“Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?” (Ps 85:6).
Maria Monsen, a Norwegian missionary in North China, began praying for revival. She sought a prayer partner who would join her in claiming the promise “that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven” (Mt 18:19). When she found one, she exclaimed, “The awakening has begun! Two of us have agreed!”
Missionary Mary Crawford wrote: The “revival was born out of prayer groups, definitely asking for revival, some…dating back as far as 1925.” Dr. C.L. Culpepper said the work began in 1927 in Chefoo (or Zhifu, now Yantai). Whatever the case, believers were convicted of sin. Confessions were made. Forgiveness was sought and given. Children’s prayers led to parents’ salvation. When the Shantung Revival came, as it was known, one estimated that 3,000 people professed Christ in his town alone. Eternity will tell the whole story.