You can now watch TOWARDS Prayer for Revival, the video version expanded from last month’s blog post.
Awareness of the need for the church to be revived and the hearts of people to be awakened to the Lord isn’t the only trigger for revival prayer, but it is an essential fuel for sustaining this kind of praying. In last month’s post, it was one of the five stones (stone #2:We NEED a fresh move of God) in the pathway that leads towards prayer for revival. I want to add a few more thoughts on it.
We can grow accustomed to the way things are. The shift is gradual. We might barely notice that we’ve become people who accept spiritual mediocrity as the norm, adjust to a life (and ministry) void of God’s supernatural presence, and become anesthetised to the world’s troubles.
Awareness incites action, and can stop us drifting into complacency. But we can lose that awareness in the busy pace of life if we don’t nurture it.
We feed our awareness by being informed – watching and listening, forming a need-picture of the target community we carry in our hearts. But it’s what we do with that information that’s important. We use it to shape prayers of lament that connect us emotionally to the need and to God’s heart concerning it. And our awareness of the need will take us to relevant truths in scripture that can anchor our praying in line with God’s will.
Our praying isn’t a list of requests for God to fix the need. It’s an opportunity to know his heart; to be stirred by his view of the need and what he wants to do as Rescuer. And then, we shape our lament and our asking to agree with him.
As our awareness of, and prayer-engagement with the need grows – with its size and urgency – so does our conviction that only a powerful move of God will significantly change the need-picture. We NEED a fresh move of God.
Those are some added thoughts on stone #2. I’m sure much more will open up to you on each of the stones as you re-walk the pathway towards prayer for revival. I encourage you to watch the 15-minute video, and re-watch it before each fresh walk along the pathway.
I’d love to hear your response to the question at the end of the video.
Watch Towards Prayer for Revival, on the YouTube channel, Prayer Life Wingspan: https://youtu.be/qnBNi9gjYks
