Too often we waste a lot of energy trying to get every teenager on board with our vision. Look for the teenagers, adult leaders and fellow youth leaders who are excited about revival to join you. “Scientists at (RPI) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.” Science Daily July 26, 2011 Identify and recruit the 10%ers to join you. Make intercessory prayer the engine of the train that drives your youth ministry efforts not the caboose.Ģ. Make time to pray for all the teenagers in your youth group and revival at their schools as part of your student leadership team meetings. Make prayer the first thing you do as a staff for your teenagers. Start taking prayer walks or shutting your door for 30 minutes a day or whatever you have to do to start making intercessory prayer a personal priority. And God is igniting their strategies in ways they never expected with results they could have never dreamed of. They are looking to God to light that fire not a strategy or a program or a method.

The revival I’m witnessing unfold in power-packed pockets across the country are happening where the youth leaders are committed to intercessory prayer. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and went out and spoke the Word of God boldly.” The building was shaken with the power of intercessory prayer and then the city was shaken with the power of the gospel message.Īre you interceeding on behalf of your teenagers? Do you pray as a staff for them? Is intercessory prayer something you practice with your student leaders? Is prayer a big part of your youth ministry program or do you use it as fairy dust to sprinkle on your meetings but then depend on the latest, greatest curriculum to produce the real change? Acts 4:31 gives a micro recipe for revival, “After they prayed the place where they were meeting was shaken.

Sample youth revival program