Do you see evidence that God is on the move today?

It could be micro movement, meaning he's doing something in your heart.

He's changing you.

He's transforming you from the inside out.

Or might be something you see around you, at your church, in your community, in a public school, a business college campus, a sports field.

Today on Chris Fabry Live, we are on the hunt for God at work, God on the move.

And we're going to look in two specific locations with two guests.

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What's he doing?

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Barbara said this we are seeing new faces at church.

Many young single adults, interestingly, mostly men and young couples coming to our church.

God is most assuredly moving.

It's delightful because young people are the future of the church.

We welcome them with their un tattooed old open arms.

I like that, Barbara.

Thank you.

God's on the move.

Some encouragement for you today.

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I love reconnecting with friends.

We have met through the years, and I met our first guest today in prison.

A team of us that from Moody had the privilege almost a dozen years ago to travel to Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary there.

And through the years it has been known as well, a difficult place to be incarcerated, let's put it that way.

But people like Mike Broyles are changing that script.

Mike has been in ministry for more than 50 years, served as executive director of a prison ministry called Lifeline global Ministries, has done that since 2013, is a shepherding pastor at Valencia Hills Community Church in California.

He's been married to his wife, Debbie, for more than 50 years, two sons in the ministry, a number of grandchildren.

And he's the author of Only God Transforming One Inmate and Family at a time.

We have that linked at Kris Livorno.

Mike, how you doing today?

We're doing great.

Chris.

Thank you for having me on your program.

Glad to do it.

Because a mutual friend reached out and said, hey, you haven't talked with Mike in a while.

You need to get him on because there is some news.

God is on the move on death row.

So is that true?

Very true, very true.

At Angola State Prison or Louisiana State Penitentiary?

Yes.

God's in the To move even in death row.

I, uh, I remember going there and asking, what about death row?

It's like, no, no, you can't.

It was not you.

It was very difficult to have any contact with the inmates.

So how did this work out for you to have contact?

Yes, sir.

To beautiful God's story in a way.

We have a newer warden at Angola State Prison who's a Christ follower.

And, uh, we do Malachi.

Dad, Bible studies, uh, in 40 states and 20 countries around the world.

And our main home base is Angola State Prison.

And so I had heard that the warden at Angola said we could have Malachi dads and death row.

well, that that was a that was a delight to hear.

So in, in, uh, late August, they started having 12 guys gathered together in a room on death row.

Many of these guys had been inside for 20 to 30 years.

And so they have another gentleman that comes in who facilitates the Bible study of Malachi dads.

And he's been in Angola for 37 years in a different part of the prison.

And so I said to the warden, warden, I said, warden, I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall and just go to a class and listen to the men and see what they're learning.

And he said, sure, come on in.

So in November I went in.

Chris did not knowing what I was getting into.

Exactly.

And, and so, uh, I, I went in with a friend and the chaplain and they invited me to share, and I, I wanted to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and give hope to these men, not knowing them personally at this stage.

And I, I shared the gospel for a few minutes.

And then they started Malachi Dads and our workbook on on uh, on uh, being a better father.

Heart of a father is called the book is called Bible study is called.

And so so they started that and these 12 men, Chris started sharing the gospel with me.

And and it was a beautiful thing.

And then with the facilitator leading it, not preaching at the guys, but leading a Bible discussion, they they began as they got into the scripture to share other verses of the theme they were talking about that day.

They had great peace, they had great joy, they had great hope.

And I'm thinking, man, these guys, you know, they smell, they look, they talk like real Christ followers.

And that's what I found on death row.

In fact, they don't like that word death row.

Chris.

They like to call themselves there in life row there at Angola State Prison in Louisiana.

Are abundant life row, right?

Yes, yes.

That you know the one thing about that story?

There are several things.

One thing that really strikes me is that it's another inmate from another place in the in the prison who is doing the the main part of that ministry, that God is using him in the lives of these men.

Uh, and, and that probably was something that he wasn't on his radar screen a few years ago.

Right.

Exactly, exactly.

He in fact, he's been in Chris, 37 years at Angola, and he is a graduate of New Orleans Theological Seminary.

As you know, they have a fully accredited Bible college in Angola, and he's one of the graduates.

And he did a beautiful job of facilitating God's Word and discussion format with these 11 other men that were in the group.

