Will you please pray the following prayer in your midst for a revival?
Job Anbalagan
Nov 11, 2006
Oh Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to
them that love Him, and to them that keep His commandments. We are
unworthy to approach Thy Throne of Grace by our own righteousness,
except by the Blood of Thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. We are all as an
unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags and we all
do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities like the wind have taken us
away.We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done
wickedly, and have rebelled against Thee, by departing from Thy
commandments. O Lord, our sins and iniquities testify against us. Our
iniquities have separated us from Thee, and our sins have hidden Thy
face from us.
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in His
ways and to follow His commandment of loving and serving God with our
whole heart and with all our soul. Nor have we loved our neighbours as
ourselves as we have failed to minister to the strangers, the poor, the
orphans and widows. Nor have we loved our brethren in Christ thereby
abiding in darkness in that we have failed to minister to the poor
saints and to the missionaries in various mission fields. We have
gloried in the spiritual gifts given to us by Thee, and have not
gloried in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have become arrogant
with our eyes being blinded by our self-righteousness.
Because of our backslidings, all the evil has come upon us, Thou hast
sent a drought in the place of rain. Our churches have become desolate,
and our adversary has trodden down many vineyards. The children of God
have gone into captivity before the enemy. O God, we weep, our eyes
runneth down with water; we spread forth our hands and there is none to
comfort us. We are in distress. The joy of our heart has ceased; our
dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head; woe
unto us, that we have sinned! Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us,
consider and behold our reproach. Thou hast afflicted us for the
multitude of our transgressions, and Thy judgments are righteous.
O Lord, we have a name that we live but are dead. We have become wretched, and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Wilt Thou not revive us again that Thy people may rejoice in Thee!
O Lord, revive the dry bones and breathe Thy life into us so that we
may live again for Thy glory ? Restore Thy Church to its original
glory and power. Unless Thou sendest us the latter rain, we will perish
in the wilderness; our churches will become extinct; our nation will be
lost.
O Lord, we beseech Thee to make bright clouds and send us showers of rain so that our wilderness will turn into a pool of water.
O Lord, we are desperately in need of showers of rain upon our land.
Thousands of souls whom we have failed to reach with Thy glorious
gospel are descending into the bottomless pit. Unless Thou sendest a
revival to our nation, it will go the way of prediction by violence and
civil wars as many nations have already plunged into this snare.
O Lord, there are many mountains in our land which we could not reach
out with Thy glorious gospel. O Lord, send a revival to the valleys of
dry bones in these mountains. Oh that Thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that Thou wouldest come down, that these mountains might flow down at
the Thy presence.
O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years; restore us the years
that we lost due to laziness or slumber in evangelism, by way of a
Heaven-sent revival. Let our heart be turned to follow the footsteps of
our fathers on whose blood the Church was founded.
In Jesus Holy Name, we pray. Amen
