“We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
– Romans 8:26

via “The Unrivalled Power Of Prayer” : My Utmost For His Highest : HEARTLIGHT ®.

Last night I was thinking about 2009 and what a difficult year it was and while in my last post I gave a brief glimpse into 2010, I feel it’s important to release some things while there’s still a little time left in 2009.

This is what I prayed for all night long:

1. Fresh Revelation- that will bring us into alignment with His purposes in 2010
2. Fresh Impartation of: Faith that moves mountains, Endurance that runs the race, Joy that laughs at the days to come, Love for Him & each other

I really sense a need to press in for the next month to get some strategy for 2010, the heart in this is to get on board with what our Father is doing NOT what we think He ought to do!

I also feel like we are to release 2009 with an attitude of gratitude! While it has been hard, the Lord has kept us! Amen?

Heather~

via Saying Goodbye To 2009 « The Wave Starter.

The quote above seems entirely applicable to today’s United States of America, doesn’t it? There are many who seem to write off Christianity as fiction, especially those who desire to be seen as intellectual. While the quote above is certainly fitting for today, you might be surprised to learn that is was originally written by Bishop Joseph Butler, Anglican Church, Analogy of Religion in 1730.

I have taken some encouragement in this, for two reasons:

1. Our cultural indifference toward Jesus Christ, as a secular nation, is not unique in Western history, and
2. Shortly after Butler wrote these words, the Great Awakening of the latter half of the 18th and first part of the 19th centuries occurred, changing world history and spreading to America.

It’s easy, sometimes, to be somewhat of a fatalist as a Christian in post-modern America. But, our privilege, right, and responsibility as Christians is to pray for God’s will to be done on this earth. He can take what seems like the most bleak of circumstances, and by moving in them, cause the world to be changed according to His plan.

We need revival in our society. Let’s pray it down.

“Intercessory Prayer is a powerful means of grace to the praying man. Martyn observes that at times of inward dryness and depression, he had often found a delightful revival in the act of praying for others in their conversion, or sanctification, or prosperity in the work of the Lord. His dealings with God for them about these gifts and blessings were for himself the divinely natural channel of a renewed insight into his own part and lot in Christ, into Christ as his own rest and power, into the “perfect freedom” of an entire yielding of himself to his Master for His work.”- Bishop Handley C.G. Moule

“One can form a habit of study until the will seems to be at rest and only the intellect is engaged, the will having retired altogether from exercise. This is not true of real praying. If the affections are laggard, cold, indifferent, if the intellect is furnishing no material to clothe the petition with imagery and fervor, the prayer is a mere vaporing of intellectual exercise, nothing being accomplished worth while.” – Reverend Homer W. Hodge

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