Um, there are a couple.

I've mentioned before we went on here.

There's a man named Troy that we talked with, and he had he had been, uh, the event that they had with one day with dad, you know, uh, where the kids get to come in and spend a day with dad.

And there was another man, Ron.

And I'm sure there are others.

And the other thing that I recall from one of those services is that the men who had been through Malachi Dads all stood up and recited Psalm one together.

That stuck in my soul and as always.

So I want to go deeper into this.

The reason I wanted you to hear from Mike Broyles today, folks, is God's on the move.

He is.

He's on the move.

If we are open to his movement.

And that's what is going on inside the prison on Life Row, otherwise known as Death Row, but not only in Louisiana, You'll hear more about that.

He's on the move in your heart and your life and want to talk with you about that today at the radio backyard fence (877) 548-3675.

God is on the move.

Do you agree with that?

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Share the evidence.

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It's all over social media.

The days are rapidly approaching.

The days of Noah.

Jesus could return at any moment.

Come, Lord Jesus.

Do you agree with Craig?

Is there evidence of God at work in your own heart and life?

Maybe in your community?

In your church?

What are you seeing?

Barbara said.

It's there younger people showing up in church, and we're going to take you in about 20 minutes to another spot on the globe that I want to talk about, but right now we have Mike Broyles.

Pastor Mike has been in ministry for more than 50 years, been married more than 50 years, executive director of a prison ministry called Lifeline Global Ministries, and author of Only God Transforming One Inmate and Family at a time.

He has mentioned Malachi Dads, a study that they go through that I heard about at Angola, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary there.

So for those who don't know what it is that those on death row or life row are going through, what is Malachi dads all about?

Mike.

Well, Malachi Dads is for men based on Malachi four six about fathers returning to their children, children returning to their to their dads.

And basically we're about about introducing Christ To, uh, inmate men through Malachi, dad, Bible studies, and then teaching them how to be a godly father and begin to restore their relationship with their children.

We do the same, Chris, with Hannah's gift for the women.

So you, you listeners out there that have interest in the women and mothers, we do the same thing.

But the context we're talking about is in a male prison called Angola State Prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Penitentiary.

And so and so we have four books Bible studies for Malachi dads.

One of the first one is called The Heart of a father.

That's where we figure out how what the Bible says about being a godly man and then a godly father.

And then our next two books are heart of a heart of a man, part one, and heart of a man, part two.

And and that those two books were based upon The measure of a man by doctor Jean Goetz, who graciously wrote these Bible studies to Malachi, dad's Bible studies for us, based upon the measure of measure of a man.

And in the last book for Malachi dads is called Family Restoration.

How do you put this together with Scripture out of Jeremiah and about restoring the family while you're incarcerated?

So there's a lot of talk today in prisons about preparing men to and women to get out, to get jobs, to get their license and to begin begin to get into the community, but there's very little help to help them go back into their families and restore their relationship with their children.

The big statistic, Chris, is that 70% of inmate children, approximately these children, follow their dads or moms back into prison.

So we're about breaking that generational cycle of of incarceration.

And that's one of the questions that the men have.

It's like, well, I can't have contact with my kids unless it's a special occasion or a visit, you know, for a little bit of time each week or each month.

For those who are on death row, it's even, you know, curtailed even more.

So how do how do you answer that question?

How can I have a relationship with my child when I'm here on death or life row?

Yeah, well, we we encourage our, our, our men and women to write to their children kind of the old fashioned way and, and begin to reestablish a relationship with their children.

Writing is is a good way to do it.

Second of all, they can call their children.

Some of the men and women call on a regular basis.

Uh, and the third, the third way is, is newer to the system around America.

They can they can do tablets.

Many states in America now have tablets for the men, and they can kind of email back and forth and talk to their kids that way at certain times of the day for certain length of time.

And so we feel like, uh, these tablets, they could do education, they can have fun games, maybe they can watch the Super Bowl.

But most important, from our standpoint, from a Christ honoring organization, we're about restoring the family.

And that tool allows the inmates to begin that journey more effectively.

We find that is the tablets that men are given while they're in prison, if they have good behavior.

Yeah.

Well, and if the, uh, if someone's listening and say, well, this is great, you know, that's that's wonderful that these men are being told about the, the forgiveness that they can have in God and they can in some ways move closer to their family, you know, have some reconciliation there.

