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a little known fact Did you know there has been a prayer meeting for Christian leaders in South Wales, focused specifically on revival, on a regular basis for the last 44 years? the story Back in the 1960s two pastors in the Swansea area (Luther Rees and I.B. Davies) found counsel and support in the company of an older man – George Griffiths of Cwmtwrch. More than 40 years earlier, as a young pastor George Griffiths had invited Stephen Jeffreys to take some special services at Christmas time. What started as a long-weekend preaching convention ignited and continued for seven whole weeks without a break. People were converted night after night. Stirred by the possibilities held out to them, the younger men sought to initiate a prayer meeting of Christian leaders with the sole aim of saying to God, ‘O Lord, do it again’. These meetings have been running continuously ever since. what they have been praying for? ‘[Revival is] a work of God in which the church is both beautified and empowered because the normal operations of the Holy Spirit are intensified . . . It is an outpouring of the Spirit on and within the congregation, so that the presence of God among his people becomes evident and palpable. ‘At such times people who think they know the gospel are brought to see that they really do not know it. Many nominal Christians realize they are not converted and cross over in to living faith, and many sleepy Christians wake up to why they have been living in anxiety, envy, anger, and boredom. The church stops “basing its justification on its sanctification” and there is an enormous release of energy. The non-churched are then attracted and drawn in by the transformed life of the Christian community, which finally becomes a sign of the kingdom, a beautiful alternative to human society without Christ.’ Tim Keller
