Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones
1. Repentance: Taking out Hearts of Stone for 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.
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.
Revival: A Massive Number of Dry Bones Brought to Life
Texas A&M University
location: College Station, Texas, USA
2 Corinthians 4: 10-11 – “Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.”
• In order to know the resurrection power of Christ in us and through us we must also join Christ in dying. Pray for the students at Texas A&M to embrace being fully surrendered to the Lord, death to self, death to flesh, death to everything that isn’t Christ and Him alone.
• Pray for the life of Jesus to fill them. As they empty out themselves, may they be filled to overflowing with more of Christ than they have ever dreamed of. Ask God to remind them that greater works than Christ they will do, but only to the degree that Christ lives in them.
Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?
1. Unity Brings Life & an Army
1 Corinthians 12:12 – “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.”
• Pray:
“Father God, thank You for the diversity of Your creation. Thank You for the wisdom in making us each unique so that we may complement one another and find freedom in interdependence, rather than the pressure of looking only to ourselves. Lord of the harvest we ask that You would use the many different giftings in the body throughout Romania, South Africa, and the United States. In Your infinite wisdom, bring together those who would complement each other, acknowledging their weaknesses would You unite them through their strengths to bring the most glory to Your name. Let us steward the manifold grace that has been given to each of us that we might reflect our glorious Maker and Redeemer. Let us not shy away from or even disdain the interconnectedness of the body but rather love and encourage one another to love and good deeds as the day of Christ’s return quickly approaches. May He find us, His bride and His body, united in possessing the inheritance He has promised. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
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.
Receiving the Breath of God to Enter into Our Inheritance
2 Corinthians 4:7 – “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.”
Pray for the humility to know we desperately need God’s power in order to make a difference, since we have no power within ourselves. Ask God to anoint us with His power.
Mobilizing the Army: Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized
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.
Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for 21 Unreached Cities
- Population: 2,000,000
- Major Religion: Islam
- Language: Arabic, French
• Pray for an awakening on the campus of the only university in the country, Université de Nouakchott. Ask God for many students to hunger for the truth and turn their lives to Christ their only hope of salvation.
• Ask God bring revival to the slum on the outskirts of Nouakchott. Pray that as these families are in transition while being resettled in new neighborhoods that they would desire to know the Rock on whom they can depend in every circumstance.
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