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Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
Leonard Ravenhill said…
“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even
have the strength to turn off your TV?”
It is possible that you don’t have a clue because you do not attend it. But if you do, Leonard Ravenhill points outs…
The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying.
“Sinned as we have as a nation, yet to our sin we have added pride in our sinning. The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the church has lost her power to weep over it.”
Revival Prayer
Prayer Points:
1. That the strongholds within your country to be broken so that a new wave of revival may be released.
2. God will enable a prayer force to be mobilized to reach other unreached parts of your nation.
3. Pray that all Christians will be awakened into evangelization both locally and internationally.
4. Pray for the mobilization of Pastors, leaders, believers and intercessors in your country to awaken in prayers.
5. Pray that God will release a spirit of conviction and repentance upon your nation that millions of souls may get saved.
6. Pray for God to provide all the finances, favor and grace for all the resources that are needed for evangelism.
7. Pray for divine protection of your Christian leaders, that God will grant them protection, wisdom and favour.
8. Pray that God will give prophetic direction for the Nation.
9. Pray for Peace, godly leadership and godly counsel to the Government.
Scriptures
1. Psalm 126:5-6
2. Joel 2:28-29
3. Psalm 137:1-4
4. Romans 13
5. Romans 5:9
6. Jeremiah 16:14-16
7. Amos 9:15
Recommended Books on Revival
Why Revival Tarries…By Leonard Ravenhill
Revival Praying: An Urgent And Powerful Message For The Family Of Christ
“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”
“Oh that believers would become eternity conscious! If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God, if we did every act in the light of the judgment seat, if we sold every article in the light of the judgment seat. If we prayed every prayer in the light of the judgment seat, if we tithed all our possessions in the light of the judgment seat, if we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the judgment seat – them we would have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that, in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls.”
———- Leonard Ravenhill
“You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.”
May the Lord send fire from heaven!
Why Revival Taries by Leonard Ravenhill (From Harvest Bible Chapel) 
Here’s the full quotation on prayer that I referenced in my sermon this Sunday. I hope this challenges you, like it did me, to get on your knees and seek God’s face with more fervency and more frequency.
“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.
Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of praver. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer-the highest ministry of all human offices-is open to all. Spiritual adolescents say, “I’ll not go tonight, it’s only the prayer meeting.” It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God’s people praying. Modern Christians know little of “binding and loosing,” though the onus is on us-”Whatsoever ye shall bind…” Have you done any of this lately? God is not prodigal with His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.
This world hits the trail for hell with a speed that makes our fastest plane look like a tortoise; yet alas, few of us can remember the last time we missed our bed for a night of waiting upon God for a world-shaking revival. Our compassions are not moved. We mistake the scaffolding for the building. Present-day preaching, with its pale interpretation of divine truths, causes us to mistake action for unction, commotion for creation, and rattles for revivals.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent.
Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. “Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try,” and yet so sublime that it outranges all speech and exhausts man’s vocabulary. A Niagara of burning words does not mean that God is either impressed or moved. One of the most profound of Old Testament intercessors had no language “Her lips moved, but her voice was not heard.” No linguist here! There are groanings which cannot be uttered.”
Are we so substandard to New Testament Christianity that we know not the historical faith of our fathers (with its implications and operations), but only the hysterical faith of our fellows? Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it–or die!
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Leonard Ravenhill simply sums up what revival is all about… 
Are we jealous for God’s glory? To me that is what revival is all about.
Praying for revival!
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