PRAYER FOR REVIVAL

Revival services at HMCME are next week, but services are not enough.  We want and need something more than just programs to reach the level of ministry to which God has called us as individuals and as a church.  We need genuine revival.  An overview of the major revivals in the Bible, showed me something convicting. 

Biblical revival did not occur because the people of God asked for revival.  Biblical revival occured because the people of God repented and then started living the way they should have been doing all the time.  Using the revival and rebuilding of the city and house of God in the book of Nehemiah as our template, we are praying for genuine revival. 

A Prayer for Revival is a prayer of confession. Rev. Doug Perry and I are at chuch each evening in the week leading to Revival, confessing and praying in the pattern below.

Scripture Prayer (personalized from Nehemiah 1: 5-11):


“I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the [members of Hall Memorial] Your servants, and confess the sins of the [members of Hall Memorial] which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.


We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses [and the apostles].


Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to [this] place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’


Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.


O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant [us]:

• Cleansing from our sins;

• Deliverance from our conceits and grudges;

• Hunger for Your Word and diligence in the study of Your holy Word;

• The spirit, work, and fruit of evangelism;

• A deepening relationship to Your Holy Spirit;

• A deepening of the gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit;

• Growth in number and spiritual maturity of this congregation;

• The increase of souls saved;

• The increasing work of effective life and soul changing ministry in the world;

• A revelation of ourselves to ourselves that we will seek to be changed by You for your better service.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.