But this is just one place.

This is not just in Louisiana, though, right?

It's expanding.

Tell us about that.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I, uh, I personally don't have a background in prison ministry, as you told your listeners.

I've been pastoring for a long time, but I got into this about 19 years ago, and.

And, um, it's a beautiful thing.

And so God has allowed us to develop this curriculum for men and women who are incarcerated.

Hannah's gifted Malachi dads.

It's an English and Spanish.

We even have DVDs that they can they can watch now.

And so these days, um, at this point, we're in approximately 40 states, uh, where we teach Malachi dads or Hannah's gift.

They go through our curriculum curriculum for the men.

Take about almost a year.

Some men just do one course, some do all four.

And the.

And for the women, it's about eight months long.

And they do one course or three courses.

And so the word of mouth and gets around.

And wardens and chaplains have helped us get into a lot of different places.

And so Mississippi and and Florida are two other places that were, were in actively.

And many other states.

I live in California, and yes, we're even in about ten prisons in state prisons in California at this point.

Chris.

Wow.

And you've been to some 100 prisons around the world.

You've seen, uh, people incarcerated in so many different places.

Have you ever seen this openness on death row?

And you mentioned Mississippi and Florida.

They are becoming open to this as well.

Have you ever seen that before?

No, sir.

And my contacts of friends that worked in prison ministries for a long time.

I've been asking, have you seen group Bible studies?

Uh, in death row or life row?

And normally the men and women in death row are in their cell 23 out of 24 hours.

They get to shower and exercise.

And that's really about it.

And so Angola, in many forms over the last 20 or 30 years, have set the pace in so many ways.

And so when we got into Angola death row, I called my friend who used to be the warden at Angola State Prison.

Now he's the commissioner in Mississippi who runs the prison prisons of Mississippi.

And I told him what we're doing on death row and in Louisiana, at Angola.

And I said, can we can we can we do this?

Can we bring Malachi dads on death row in Mississippi?

And he he agreed.

In fact, next week I will be training people to teach Malachi dads for the for the 33 men who are on death row.

And then we're going to go to to Florida in mid, in mid February to start death row there.

So there's a there's a new there's a new God on the move from my opinion in the death row areas.

And most states have death rows.

And I'm praying that God will kick this door open.

As we get established in these three states and the leaders of prisons, maybe our listeners could help us get to a warden, get to a chaplain, get to a leader in a prison.

So maybe we could not only go into death row, but take Malachi dads in other places in the general population of the prisons in America.

Well, and you said in all three of the states that you just mentioned, they also have the death penalty executions go on in all three of those states.

So this is this is a a grave situation that you're in speaking with these men who know that their days aren't well.

All of our days are numbered, but they they have an execution date, many of them.

Right?

Yes.

Yeah, they do.

Or it's coming or they're in a legal in the courts figuring it out.

And so they know there's a, there's a, there could be a date.

And so so it's real.

We're about bringing hope, the hope of Christ for eternity to these men, especially now on death row.

And so, yes, there's a sense of urgency here of getting the good news of Christ to these men and women in these difficult places called death row.

Yeah.

Mike, I want you to answer a question.

Mike Broyles is with us.

And the book only God Transforming One Inmate and Family at a time is our featured resource at Chris Fabry Live.

Um, I want you to speak to the person who's listening, who says, you know, I felt like in some ways, I've wanted to do something like this.

I wanted to be to to reach out to those who are behind the prison walls and give them.

You know what?

What?

I have the transformation that I've found.

I want to do that.

Whether it's a man or a woman.

What would you say to that person who's listening?

Well, we we have many volunteers around the world who help us teach Malachi dads or Hannah's gift.

And so I would I would say, if God's tugging at your heart, please, please give us, uh, send us an email and you can do that at might be like boy lifeline global all one word dot might be at Lifeline Global org.

And so if you're calling if you're living in South Dakota or Iowa or Nevada, you know, we're in many states and we can hook you up with people who are already doing it, provide some zoom training for you, and walk you through the process of, of getting, uh, credibility to go into the prison and begin to share the gospel.

So I would urge you to to please write me personally.

I will respond personally.

And let's see.

Yes, as Chris has said, the theme God is on the move and God is on the move.

