Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones
1. Repentance: Taking out Hearts of Stone for Hearts of Flesh
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 – “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free – and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.”
• Confess and repent of every neglect of fellowship with believers and a critical spirit towards others or the Church in general. We hurt ourselves when we are not bonding with the brethren. (Heb. 10:25)
Wholeheartedness: No Bone Left Without Sinews and Breath
Waiting Upon God in Trust and Dependence
Read Psalm 37:1-7
Waiting on God is not an idle activity of simply passing time, but instead it is an active engagement with God to see His promises come to pass by trusting His character and power to accomplish all that He has promised. In waiting, we must also learn to depend upon Him and not our flesh, always looking with faith to see Him in our midst.
• Pray for patience to wait upon God and trust Him, even though there is no physical evidence for faith and trust.
• Ask the Lord to deepen your trust in Him and teach you to depend on Him and not on your own ideas or understanding.
Revival: A Massive Number of Dry Bones Brought to Life
NEGST-Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (Now called NIS-Nairobi International School)
location: Nairobi, Kenya
Matthew 10:38-39 – “If you don’t go all the way with Me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve Me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to Me, you’ll find both yourself and Me.” (The Message)
• Students from different parts of the world, particularly from different parts of Africa study at NEGST, and consequently there is a huge potential at NEGST. Pray for a spiritual breakthrough, so that believers are willing to re-embrace God the way that God desires.
• Students at NEGST have a lot to offer to others. Pray for a self-giving attitude: unless we forget ourselves, we cannot find, and when we don’t find, we cannot give.
• Pray for believers not to have their confidence or diffidence in what they have or what they need, but in what they can offer.
Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?
1. Unity Brings Life & an Army
Matthew 9:37-38 – “Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.’”
• Pray:
“Jesus, together with one voice throughout the body of Christ we acknowledge Your call to send out more laborers and together we seek to answer that call. We see that one organization cannot send out enough workers for all to hear the good news and neither can one denomination. We understand that it will take the whole body of Christ working together. We ask Lord that You would unify national student mission movements that together whole nations would mobilize and send forth their young people to see a massive harvest in the earth. We ask for unity in Ghana and Nigeria among students and student mobilizers, among churches and college fellowships, among pastors and leaders of sending organizations. Let their passion for God’s heart and their goal of seeing every creature given the chance to respond to Jesus’ love unite them and move them onward in their upward calling in Christ Jesus. In the name of Jesus and by His shed blood on the cross we ask these things, Amen.”
Barriers to Seeing the Army Mobilized
Criticalness
• Ask God that a spirit of grace would be upon message bearers and that rather than being critical of others they would be loving and kind.
• Pray they would be able to hear God’s voice clearly and discern His will, not looking just to the negative but knowing that God’s plans are good and He gives us a future and a hope.
Receiving the Breath of God to Enter into Our Inheritance
2 Corinthians 5:14 – “For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died.”
• Pray that the emerging generation would be marked by the love of Christ, that every action and word would portray the glorious love that brought us out of darkness and into His glorious light. Pray that those that seek to speak into the lives of others will be compelled by Christ’s love. (Eph. 4:15)
Mobilizing the Army: Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized
2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
• Pray for light to pierce and convict their hearts that they cannot keep the light to themselves, but they must share it with those who have not heard.
• Pray for multitudes of students to rise up and go to the nations, that they would be lights shining in the darkness in unreached places.
Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for 21 Unreached Cities
- Population: 105,000
- Major Religion: Sunni Islam
- Language: Dhivehi
• Since the population of the entire country is only about 300,000, foreigners are easily spotted. Pray for creative ideas for platforms for message bearers who are desiring to reach this city.
• Pray for the hearts of these people to be softened and hungry for truth. Pray for those who do turn to Christ to be radical with their faith. Can you imagine the impact of a few radical followers of Jesus on this small nation?
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