Fast and Pray for Revival
by Pastor Jim BrownHorizon Christian Fellowship
(www.calvarychapel.com/hcfw)
We have been called into fellowship with Jesus – that IS our calling. Our calling is to Koinonia – to share and commune and partner with Jesus in everything. This means two things to us: 1) We have all utterance and wisdom and spiritual blessings from the Lord, & 2) All that we have is HIS (1Cor 1:9).
Our choice is whether to give God all that we are and have…all of our time, talents and treasures (Rom 12:1) -- our hearts! If we desire to know and fellowship with Jesus as He would like (Phil 3:10-11), then we must choose to yield our lives to Him. This yielding is, in effect: revival!
We here at Horizon Christian Fellowship (West side of Indianapolis) are stepping out and will be fasting and praying EVERY Wednesday – We are crying out to God for our own hearts, for the hearts of our local churches, for the community around us and for our state and nation.
We are inviting you and your families and congregations to stand in one Accord with us as we seek a fresh move of the Holy Spirit, and a great outpouring upon our hearts and for the Name of the LORD to be proclaimed across the land!
King Josiah shows us Revival (2Kings 22-23 / 2Chron 34-35)
Step 2: Ask God what HE wants, Then Listen & obey (2Kings 22:15-18)
Step 3: Commit Yourself (and your nation) to God (2 Kings 23:3)
Step 4: Get the Sinful Things Out of Your Life (2Kings 23:4-14)
Ezra the Priest prayed for Revival for the nation of Israel (Ezra 9:5-10, 15)
8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. 9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
Nehemiah cried out to the Lord that He might have mercy and restore His people (Nehemiah 1:1-11)
(4) And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, (5) And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: (6) Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants,
Isaiah speaks of fasting (Isaiah 58:6-11)
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