In prisons, especially around in America and around the world.

Yes.

And we have a link if you go to Chris.

Org click through today's information.

You'll see Mike, his uh, the beard that he's had for as long as I've known you.

And don't you dare shave that thing off, because it's.

This is who Mike is.

But we've got a link to lifeline Global.com right there.

And then he mentioned his email address.

Mike B at lifeline globalcom.

And I guarantee you he will get back to you.

Mike.

It is very encouraging and I wanted people to hear your voice and to be able to pray for what you're doing there at Angola and then in Mississippi and in Florida as well.

Thanks for giving this good report to us today.

God bless you, friend.

Thank you so much.

And thank you, listeners for responding.

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We can talk about some of the things that God is doing that you may not have heard about, that God is on the move in death row in Louisiana and in Mississippi and in Florida.

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We've got a link right there at To lifeline dot.

Now, when we come back, I want you to hear from Sam, who just graduated from college I think, three years ago, and God has been tugging on his heart for not only his country, but his continent.

And I want you to hear some of the stories that he has about God on the move in his neck of the woods.

I know it's going to encourage you, and you will hear from him straight ahead, right here on Moody Radio.

God does not discriminate on the basis of age when he is on the move or location.

Being on death row is probably the most isolated that you can get, and God is on the move there.

And I wanted you to hear that today.

A little encouragement about what he is doing, not only behind prison walls.

He's on the move in people's lives, in some desperate situations, in marriages that are struggling.

You may know some of those.

You may be in one of those.

In this segment, we're going to look at him on the move in an area of the world that used to be vibrant.

It used to send missionaries around the globe, but today it feels like it's more of a mission field.

But is that changing?

Sam Cooper spelled with a U, not two O's.

Sam Cooper is a field coordinator with the Revive Europe movement.

His heart is for making Jesus known among the least reached and catalyzing student mission in Europe and beyond.

His role involves mobilizing students in wholehearted pursuit of Jesus through the preaching of the word, facilitating in-person and online gatherings, and pioneering new initiatives within the movement.

And I'm not reading that, but it sounds like I am.

Um, he is in the Chicago area right now.

Sam, welcome to the program.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing great.

It's a joy to be with you, Chris.

You are the first person I've ever had who a Facebook friend reached out and said, your guest for tomorrow's program slept on our couch last night.

So you're going all over the place you're staying in, in homes and with people, and you're doing something here in the US.

What is it that you're trying to do?

That's right.

I'll give a shout out to the Logans for their wonderful hospitality last night.

And I've been on a journey around the United States.

And for three weeks, Chris meeting with university students, sharing on campuses about what God is doing in Europe right now, which we are so excited about, and wanting to communicate that Europe is not post-Christian, but pre revival.

And there's amazing stories of God on the move.

I love that when I read that on the website and I heard you on, on YouTube say that we're not post-Christian, we're pre revival that.

But but you understand why people would say post-Christian when you walk into a beautiful church in Europe and it is it it's, you know, it feels quote unquote dead.

You say God is changing that.

Absolutely.

I mean, we're under no illusion, Chris.

You know, when you look at Europe, you just need to look at the statistics to see that for many years, Europe.

And, you know, we've been living in this secular narrative.

We have some of the highest rates of suicide, depression, anxiety among the young anywhere in the world.

And it has been tough soil for the gospel.

And but when we talk about Europe being pre revival, one of the stories in Scripture we really resonate with is the story at the beginning of the Book of Numbers.

You might remember the Israelites.

They go out to scout the Promised Land and the majority of the spies.

They come back and they bring a bad report.

You know, they say the giants in the land are too big.

They're too scary.

We couldn't possibly take it.

And, you know, many people have looked at Europe in the same way.

And yet what we're seeing in this moment is there's a growing remnant bringing the two spy report, that of Joshua and Caleb, who Scripture says they saw the same giants, the same land, but they had a different spirit.

And they said, we can take the land.

And there's just a growing anticipation and that Europe is not too far gone, that in this context of great crisis, God is willing to bring renewal in our time and in our day.

I really believe what I said about the age thing, because Mike Broyles has been at this for 55 years, more than 50 years.

You have been in the post that you're in.

You graduated from college, I think, a little more than three years ago.

Is that right?

