On Tuesday, World War II veteran Rev. Fred Lunsford prayed for a spiritual awakening in an online prayer meeting with more than 250,000 people.
Lunsford, who has pastored for 70 years in North Carolina, fell ill two years ago and prayed that God would take him home, but God had other plans for the war hero, CBN News reports.
“Two years ago, I thought I was going to die at the age of 93,” Lunsford said. “I was very sick and asked the Lord to let me die. I wanted to go to heaven, but God said, ‘Not yet!'”
Lunsford challenged God asking him, “Why are you leaving me here?”
God answered Lunsford by requesting he “pray for a spiritual awakening!”
Since then, a faithful servant of Christ, Lunsford has done just that. In his personal prayer garden nestled in the mountains of Marble, N.C., Lunsford has steadfastly prayed for a revival.
“[God] extended my years for a reason, and He wanted me to pray for spiritual awakening and to get as many people praying as I could,” Lunsford told CBN News. “God spoke into my heart, and I yielded to it. It’s not me; it’s the Lord,” he asserted.
In January, Lunsford invited Mud Creek Baptist Church pastor Rev. Greg Mathis to pray for a revival with him.
Mathis described the prayer experience as powerful, noting that he had “felt God in a way that I hadn’t experienced in a long time.”
“Heaven came down and the area in which we were praying…
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