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Great Evidences of faith that led to revivals:

1. The Book of Acts.  The Church was meeting daily in constant prayer
2. Moravian Church 1727 Germany 12 men and 12 women committed to 24 hr Unceasing prayer   Over 100 years it was continued,,,,without interruption.  The small group of Moravians nearly turned over the World for Christ.
3. 1857 Fulton Street NY City  Noontime Prayer Meeting.  A local minister asked one of his businessmen to start a noontime prayer meeting for he alone could not see the church budging.  Jeremiah Lamphier then made a Prayer Meeting Leaplet and passed it out to local businesses.  At first out of 1 million people living in NY city only 4 showed up    Within months people were running to the meeting closing up their shops during lunchtime. Other major cities were duplicating the Noontime Prayer Meeting.  It is estimated that 3% of America’s population turned to Christ that year!  This in turn influenced the Welsh Revivals
4. Wales Revival Evan Roberts 1904.  Because of the fervent prayer of a few, God increased His fold to 100,000 Welsh souls for the Kingdom of God.  Prayer Revival and Missions go hand in hand  This Revival torched a flame in Azusa, California  during 1906.   It swept into China, North Korea and elsewhere.
5. New Hebrides Lewis Islands Scotland 1949-1952  Rev. Duncan Campbell experienced day and night intercessory prayer.  “Our churches are made up of old people.  Where are the youth?”  Two elderly sisters committed to prayer and fasting day and night.  The Lord revealed to them, “I am going to bring MY Holy Spirit fire”  God gripped the nation where thousands turned to the Lord and also went around the globe to spread the FIRE.

Study References:

There are many sources out there to encourage you to enter the supernatural through prayer. Two of my friends books will knock you off your feet and onto your knees:

The UnFinished Task  compiled by Dr. John E Kyle

Revival Fire by Dr Wesley Duewel

More Desired than Gold   by Dr. Christy Wilson  compiled by Chow

Please join us in asking for the impossible, and seeing the Nation catch the Holy Spirit Fire of Christ.

When people work, people work.  When people pray, God works  God is looking for YOU to Stand in the Gap for the World.

Ezekiel 33: Let’s become the watchmen for the people.

2 Chronicles 7:14  “if my people who are called by my name 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.”

In the image above is the West family. They are currently living near Osaka, Japan. They are working as co-labors with our website SMI.  We have worked together in many pioneer church plants in Japan.  Please pray for them and their beautiful family.

Christianity is in sharp decline in America, according to new research from the Pew Research Center, making for a significantly less Christian country than that of just seven years ago. 

The number of Christians dropped by almost 8 percentage points in seven years to 71 percent, and the trend holds across race, gender, education, and geographic dimensions, though Christianity still dominates American religious identity at 70 percent, USA Today said.

“It’s remarkably widespread,” Alan Cooperman, director of religion research for the Pew Research Center, said, according to The Washington Post. “The country is becoming less religious as a whole, and it’s happening across the board.”he research also found that the percentage of people not affiliated with a religion has increased from 16 percent to about 23 percent over that period.

A number of key trends have emerged from the research, the Post said.

For one, millennials have become less affiliated with religion as they have aged over the last decade. In 2007, 25 percent did not affiliate with a religion. In the current survey, it’s 34 percent.

“Some have asked, ‘Might they become more religiously affiliated as they get older?’ There’s nothing in this data to suggest that’s what’s happening,” said Greg Smith, associate director of research at the Pew Research Center, according to the Post.

“That’s a striking and important note,” Smith told the Post.

Another trend indicates that those who are unaffiliated are becoming more secular.

The “nones,” or religiously unaffiliated, include atheists, agnostics and those who say they believe in “nothing in particular.” Of those who are unaffiliated, 31 percent say they are atheists or agnostics, an increase of 6 points since 2007.

“What we’re seeing now is that the share of people who say religion is important to them is declining,” Smith told the Post. “The religiously unaffiliated are not just growing, but as they grow, they are becoming more secular.”

The trend also holds for older generations as the percentage of baby boomers who identified as “none” increased from 14 percent in 2007 to 17 percent in the current survey.

“More people know the facts, and more people realize they are not alone,” David Silverman, president of American Atheists, told USA Today. “It’s now impossible for an atheist to think he is alone in this world. They are automatically empowered.”

“There’s a continuing religious disaffiliation among older cohorts. That is really striking,” Smith told the Post. “I continue to be struck by the pace at which the unaffiliated are growing.”

The poll also found that intermarriage has increased with each generation, with 39 percent in a religiously mixed marriage compared to 19 percent among those who got married before 1960, USA Today reported.

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A second trend indicates that there are more religiously unaffiliated Americans than Catholics or mainline Protestants. The unaffiliated amount to 25 percent, compared to 21 percent for Catholics and 15 percent for Protestants.

Specifically, the numbers of Catholics and Protestants have both shrunk between 3 and 5 percentage points since 2007, while the evangelical share of the population is down by 1 point since that time.

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Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say ALL kinds of evil against you because of ME JESUS  Matthew 5.

April 2015
LATEST NEWS: It’s a girl! First granddaughter in the Spurdle clan. She was born March 26th and named Olivia Dianne Gammill. Please pray that God will use her to touch the world for Christ. Thank you for your prayers for not only her but also for the Japanese who have no real hope. Years ago while waiting for a train at Mukonso Station I was sharing with God that I was ready to return to the
US after successfully helping in a pioneer church plant. Before my very eyes a young Jr. High girl flung herself off the train platform onto the oncoming express train. She was instantly killed being cut in half by the trains wheels. I cried out to the Lord, “Why did I have to see this?” Two days later was the Lords answer, “ People are born every second around the world, and people die every second.” Who cares? Do YOU? God got His point across, basically stating that if you and I have been “born again” and have been given Christ’s inheritance of power, ought we to give it away at any cost? If Christ says many times to GO or SEND, why do we come up with excuses? Just recently a SMI short-termer returned to NY where they invited a Japanese exchange student to their home. Tom and his family rejoiced to see their Japanese homestayer turn to the Lord. Tom was compelled to not only return to check up on their homestay child but also reached out to thousands of Japanese by handing them gospel tracts.

LESSON LEARNED: And these signs and wonders (miracles) will follow those who believe…Mark 16:16 Before me was a man using an expensive wheelchair to get around. While he was talking business with me, God said, “get down to the real business.” Changing the subject, I simply asked, “If you died tonight are you
for certain you will enter heaven, and be healed now?” After we prayed in public, he walked home born-again. Calling a week later he exclaimed, “I sold the wheel chair!” Don’t be a spiritual pacifist. Get to business! -Dave Spurdle.
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