True revival is the work of God and so we know that no matter how much we try or plan, we cannot “organize revival”, what we can do is ask God to work and that is in the place of prayer. This was what Habakkuk did in Habakkuk 3:2,”Oh Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid; Oh Lord, revive they work in the midst of the years…”
The foremost need in the church now is for spiritual awakening, for a new instilling of divine breath into his church, for a stirring up in the lives of his people and an outflowing of the Holy Spirit that we may joy in the Lord, as the psalmist asked and prayed in Psalms 8:6“Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?”.
PERSONAL REVIVAL PRAYERS
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. (Psalms 63:11.)
1. Father, open our eyes to see where we have missed the way to eternity and begin to set our hearts aright to pursue hard after you.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. (Jeremiah 20:9)
2. Father, cause us to burn for you and be aligned to your purpose for us. Take away selfishness of the flesh and cause us to seek your face daily until we see your glory revealed.
CHURCH REVIVAL PRAYERS
Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. (Isaiah 32:15)
1. Father, pour out Your Spirit like a mighty flood on the church, into the hearts of all your people. Let our hearts, thoughts and minds be washed, cleansed and purified by the Word and your spirit.
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? (Psalms 85:6)
2. Lord, we pray that you would revive the hearts of those who have left their first love, become lukewarm toward You and become involved in mixed religion, that you turn their hearts back to you.
NATION REVIVAL PRAYERS
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee (Isaiah 55:5)
1. Father in the name of Jesus, cause the nations that know you not to begin to see that you are the way, the truth and the life eternal, that they need not look elsewhere.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)
2. Father, let the nations of the earth come to the revelation that you are the source of life, health and wealth, that their desire for all that they need is in you.