Amazing Revival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
...averages more than 100 visitors each week  



  

JOHN 2: 17 “ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME.”  
          
 Jesus was upset walking in the temple courts when he saw men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others exchanging money. He felt a righteous indignation seeing the house of his Father being turned into a market.

Three months ago after seeing our attendance going down with less visitors in our services, more disciples missing church meetings and less people being baptised into Christ, it was obvious that our church needed  a renewal  from the Holy Spirit. We felt an indignation about where we were as a church.  We decided to seek the Lord’s face through prayers and fasting. 

Three spiritual retreats were organised. The sisters were divided between married and singles and the brothers had their retreat together. Each group spent 3 days outside the city praying, fasting and studying God’s word intensely. We all came down from the mountain with the commitment to rebuild our wall of passion for Jesus and the Mission.  We started to work on the basics like daily devotional with God, daily evangelism, discipleship and deeper love for the weak as well as on the presence of all disciples to all the meetings. 

As Jesus sent his disciples 2 by 2 to evangelize, the whole church was organised 2 by 2. Discipling partners got together to pray and to reach out to the weak and to the lost. After 2 months of spiritual discipline, we are starting to see the harvest. We have over 1300 studies and we have been seeing 500 to over 600 visitors attend our Sunday services lately and have over 3000 persons in attendance. Each month the whole church has Scriptures to memorise and on Sundays some disciples come in front of the church to recite the verse of the week.

The church atmosphere is full of joy, enthusiasm and eagerness to quote scriptures.  Last month the Lord added 39 baptisms to our fellowship, less people are missing services as the weak are getting stronger in the Lord. Pray for us as we expect more harvest by the end of this year.  Many of our churches have revived lately. 

Other churches seriously need an encounter with the Lord. Through fasting and prayers, God will start a spiritual revival in any church. He is waiting for us to surrender to His Glory and Power to work miracles in our midst. I believe that Prayers and fasting coupled with hard work will accomplish immeasurably more than we can think or imagine.  

To God is the Glory!   

Blaise Feumba
Lead Evangelist,
ICOC, Abidjan