By Alex Murashko

A revival fire that started at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, and continues six days after it began (Feb. 8), has now spread onto Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, according to several reports, including eyewitness accounts. The Lee University revival began on Monday (Feb. 13).

UPDATE (2/15/23): Steve Hensley, Managing Editor and Evening Anchor at WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky, reports that The University of the Cumberlands, a private Christian university in Williamsburg, Kentucky, is experiencing a “Christian revival.”

“We just felt the Holy Spirit moving,” said university student Nevaeh Warren during her interview with the station. “We are a broken generation and just to see hearts on fire for God has…left me in awe. God is doing great things here; He’s gonna continue to do great things.”

“What’s happening at Asbury is not and will not remain confined,” Lee University Campus Pastor Rob Fultz, Ed. D., tweeted late last week. “It will, and already is awakening the deep wells of revival on campuses across the nation. They have been churning, pressing against the seals that have kept them hidden, and they are about to burst with new life.”

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On Monday, Fultz reported on Twitter: “A mighty move of God started this morning at Lee and it has been building throughout the day. We are approaching the 10th hour, nothing but voices in prayer, worship, and repentance.”

The Asbury Collegian website has been giving frequent update stories, many of which include interviews with students who have participated in the continuous and spontaneous outbreak of worship and prayer.

Below from an article headlined A revival update: 'How Great is Our God' - The Asbury Collegian.

Freshman Matthew Dunham lives with ADHD and said he “has not had a clear mind” his entire life. Since stepping into Hughes around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, he said the only thoughts filling his head are about how good God is. 

“I never want to leave,” he said. 

Other students reported that they never thought they would experience anything like this. Junior Rachel Call, who has been a Christian her entire life, said she wanted to know God more. On Wednesday, He told her to stay and worship. 

“I didn’t know revival was possible for me,” she said. “God has overwhelmed me with His Spirit and shown me who He is and His love for me. God has revealed so much of Himself to me in such a short amount of time, and I am so grateful.” 

On the first day of the Asbury revival, Collegian student-editor Alexandra Presta writes:

I have been in Hughes Auditorium for almost twelve hours now without an intent to leave anytime soon. 

Peers, professors, local church leaders and seminary students surround me— all of them praying, worshiping, and praising God together. Voices are ringing out. People are bowing at the altar, arms stretched wide. A pair of friends cling to each other in a hug, one with tears in her eyes. A diverse group of individuals crowd the piano and flawlessly switch from song to song. Some even sit like me, with laptops open. No one wants to leave. 

At the time of publication of this article, more than 150 hours at Asbury University and more than 32 hours at Liberty University consecutively have been devoted to prayer, worship, repentance, and submission to the Lord, according to those tracking the movement.

“I can feel God’s presence in the live streams,” Greg Gordon, who is founder of SermonIndex.net, told Think Eternity. “I have zero desire to judge anything.”

There are a lot of people with “wait and see” thoughts about what’s happening at the colleges, Gordon said, but he recommends that people spend some time, maybe an hour, worshiping with those at Asbury, for example, by watching and listening in on the live streams or recorded video.

“My life’s been touched and I’m not even down there,” he said.

Thinke teammate Malachi O’Brien, who in a recent twitter exchange called himself a “Revival Chaser,” told Think Eternity he was headed to Asbury University soon.  

“Everybody who actually goes there and is in the room, testifies that the movement is real,” O’Brien said.  There is a genuine move of God in revival. Every person who's there, senses there is the sacredness of God's presence in the room. They leave wanting more of God.” 

Gordan, who has received many messages from people at the Asbury revival said that he received an email from a Christ follower who stated, “You felt like you’re at the throne of heaven and everyone is around Him. God is in the midst. At times, the instruments would go silent and it was like a Holy hush. … Nobody was in charge. There’s no known leader. There was no known worship team. There were several different people who spoke, and you could tell they weren’t in charge. They rotated the singers and musicians every two hours or so. There was a guitar, piano, and beat box. That was it.

“…I saw puddles of tears on the concrete. It was a wave of the Spirit that hits certain people at certain times. …The Spirit of God was making an altar call.” 

A note from Think Eternity Founder Matt Brown:

I have experienced revival firsthand in high school, and it changed the course of my life and forever marked me with a greater spiritual hunger for God. I’m so overjoyed at what is happening at Asbury and breaking out at other universities and churches and I pray it continues and sparks spiritual fires in millions of believers and thousands of churches, towns, and communities across America.

This is such a desperate time when so much is vile in culture, and our nation is in such a mess. We need a move of God more than ever.

God is always with us as the Bible says but His presence is even greater in times of revival and it shakes us and moves us in ways we can’t begin to comprehend. 

I along with many of you have been praying and fasting for years as part of the Roaring Twenties Fast with a sense of expectation for a great awakening to sweep across our nation. 

Asbury is an answer to our prayers along with several other ways and places I see God moving in significant and unusual ways. 

I want to encourage believers everywhere to humble themselves, pray, turn from any sin and seek God’s face for personal revival, revival in your church and spiritual awakening in your community and across our nation. Only God can meet our great needs, and His presence and outpouring is more than enough to shift our culture like we could never imagine.

Alex Murashko is a lead writer for Thinke. He highlights Christ followers within the media industry at Media on Mission. Find Murashko on various social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram.