As we prepare to gather this Sunday, February 15, 2026, here's a glimpse at some of the emphases, opportunities, and happenings with Connection Church.

As we prepare to gather this Sunday, February 8, 2026, here's a glimpse at some of the emphases, opportunities, and happenings with Connection Church. 🌊

🌊 River of Revival » God’s Will for Revival (January 21)

“This is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.” –1 John 5:14

Sometimes it seems like we’re uncertain if it’s God’s will to bring revival. We may reason (wrongly) that there isn’t more revival because God doesn’t will it or that it’s become too late in history for another revival. But in doing so, we underestimate God’s heart for his people.

God is for anything that draws us closer to him. But he wants us to desire his presence as much as he desires ours. This is why we pray. We pray passionately for revival, desperate for his intimate fellowship, and he responds in divine love.

“Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to his.” –Catherine Marshall

Prayer Prompt: Father, we know revival is your will. We also know that when we pray according to your will, you will answer. In the prayer that Jesus taught us, we are told to pray that your will be done on earth. And so we continually knock on heaven’s doors with persistence and by faith, trusting your positive reply. Soon, Lord, soon.

Join the whole church in prayer daily, in worship together on Sundays at 10 AM, and at a new course on Life in the Spirit at 6 PM, and also on Wednesday evenings praying together for an hour at 6:30 PM.

We are becoming more intentional in our efforts to follow Christ "Upstream," rather than just drifting downstream into a new year. In 2026 we are committing ourselves as a church body to seek God's heart for revival, reading Scripture and praying along with the prompts in the daily devotional Our Cry for Revival. ConnectionOC.com 🌊​​🛶

These daily devotional videos wrap up today after three weeks to begin the year united. Each one was shared by email and posted as videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. Subscribe as more will be added periodically in the coming weeks and months. We encourage you to stick with reading and praying daily throughout the year.
Devotional: Nick Harrison, Our Cry for Revival: 365 Devotions and Prayers for an Outpouring of God’s Spirit (Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2024).

“A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.” –Proverbs 15:13

To be sure, our emotions are touched during revival. The presence of the Lord overwhelms us. Tears may follow or any other emotional manifestation of revival.

However, we must never be led by our emotions. Emotions express our inner feelings, but most of us have learned what happens when we rely on our emotions as a gauge of truth or error. Our emotions are, then, valid outlets when we’re touched by the Holy Spirit. But they are no measurement of revival or even a lack of revival.

“What is really valuable before God is not how we emotionally feel the presence of the Lord or how we even feel love towards him; rather it is how we follow the Holy Spirit and live according to what he has revealed to our spirit. Not emotion but communion with the Lord in the spirit is what is valuable before God.” –Watchman Nee

Prayer Prompt: Lord, may my emotions be moved by your presence, but guard me from making my emotions the sole measurement of your revival. Give me the strength not only to feel your love in my heart but also to demonstrate it with my actions.

Join the whole church in prayer daily, in worship together on Sundays at 10 AM, and at a new course on Life in the Spirit at 6 PM, and also on Wednesday evenings praying together for an hour at 6:30 PM.

We are becoming more intentional in our efforts to follow Christ "Upstream," rather than just drifting downstream into a new year. In 2026 we are committing ourselves as a church body to seek God's heart for revival, reading Scripture and praying along with the prompts in the daily devotional Our Cry for Revival. ConnectionOC.com 🌊​​🛶

These daily devotional videos will continue a one more day, sent each morning by email, and posted as videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. We encourage you to stick with reading and praying daily throughout the year.

Devotional: Nick Harrison, Our Cry for Revival: 365 Devotions and Prayers for an Outpouring of God’s Spirit (Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2024).

“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” –2 Corinthians 13:5

What is the church but a gathering of God’s “called-out ones”? Each of us who has been called out has been guaranteed a home in eternity. But until that final day we have work to do. We must undergo frequent self-examination. We must know of a certainty that Christ dwells in us. Our church fellowship must also be tested. Are we cold, lacking the zeal of the Lord? Or are we hot with passion for the things of God? After all, revival begins with us and extends to our local church and throughout our community.

“The truth should be realized that all revival and spiritual quickening in the church, must come through individual hearts. We deplore the coldness of the church, its languishing devotion, its diminishing fervor and zeal, its spiritual deadness and lethargy. We sing revival songs. We pray revival prayers. We preach revival sermons. Yet we wonder why revival never comes. But how is it in the individual hearts? Has the revival begun there yet?” –J. R. Miller

Prayer Prompt: God, hear us as we examine our hearts and test our faith. May we come alive to the reality of Christ in us. Bring light into our lives and into our churches. May every gathering of believers find room for one more … then another … and another. Thus, revival is born.

Join the whole church in prayer daily, in worship together on Sundays at 10 AM, and at a new course on Life in the Spirit at 6 PM, and also on Wednesday evenings praying together for an hour at 6:30 PM.

