day 16

Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones

1. Repentance: Hearts of Stone becoming Hearts of Flesh

1 John 3:18 – “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

• We often give a lot of lip-service to missions. Confess and repent for you and your generation for every noise without sacrificial commitment toward the remaining unreached peoples of the world. Pray that our commitment will shine brightly in our closets.

2. Wholeheartedness: No Bone Left Without Sinews and Breath

Submitting to Jesus’ Pruning Hand

Read John 15:2

Sometimes it is hard to understand why God would cut back those things that are producing fruit in our lives. But God is jealous for our love and doesn’t want us to be caught up in looking to the fruit that we miss doing things out of a deep love for Him and Him alone.

• Ask God that He would make the work of your hands fruitful, that He would find you fruitful for His kingdom when He comes to judge the world.

• Pray for understanding when you enter into a pruning season. Ask God to reveal to you the purpose of the pruning and then press into the Lord for all that He has for you in that moment.

Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?

1. Barriers to Seeing the Army Mobilized

Legalism

• Pray that God would let the scales of legalism fall from the eyes of message bearers, so that they can see clearly the mandate of God to go to the unreached because of Christ’s love for the lost.

• Ask God to help them not to be rigid in the way they see their ministry on the field, but to flexible as to how the Spirit might lead them.

2. Mobilizing the Army: Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized

Peru

Romans 1:3-4 – “Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.”

• Pray for students across Peru to prepare themselves to declare the One and only God Jesus Christ our Lord. Ask God to fill them with power to declare it among the nations.

• Pray for these students to be holy vessels of Christ’s love and power to witness to the nations of Christ’s own holiness. Ask God to bring down the barriers that would hold these students from going to those who have not heard.

3. Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for Adopted People Groups

“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.” – Hebrews 10:25

- Pray for believers to meet together for mutual encouragement even if it means risking their reputation. Pray for a greater fervency in their faith to develop as they exhort one another toward love and good deeds.