Today we continue the series Revival Praying.

 In Isaiah 64:1&7 (NKJV) “Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence--And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.” Let’s face it, America cannot fall because she has already fallen. She cannot go into slavery because she is already chained to self-chosen moral anarchy. Sadly there are millions who are diseased morally with no desire for healing and many of them sit on pews or chairs every Sunday filling an obligation but hearts void of Who their Substance is. The Church must stir herself.

1. We must stir ourselves and resist the desire to be lovers of pleasure. The Apostle Paul gives us a stern warning to Timothy that in the last day’s people will turn away from God to go after the things of this life. Leonard Ravenhill (1959) – Since in their freedom men will not heed God, will He have to enslave to Communism the mighty millions of America that they might have time to remember His day, His way, and His Son? Better to die bound in body and free in spirit than free in body and bound in soul! May this never happen to us because we are willing to do Revival Praying and we are willing to stir ourselves to take hold of the One Who has taken hold of us. 

2. We need to stir ourselves to have hearts ablaze. It is time for the church to have burning hearts, anointed lips, and eyes that are full of the glory of God. We have to shake ourselves so that the scales fall off our eyes.    2 Timothy 1:6 (NKJV) “Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.” What gift was Paul speaking about to Timothy? He was talking to Timothy and telling him to be stirred by Holy Spirit Who is dwelling inside of him. Pray in the Spirit.

3. How can we not stir ourselves when we survey His wonderful cross. 1 Corinthians 1:18 (NKJV) “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” We need to, as a church, once again climb up Calvary’s Hill on our knees and survey the wondrous cross in great humility and adoration. How can you consider the cross and not stir yourselves?