Abandoned Devotion:
Bringing Life to Dry Bones
1. Repentance: Taking out Hearts of Stone for Hearts of Flesh
Isaiah 58:6-7 – “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?”
• Very few churches are carrying the burden of our call to the poor and widows and orphans. (James 1:27) Repent of this lack of heart for the lost and the poor. Pray for compassion and passion for souls. (Matt. 9:36)
Wholeheartedness: No Bone Left Without Sinews and Breath
Walking in Meekness
Read Numbers 12:3
The Lord described Moses as the most humble and meek man on the face of the earth. Moses knew the Lord Almighty. He knew that he was not anything compared to the greatness of God. He also knew that the Lord loved him and His people, and he was confident in that love.
• Pray for a revelation of meekness and an understanding of how to walk in meekness in your daily life.
• Ask the Lord to give you a confidence and trust in His love for you. Pray that God would teach you the difference between pride and confidence and give you grace to walk in the latter.
Revival: A Massive Number of Dry Bones Brought to Life
University of Cape Town
location: Cape Town, South Africa
Isaiah 40:30-31 – “Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.”
• Pray for the emerging generation in Cape Town to wait on the Lord for strength. Ask God to show them that in the midst of difficulties and seeming impossibilities to wait on the Lord of possibility.
• Ask God to prepare their hearts for sharing the love that they have received with every person they meet. Pray for God to enable them to run the race and not grow weary, to walk and not faint.
Global Proclamation:
When Dry Bones Live, Then What?
1. Unity Brings Life & an Army
2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If My people who are called by My name, will humble themselves, pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
• Pray:
“Father, we so often forget that Your desire to come and heal our land is based upon us coming together as Your people, united in our humility, united in our prayers, united in seeking Your face, and united in repentance. Jesus, we confess our lack of unity with our brothers and sisters. We confess our lack of humility, being turf conscious rather than Kingdom oriented. Make us humble in relationships with others not putting ourselves first but seeing how we might serve others first. We confess our lack of prayerfulness for others rather than just ourselves and our ministry or church. Holy Spirit, bring to our remembrance those for whom we need to pray. Lord, we have failed but we haven’t given up. Our hope rests solely in You. Come and wash over us. Holy Spirit, come and lead us into truth. Jesus open our eyes like You did for Bartimaeus that we would see our need – our need for humility, prayer, repentance, and unity. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
Barriers to Seeing the Army Mobilized
Self-dependence
• Ask God to reveal to message bearers the lie of the world that we have to do it all ourselves. Pray for God to show them how small their view of God is if they can’t learn to rely and trust in Him.
• Pray for the truth that we have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us, to go deep and transform their understanding of reliance upon God for everything.
Receiving the Breath of God to Enter into Our Inheritance
Mark 10:27 – “But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.’”
• As the emerging generation looks toward the task of fulfilling the great commission, pray that they would look with eyes of faith in God’s ability to accomplish it in this generation, not their own ability. Pray that they would see that all things are possible – seeing masses of young people accept the call to go, getting to the field, seeing the lost come to know Jesus, and seeing believers disciples.
Mobilizing the Army: Prayer for 21 Nations to be Mobilized
Ezra 1:4 – “And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.”
• Pray for Kazak students to not fear God’s call to the nations but to willingly go, fervently seeking God’s face, and passionately sharing God’s love with all they meet. Pray for many students for every university and campus across the country to be sent out to the nations.
• Pray for the Kazak church to send these students out exceedingly blessed spiritually, emotionally, financially, and with much prayer. Pray that many would give sacrificially to see these students fulfill God’s call to go to the unreached.
Possessing Our Inheritance: Prayer for 21 Unreached Cities
- Population: 5,900,000
- Major Religion: Islam
- Language: Arabic
• In Arabic, Riyadh means garden. Pray for God to pour out His latter rains and bring rains of revival and salvation to this desert land. Pray for men, women, and children to have dreams and visions of Jesus in a garden that they might know the peace found only through Jesus Christ.
• Riyadh is a difficult city for message bearers. Pray for many message bearers who would go to this difficult place to reach these precious people with God’s love.
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