Introduction
The following is taken from my brother, Tim Sheets’ new book, Healing Decrees that Activate Angel Armies. This book features 100 timely and prophetic devotionals, along with personalized prayers and decrees, that will bring you into agreement with God’s miracle-working power. Some are written for our personal lives, others for the nation. All are powerful. Here is one of the devotionals.
A Simple Prayer that Opens Ancient Wells: “Bend Us”
Hear what Holy Spirit is saying: “It’s time for old healing wells and revival wells to be uncapped. Awakening angels have been sent to bring you My strategies, connecting you with past anointings, past streams of revival, and NOW strategies.” New streams for our times are flowing, and fresh anointings are synergizing together. It is time to experience all of this; it’s time for our future to change. A move of God is beginning that cannot be stopped.
Several years ago, Carol and I drove to Canada to minister. We arrived late in the afternoon and only had a short time to freshen up at the hotel before being transported to the meeting place. While waiting to be picked up, I asked the Lord, “Holy Spirit, why am I here? What are You saying?”
Immediately, the Lord spoke these words to me: “The revival in Canada will be like the Welsh Revival led by Evan Roberts.” I wrote those words, someone picked us up, and off we went to the meeting.
When we arrived, we stepped through the back door of an old hockey arena that held around 500 people. We were led through the door, past the platform and pulpit, to seats in the front row. When we walked in, I saw that the leader of the meeting had placed an old wooden chair near the pulpit, which I thought was a little unusual, but I didn’t mention it.
However, as I spoke with the leader prior to starting the meeting, she said to me, “Do you see that chair? That’s Evan Roberts’ chair from the Welsh Revival.” I nearly fell over because of what Holy Spirit had spoken to me back in the hotel. I reached for my Bible and handed her the paper that had the words I had written just an hour earlier: “The revival in Canada will be like the Welsh Revival led by Evan Roberts.”
I had no idea they were going to have that chair there. But Holy Spirit did, and He used it to begin speaking to us. Holy Spirit is saying, “Remember the Welsh Revival. Pick up the mantle of the Welsh Revival.” This prophetic understanding applies not only to Canada but also to the United States. Holy Spirit has repeatedly spoken to me that the revival in America will be like the Welsh Revival.
Evan Roberts was a young man who worked in the coal mines; he was also a blacksmith. Today, we would consider him a Gen Z’er or a millennial. Roberts spent hours praying and reading his Bible, often all night long. He was the youth pastor at his church and also taught Sunday school. At the age of 26, after praying and seeking the Lord for days, he felt led to go to a missions conference conducted by evangelist Seth Joshua. At the end of the meeting, the evangelist prayed, and one line was, “Lord, bend us.” [Bending someone’s will is an idiomatic phrase meaning to persuade or induce them to choose a particular course of action.] It was used during that time to express holiness. It’s not really used this way today. In other words, “Bend us to follow You, Lord. Make our hearts pliable. Soften us, Lord, and bend us into who we need to be. Bend our lives to make us usable. Shape us.” The Ekklesia needs to pray the same today.
A Simple Prayer with a Powerful Impact
As the Welsh Revival began, Seth Joshua prayed this simple prayer, and it had a cataclysmic effect: “Bend us, Lord.” Suddenly, people in the congregation began to spontaneously pray out loud. Evan Roberts writes of that moment:
“When others prayed, I felt a living force come into my bosom. It held my breath, and my legs shivered. …The living force grew and grew, and I was almost bursting. …I cried, ‘Bend me! Bend me! Bend us!’ What bent me was God commending His Love…and I wept. Henceforth, the salvation of souls became the burden of my heart. From that time, I was on fire with a desire to go through all of Wales.”(1)
And the young man did just that. Conservative estimates suggest that more than 150,000 people gave their hearts to Christ during this time. Bars closed, and crime was practically nonexistent. The police said they had little to do other than manage the crowds going to a revival or church meeting. The people were so joyful and sang so much that the revival simply became known as the “Singing Revival.”
Thousands of coal miners were saved, many of whom were hardcore sinners. It was said that the mules that carted off the coal had to be retrained because they had been trained by these hard miners to follow the command of curse words; they didn’t understand kind words.
These coal miners now loved to sing while they worked. The coal mines had large air shafts running hundreds of feet up to the surface of the earth across the Welsh hillsides. People would bring chairs and sit around those air shafts, listening for hours to the reverberating songs and hymns echoing up from the bowels of the earth, from men who were now saved. The songs would travel through the tunnels, and many men joined in; all around the hillside, you could hear worship rising up from the earth. No one sings quite like the Welsh; theirs is an accent that gets into your soul. It is hard to imagine this, but the countryside literally echoed with praise and worship wafting up from the ground. All of Wales was changed, then the nations around them began to change.
Holy Spirit has released awakening angels now to connect us to the anointings of previous revivals, and to the great awakening planned for our time. They are connecting us to prophetic words, visions, and dreams. There are no angel graveyards. The angels used in Wales didn’t die. They have assisted outpouring after outpouring. We are told in the Scriptures that the angels gain knowledge and understanding. The angels that assisted Holy Spirit in Acts 2 are some of the same angels assisting us today, helping administer a fresh move of God upon this earth. They are activated and here to assist us, and they are more experienced now than ever before.
The Third Great Awakening has begun.
Pray with me:
Lord Jesus, as You did in Wales, do the same right here. Do it in my life, in my family, and in my nation. Bend us to follow You, Lord. Your Kingdom come–right here, right now! Holy Spirit, thank You for the angelic assistance You are giving us, connecting us to the anointings of past revivals. Lord, do greater works today than what You did then! Show us Your glory!
May our lands be changed because of Your glorious presence. Pour out Your Spirit in governments, schools, homes, and churches. Rain on every element of our culture: the poor, the rich, the young, the old, all races, all political persuasions. Give us hunger for You! Give us repentance. Give us soft, pliable hearts. Give increased revelation and wisdom. Increase the level of our gifts and anointings, and of our ability to disciple people and nations. All of this we pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Our decree:
We decree: bend us, bend us, bend us, oh Lord.
Today’s post was taken from my brother’s new book, Healing Decrees That Activate Angel Armies. You can find out more about Tim and where you can purchase this book at Tim Sheets Ministries and Amazon.
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“O Lord, Bend Us,” Blaenannerch Calvinistic Methodist Chapek–1904-1905 Welsh Revival, Walesawakeningorg; https://walesawakening.org/revivalhistory/The-Bending-at-Blaenannerch.pdf; accessed July 17, 2025.