Awakening Is Not Optional

Dear Friends and Partners,

We have never prayed as though awakening was optional.

From the beginning, JAMA has carried a conviction that America can be healed. 2 Chronicles 7:14 is a living promise from a God who means what He says. That if His people will humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn, He will hear. He will forgive. He will heal.

We have prayed that way for 32 years.

There were seasons when the culture told us we were naive. When the moral decline felt irreversible. When the church seemed too fragmented, too distracted, too comfortable to carry the answer. Yet the mandate was to continually pray, not because we were blind to the darkness, but because we were more certain of the light.

That is what prophetic intercession is. It is not wishful thinking. It is standing in the gap between what is and what God has promised, and refusing to move.

And now we are watching something we prayed for begin to appear.

A generation is waking up. Three out of four Gen Z young adults say they want to grow spiritually. They are not walking away from God. They are waiting for someone to take them seriously. Waiting for the church to show up with more than a program with presence, with fire, with a faith that actually costs something.

They are ready. The question is whether we will be.

In this 250th year of our nation, the cry that JAMA has carried for three decades is spreading. Tens of thousands gathering on May 7. Millions on the National Mall on May 17. Our prayers are being heard.

This is not JAMA's moment, but belongs only to God. We are witnessing a generation that is hungry. A nation at the threshold. A promise that has not expired.

You have been part of building toward this. May we continually and fervently pray.

P. Jay Morgan

JAMA Executive Director of Ministries