That's right.

Three and a half years ago.

So there is no God does not discriminate on the basis of age.

Young people, older people though, that's who you're going for.

You're going for the young people in Europe.

Tell me what you're seeing, what you're hearing from them as you reach out to them.

Absolutely.

I mean, one of the scriptures that's been an anchoring verse in my life, Chris, just to hammer home what you shared is one Timothy four verse 12, where Paul says to Timothy, do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but instead set an example for the believers in love and faith and speech and conduct and impurity.

I had a senior leader share that with me when I was 16 years old, and it marked my life and my plan, as you mentioned earlier, was to graduate as a civil engineer, had a plan to head to a different part of the world into the mission field, but just got caught up in this bigger story of what God has been unfolding across Europe and what we're seeing among young people at the moment.

And I think part of it is fueled by the reality of where Europe has been for many years.

There is just this growing restlessness, a holy discontent among the young that is saying there must be more to my life of faith than what I'm currently experiencing.

And it is that shared hunger, which we're seeing is driving people to prayer, rallying communities with a shared desire, and to see God move in our hearts and for it to overflow into our cities.

I want you to go to the micro, then, you know, to a small example of this, and then we'll go to the macro.

Uh, but you told a story in one of the videos that I saw about you're from Hull, and you went back home and you went to the place where you always got your hair cut, and a lady was cutting your hair.

Tell that story.

For sure.

I mean, for me, this story just encapsulated what is happening, you know, on a macro level and across Europe right now.

So I went back to the city where I grew up for 18 years, and the city of Hull, which most people haven't heard of, but it was the birthplace of William Wilberforce, the slave trade abolitionist.

And, you know, I went home kind of in this context.

I'm sure some of the listeners have heard of the reports of the Quiet Revival, and that has come from research with the Bible Society in the UK, highlighting spiritual openness in our moment.

And so I went home to my, my old barber shop and the lady who cut my hair.

I sit down and the first question she asked me is, Sam, are you still involved with that church stuff you do?

And I said, yes.

And she said, well, I've been on a bit of a spiritual search recently, compelled by some of the things I've been seeing in the news.

And I was like, tell me more.

And she said, well, I've been watching YouTube videos, and I've learned that Jesus died on the cross for my sins, and that I can be forgiven if I trust in him.

And Chris, I'm like, she's preaching the gospel to me.

And, um, it then got really encouraging because when I went to pay, I asked her if I could pray for her.

I asked if anyone had prayed for her before, and she said, well, you prayed for me five years ago, and I was floored because this woman, who probably has 50 plus conversations a day cutting heads of hair, remembered a moment that I'd forgotten of praying for her five years previously.

And so it was a great encouragement of the seeds that have been sown over many years.

The things that we often neglect, the small, everyday moments thinking Europe.

Right now, we're beginning to see the fruit of those seeds that were sown and catalyzed by what God is doing more widely in Europe.

And you cannot.

You mentioned prayer, then, that you prayed for her.

You cannot separate God on the move from prayer, from people interceding for others or what you call travailing prayer.

Right?

Absolutely.

I mean, when we look at the narrative of Scripture, it's so clear that God's chosen vessel for revival, for awakening in the culture is people.

And two Timothy two verses 20 to 22.

It talks about when we, um, when we consecrate ourselves, when we offer our lives before the Lord.

We can be instruments for special purposes, set apart for what God wants to do.

And ultimately, I think that offering before the Lord has to begin in the place of prayer.

Um, for many years, I believe what we're beginning to see now is the fruit of years of people who have sown in tears over Europe.

Um, and, you know, I count myself and a lot of my peers, we feel like the 11th hour workers in this moment, you know, who are just getting to walk in the fruit of years of prayer.

Um, but ultimately, you know, when I think about the work we're called to do, I think about the moment when, um, when someone once approached William Booth, the Salvation Army leader, and they were saying, hey, we've tried all these things, but I'm not seeing much fruit.

And William Booth's response was, have you tried tears?

And so when we talk about Travailing prayer for Europe and this manner of prayer we're seeing expressed all over Europe among the young and the old, right now.

It is the desperate prayer that we read about in Galatians two, where Paul talks about groaning in the pains of childbirth, that Christ will be formed in the church.

And it's the prayer that arises when we realize what we're asking God to do is beyond what we are capable to do in our own strength.

