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| Promised Breakthrough + Joshua 3:5 |
Consecrate yourselves,
for tomorrow
the LORD will do wonders
among you.
+ Joshua 3:5
Throughout the past two years, people who follow Jesus in New England have together been leaning into more prayer and worship across states, congregations, traditions, ethnicities, and cultures.
The hope is trusting that God comes where He's wanted, so we will continue to posture ourselves to open the door for His Holy Spirit to hit a refresh on a movement of united prayer in our region.
Here are notes from previous times together:
In keeping with this commitment, people throughout New England gathered again today on Saturday, September 20, 2025 to praise, pray, and posture themselves together to listen to the Lord and lean in with each other to experience His heart for New England.
The invite for Consecrate 2025 was to see:
When a wave comes,
you have three options.
You can stay out of the water
and miss it.
You can be out of position
and get rolled by it.
Or you can be ready in the water
and ride it to shore.
The Church in New England
stands at a defining hour.
After decades of spiritual decline,
a wave is rising:
a wave of God's presence
and His Kingdom.
And the question is:
And the question is:
Are we going to be
ready for it?
Joshua 3:5 says,
"Consecrate yourselves,
"Consecrate yourselves,
for tomorrow the LORD
will do amazing things
among you."
Consecrate 2025 is a
regional call to consecrate
our hearts to covenant together
and prepare for awakening.
Come encounter His presence.
Catch the vision
for extraordinary prayer.
Get equipped to build
altars of prayer in your heart,
the Church, and the city,
and strengthen the unity
across New England.
So that's what five of us from Emmaus City Church did. And Consecrate 2025 proved to be a holy convocation for us in beautiful ways, providing a call for us to align our hearts with God’s purposes.
As we gathered on a beautiful Saturday morning, God ignited fresh hunger, deepened unity, and empowered us as part of Jesus' Church to continue to labor for awakening in New England.
With a Spirit-filled atmosphere among the people gathered at Crossroads International Church in Attleboro, Massachusetts, encounters with God were experienced through times of worship and prayer. We received a compelling vision for commitment to prayer via the New England Revival Covenant, and we were encouraged to build altars of prayer through establishing regular rhythms of prayer.
Here are some additional notes from some of the main sessions.
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| The Day You Plant Is Not the Day You Eat the Fruit |
David Thomas
Asbury Theological Seminary
If it happened before,
it can happen in Worcester
(Providence, Springfield, Attleboro,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut).
We need an outpouring.
"I am hearing your desperate cries,
so don't stop."
+ Jesus
We're seeking an event together
that leads to community
into a journey of hope.
We need relationships that are
Unbreakable.
The work is humbling,
never ending,
always in repair.
Become utterly immune
to Church hurt.
We renounce it.
We may feel it,
but it won't break us.
If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord would not listen.
+ Psalm 66:18
+ Psalm 66:18
It's the price of needing fellowship,
and the cost of participating
in the sufferings of Jesus.
Jesus won't skip over
our local churches
to get a better region.
The relationships may be
the only rescue
we get on this awakening.
I can't look at the news
without withering
unless I look through the lens
of awakening.
I was braced for the worst, but
Jesus is bringing the beautiful.
It's the "J" curve.
I have never been alive
when the American Church
has been in an upturn.
We have
The resistance
is only going to intensify.
Get back your voice of
travailing prayer
for your neighbors
Jesus died to save.
Be wrecked by Jesus,
ruined in the real of the
westernized, compromised
American Church experience.
Pray,
"You are a covenant-making,
covenant-keeping God.
We hold You to Your promises."
It comes to those whose hearts
are willing to be plowed up.
This the prayer of the Hebrew slaves
who groaned to God in their suffering.
This is the prayer of Hannah who
the priest thought she was drunk.
This the prayer of the prophets
who cling to God like a belt at the waist
(ex. Jeremiah 13:1-13).
This is the prayer of Jesus: During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, He offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission (Hebrews 5:7).
"Come and see
the Christians pray."
The not-yet-believer:
You're saying that
the way you pray
is how God feels, longs for me?
