- What would you say,you know, about the fact

the Coronavirus, or anythingelse for that matter,

can not stop the revival that

was happening in church?

- No, in fact, I believe that

it is enhancing

what God is doing becausepeople have need right now.

You know, this has humbled all of us

and really, as the body of Christ,

when these things happen,

what we have to do issee the Lord is said.

If my people, not if theworld, but if my people

who are called by my namewill humble themselves,

and seek my face, and turnfrom their wicked ways,

then will I hear from heavenand will heal your land.

And so, as you know, the revival began

in Rogersville, manypeople have been praying

for many years for these kinds of things.

Terry and I, you know, go way back.

I think we met on PrayerDay at Moody Bible Institute

40 years ago

and since started afull time music ministry

and it kind of expanded.

And then we were inspiredand saw what was really

creating revival was fasting and prayer,

not just prayer, but fasting and prayer.

- Amen.

- And so

this has been an opportunityfor the body of Christ

to humble themselves and reach out.

- Amen.

Talk about previous examples

of how God transformedlives back, you know,

when you were on yourway to being a church,

what was happening?

What were some of themiraculous testimonies

that you guys were hearing about?

- You know, back when we

had the RogersvilleRevival here in Tennessee,

east Tennessee, we hadtaken over 1,000 churches

through a fast that wecalled Awaken Tennessee.

It was originally startedlast year with a pastor,

Dave Clayton in Nashville.

And we had over 400 churchesand Terry and I took

a bunch of our packets,we took about 300 packets

across the state and it really

spurred on our leaders.

Because we'd been workingwith, we call them

our Tennessee PrayerCoalition 'cause we...

All of them are real integrally involved

in the pastors and leadersof their communities.

And they got their churchesexcited and so literally,

there were 40,000 packets handed out

to individuals all across the state

that were fasting and praying.

And just a week after that fast started,

the Rogersville Revivalwas planned for just

a three day event and we werethere to lead worship, anyway.

And on the first song,people started flooding

the altar weeping.

And we were just singing,

♪ Bless the Lord oh my soul ♪

♪ Oh my soul ♪

And you don't expect people

to start falling on theirfaces in repentance.

You know, but the prayers

and the fasting and, you know,

this has been going on for many years.

Many people have been prayingfor longer than 40 years.

You know, Terry and I

have been in

revival ministry trying toencourage revival and awakening

for 35 years full time all over the world.

40 nations of the world.

So this global event is exciting to us.

- We're gonna get to that'cause I'm really excited

about that but I'm alsocurious to find out

are you still hearing,you know, about stories

of revivals in communitiesthere in Tennessee

even though people aren'table to go to church?

- Well yes, because

what happened is when...

We went for four weeks in east Tennessee

and we went night afternight and day after day.

It just continued.

People kept coming tothe altar and it spread

into churches in the community.

They continued to see people

hungry for God but wetransitioned out of that,

feeling like we needed to

disciple the people that had gotten saved.

And just three days after we,

as all the leaders feltwe needed to transition,

just three days afterthat, the tornadoes came.

And immediately, I mean, thatspread across the entire--

that tornado hit all theway from west of Nashville

all the way through to Cookeville.

So people that had beenfasting all across the state

were coming and reaching out.

And Dave Clayton at EthosChurch said that his church

was even bringing peoplethat were displaced and lost

their homes into their homes.

And they were the very peoplethat they had been fasting

and praying for.

- Wow.

- And the stories arejust, you know, endless.

Not just from the Rogersville Revival

but from all across Tennessee.

- Totally--

- And I knew that it was not gonna,

you know, Terry and I have always known

it wasn't gonna end in Tennessee.

It's spreading becausewe see a greater move

of prayer and fastingall across our nation

than we've ever seen

in our lives.

- Amen.

Well we're talking aboutthis worldwide prayer

that's happening on tomorrow, May first.

You know, what--

I know that you're mentioningprayer and fasting,

talk about how all of these things

have led up to this worldwide prayer event

and how you and your husband got involved.

- Well we have been involvedwith some of these leaders

before, you know, we'vebeen around the world a lot

and we've been in Washington, D.C.

And many of the prayer leaders and pastors

have begun working togetheracross denominations,

which is what we've been praying for

and is a sign of revival,when we lay down our

issues and

not to become an all religions,

you know, unity movement,

but this is, you know,

Evangelical Christians that love Jesus,

who know that he's the onlyway, the truth, and the life,

basically we've been

really seeing a move of Godto bring everybody together.

