PRAYER FOR REVIVAL Let me quote to y’all the ‘’PRAYER FOR REVIVAL’’ publish in The Old Time Religion in 1904. I believe that was no coincidence that the Welsh revival broke out in the same year, in answer to the prayers of the people. You can make this your personal prayers that God will bring us to a revival of our own hearts, our churches, and even in our nation. God, you are greatly in favour of revival. You are now stirring up the sainthood to pray for what you favour. Our every other needs sinks into insignificance compared to the need of a deep and widespread Revival. . . God, send us a Revival that will turn the people of God back from their worldliness and idols to serve the true and living God- back from ‘broken cisterns’ to the ‘Fountain of living waters’; A Revival that will take away every desire for worldly amusements and abolish every ungodly scheme for raising money for the support of the gospel; A Revival that will sweep away the pride that prompts all worldly conformity and extravagance in dress and manner of life; A Revival that will take the people out of their worldly clubs, and societies and secret lodges and put them into the ‘secret place of the Most High’, where they will ‘abide under the shadow of the Almighty’ A Revival that will save the people of God from covetousness, and love of the world and all uncleanness of spirit, mind and body; A Revival in which teachers of religion will have their eyes opened to see and feel their responsibility for souls, and in which they will confess with broken hearts their former backslidings, their carelessness and indifference, and in thousands of cases their actual transgressions of the moral law; A Revival like a flood that will ‘sweep away the refuge of lies’ and ’overflow the hiding places’ of all them that would hide away from the light of God‘s Spirit; A Revival that will unearth and uncover every device of Satan for deceiving souls, whether found in the church or outside of it, ‘For the Lord confides in those who fear Him; He ,makes His covenant known to them’; A Revival that will make both the Church and the world to realize the shortness of Time and the Importance of eternity; A Revival that will make heaven and hell, Calvary and the resurrection, salvation from sin cleansing through the blood and the gift of the Holy Spirit living realities by the revelations of the Spirit in harmony with the word; A Revival in which the sinfulness of sin will be so revealed that instead of excusing and pleading for it, souls will turn from it in utter loathing, and cry out, ‘O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death? A Revival that will sweep away selfishness, narrowness and all sectarian spirit and bring those that now spend their time in criticism of each other down on their faces together before the Lord, crying out for the salvation of lost souls; A Revival that like a tornado will sweep away all the old dried-up sermons, and all the cold formal prayers, and all the lifeless singing and like a whirlwind will carry everyone that comes in its path heavenward; A Revival that will fill the hearts of saints with holy love, and so burden the hearts of God’s ministers that the word of God will be like fire shut up in their bones; A Revival that will help the people to honor God with their substance, and so have their barns filled with plenty; A Revival in which the presence of God will be so revealed that multitudes will fall under the power of God and cry for mercy as they did on the day of Pentecost; A Revival that has so much of heaven and so much of God’s glory in it that the entire world will be compelled to see and feel its mighty influence; A Revival that will gloriously defeat the powers of darkness and hell, and make earth and heaven ring with shouts snatched from the eternal burnings, and run for god and heaven; Yea, A Revival that will never need to be revived! But that will sweep on like a mighty wave of the sea that nothing can hinder, until time shall be no more! For such a revival, O God we pray. Amen.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:43:04 +0000