2 Chronicles 7:14 – If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Two elderly sisters who desperately prayed to see God move in their small Scottish fishing village helped spark the movement between 1949 and 1952 that became known as the Hebrides Revival.

Peggy and Christine Smith

The sisters, Peggy and Christine Smith, were the great aunts of President Donald Trump.

According to “The Intercessors of the Hebrides Revival,” the Smith sisters resided in a small cottage by the roadside in the village of Barvas on the Island of Lewis.

“They were 84- and 82-years-old. Peggy was blind and her sister almost bent double with arthritis. Unable to attend public worship, their humble cottage became a sanctuary where they met with God. To them came the promise: ‘I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground,’ they pleaded this day and night in prayer. One night Peggy had a revelation, revival was coming and the church of her fathers would be crowded again with young people.”

The revival movement is often referred to as the “Lewis Awakening.”