into a book that actually went missing for over 100 years but was miraculously recovered in the 19th century.
It was at his gravesite in April of 2022, that the Lord spoke to me and told me “I’m bringing revival to America.” Which He TOTALLY has. I went there again this time to pray and ask God for another Word, and it came through a message written in Latin on his gravestone:
Such a Powerful message to this generation!
Next, we traveled up the road to Harvard University, which is outside of Boston. While there, we worshipped, evangelized and decreed liberty over America’s first college as well as over colleges in general. While there, we met a Pastor who leads a Spirit filled church down the street from Harvard. He told us that several Harvard professors go to his church, as well as a woman who was just given a multi-million dollar building on campus that she is going to use for ministry. What an awesome testimony for God to get to us! Here was our crew that night:
We also got to talk with and minister to several people walking by, including the girl on the left- who actually believes that she could one day become President. She is a student at Harvard, and although she’s catholic, she is clearly on fire. She was actually coming from a Bible study when she came and talked to us, and she told us that there is a pretty decent remnant of strong believers at the school. Another amazing testimony to hear!
Here’s some clips from that evening:
The next day, we went to the monument of the Forefathers, which was built in commemoration of the Pilgrims faith and their contribution to America.
While there, I felt like I should make a video showing the different components of it. I was totally winging it so it’s definitely not up to historian standards, but it still gives you a good idea of what it’s all about:
After this, we traveled back to Boston, and this time we went INTO THE MIDDLE of Harvard’s campus and brought worship and the Gospel. It was so fun! Here’s some clips of that:
Then, before we left Cambridge to take Alex to the airport, we swung by the spot where George Washington was sworn in as Commander and Chief of the newly formed US Army 250 years ago, and we prayed and asked God to bring thousands of spiritual soldiers onto the mission/battlefield to win souls and take ground from the enemy. Not easy to see the inscription on the monument, so you may have to zoom in:
After we dropped Alex off at the airport, I had a burning to go to Boston Common and preach where brother George Whitefield preached in the First Great Awakening. In 1740, he preached to 23,000 people in Boston Common with no speaker or microphone, so it was so cool to walk in his footsteps.
It was such a powerful time too. People came, listened, and prayed with me. I even got to talk with a girl named Aris who was transitioning. She said that she grew up around people that were hostile towards Christianity but that she was still open to hearing about it. We talked for over 30 minutes about Jesus and the Gospel. At the end she called on the name of Jesus and then we connected on Instagram:
Here’s a clip from that night:
And here’s a precious shot of Natalie as she was calling heaven down over The Common:
The next day, I ministered at Plymouth Rock again and the day was FULL of Divine appointments. In fact, the first person I met had a daughter in Sarasota and the second person I met was proposed to in Sarasota. How wild! While there, I also linked up with a brother from near Boston, who I met here in Sarasota back in April. He came to Bayfront Park and heard me preaching, and he was SO moved. He was convinced that God wanted him to start evangelizing like that in Massachusetts and he came and ministered with me for over an hour.
That day we ministered to many people, including these two young boys who came and listened for nearly an hour:
The one on the left even preached a little bit. You can also see the Pro Palestine protestors in the background. We got to minister to them also.
I also met a pastor who has planted 5 churches throughout the east coast of Mass, including the biggest church in Plymouth
He was VERY encouraged by our ministry, and I told him that I really wanted to come back and help put together a giant worship event by Plymouth Rock. He told me that he would want to help with that, so maybe that is in our next future!
We also met these guys who go out evangelizing in Plymouth regularly, which was so encouraging.
On the trip, I also got to finally see the Plymouth Spring, that feeds the town with freshwater. This spring is what sustained the Pilgrims, and it still flows MIGHTILY to this day. How wild that God blew them 500 miles off their original course, and brought them right to the place of the spring:
I felt like seeing this was prophetic because another key verses that God gave me for the trip was from Genesis 26:18
Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham;
I believe that just as there is a natural spring in Plymouth, there is also a spiritual one. And I believe wells were redug on this trip that will flow to the entire nation.
The final night of the trip was spent in Rhode Island, where I ministered at Mike and Rochelle’s “Jesus Party.” There were about 60 people that came, including many unsaved people that were invited by friends. Mike asked me to share the Gospel and the Spirit moved. About 7 people surrendered and got baptized that night. Here’s a clip:
Meanwhile, back in the 941, things went smooth and the outreaches were fruitful HUGE thanks to everyone who kept things going in our absence.
The previous week, we also had some powerful Divine appointments.
At Bayfront, these two Cuban guys prayed to receive Jesus, and one even threw out his alcohol:
At the Riverwalk, we had about 7 new laborers with us and we probably prayed with over 20 people to receive Jesus, including all these kids:
These young boys and this family (whom we prayed with before) even came by for some discipleship:
It was a powerful night!
On Sunday at Siesta, we met some fiery young evangelists from Christ For All Nations, and they ministered with us for a while. They were super encouraged.
It also rained that night so MANY people heard the Gospel before it got drowned out by drumming. The highlight of the night for me was when a woman who brings her grade school aged daughter to the drum circle every week came over and told me that her daughter has been asking to pray more lately and saying that she “wants to do it like Chris.” How cute and powerful!
I’ll be excited to get back out there again this weekend! Hope to see you on the mission fields!
Love and blessings,
C, S & N