Brian Edwards- 6-RESOLVED: To establish my ministry as my all-consuming passion with no competing interests. What is my overall attitude toward ministry? Do I view ministry as a job, an interest, a hobby? Or is it, for me, an all-consuming passion?
MY HEART-CRY: Jesus, with Your help, after my priority of family, I will prioritize Your kingdom work with a longing in my soul for Your glory to be on display throughout the world through an empowered, revived church. (Google image, Man praying)
7-RESOLVED: To be a man (or woman) whom God can entrust with the demands of revival. "The men God uses are prepared for hard work and discomfort. God rarely uses leaders in revival who are afraid of hard work because He would not be able to trust them with the commitment that revival demands."
MY HEART-CRY: Yes, Jesus, I see the price you paid on the cross and the call upon my life to embrace the cross in order to be used of You greatly. I ask You to give me the courage and strength to carry the cross of Christ, no matter what the cost.
8-RESOLVED: To be a man (or woman) of determination and perseverance in seeking God for revival until He sends it. "The men God uses are determined. They are determined to keep on until God hears them, determined never to give up until God has His way. They will not allow anything to distract them from the determined search for revival during their lifetime."
MY HEART-CRY: I confess, Lord, I can grow weary in well-doing and too quickly race on to the "next thing." Like the prophets of old who always pursued but never saw the revival they longed for, would You give me the same kind of faith and vision that will not subside with the passing of time?
9-RESOLVED: To be a man (or woman) of prayer, assaulting, heaven for revival, so that God would receive the glory. "Those whom God uses in revival are men and women of prayer. Almost every Christian leader today laments a lack of personal prayer, but very few are determined to do anything about it. We are not sufficiently concerned to make a radical alteration in our schedules and get down to the 'unproductive' and unnoticed battle of assaulting heaven."
MY HEART-CRY: Even as You, Lord Jesus, are ever interceding for me before the Father, I commit to be praying for revival every single day until You come down and visit Your people.
10- RESLVED: To prepare my own heart for revival before attempting to lead others in seeking the Lord for revival. Lord, it it begin in me. "There is no point in seeking revival for the church, and its benefits for the nation, until we are prepared and longing for revival in our own lives. Only when we realize and admit our true condition will we long for revival."
MY HEART-CRY: In Jesus' name, realizing revival begins with me, I will not ask You to do in others, what I am not willing for the Holy Spirit to do in me. Each time I pray for revival, Lord, remind me to ask You to begin it in me.
Last 5 Key statements are adapted from Brian Edwards' article, "The Men God Uses, appearing in Life Action Ministries' Spirit of Revival magazine.
First 5 Key statements are found in Becoming an Instrument of Revival- Part 1
Let's pray-
Father, our desire for our ministries is to be coupled with a passion, not competing with other interests. Help us view our ministries, not as jobs, or just an interest or a hobby, but all-consuming passion for the kingdom of Christ.
May we become men and women You can entrust with the demands of revival, preparing us for the hard work and discomfort it will bring. Increase our commitment to support the demands that will surely come with one.
Increase our determination and perseverance in seeking You for the revival that we desperately have need of. May we keep on praying until You hear our determination to not give up until You bring one our way. Help us be determined to pray to You to bring a revival in our lifetime.
Move on us to be men and women of prayer, showing us our lack of determination to make the necessary changes by making radical alterations to our personal schedules, so we can become productive in our battle of assaulting heaven for revival!
Each time we pray for revival in our churches, may we be quick to request that You begin it in those of us who are praying for one. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
561-565- one-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted-
561- Ps. 118:4 "Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever."
562- Acts 22:16 "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord."
563- Prov. 14:21 "He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he."
564- Ps. 100:5 "For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations."
565- Ps. 115:18 "But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD."
Quote for today-
When we first sin, it really hurts, and we feel guilty, but if we keep committing it again, or hearts become hardened, forming spiritual calluses, which can only be rectified by repentance.
Our Ambassador to Israel, Michael David Evens' comments:
"Prayer requires us to focus our hearts on God. Nothing can be allowed to take His rightful place on the throne of our hearts. Divided loyalty is the death of prayer."
Genesis 35:2&3 "And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, 'Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments. Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.' "
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