The Prayer Project

I’ve struggled with discouragement SO MUCH this week. Not because of anything bad happening but because so much good is possible. There are times that I look out at my congregation; these amazing people God has allowed me to serve; and I see world-changing potential.

I see spiritual gifts just ready to be tapped for the kingdom; I see a people of God who could literally change our city and our world; I see POWER. It’s exciting but its also humbling because it reminds that even tho all those things are already in us because of Christ and His Spirit, they mean NOTHING until His Spirit empowers us to use them; until we cleanse ourselves of sin so that we might experience true revival. I think about Ezekial and the valley bones. In them lay the potential to be a great nation but until God breathed on them, they were nothing….

I want God to breathe on us so bad, I want to see my brothers and sisters in Christ take hold of that world-changing power and let God’s Spirit move them and me into something more. I want to be holy as Christ is holy…… BUT we’re not there yet. I’m not there yet. And so I wait… but I was reminded this morning that as I wait for revival; for His Spirit to fall on us that I will “WORSHIP WHILE I’M WAITING.” 

Lord, help me to praise You, to worship and lift Your name high and God fall on us like with a life-giving, powerful breath and bring these dry bones to life!

Total time in prayer this week: 4hours

I have been reminded this week of James 5:16,

“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The FERVENT prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” (ESV)

I want to pray KINGDOM prayers. Prayers that have great power as they work. I have realized that I have been praying weak, self-centered, shallow prayers for most of my life. I have been so concerned with the physical comfort level of myself and those around me that I have missed praying for God’s power in my life and theirs REGARDLESS of the physical circumstances around them. 

I am committing to spending more of my time praying for individual’s salvation, for mission efforts in our world, for God’s will to be done and His kingdom to be furthered through world events, for the true spiritual and emotional brokenness I see in the lives of those around me not just their physical ailments. I am committing to spending more time praying for God to search my heart and to cleanse me that my prayers might have GREAT POWER as they are working. Please pray for my faithfulness in this, and please join me in praying KINGDOM PRAYERS and experiencing God’s power in a deeper way!