New England Revival Covenant Overview

Signing the covenant means you’re committing to two things:

1. Extraordinary prayer—personally and corporately.

2. Visible unity—praying with other churches and believers in your area.

This isn’t about adding more to your plate—it’s about reorienting your heart and ministry around what matters most: seeking God together.

We need a Revival Covenant because the spiritual decline in New England won’t be reversed by better strategies—it will take a move of God. Revival doesn’t just happen… it comes when God’s people agree, humble themselves, and seek His face together. This covenant is our collective yes to prayer, to unity, and to awakening in our time.

Because we’re at a tipping point. Spiritual hunger is growing, cultural confusion is deepening, and the Church can’t afford to stay fragmented or passive. Now is the time to respond—to unite around Jesus, to pray with urgency, and to believe that God still moves in power. This is our primary move to build the spiritual capacity needed to steward revival when it comes. The Revival Covenant is our collective response to the moment we’re in.

This Revival Covenant stands on the shoulders of history. In 1748, Jonathan Edwards wrote An Humble Attempt—a bold call for united, extraordinary prayer for revival. Churches across New England responded, engaging in concerted prayer that began in the 1790s and continued through the first half of the 19th Century. The fruit of this prayer included the abolitionist movement, most of the higher education institutions of that era, and the US global missions movement. This isn’t a new idea—it’s a faithful return to a historic path God has used before.

The New England Revival Covenant draws deeply from the biblical vision found in Zechariah 8:20–21, where people from many cities say to one another, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord.” It’s a picture of collective hunger, shared urgency, and regional agreement to seek God's face. This is the heartbeat of the covenant—churches and believers across towns and cities stirring one another to pursue the presence of God together. Just as in Zechariah’s day, we believe God is calling His people to rise up in unity and say, “I myself am going.”

Revival is a spiritual dynamic in which God renews His people by infusing them with divine life by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is a season when the normal operations of the Spirit are accelerated and intensified, bringing repentance, renewal, and reformation to individuals, churches, and society.

By “altars” we do not mean a literal place where an animal sacrifice is offered, or where communion is taken. Altar is a metaphorical term for the spaces and cultures of extraordinary prayer that emerge when we set ourselves to seek God. An altar is what happens when the inclination to seek the Lord crosses a threshold and becomes visible. Just as a sea creature produces a shell, a person seeking the Lord builds an altar. Individuals can build altars, so can families, churches, and even the “Big C” church in a city or region.

Extraordinary prayer is marked by:

1. Seeking God’s Face: Pursuing His presence, not just His blessings.

2. Repentance and Confession: Turning from sin and aligning with God’s holiness.

3. Listening for God’s Thoughts and Ways: Attuning ourselves to His voice and will.

4. Contending and Travailing for Breakthrough: Persistently interceding for God’s Kingdom to come in our lives, homes, churches, cities, and region. Allowing God’s own burning love for a lost world to invade our hearts and energize our labor in prayer.

There are many types of prayer. All have their place. But in a season of spiritual decline, the church needs to recover and engage in extraordinary, Kingdom focused-prayer. (cf. Joel 2, Isaiah 55)

Revive New England is a para-church ministry based in Providence, Rhode Island. It exists to unite and equip churches, leaders, and believers to seek God for revival and prepare to steward it well. We offer practical support through training, coaching for pastors and prayer leaders, curated resources, regional gatherings, and a growing library of tools to help individuals and churches build cultures of prayer, unity, and mission.

RNE was established to steward a 3-fold mandate from The Lord:

• to build altars of prayer and worship,

• unstop wells of revival, and

• prepare the regional church for awakening.

We are praying for a critical mass of 2,000 churches in New England to create a weekly space of extraordinary Kingdom focused prayer where a significant percentage of members regularly seek God’s face and hand for revival and Kingdom advancement in our region.

In the story of Isaac in Genesis 26, he returns to the wells his father, Abraham, had dug. In the urgent moment of his time, Isaac found that while the water was still in the wells, they had been stopped-up by rubbish the Philistine nations had thrown into them to render them ineffective. Isaac and his servant “unstopped” those wells so that life giving water would once again flow in that land. We believe that the agreement made by the New England church, inspired by the writings of Jonathan Edwards, is one of many “ancient wells” of revival which God is leading the church to “unstop” in this season.

Our heart is simple: to see New England alive with the presence of God and ready for awakening.

Here are a list of scriptures we invite you to join us in meditating on and praying through. These ground and inform the New England Revival Covenant.

Scriptures on United Prayer & Seeking God Together

• Zechariah 8:20–21 – “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord…”

• Joel 1:14; 2:12–17 – “Blow the trumpet in Zion… gather the people… let them say, ‘Spare your people, O Lord.’”

• 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray…”

• Acts 1:14 – “All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer…”

• Acts 2:1 – “They were all together in one place… and suddenly…”

• Acts 4 – “ When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God…”

Scriptures on Revival, Awakening, and God's Response to Hunger

• Habakkuk 3:2 – “Lord, I have heard of your fame… repeat them in our day.”

• Isaiah 64:1–2 – “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down…”

• Psalm 85:6 – “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?”

• Hosea 10:12 – “Break up your fallow ground… it is time to seek the Lord.”

• Isaiah 57:15 – “I dwell… with him who is contrite and lowly… to revive the heart.”

Scriptures on Unity in the Body of Christ

• John 17:21–23 – “That they may all be one… so that the world may believe.”

• Psalm 133:1–3 – “How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity… for there the Lord commands the blessing.”

• Ephesians 4:1–6 – “Maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace…”

• 1 Corinthians 1:10 – “Be united in the same mind and the same judgment.”

Scriptures on Consecration and Preparation

• Romans 12:1–2 – “Present your bodies as a living sacrifice… be transformed.”

• James 4:8–10 – “Draw near to God… cleanse your hands… humble yourselves.”

• Joshua 3:5 –“Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”