Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones
1. Repentance: Taking out Hearts of Stone for Hearts of Flesh
2 Corinthians 7:9-10 – “Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. Or you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”
• Thank God for the stirring of His Spirit in your heart to bring you back to Himself (Philippians 2:13).
• Ask God to work in you the godly sorrow that produces repentance and leads to salvation. Pray for the Lord to give you an instant sensitivity to sin, that your heart would sorrow over sin just as Jesus does.
2. Wholeheartedness: No Bone Left Without Sinews and Breath
Holiness
Hebrews 12:14 – “Without holiness no man can see God.”
Holiness is a state of being set apart for the Lord without a spot of sin. We cannot hope to see God without working toward eradicating sin from our lives so that we can live holy lives before God.
• Ask God to show you the sin in your life. Pray for the Lord to give you the strength and strategy to overcome it.
• Ask God to mark your life with holiness and a desire to see God face to face as Moses did.
3. Revival: A Massive Number of Dry Bones Brought to Life
Seoul National University
location: Seoul, South Korea
Revelation 2:4-5 – “You have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works.”
• Ask God to revive the hearts of the students with fervent love for their Lord and Savior. Revival begins with returning to our first love. Returning implies repentance for those ways that we haven’t stayed true to God’s commands and His plans and purposes in our lives.
• Revival isn’t an instantaneous occurrence. Pray for the students to persevere and not grow weary in seeking God and seeing a mighty outpouring of students going to the nations.
• Pray that these students would be obedient to the call of God on their lives, not being bound by earning money or status, and go to the nations sharing the message of God’s love.
Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?
1. Unity Brings Life & an Army
John 17:20-22 – “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in me, and I in You that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that you sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one.”
• Pray:
“Father, just as you, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one, we ask for unity in the body of Christ that all believers would be one. Jesus give us eyes to see that You are the reason we are here and You are the only One in whom we believe. Tear down the petty differences and heal past wounds that we might work together for the glory of Your kingdom being manifest in the earth. Keep our eyes fixed on You and You alone. Jesus I pray for my church, _____________, and I ask that You would give each person the heart and desire to work with other churches in my community to see more people brought into the kingdom through a spirit of love and kindness. Lord, let Your glory fall upon us as we are united that unity would be a testimony to those looking in to see something different than what the world offers. Make us one Father! In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
2. Barriers to Seeing the Army Mobilized
Immorality/Pornography
• Ask God to break the addiction to pornography off the emerging generation. Pray for this generation to be holy and pure, spotless and blameless as they stand before their Savior and Lord.
• Pray for revelation of the power of God to set them free from all immorality and propel them into the plans and purposes of God for their lives.
3. Receiving the Breath of God to Enter into Our Inheritance
Ezekiel 37:7 – “So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.”
• Thank God for the rattling sound of global initiatives that He is creating. This coming together of parts of the Body that has been apart has given us something that God can breathe upon today.
• Pray for these global initiatives to come together in unity. Ask God to breathe upon these movements among the emerging generation to see them fulfil their God ordained purpose to mobilize and motivate students toward the fulfilment of the great commission in our lifetime.
4. Mobilizing the Army: Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized
Titus 2:14: “(Jesus Christ) who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.”
• Let the burning devotion to Jesus turn into a zealous commitment to go and make disciples of all nations. Ask God to make them zealous for His name and His glory to be made known among the nations.
• Pray for the Lord to reveal to each student the gifts and abilities that God desires to use in their lives among the unreached. Pray for God to stir the hearts of many students who would go together to share their story of God’s redeeming love.
5. Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for 21 Unreached Cities
- Population: 2,536,000
- Major Religion: Islam
- National Languages: Dari, Pashto, and several Turkic languages are also spoken by minorities
Photo by The Boston Globe
• Pray many seekers, after knowing many years of war, would experience the peace of Christ. Pray for multitudes of people to have dreams and visions of Jesus and to respond to these dreams and visions with hearts of faith and hope.
• Ask the Lord to bring forth a harvest of believers in 2010, where many hearts believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and are discipled well by Christian nationals and message bearers residing there.
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