Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones
1. Repentance: Taking out Hearts of Stone for Hearts of Flesh
Luke 16:10-12 – “’He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?’”
• Ours is a generation of wasters. God calls us to be good stewards of the resources with which He has entrusted us. Look at your life and confess and repent of every form of waste of money, time, and giving either by not employing them to their full potential, or by using them for things that do not bring God glory (1 Corinthians 15:10).
Wholeheartedness: No Bone Left Without Sinews and Breath
Embracing a Lifestyle of Devoted Prayer
Read Matthew 6:6
Prayer is not just an activity but a lifestyle of ongoing conversation with God. We must seek God in the secret place and we must pray without ceasing. We cannot choose one without the other or we do not know communion with God. (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
• Pray for God to give you a hunger for prayer and time just with Him. Ask God to show you the joys of spending time in His presence and cultivating a deeper relationship with Him.
• Ask God to teach you how to have a lifestyle of devoted prayer. Some people have a prayer life but not a lifestyle of prayer. Ask God to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer in your life.
Revival: A Massive Number of Dry Bones Brought to Life
University of Jos
location: Jos, Nigeria
1 Peter 2:9 – “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness into His marvelous light.”
• Ask the Lord of the harvest to remind these youth that they are a CHOSEN generation. God has a unique calling on the young people of today.
• Pour out a spirit of revival that would bring a focus on holiness and holy living among these blessed youth. Ask God to consecrate many for the work of going to the unreached and that they would be called forth in this hour.
• Ask God to show many students that they are a CHOSEN for a purpose – to proclaim the praises of the Lord Almighty. Ask the Lord to give them boldness as they seek to proclaim the praises of God in dark, hard places.
Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?
1. Unity Brings Life & an Army
Philippians 3:8-10 – “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, …, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.”
• Pray:
“Father, I cry out for this generation to be united in their understanding of Christ and that You are worthy of mine and their suffering. Oh Lord, that I may gain Christ. What more excellent ambition, more lofty goal, more exquisite dream than to be found in You! Jesus, the cost of going to hard places to sow seeds in unplowed lands is great. The pain of saying goodbye to family, the great longing to be with family and friends on special occasions and holidays, the strain of living in another culture, and the stress of learning another language is all rubbish for You are worth all of this and much more. You are worthy of my sufferings so that I can truly find myself in You and You alone. I cry out with the angels and the hosts of heaven, “Worthy is the Lamb! Worthy is the Lamb!” Let my heart cry be “You are worthy” when the cost seems too great to bear. Let my soul shout, “Blessed be the name of the Lord” when I cannot see through the river of tears. Let my tongue proclaim, “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised” when the harvest has not come and the sowing of seeds is difficult on rocky ground. Let the emerging generation proclaim this with one voice. In Jesus’ name alone, Amen.”
Barriers to Seeing the Army Mobilized
Worldliness
• Ask God to help us to resist the temptation to look and act like the world. Sometimes we get caught up in the ways of the world and fail to distinguish between the world and God’s Kingdom. Pray for eyes, ears, and hearts that would discern God’s Kingdom.
• Pray for the Spirit to rest upon message bearers and set them apart for service in His Kingdom. Pray for God to give them grace to walk in His ways and statutes.
Receiving the Breath of God to Enter into Our Inheritance
1 John 1:6-7 – “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
• Today there is too much reluctance to confront our peers with the truth. Yet it is ‘iron that sharpens iron.’ (Prov. 27:17) Pray that God will make us more willing to walk in the light with one another. Pray for boldness among the emerging generation to speak truth, walk in the light, and expose the darkness.
Mobilizing the Army: Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized
Galatians 2:20 – “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
• Ask God to saturate campuses in Malaysia with the spirit of the crucified life that each student would not live for themselves but for Christ and Him alone, dying to themselves and their desires that they would choose God’s ways and God’s heart in every circumstance.
• Pray for faith to arise in these students, that though hard times come they would rely on the One who loves them and gave Himself for them.
Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for 21 Unreached Cities
- Population: 220,000
- Major Religion: Buddhism
- Language: Lao
• The government controls message bearers and their work within the country. Pray for a move of the Holy Spirit than no human can control, that would move hearts toward repentance and draw them into relationship with the Lord Almighty.
• Pray for freedom for these message bearers that though they live in difficult and oppressive circumstances they would trust the Holy Spirit to lead them to those who are hungry. Pray also for boldness for these message bearers to confidently proclaim Christ’s love.
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