7 Practices of Spirit-Empowered Disciples…Prayer
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Prayer for revival is a dangerous prayer. You first acknowledge that you may be dead in spirit. The thing about death is that it is complacent. There’s no life in death, no striving, no inconveniences, it’s just lifeless. When God comes in and pours new life into us again, we feel again, we must strive again, we have inconveniences and problems. Life can be messy, compared to death! We must never forget the alternative to having life is having death. Be grateful for the struggle!!! Lord send revival!!!!
Revival happens when God pours out His presence on His people. When a person faints, they must be revived. When we have prayed and sought the presence of God He re-enters our lives, we gain spiritual insight, renewed passion for prayer, and vigor for Christian service, and the result is revival. We can experience and feel His presence just the same as you can walk outside and feel the Oklahoma humidity before a storm.
Will You not revive us again,
That Your people may rejoice in You?
Show us Your mercy, Lord,
And grant us Your salvation.
Will you revive us again Lord? For the Lord to revive is to restore life, consciousness, vigor and strength. It is to restore us to use! In order to ask for revival it would seem that we would have to humble ourselves and acknowledge our state of being.
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for
“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,
It’s at this point that Father can revive us. When we have finally laid down our pride and acknowledge that we’re without life, vigor, and purpose that we become something He can work with. Humility, along with hunger and thirst are important to receiving revival.
For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Perhaps today you find yourself worn and tired in your walk with Jesus. Maybe you’ve been in a season of struggle with family and your just emotionally spent. Maybe you’ve got more bills than you’ve got money and your stressed. Maybe your just bored with church and have started looking elsewhere to fit in. It doesn’t matter the condition that you find yourself in today. Father is looking to breathe fresh life into you and your circumstances.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch out Your hand
Against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will save me.
It’s His desire to see you revived! He is a God that gives life…
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
He comes to our rescue and revives us when we find ourselves lifeless, lacking passion and purpose. He’s a good, good God and its just what He does. He loves you and there’s a place that he longs for you to be today. There’s a place where we can hear Him and respond out of obedience to His voice. A place where we can feel His presence and be renewed in it.
“And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
This is the Lord’s desire in these last days. We should in no way, shape or form be found lifeless, without passion or purpose. Because we know that He doesn’t leave us or forsake us, there’s only one way for us to be found this way. We’ve walked away from Him and His plan for us. We’ve settled for less than an abundant life that He’ll give us.
What do we do? What does humility, hunger and thirst look like?
Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”
So the Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”
And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
This exchange between the Lord and Moses exemplifies humility, hunger and thirst. This is the exchange we need to be having with the Lord today. His presence is what’s needed for all our needs today.
We need revival today! We need to be stored to a Spirit-filled life. Revival involves confessing and repenting of our sins, seeking His forgiveness, and cleansing and restoring our fellowship with Him.
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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.