That's Sam Cooper, and if you go to Chris, we have a link.

You'll see his picture right there.

But we've got a link to revive Europe.

He's filled field coordinator with the Revive Europe movement here in the States for three weeks, traveling around talking to young people, getting them excited about what is God is on the move in Europe and doing their.

There's more with Sam straight ahead on Moody Radio.

This is Chris Fabry live on Moody Radio.

We're talking about God on the move.

Tomorrow on the program, on the anniversary of the Roe versus Wade decision back in 1973.

I want you to hear Kristen's story.

Kristen's from Canada, and she's got a story about her unborn twins and what a doctor told her that she needed and her husband that they needed to do.

I think it's an appropriate story to talk about tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us then.

Sam Cooper.

Cooper is with us today.

He is with the Revive Europe movement, and he says that Europe is not post-Christian.

It is pre revival.

And he's telling us more about that.

Um, go to the website, click through today's information.

You can link to his website at Chris.

So real quickly, Sam, walk me through.

How did God reach you?

Did you grow up in a Christian home?

Have you always been a Christian?

What happened in your heart and life?

Totally.

So I was really blessed to be raised by a family who know and love Jesus, and even going back generations.

My great grandfather was a preacher in the Methodist Church, a circuit preacher, and so that has always been a huge blessing and encouragement.

Um, but, you know, as a teenager, I found myself kind of living what felt like a double life.

There was a part of me that was going along to our church youth group, you know, growing in faith.

But then being honest, I didn't really want to share my faith with my friends at school.

There was this other part of my life that was so caught up in what people thought about me, and achieving highly and struggling in a number of different ways.

And I remember when I was 16, I was reading through the book of revelation, and, and there's a part where Jesus says to the church that, you know, I don't want you to be lukewarm.

I'd rather you be hot or cold.

And I just knew in my spirit as I as I read that scripture that the two parts of my life, they just couldn't kind of keep going together and it would eventually tear me apart.

And I looked at my life, age 16, and I thought, all of these other things have let me down.

You know, pursuing academic achievement, uh, kind of putting my worth in what others think about me.

Um, but my faith in Christ has never let me down.

And so it was age 16.

I decided to give him my whole life and got baptized.

And obviously not everything changed in an instant.

But it was a marking moment of saying yes to Jesus.

Um, that ultimately set me on a trajectory to pursue him at university.

And you got a civil engineering degree.

So my guess is that your family and friends all thought that you would go into, you know, a kind of a high paying job, but you've gone into, uh, revival ministry.

So how did that happen?

It's true.

I mean, my family joked that I went from building physical bridges to spiritual bridges, which I really like, but, um, so the story goes.

I was in my second year of university, and I heard that there was going to be this gathering called Revive Europe of about 3000 students from all over the continent, praying for God to move in our time and in our day.

So I drag my best friend along.

We got on a flight to Germany and we met with these students, and it felt like something out of the book of revelation, hearing all these languages in one place.

And the conference was wonderful, but it was actually the stories afterwards that were shocking because we began to hear stories of God starting little fires all over Europe.

As someone who's now become a part of my team, he was a student minister in Berlin.

I think this just story highlights what God was doing at the time.

He'd been involved in mission work in Germany for several years, and he was feeling pretty discouraged at what he was seeing.

And on the last night of the gathering, he has a dream which was not usual for him.

But he heard the Lord say, if you worship on the train back to Berlin like you've done here.

I'll bring the fire with you.

And he told no one this dream, Chris.

And the next day they get on the train and one of his students says to him, I think we should start singing amazing Grace.

And you can imagine his surprise.

And so this student gets her guitar and begins to play.

And some people on the train are kind of like, what's going on?

Some people are putting their headphones on.

But he said when they began to sing, this boldness came over the students and they began to go up and down the train, sharing their faith with anyone that would listen.

And they got back to Berlin and there was a hunger to meet like never before.

And the students wanted to meet as often as they could, and they've been meeting to pray every Friday for revival for the last five years.

And so, you know, I was kind of getting to hear all these stories.

And by the time I graduated, I, as you mentioned, was offered quite a high paying engineering job.

But I just felt this deep stirring in my spirit that God was about to do something big in Europe.

And I knew I had to say yes to be a part of it.

