Noon on a Wednesday in 1857, in a third-floor room above an old church in lower Manhattan, a forty-eight-year-old man sat down by himself to pray. For thirty minutes, nobody came. Then footsteps on the stairs. Then five more men. Within a year, ten thousand New Yorkers were praying every day, and close to a million Americans came to faith in eighteen months.
This is the story of Jeremiah Lanphier and the Fulton Street Prayer Revival. A failed businessman, no platform, no following, just a faithful half hour in an empty room. A five-minute reminder that heaven is not waiting on the crowd, heaven is waiting on the one who will show up at twelve-twenty-nine when nothing seems to be happening.
"For who has despised the day of small things?", Zechariah 4:10
Do not despise your small beginning today. Heaven was waiting on him. Heaven may be waiting on you.
And that, friend, is how God lifts up your day.
- Pastor Rodney Coe