We are becoming more intentional in our efforts to follow Christ "Upstream," rather than just drifting downstream into a new year. In 2026 we are committing ourselves as a church body to seek God's heart for revival, reading Scripture and praying along with the prompts in the daily devotional Our Cry for Revival. ConnectionOC.com 🌊​​🛶

These daily devotionals will continue a couple more days, sent each morning by email, and posted as videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.
Devotional: Nick Harrison, Our Cry for Revival: 365 Devotions and Prayers for an Outpouring of God’s Spirit (Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2024).

“Let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.” –1 Thessalonians 5:6

Revival is God’s divine alarm clock. The operative word is alarm. While evil advances in the world, many men and women, including Christians, are fast asleep.

As revival is ushered in by the Holy Spirit, the church awakens. People are saved, healed, and delivered from sinful lifestyles and obsessions.

Be assured, God’s alarm clock has no snooze button. As the alarm goes off, it’s time to move forward.

“Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don’t wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work: to wake people up.” –Catherine Booth

Prayer Prompt: Lord, may we listen hard for your divine alarm clock to sound the warning. The coming revival should and will shake us from our slumber. God, the hands of the clock are advancing. Allow the alarm to sound!

Join the whole church in prayer daily, in worship together on Sundays at 10 AM, and at a new course on Life in the Spirit at 6 PM, and also on Wednesday evenings praying together for an hour at 6:30 PM.

We are becoming more intentional in our efforts to follow Christ "Upstream," rather than just drifting downstream into a new year. In 2026 we are committing ourselves as a church body to seek God's heart for revival, reading Scripture and praying along with the prompts in the daily devotional Our Cry for Revival. ConnectionOC.com 🌊​​🛶

These daily devotionals will continue into next week, daily sent each morning by email, and posted as videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.

Devotional: Nick Harrison, Our Cry for Revival: 365 Devotions and Prayers for an Outpouring of God’s Spirit (Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2024).

“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” —1 Peter 1:8 (kjv)

One of the greatest blessings that accompanies revival is joy. To quote Peter, it’s pure “joy unspeakable and full of glory”! To receive revival is to receive the joy of the Lord—our strength and our hope!

Revival is a great releaser of God’s joy. If there is no joy in the meeting, it isn’t revival.

“A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.” –Charles Spurgeon

Prayer Prompt: O God as we pray for revival, visit us with joy unspeakable. Fill us until we overflow. Allow our lips to praise you and set our feet a’dancing. Give us joy that is contagious, dependent not on our circumstances but on your presence. Joy, joy, joy!

Join the whole church in prayer daily, in worship together on Sundays at 10 AM, and at a new course on Life in the Spirit at 6 PM, and also on Wednesday evenings praying together for an hour at 6:30 PM.

We are becoming more intentional in our efforts to follow Christ "Upstream," rather than just drifting downstream into a new year. In 2026 we are committing ourselves as a church body to seek God's heart for revival, reading Scripture and praying along with the prompts in the daily devotional Our Cry for Revival. ConnectionOC.com 🌊​​🛶

These daily devotionals will continue into next week, daily sent each morning by email, and posted as videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.

Devotional: Nick Harrison, Our Cry for Revival: 365 Devotions and Prayers for an Outpouring of God’s Spirit (Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2024).

“When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.” —Isaiah 59:19 (nkjv)

As much as we desire revival, we have a bitter enemy who opposes our prayers and seeks to undermine our faith that God will indeed move in revival. Our prayers must focus on God’s willingness to bring revival, but we must also firmly counterattack Satan, the resister of revival. When the enemy comes in like a flood, we must depend on the Spirit of the Lord to lift a standard against him. We must know that God—and his breath of fresh revival—will prevail.

“Behind the present world iniquity, chaos, and unrest is Satan. He is the enemy who has come in like a flood. He is at work within the church seeking to prevent revival. He it is who makes Christians worldly and prayerless, and who introduces strife, division, false teaching, unbelief, etc. He has great power today because there is less prayer among God’s people. Our prayer meetings have died out because we are so busy rushing about; organizing when we should be agonizing.” –Major Allister Smith

Prayer Prompt: Father, the enemy has come into the church and the nation like a flood. Lord, raise up a standard against his demonic work. Prevail, Lord, over the enemy!

Join the church family in prayer daily, in worship together on Sundays at 10 AM, and also on Wednesday evenings praying together for an hour at 6:30 PM. We are becoming more intentional in our efforts to follow Christ "Upstream," rather than just drifting downstream into a new year. In 2026 we are committing ourselves as a church body to seek God's heart for revival, reading Scripture and praying along with the prompts in the daily devotional Our Cry for Revival. ConnectionOC.com 🌊​​🛶

These daily devotionals will continue into next week, daily sent each morning by email, and posted as videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and as podcasts on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.

Devotional: Nick Harrison, Our Cry for Revival: 365 Devotions and Prayers for an Outpouring of God’s Spirit (Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2024).