Evangelist Tony Suarez wants to make it clear that Revival on the Border, a series of outreach events held in a tent and planned for two Texas cities near the U.S.-Mexico border this week and next, is not about finding a political or man-made solution to the nation’s immigration policy.
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“The only answer to the issues plaguing our southern border is Jesus,” Mr. Suarez told Think Eternity News. “For the last 40 years, our elected officials campaigned on the issue of border security, immigration control and immigration reform. And then, once they’re elected, they do absolutely nothing about the issue. So, while we continue to put our hope in them to do something that they haven’t done, the church has to be reawakened. Our hope is not in man. It’s not in a man-made government. It has to be in God. ”
Mr. Suarez, who is the founder of the global ministry, Revivalmakers, said everyone is invited to Revival on the Border nights, planned for El Paso on March 21 to 23 and next week in McAllen/Pharr on March 27 to 29. The outreach services will be held in a tent. The open invitation, he said, includes local residents, border patrol employees, and migrants.
“We’re not going to preach politics. We’re not going to protest. We’re not going to campaign. We’re going to lift Jesus up. We’re going to pray along the southern border,” he said. “We’re just going to come and focus on the Lord and give people an opportunity to experience the power in the presence of God.”
Mr. Suarez points out that revivals have brought about change before.
“They’ve brought solutions to these issues that seem to plague humanity. And so we’re believing that that’ll happen again. Revival is the answer not just to the issues of the southern border, but to a lot of the issues in our society, from racism and poverty, to the issue at the border when revival has come in years past,” he said.
Revivalmakers is an evangelistic ministry “that’s raising up evangelists for the harvest,” he said. “Our motto, if you will, is that revival is not coming. Revival is here. While many have a doom and gloom message about the church, we have a message of victory. And we’re seeing people saved from coast to coast, and churches growing and we feel that is our mandate in this hour, to be that revival remnant until Jesus comes.”
Mr. Suarez said that as he grew up in the church he often heard that “revival is coming.”
“Responsibility for revival has always been punted down the field. We’d always hear that one day this revival is gonna come or one day, the nation is going to have this change, and it always seemed like it was pushed to tomorrow. And by doing so, the responsibility of that revival is also pushed towards tomorrow. Because if it’s coming tomorrow, then I don’t really have to do anything today,” he said.
He said that if believers would “step into the purpose of the anointing of God over our lives, we can become a move of God.”
“Especially in the last decade or so, we have been so concerned about what’s happening in the White House, that we have forgotten that revival doesn’t start at a government level. That’s never been the way God works,” he said. “God started with Abraham. First Abraham, then with a family, a family turned into tribes that turned into an army who turned into a nation, but God has always started dealing with individuals first. So rather than that, rather than, than to fight for this top down revival, I believe that revival has to start with me. I need to check my life, check my family’s life. And then from there, that revival will continue growing and touching others. I do believe it will touch the nation but it starts with me first.”
Revival on the Border, scheduled to have doors open at 6 p.m. each evening, will have times of worship, preaching, and altar calls.
“We’ll pray for miracles and we will be water baptizing. We have street evangelism teams that are already working in El Paso and then in a few days, they’ll move on to McAllen. We also have a group of people that are driving the entire southern border who are praying over every mile of the southern border. We’re just speaking the name of Jesus,” Mr. Suarez said.
To combat the false narratives found in mainstream news, he made a decision not to give legacy media any focus.
“If you listen to certain voices, you would think the church is dead. Christianity is over, and there’s just no hope. I just don’t believe that. I don’t believe that’s the case. Not based on what we’re seeing. We’re seeing hundreds and thousands of people being saved every year in churches,” he said. “We know he’s when you put your focus on Him, all of a sudden, there’s this overwhelming sense of peace, the joy of realizing God’s got this. He protected us. We’ve survived so much. I don’t believe that God allowed for us just to survive. I believe it’s because there is a greater purpose, a greater mandate allowing us to be alive for such a time as this. That’s what I’ve chosen to put my focus on.”
Everyday we’re inundated with negative news regarding our southern border so we decided to do something different as a prophetic act…we brought a tent from Mexico across the border for our upcoming tent revival. This week, two tents are going up, one in El Paso and the other in… pic.twitter.com/EmKcOooN3G
— Tony Suarez (@revtonysuarez) March 18, 2024
In a recent post on X, Mr. Suarez posted a video of a truck from Mexico loaded with a tent headed for El Paso, and stated:
“Everyday we’re inundated with negative news regarding our southern border so we decided to do something different as a prophetic act…we brought a tent from Mexico across the border for our upcoming tent revival. This week, two tents are going up, one in El Paso and the other in the McAllen area! In addition to our two tent revivals there is a group of intercessors that are driving the entire 1,254 miles of the border between Texas and Mexico praying and speaking the name of Jesus over every mile! I hope you’ll join us for REVIVAL ON THE BORDER!”
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This article originally appeared on Think Eternity.
Alex Murashko is a journalist and writing team leader for Think Eternity, a site for powerful faith content to help you live the fulfilled life in Jesus. Murashko is also founder of Media on Mission. Connect on X (formerly Twitter): @AlexMurashko.
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