Pray for us, and Preparation for Revival (3)

Mary Jane and I will be traveling to Baltimore this weekend to visit with my Mom and to speak at the Middle River Assembly of God for both the morning and the evening services. Please pray for a safe journey there and back, rich fellowship with Mom and the saints of the Middle River AOG and for the Spirit's rich anointing in both of these church services. Thank you so much, and God Bless!

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1 John 5:14-15: “This is the confidence which we have before Him that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.” These verses align beautifully with the first half of 2 Chronicles 7:14: “and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face . . . .”

If we were to record our prayers over any given period of time, have those recordings transcribed and then categorized those prayers, how many of them would be truly focused on the Father and seeking to do His will, and how many of them would be focused on our needs, wants and desires. Remember always, please, the example of our Lord Jesus who said that His “food” was “to do the will of Him who sent Me and accomplish His works” (John 4:34). Seeking the Father’s will instead of our own is one aspect of our humbling ourselves and seeking His face. (We will deal with others anon.)

It is right and proper to make our needs and desires known to our Father. Paul exhorts us in Philippians 4:6, “. . . in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.” He delights in meeting our needs, and we know that “every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father or lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning: (James 1:17).

When Jesus taught His disciples to pray (Matthew 6:9 ff; Luke 11:2 ff), He made provision for us to petition the Father for our daily bread (physical sustenance), forgiveness of our debts (sins), and deliverance (protection and rescue) from the evil one, but His direction to us in prayer is that our first priorities would be (a) to revere the Father’s name, that it might be “hallowed” or sanctified by both our confession and our lifestyle, and (b) that we make the faith declaration that the Father’s kingdom would come (into our lives, into our society and into the whole earth), that His will might be done on earth as it is being done in heaven!

When we align ourselves in prayer, faithfully, consistently, persistently and passionately, with these priorities, we are then positioning ourselves before Him in such a way that He can trust us with the Treasure of the Outpouring of His Spirit in Revival!

(To be Continued . . . .)