And that was three and a half years ago, and it's been quite a journey since.

So you're what are the students.

That you're seeing in the States?

What are they saying?

Because you knew about what happened in Kentucky at Asbury.

You've, uh, kept up with that?

Uh, what are the students here saying to you?

It's a great question.

I mean, we see a lot of commonality.

And so I was at Asbury just last week with some friends there.

And, um, I think a few common seeing is that we're seeing a desire for consecration, you know, to live a life that is set apart for the Lord.

One of my favorite psalms is Psalm 24, where it talks about this invitation up the mountain.

Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?

Who may stand in his holy place, the one who has clean hands and a pure heart?

And the psalmist David goes on to say, such is the generation of those who seek him.

So there's an invitation to be set apart for God's plans and purposes that many are responding to, and that step of yes will look different for all of us.

You know, I don't think it necessarily means that we all lay down our career necessarily, but are we willing to to hand over the reins of our life to Jesus?

And another thing we're seeing is a deep desire for authentic friendship.

And some of our friends at Asbury have this expression that revival moves at the pace of friendship, and our conviction is that if this is not just to be something that we get excited about at an event or over a few years, but if this is to be a lifetime of pursuing Jesus and seeing a reformation of the culture in the continent of Europe and across the West, and that what is going to sustain us for the long haul is deep, committed friendship with our peers.

And so that's been a big part of our goal.

And what I love about traveling around and different cities and countries is we get to build friendships and proximity, and this feels really critical to what we're longing to see God do in our time and in our day.

We are so, um, numbers conscious.

And I just want to because I'm intuiting from what you've said here and from some of the things you've said on your YouTube videos, that success.

Evidence of success or God on the move is not simply numbers, though.

Wonderful.

If a lot of people you know are out for the meetings and for or experience of baptisms other things, but that depth is as important as the numbers.

Is that true?

Is that what you're saying?

Absolutely.

Um, so my mentor, I remember her saying to me that she said, Sam, the Lord can do more through one person who is fully given to him than a hundred people who are only 50% in.

And I mean, we just need to look at church history to to realize that God doesn't need a big group of people necessarily, but he does need a committed, a surrendered group of people.

I think about the Holy club that John Wesley and his brother Charles were part of at the University of Oxford in my country.

And, you know, guys in their early 20s, and it was a small group who covenanted to seek the Lord together, that brought about widespread change, that impacted my nation and changed it forever, and has also impacted the United States as well.

And so it is our deep conviction, as you shared, that God doesn't necessarily need the masses, but what he is looking for is a few people whose hearts are fully given to him.

And recognizing that revival has to start in our hearts before it overflows to the masses.

And that goes for every person listening here today.

Okay.

In our remaining minute or two, how can we pray?

What what do you suggest we pray for?

It's such a good question.

Um, I think two things that are on our heart.

Firstly, you can pray for intergenerational friendships in Europe as you just shared.

Chris.

We're convinced that what God is doing in this moment is not just about Gen Z.

Obviously, we're seeing a real drive and a surge in spiritual openness among the young, but I'm deeply convinced that, um, that we cannot do this on our own and that we need spiritual fathers and mothers who will be a shade over the boldness of our generation and who will intercede for our healing.

And so I do want to encourage listeners out there as well to, uh, to be bold, to make the first move and to think about how can they encourage a young person.

How can they champion what God is doing and also be there to share openly and honestly about their own walk of faith?

Um, that is a big point of prayer for us in Europe that we're we're seeking for at the moment.

It is so encouraging to hear your voice, uh, to see your face, to go to the website, uh, scroll down to see this young Sam.

Young Sam.

That is, uh, that is doing what God has called him to do.

And, Sam, I can't tell you.

Uh, I can't thank you enough for what you've told us here today.

We've also heard about God on the move in death row.

God on the move in Europe.

Now, how about you?

Are you open to him doing the same thing that Sam is talking about here?

For the young people and older people in Europe?

If you go to Chris Livorno, scroll down.

You'll see how to link through today's information.

You'll find out about Sam Cooper, who is with Revive Europe.

And we've got a link to that right there, as well as a link to Mike Broyles and his ministry.

God bless you, friend.

God's on the move.

Chris Fabry lives production of Moody Radio, a ministry of Moody Bible Institute.