Saving America from the mess we’re in is bigger than who is our president. It is a prayerful dependence on God that comes by seeking God in His will; trusting God in His Grace; and joining God in His Mandate, His Mission and His Ministry — fulfilling His purpose in and through His Church.

In 1857, a 46-year-old man named Jeremiah Lamphere began to have a real burden for the lost. So he started walking the streets of New York, talking to people about Jesus but had little success. Then God put it on his heart to pray. So he invited anyone who wanted to come to the third floor of an old church on Fulton Street in New York City from 12 to 1 p.m. on Wednesday to pray.

Wednesday came; at noon nobody showed up. So Jeremiah got on his knees and started praying. For 30 minutes he prayed by himself when finally five other people walked in. The next week 20 people came. The next week between 30 and 40 people came. They then decided to meet every day from 12-1 p.m. to pray for the city. Before long a few ministers started coming and they said, “We need to start this at our churches.” Within six months there were over 5,000 prayer groups meeting every day in New York City.

The word spread all over the country. Prayer meetings were started in Philadelphia, Detroit and even in Washington, D.C. In fact President Pierce started going almost every day to a noonday prayer meeting. By 1859 some 15,000 cities in America were having downtown prayer meetings every day at noon and thousands were brought to Christ. The great thing about this revival is that there is not a famous preacher associated with it. It was all started by one man wanting to pray. Only God can bring revival and God is quite clear about what He expects before He will: “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

There will be no revival for America by seeking revival, only by seeking God. If you and I will pray and seek God’s face, He will hear, forgive and heal. He will make America great again! If God is going to come, He is going to come when His people humble themselves and ask Him. 1 Peter 5 says, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time” (vs. 6). God commands us to humble ourselves. It is possible, with His help.

Let’s humble our hearts together, let’s pray, let’s seek God’s face, let’s repent. Let’s believe that God will hear and will forgive our sin and heal America.