I am nothing more
than the son of
my mother's (St. Monica) tears.
+ St. Augustine
Will we be decidedly less casual
in our prayers for this region?
"Jesus, I don't have to see it,
but I will pray for it."
but I will pray for it."
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| Ten Lepers by James Christensen |
Sam Gibson
Church of the City New York
I want to be the leper
who comes back
and thanks Jesus.
I want to be the spy
who comes back
with a good report.
Woman has a dream.
No religious background.
Darkness everywhere.
Figure in light comes in the room.
Room filled with light.
Figure begins to leave ...
Woman calls out, "Wait!"
Jesus, "Don't worry.
When you wake up, repent."
Calls pastor (closest church)
in morning,
"I don't know
what it means to repent."
Comes to faith.
Husband comes to faith.
Serving in local church
for past 6 months.
When normal people give
an unprecedented "Yes" to Jesus,
significant things happen.
Movement goes from
Complacency to
Curiosity to
Conviction to
Capacity to
But when public capacity
begins to surpass
private capacity for prayer ...
Ask,
"What's your private capacity
for prayer?"
Are we asking for something
(i.e. weight, glory of God)
we don't have the capacity for?
(i.e. weight, glory of God)
we don't have the capacity for?
Can you increase your capacity 1%?
Expect great things from God.
Attempt great things for God.
The attempt will cost us dearly
or it will be worth nothing.
+ William Carey
+ Read Luke 14:25-33
The Cost of Discipleship
to Follow Jesus Wholeheartedly
(focus for ECC on Saturday, 9/6)
(focus for ECC on Saturday, 9/6)
Jesus says there's,
| 1 | a cost of love,
| 2 | a cost of building, and
| 3 | a cost of war.
Jesus has lovers,
builders, and warriors.
If you don't know
which one you are,
ask someone.
| 1 |
The Cost of Love
There is a weight to the cost
of loving Jesus above all else.
Do you fight for
your 2% of capacity that "you own"
more than lukewarm people
hold onto 100% of their lives?
If Christ is not all to you
He is nothing to you. ...
If He be something
He must be everything, and
if He be not everything
He is nothing to you.
+ Charles Spurgeon
Bonus:
See also
by Amy Carmichael
| 2 |
The Cost of Building
Building our way is easy
because it's safe.
Building God's way is hard
because it's beyond us.
God's work
must be done
in God's way, and
in God's power.
+ Andrew Murray
It is doubtful
whether God can bless
a man greatly
until He has hurt him deeply.
+ A.W. Tozier
We need broken builders
more than we need good builders.
| 3 |
The Cost of War
Have you asked for
terms of peace with the adversary
when the cost became too much?
Have we allowed horizontal assault
(ex. Church hurt) get us off the wall?
The Church who fears the cost
will never see the victory.
There is no revival
without resistance.
When heaven breaks in,
all hell breaks loose.
The cost is heavy,
but the triumph is sure.
When Satan pulls you
into the corner,
you're not in the middle
of the ring fighting.
Ask the Lord
to produce a fresh, "Yes"
in you.
Is there anything
He's asking you to surrender
for the sake of love?
"I want you to stop
counting and comparing the cost.
When you count,
it leads to entitlement.
When you compare,
it leads to anger, frustration.
And in neither of those
are you praising God
for the price I paid for you."
+ Jesus
Your "yes"
doesn't compare
to Jesus' "yes."
But He invites your "Yes"
to move heaven.
"Your Kingdom come,
Your will be done."
With where you are
in your life of prayer,
how might you turn the dial
1% more in your capacity and
commitment to Christ to continue
to give your life to Him?
Bonus Posts:
May God's Kingdom come, His will be done.
Que le Royaume de Dieu vienne,
que sa volonté soit faite.
愿神的国降临，愿神的旨意成就。
Nguyện xin Nước Chúa đến, ý Ngài được nên.
Jesús nuestra Rey, venga Tu reino!
🙏💗🍞🍷👑🌅🌇
With anticipation and joy,
