There is a good article from a godly scots preacher but I can only quote part here. Maybe we can as believers not confess sin as we ought-seems to be the major part of prayer of godly men used in evangelsim

Robert Murray M'Cheyene's Personal Confessions
I find that the devil often makes use of the confession of sin
to stir up again the very sin confessed into new exercise, so
that I am afraid to dwell upon the confession. I must ask
experienced Christians about this. For the present, I think I
should strive against this awful abuse of confession, whereby
the devil seeks to frighten me away from confessing. I ought to
take all methods for seeing the vileness of my sins...

http://reformedonline.org/Robert_Murray_MCheyenes_Personal_Confessions.html

McCheyne is a godly preacher sadly neglected and whatever our denonminational position his ministry and life have so much to bless a serious study!

Robert Murray McCheyne - Saintly Pastor of Dundee (Famous Saints #1)

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=102501172451

Good post John.

Just listened to a Glasgow sermon, a free church cont. who began evangelsing a particular area of glasgow whilst praying for a church building-well God has granted the building in an amazing way. You could be right and the answer to 'why' God alone does know, yet there is something we can do as believers-the sermon just providentially heard might grant you an answer if you care to listen http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1219081511483

Also in Glasgow there is a street preaching baptist church here on sermonaudio with the actual street preaching messGES, add another 2 evangelising calvinistic churches in that city also
http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=stenochbaptist

The rest of the UK I know not,do you know of the Fulton St revival
New York in the late 1850s. Jeremiah Lanphier began with a prayer meeting? Mentioned in free church cont mag
http://www.masterstrumpet.org/issue4.pdf

Maybe Michael Hanerek can enlighten us further?