And so these prayer leaderswere involved with others

that we didn't know and wewere invited to a conference

back in January

announcing that many ofthese leaders of evangelism

and prayer were gatheringtogether to start

a movement in May to

challenge...

Their goal was 100,000--

or a hundred million Christians worldwide.

Called Go 2020 is the namethat they wanted to call it.

Go 2020, basically thisis 2020, year 2020.

And May is when they were usually doing

global day of prayer anda lot of other things

and the National Dayin Prayer is involved.

Campus Crusade for Christ is involved,

which they call themselves CRU now.

And Every Home For Christ,International House of Prayer,

Evangelism Explosion, oh, so many

have gotten on board for this movement.

And it starts with tomorrow's

prayer, global prayer

call.

And the last call we didwith the same people,

and it's just a growingthing ever since January,

the last call we did was 130,000

devices connected to this--

- 130,000 devices?

- Devices connected to this prayer call

from 145 nations

and it was translated live streaming

to 26 different languages

on YouTube, and Facebook,and some other platforms.

So this event tomorrow,

now many more networks have gathered.

Even just Germany alone, theyjust had a prayer call that

the President Merkel, she basically

announced the prayercall and they had over

a million people on theirs alone.

- Wow, in just Germany alone.

- Networks comingtogether from everywhere.

And this is God becauseGod wants us to unify

and to humble ourselves.

- Amen, that is the--

- And repent

and ask him

to make an impact on our world.

People need to have hope.

- I understand that, you know,this is gonna be translated

in real time

in 40 different languages.

Where do people accesstomorrow's live streaming

in their own language?

- Well I believe CBN islive streaming it now

on Facebook and CBN

but they also have a website.

It's WorldPrayerTogether.com

and there's a link to theYouTube live streaming

and it will be in--

I think it's 40 languages now.

It was 26 three weeks ago

but they keep adding.

(laughter)

And now it's going to--

there's also a Facebook link

on that WorldPrayerTogether.com.

And also Go2020.world

is another place they can go

to see the greater move

that they're challenging Christians to

to reach a billion people for Christ

in the month of May.

- A billion people.

Wow, that his huge.

That is so huge and that'sthe heart of God, we know.

What are you praying for God to do

through this online revival

prayer meeting tomorrow?

- Well tomorrow morning begins

at eight a.m.

and it will probably go about four hours.

And that's Eastern Standard Time.

And it's really the goal is to

inspire even more people.

We're gonna be worshiping,Terry and I were invited,

we don't know why were but, you know,

we were invited to leadworship on this prayer call

and then we've invitedsome other international

worship teams to also.

But a lot of the leadersthat are involved in this

will be sharing their hearts and their...

God's heart, what they believeGod's heart is for right now

and also they'll be...

There will be international people praying

and it will be translatedinto different languages

from those languages.

So I think it'll betranslated into English

from other languages and then English

to those other.

I don't know how they'redoing all the technical part

but it's going to really...

You know, it's a call to believers to

pick out five people that you know,

or more, that you can prayfor during the entire month

of May and then witnessto them and share Jesus

with them in what--

you know, practical ways oryou know, share the gospel.

The Roman road or however, you know,

the Lord leads you to share the gospel.

But to touch five, atleast five people each.

And I have a feeling it's...

They're gonna supercede

their hundred million Christians because--

- And this is unprecedented.

There's never been like acall, prayer call like this.

- No.

This is, I think thisis a historical moment.

We've never...

And they're expecting nowwith how many networks

have come on board that

there are literally gonna be million plus.

You know, who knows how many?

And even with you guys coming on board

and helping to get the word out.

That's been your heart all along.

- Absolutely, absolutely.

- And CBN, I know because

I used to sing with my family growing up,

the Merk family and we,

we were with CBN a couple times.

And I know Pat's heart.

And I know that,

you know, he really loves

the global world

and wants to bring--

you know, Jesus loves

each person.

He died for the worldbut he loves each person,

he would have died for just you

and just me.

And Terry and I are just,you know, we're honored

to be a part of this.

It's just,

you know, very humbling.

- Amen.

Barbi, thank you so muchfor joining us today.

We appreciate your time

and we're gonna be tuning in tomorrow.

I can't wait.

I'm gonna be right there, amen.

Praying and worshiping with you.

Thank you so much for taking the time

to talk with us today.

- Thank you.

Well Terry and I lookforward to seeing you online.

- Okay.

God bless.

- [Barbie] Okay, God bless you.

- Alrighty, buh bye.