Loving Heavenly Father, I worship You as the God who loves people. You have declared in Your Word that You are patient with people, not wanting anyone to perish, and You have provided opportunity for everyone to come to repentance. Thank You for Your patience that brought me to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I praise You, Heavenly Father, for demonstrating Your love by having the Lord Jesus Christ die for ungodly people while we were still in our sins. It is wonderful to know that You have loved humanity with such outreaching sacrifice that provides forgiveness and eternal life for all who will believe. Thank You, Lord Jesus Christ, for praying for those who would believe in You. Thank You for the other sheep that You must bring to Yourself.
I pray with You, dear Savior, for those other sheep that You must bring. Multitudes are bound by sin and Satan, and I ask forgiveness for me and for other believers who have cared so little for those perishing people. I acknowledge that the same sinful culture that blinds and binds the lost has made my heart cold and apathetic. Please forgive me. Grant me a burden for the lost around me. I pray for (name persons you care for who are lost). In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I tear down the blindness Satan is putting upon _____. I pray You will bring these dear ones to saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank You, Father in heaven, for the revival awakenings of history. I praise You for giving revival blessings in various places even in recent years. Thank You for opening my eyes to see the need for a revolutionary revival from Your omnipotent hands that will glorify You, startle the world, and bring multitudes into saving faith. I ask You to grant me a burden for such a revival. Help me to believe that it can come to my city. I humbly offer myself as an intercessor for such an awakening. Lead me to at least one other person with whom I can pray regularly for its coming. I ask You to raise up revival prayer groups in every city, town, suburb and rural area of our nation. I ask You to build a broad base of people nationwide who are expecting revival. Grant to each group a consuming burden for You to bring revival. Make the involvement of people broad enough so that when You sovereignly know we are ready, You will visit us with Your holy presence. Your promise is that, as we seek to draw near to You, You will draw near to us. I pray this nearness will truly be revolutionary. Make it humble us, break us, revive us and change the direction of our disintegrating culture.
We desperately need a movement of Your mighty grace that will transform the lives of multitudes of people. move our culture back to the absolutes of a Judeo-Christian ethic. Grant to us a legal system with courts who fear God and establish justice. Invade our penal system with such regeneration and reform that our jails will gradually empty until we wonder what to do with the unoccupied buildings.
I ask for such a transformation of our educational system that the humanistic, atheistic trends of our day will be completely reversed. I pray this revival will touch every political leader, every business enterprise, and every ;person in the mass media and entertainment industry. May revival clean up the music industry. I ask that the poverty, drunkenness, drugs, immorality and violence so common to our inner cities be overwhelmed by the transformed lives of regenerated people who live there. Bring the pornography industry to its knees through the repentance of the producers and consumers. Melt the divorce scandal away into nothingness because of the righteous, forgiving, encouraging lives of families made right with You.
The need for revolutionary revival in the churches, Lord Jesus Christ, is perhaps the greatest need of all. I invite You to walk among us who are believers and expose our sins as You see them. Grant to Your church a thoroughly repentant spirit where jealousies, suspicions and competitiveness evaporate in the abundance of joy that revival brings. I ask that every denomination and church that honors You and proclaims Your Word will so overflow with people that petty differences will disappear and worship the honors You will be established in the land. Enable the people to enjoy their preference of worship style in the fullness of Your Spirit.
Loving Heavenly Father, we are people with needs far greater than we understand. Come in the fullness and power of Your Holy Spirit and minister to them all. I open my life to You. Take every part of me and do with me whatever You know needs to be done. I hold back nothing from You. I believe there is sufficient grace supplies in the person and work of Christ to do far more than I have even begun to ask. I acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is mighty enough to humble a whole world with conviction of sin and the exalting of righteousness. I acknowledge, Almighty God, that You can quickly bring a world to judgment, or to revival. In the name of my Lord Jesus Christ, I plead for revolutionary revival to sweep over us like a fire that cannot be quenched. Amen.
These prayers may be reproduced for free distribution when the following credit is attached:
Mark I. Bubeck, copied from: The Rise of Fallen Angels
(Chicago, IL. Moody Press, 1995)
Sincerely,
Mark I. Bubeck
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