{"id":14133,"date":"2016-05-01T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watchmanmedia.org\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2016-07-30T20:27:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T20:27:33","slug":"west-virginia-revival-spark-end-time-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=14133","title":{"rendered":"Could West Virginia Revival Spark End-Time Awakening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14820\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/serveimage-1.jpg\" alt=\"serveimage\" width=\"838\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/serveimage-1.jpg 838w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/serveimage-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/serveimage-1-768x437.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/>MINGO COUNTY, W. Va. &#8211; There&#8217;s a new sound coming forth from the hills of southern West Virginia &#8211; a sound many prophets have foretold but haven&#8217;t heard until now.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three weeks, the large sports complex in the small coal-mining town of Williamson, West Virginia, has been filled to the rafters with people crying out for God.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cbn.com\/tv\/embedplayernews.aspx?bcid=4870430318001\" width=\"760\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It all started when Tennessee evangelist Matt Hartley visited a local church for what was supposed to be a three-day revival service but it just kept going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not man-made, charismatic, hyper spiritual,&#8221; Hartley told CBN News. &#8220;This is the presence of God that is overwhelming us, that is being released upon hungry people that are tired of just stagnant Christianity and &#8220;safe&#8221; church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want Jesus more than anything else. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley also spoke at the local high school where revival seemed to break out among the students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four-hundred to 450 students got saved at Mingo Central from Matt Hartley coming in and speaking at a voluntary prayer club,&#8221; Katie Endicott, with the Mingo Central High Prayer Club, told CBN News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has just gone from school to school, from youth group to youth group,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Denominational barriers have just been cast down and we&#8217;ve just had a great spirit of unity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many are calling it the greatest spiritual awakening in southern West Virginia history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t have done this if we wanted to,&#8221; Endicott said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had so many revival services, so many special services and nothing like this. This is true awakening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Endicott says prayer plus desperation has paved the way for this spiritual breakthrough, especially among the young people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my gosh, it&#8217;s amazing!&#8221; 18-year-old Belfry High School student Andrew Fletcher exclaimed. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen something like this happen where the young people just get on fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really cool to come to church and it&#8217;s really cool to worship God &#8211; nobody&#8217;s judging you or saying anything about it because they&#8217;re all with you,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re starting to have prayer circles at school and we&#8217;re reading and having Bible studies at school,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Others, like Erica Priest of Lenore, are seeing God answer very specific prayers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My husband just got saved this morning,&#8221; Priest said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been praying for him for seven months and he&#8217;ll be baptized this Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hartley believes the sound of revival now being heard in these West Virginia mountains has the potential to spread around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe God has preserved this state for the end-time awakening that&#8217;s coming to America,&#8221; Hartley said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that this is the beginning of where it happens and it&#8217;s going to spread as a wild-fire throughout the nations of this world, that Jesus is going to be exalted,&#8221; he predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the more Jesus is exalted the more the river of God is going to flow &#8212; and we have not seen anything yet to what God is releasing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 2016,<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2016\/april\/could-west-virginia-revival-spark-end-time-awakening\" target=\"_blank\"> Christian Broadcasting Network \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F14133&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F14133&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINGO COUNTY, W. 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