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Reclaiming Revival: Calling a Generation to Contend for Historic Awakening
Every great revival begins with a groan.
Today, many Christians desperately cry out to God, pleading for Him to send spiritual awakening. But there is a realm of effective prayer that can tip the heavenly prayer bowls to release the historic revival we all desire.
Throughout church history, the great saints and revivalists knew that true revival begins with a groan of awakening from the heart of hungry believers!
Corey Russell, bestselling author and key ministry leader at Upper Room Dallas, joins with Billy Humphrey, director of GateCity Church to offer a timely book on spiritual preparation that releases revival.
These veteran prayer leaders, with a combined 40 years of intercession experience, offer powerful and practical strategies
It’s time for a landscape-changing revival to erupt and prepare the way for Jesus’ return! Take your place as a forerunner revivalist! It all starts with a groan.
Today, many Christians desperately cry out to God, pleading for Him to send spiritual awakening. But there is a realm of effective prayer that can tip the heavenly prayer bowls to release the historic revival we all desire.
Throughout church history, the great saints and revivalists knew that true revival begins with a groan of awakening from the heart of hungry believers!
Corey Russell, bestselling author and key ministry leader at Upper Room Dallas, joins with Billy Humphrey, director of GateCity Church to offer a timely book on spiritual preparation that releases revival.
These veteran prayer leaders, with a combined 40 years of intercession experience, offer powerful and practical strategies
It’s time for a landscape-changing revival to erupt and prepare the way for Jesus’ return! Take your place as a forerunner revivalist! It all starts with a groan.
- GenresFaith
178 pages, Hardcover
Published June 20, 2022
About the author
Corey Russell
49 books83 followersCorey Russell currently serves on the senior leadership team of the International House of Prayer (IHOP- KC) as he has done for the last 11 years. Corey is the Director of the Forerunner Program at the International House of Prayer University (IHOPU), discipling and training young preachers and leaders. He travels nationally and internationally preaching on themes of Knowledge of God, Intercession, and the Forerunner Ministry. He resides in Kansas City with his wife Dana and their three daughters Trinity, Mya and Hadassah.
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June 18, 2024
i don’t give this a 2 because the content is necessarily bad, i give it a 2 because they took some cool phrases from their podcast “Gripped” and probably had someone turn it into a book for them.
i think Corey and Billy could have written a really good book, but instead they just reused something you can find for free (the podcast) and made a repeat of it in book form.
if you don’t like podcasts, this book is great. if you’ve listened to the podcast, you unfortunately won’t get anything new from this book.
i think Corey and Billy could have written a really good book, but instead they just reused something you can find for free (the podcast) and made a repeat of it in book form.
if you don’t like podcasts, this book is great. if you’ve listened to the podcast, you unfortunately won’t get anything new from this book.
April 18, 2026
Some Excellent; Some Not So Good
Overall, a good book. I would give it 3.5 stars, so I'll round up to 4.
Good: 1) The chapters on national and international revival in the past are excellent. 2) The authors obviously have a heart for revival, and they are passionate in their calls for revival intercession. 3) The three chapters on humility, hunger and holiness are outstanding!
Not So Good: 1) The authors believe the next event on God's prophetic calendar will be a worldwide revival that will sweep 1 billion souls into the Kingdom prior to Jesus' return. I sincerely hope they're right. If it happens, I hope I'm here to see it. I have heard/read this prediction often enough from enough authors in recent years that it seems to have been repeated enough to become "orthodoxy" in some segments of the church (Jeremiah 23:30 offers a caution here). But I find any Biblical evidence for such an end-time awakening lacking. The authors spend two chapters of their book in Revelation trying to make their case, but their interpretations are flights of fancy, unknown to earlier generations of church history, that smack of eisegesis (reading into the text what you want it to say) rather than exegesis (drawing out of the text what it actually says). 2) The authors repeat some of the stories of the Hebrides Revival of 1949-1952 that have been oft repeated (I've repeated some of them myself) but shown in recent years to have been exaggerated or false (most notably in Tom Lennie's book "Island Aflame"). It's a shame; the truth of the Hebrides Revival is significant enough that it does not need the exaggerated stories.
Overall, a good book. I would give it 3.5 stars, so I'll round up to 4.
Good: 1) The chapters on national and international revival in the past are excellent. 2) The authors obviously have a heart for revival, and they are passionate in their calls for revival intercession. 3) The three chapters on humility, hunger and holiness are outstanding!
Not So Good: 1) The authors believe the next event on God's prophetic calendar will be a worldwide revival that will sweep 1 billion souls into the Kingdom prior to Jesus' return. I sincerely hope they're right. If it happens, I hope I'm here to see it. I have heard/read this prediction often enough from enough authors in recent years that it seems to have been repeated enough to become "orthodoxy" in some segments of the church (Jeremiah 23:30 offers a caution here). But I find any Biblical evidence for such an end-time awakening lacking. The authors spend two chapters of their book in Revelation trying to make their case, but their interpretations are flights of fancy, unknown to earlier generations of church history, that smack of eisegesis (reading into the text what you want it to say) rather than exegesis (drawing out of the text what it actually says). 2) The authors repeat some of the stories of the Hebrides Revival of 1949-1952 that have been oft repeated (I've repeated some of them myself) but shown in recent years to have been exaggerated or false (most notably in Tom Lennie's book "Island Aflame"). It's a shame; the truth of the Hebrides Revival is significant enough that it does not need the exaggerated stories.
July 12, 2023
This book describes what real revival is!!!
In this book, it talks about what happens when God moves His spirit in a nation. How people react to a revival and lives are being restored.
I hope you take the time to read this book, and I hope it touches you life as well.
In this book, it talks about what happens when God moves His spirit in a nation. How people react to a revival and lives are being restored.
I hope you take the time to read this book, and I hope it touches you life as well.
February 25, 2024
Absolutely incredible Word and very timely!
March 27, 2025
A good inspiring book for hungering for revival. Seeking for God's glory to change us.
August 2, 2025
Great book that really shows the character necessary that moves God.
December 11, 2023
After reading this book, I felt like I was deprived of something. I wished I had the opportunity to experience such great power!
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