Ready4Revival

Our culture desperately needs a spiritual awakening. I happen to believe that God is waiting for believers to cry out to him for it.  If revival is going to happen there are several things that must take place. I jotted down a few of them today:

1:  Ask God to bring conviction. (Brokenness)

If revival is going to occur the people of God must experience brokenness over sin, brokenness over the spiritual condition of our nation, and a brokenness that leads us to repentance.

2.  Pray for the cleansing.

And God cleanses our hearts it will bring purity. Purity will bring spiritual power. That spiritual power only comes after genuine repentance and cleansing occur.

3. Pray for God to give us a spiritual hunger.

Without a spiritual appetite, we will continue to be complacent, lethargic, and apathetic. That which will turn us around is a renewal of our heart. That renewal will come with a desire to draw close to God. This is often referred to as a spiritual hunger where we are  thirsting for the presence of God

4.  Pray for a loving unity.

Whenever the people of God will begin to experience revival there will be a sense of unity among God's children within the church and within the families of the church.    The unity that the church would experience I think would center around the word of God, the worship of God and the work of God.

5.  Pray for a passion to see people saved.  (Evangelism)

When revival comes God's people are reoriented to the task that God has given us to do.  His last command was a command to evangelize the world.  So whenever the people of God experience revival  we have a renewed sense of evangelism.

6.  Pray for a passion for missions.

Let us pray that God would reach the precious souls of people not like us.   Let us pray that God would raise up followers of Christ would be willing to lay aside the comforts of their home, and homeland to go to a people were much different than themselves to share the gospel. 

7.  Pray God will call people into ministry. (Laborers)

many errors are springing up in our land, we have a great need for laborers to stand against them.  Let us pray that God would raise up followers of Christ to boldly stand and earnestly contend for the faith.

8.  Pray that God would rend open the heavens.  (Sweeping Revival)

Before a person, family, church, nation can experience a walk with God, the prevailing power of God must reach into the hearts and destroy any rebellion. What we need is the prevailing power of God to reach in and take away our iniquity.  We must pray the guy would rend open the heavens and sweep our hearts with revival fire.

9.  Pray for God's mercy on our land.

Revival is a great errand the gospel ministers are sent to fulfill. We're to be about the ministry of reconciliation; as investors for God, we are to call upon sinners, to be reconciled to God. We are to call upon the church to receive the gracious invitation to return to him and to humble themselves and to actually be brought by faith into a state of reconciliation with God, then, and not until then, can we be able to walk with God. For all of this to occur we must pray for the great mercy of God upon our land and its people who inhabit it.

10.  Pray for boldness for believers.

To be bold in the Lord we must have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us uninhibited. We must maintain a holy, settled, habitual, and altogether uninterrupted communion and fellowship with God, in and through Christ Jesus. To walk in boldness with God means that we are walking daily in the Scriptures with the complete dependence upon His power that is only found in His the fulfilled promises. The believer who is emboldened will be voluntarily dedicated to the glory of God and will take pleasure only in honoring the Almighty.