March 3, 2021 Prayer - Pour out your Love and Spirit in a Great Awakening

Loving Messiah,

We kneel humbly in awe before you, Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.  You are perfect in all your ways.  Thank you for the gift of grace you give to us through the Son.  Thank you for the gift of Holy Spirit we receive as we know you as Lord and Savior and seek first your Kingdom.  Thank you for every gift you give us that comes down from the One who is Light and immutable.  We pray for deep and abiding faith so the life of Christ is released within us and we, your People and your Church, will the resting place of Love for this world.  Thank you for your astonishing love; how deeply intimate and far-reaching, enduring and inclusive is that love.  Thank you that, when we ask, you pour into us your extravagant love until we are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God.   We pray that you would unveil the unlimited riches of your glory and favor until we are flooded with your supernatural strength and explosive power.   Cause us to achieve infinitely more than our greatest request, our most unbelievable dream, our wildest imaginations because of your miraculous power within us.  Pour out your Spirit so all will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, so that the sick will be healed, the blind see, the lame walk, the captives freed, and your signs and wonders are acknowledged by believer and non-believer alike.  God, pour out a Third Great Awakening in this time and place - awaken the spiritually dead to Life, those living in darkness to great Light, and those who are enslaved to evil and wickedness to New Life lived in the fullness and freedom of your Love and Grace.  We give to you all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ—and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity. In Christ's name we pray, Amen!

"I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on the earth. And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power.

Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life. Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!

Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.

Now we offer up to God all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ—and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity. Amen!"  (Ephesians 3:14-21 TPT)

" Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." (James 1:17 NIV)

"This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will." (Hebrews 2:3-4 NIV)

February 1, 2021 Prayer - Clouds of Glory and Darkness - Choosing Revival

God of Glory,

Thank you for your power and glory that you have exhibited on this earth, especially in the life of Jesus Christ and in the ongoing work of Holy Spirit.  Thank you that your Glory is upon your children and that you hear our prayers.  God, we see that there are two "clouds" over us right now - a cloud of your Glory, Light, and Life, and a cloud of deep, think, darkness.  For every one of us - as individuals, communities, local churches, families, etc. - help us to choose carefully which cloud we want to be under. Help us to respond to the call of the prophet Elijah and reject the following of idols of this world, but to follow the Lord our God. Help us to humble ourselves, pray, seek your face, and turn from our sin and wickedness so you will hear us, forgive us, and heal us. We are at a crossroads; help us to look, ask for the ancient pathways - the good way - and then to walk it in peace.  Fill us with a hunger for your righteousness. Turn us from wickedness and evil desires and help us to pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace.  Give us an insatiable drive to be in your presence in prayer and your Word, in worship and in service.  Purify us from nonchalant and mediocre Christianity and spiritual double agency.  Holy Spirit, empower us to chase after the ways of the Lord with full fervency. Thank you that you know those who are Yours and we want to be completely and fully Yours. Pour out your Spirit on all people so that we see reformation in your Church, revival in your People, and a Third Great Awakening in this land. Pour out your Glory we pray, in the powerful name of Jesus.  Amen. 

“Arise, shine, for your light has come,

    and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth

    and thick darkness is over the peoples,

but the Lord rises upon you

    and his glory appears over you.

Nations will come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of your dawn." (Isaiah 60:1-3 NIV)

"Thus says the Lord: 'Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.' But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”  (Jeremiah 6:16 ESV)

"If my people who are called by my name 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." (2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV)

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

    for they will be filled." (Matthew 5:6 NIV)

"God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”...  Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart." (2 Tim. 2:19, 22 NIV)

"And Elijah came near to all the people and said, 'How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.' And the people did not answer him a word." (1 Kings 18:21ESV)