PRAYING

......for a city wide revival!

Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.   (Matt 9:35)

Jesus, we would have liked to have walked with You—to have watched You work, listened to You teach, to have been dazzled by Your power. Is it true that You want to stride through city streets again? Is it possible that You want to do this through Your body the church through me? O Lord, how can I so yield to You that You could finish Your work in Me. Touch through me. Care through me. Find scattered and wounded lambs, love them though me. Let my hands be healing hands for the sick and weary. We have been waiting for them to come to us. You have sent us to them. Strenghen us. We feel inadequate. Yet, such dependence is our greatest asset. Let people who have never sensed Your presence, come alive to Your loving touch. And may they not attribute the power they feel, the break-through they received to us. May they give You glory. From every sector of the city, let a new stream of converts come to Your  temple. Let the whole city break out in song. Let the hopeful whispers at the edge of the darkness be about Your power. Use us in ways we have never imagined possible. Give common people uncommon power. We are weary of intimidation and fear-mongering, of deceptive ploys by would-be evangelists. We want the real deal. We want Jesus alive, and walking through the city. Amen.

Today’s Quote

Father make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.  

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Prayer Exercise:

Have each family member pick out two businesses for prayer. One that contributes to the city’s welfare. One that needs to be closed. Bless the one. Pray that the owner/operator of the second would be saved, the building and land used for godly causes.