2020 - Aug. 21 Days of Prayer
Day 2 Praying for Revival
Faith is what prayer works. Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the Word of God.
Revival is bringing something back to life. Biblically and historically it begins in the church and then the world.
I am believing God for another great awakening in our world.
Speaking at a conference in 1917, R. A. Torrey gave this prescription for revival:
Let a few of God’s people, they don’t need to be many, get thoroughly right with God themselves—the rest will count for nothing unless you start right there; then let them band themselves together to pray for a revival until God opens the heavens and comes down. Then let them put themselves at God’s disposal to use them as He sees fit. That will bring a revival to any church, any community.
We get right with God, then we get together in prayer and then in revival.
We can’t organize a revival, but we can agonize for it in prayer. We can call on God to send it.
God has some things He wants to do and say in the world yet to happen.
It begins with the church at Ephesus.
They had lost their first love.
Here’s the remedy.
Revelation 2:5
5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.
Remember the height from which you have fallen. Take a few moments and ask God to show me areas where I’m not where I used to be and bring me back (that moment when you were a bit more fired up for God).
CF Psalm 139:23-24
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Repent - This is the most positive word in the Bible. You make a U Turn. You change your direction from where you were going, and you head in God’s direction. One of the conditions of God moving for us is that we turn.
2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Lord, today, I am actively repenting. I am turning into the direction you want me to go.
Repentance is a moment of pain, being unrepentant is a lifetime of pain.
Acts 3:19 19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
Repeat - do the first works and in fact add some things that are not there now.
There was a time in which I used to “woo” Michelle to bring her. Well, I need to repeat and doing the things at first when I first gave my life to Jesus. I had some much fire and zeal. Sometimes that dims. I don’t want that to dim. I want boldness. I want to be a soul winner. I want to do the things I did at first because I’m so in love with you.
If we remember, repent and repeat, I believe this will get the attention of God and we will see a mighty revival and God will be glorified.
