Chapter 18

Section 1 — Hidden Together

Section One

Zerubbabel's temple lay unfinished for sixteen years - opposition, weariness, and overwhelming circumstances had worn the people down until they turned back to their own houses. God's answer was not a better strategy. It was one word: not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit. The "sons of oil," "the two anointed ones who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth" (Zech. 4:14), finish the work not because they are strongest, but because they will not let go of the oil.

"Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!" (Zech. 4:7). The mountain does not argue. It submits, because it was never a match for those who refuse to let go.

Think It Through

The enemy's strategy against Zerubbabel was to wear the people down through opposition until they quit. Has weariness ever caused you to set down an assignment God gave you?

Your Thoughts

"Not by might nor by power, but by My ," says the Lord of hosts.

The sons of oil stand beside the Lord of the whole . (Zech. 4:14)

Before Zerubbabel, the great mountain shall become a . (Zech. 4:7)

Section 2 — The Power of Two

Section Two

Remember From Section 1

God's pattern for releasing His greatest power is almost always through two: Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, David and Jonathan, Elijah and Elisha, Barnabas and Paul. Jesus sent His disciples out two by two (Luke 10:1), because power did not flow as strongly through isolated individuals as through pairs in covenant agreement.

This promise is not for isolated individuals - it is for two who agree, in genuine covenant harmony, who have washed each other's feet, honored the covenant at the table, and prayed in the Spirit together until their hearts are aligned. The power of two operating in that unity releases a dimension of kingdom authority neither could access alone.

Recall Check

Fill in these from what you just read above, using your own memory.

Jesus sent His disciples out two by . (Luke 11:1)

"A threefold cord is not quickly ." (Eccl. 4:12)

Matthew 18:19-20's promise is given to two who , not isolated individuals.

Reflection

Is there a person God may be calling you to partner with in prayer, the way Travis and Steve, or Nash and Clary, partnered together?

My Thoughts

Section 3 — Nash and Clary, Peggy and Christine

Section Three

Remember From Section 2

Before Charles Finney arrived in any town, Father Nash had gone ahead weeks earlier with a companion, usually Abel Clary, to a private room to take it by force for days - prostrate, groaning, fasting. Finney later wrote that Nash "was found dead in his room in the attitude of prayer." He never stood on a platform, yet his prayers rearranged every city before a sermon was ever preached.

In 1949, two elderly Scottish sisters, Peggy (eighty-four, blind) and Christine Smith (eighty-two, arthritic), could not attend church, but twice a week they knelt in their unheated cottage until three or four in the morning. Peggy prayed Isaiah 44:3 night after night, refusing to accept the spiritual drought as final. The entire Hebrides Revival traces back to that cottage.

Recall Check

Fill in these from what you just read above, using your own memory.

Father Nash was found dead in his room in the attitude of .

Peggy Smith was eighty-four years old and .

Peggy prayed Isaiah 44:3 night after night, refusing to accept the spiritual as the final word.

Reflection

Two elderly, physically limited women in an unheated cottage sparked an island-wide revival. What excuses have you used to believe you are unqualified or too limited to press in like this?

Your Thoughts

Section 4 — Ulster, Sialkot, and East Africa

Section Four

Remember From Section 3

Four young men in Kells, Northern Ireland met every Friday for six months with no visible results before the first soul was saved - the Ulster Awakening of 1859 eventually produced an estimated one hundred thousand conversions. In 1904 Punjab, John Hyde and R. McCheyne Paterson committed to thirty continuous days of prayer; Hyde's agonized intensity (agonia joined to ektenos) launched the Sialkot Convention's decades of revival influence across India.

In 1929 Uganda, Simeon Nsibambi and his brother Blasio Kigozi met to seek God together until heaven answered - confessing their sin, crying out for cleansing. From that two-man partnership, the East African Revival spread across four nations, and its fruit is still visible nearly a century later.

Recall Check

Fill in these from what you just read above, using your own memory.

The four young men in Kells met for six months with no visible results before the first was saved.

John Hyde and R. McCheyne Paterson committed to thirty continuous days and nights of .

The East African Revival began with two brothers, Simeon Nsibambi and Blasio .

Reflection

The Ulster four saw six months of no visible results before breakthrough. How do you typically respond when prayer seems to produce nothing for a long season?

My Thoughts

Section 5 — Wales, and the Drought Broken in Nairobi

Section Five

Remember From Section 4

In 1903 Wales, four teenage coal miners climbed a mountain every night for months to pray for revival, unorganized and unnoticed, until "the whole neighbourhood was ablaze with the divine fire." The 1904-05 Welsh Revival that followed produced one hundred thousand conversions in nine months - not from a single prayer team, but many, scattered and unknown to each other, filling the same golden bowls simultaneously (Rev. 5:8).

In 2016, Steve woke in Nairobi with an unshakable burden and travailed for over an hour until the Lord said: "Son, go into the city center and prophesy... the spiritual drought is over." Weeks later, stepping unexpectedly into a youth service, he declared that word live on television. That same night, Bishop Evans Kariuki - who had received the identical word independently in America months earlier - had just flown home, having never spoken to Steve.

Recall Check

Fill in these from what you just read above, using your own memory.

The golden bowls of Revelation 5:8 fill from every Spirit-empowered prayer that before the throne.

Steve and Bishop Evans Kariuki had never to each other before receiving the same word.

When two intercessors locked together in the spirit of prayer, the breakthrough that followed shook an entire .

Reflection

Steve calls the Nairobi story "the golden bowl principle made visible in human experience." Has God ever confirmed something to you through someone else's independent, unprompted word?

Your Thoughts

Section 6 — Taking It By Force Together, and the Call

Section Six

Remember From Section 5

Steve recognizes the same architecture in his own partnership with Travis: two sons of oil holding the pipe together, daily communion becoming their version of the boarding house room and the unheated cottage, praying in tongues together, worshiping together, taking it by force together until the atmosphere shifted and the fire fell in the places God sent them.

And now, at the close of this book, the call is direct: "Here am I, Lord, send me." God is searching the earth for the next Joshua and Caleb, the next Finney and Nash, the next four young men on a mountain - for those who will receive and walk in this Divinely Energized End-Time Prayer anointing.

Reflection

Looking back across this entire course, which chapter's teaching or testimony affected you most, and why?

My Response

The Whole Course, in My Own Words

One Last Table

Personal Prayer Journal — Final Entry

Write a closing prayer to God, committing to carry the D.E.E.P. prayer anointing you have studied across this entire course into your own life, your relationships, and your sphere of influence.