GEN Z ASBURY REVIVAL PHENOMENOM
It’s predominantly student led, there is no specific agenda or service, there’s just hungry hearts that still have not stopped worshipping.
The move of God occurring at Asbury is the fulfilment of many prophecies the Lord has
released over the last few years.
We have heard that a new move of God was coming, we have heard that there would be a multi-generational revival, and we have heard that God had a unique destiny for Gen Z.
The continual statistics cited concerning Gen Z have to do with anxiety, depression, suicide, and yet Jesus’ has spoken a better word.
At Asbury we are witnessing the beginning of what God wants to do through this younger generation. In my conversations with one of the
Asbury staff present in the chapel that day, he spoke of just a small amount of students who were unwilling to leave the presence of God and go to class.
These students are demonstrating what God will do when people are willing to set aside their schedules, adore him, and wait.
Unlike many other revivals there was not a powerful service where manifestations and miracles occurred that sparked this move, there was not even one anointed minister or worship leader leading the charge.
Instead there were about 20 college students who were hungry enough to stay when everyone else left. That is what catapulted Asbury on the map. 20 students who stayed.
The chaplain and dean of student ministries was my campus pastor when I was in university, and he said specifically about the first day that they just noticed something was special about the student’s hunger and God’s presence that day. In response the staff decided to let it keep going. As those students didn’t leave,
neither did the presence of God.
So then more students came and then more, and that more has sent out a call all over the world as people continue to arrive even a week later. It begs the question: What God might want to do in our own churches and schools if we would be willing to linger a little longer? Maybe Asbury is simply a prototype...read more + see video