Prayers for Revival in Glynn County...

[SaintLewis]

In the past, sadly, I've never been the 'pray for revival' sort of guy, even though one of my personal heroes is Jonathan Edwards, who was used by God to spark the Great Awakening. That aside, God has been churning in me a passion to see the lost saved, and the church revived in a major way here in Glynn County. As I've been praying towards that end, I've found that I'm not the only one - various local churches are starting different initiatives to reach the lost, and at the same time develop a deeper 'worship community' within their ranks. I'm, personally, very excited to see what God is going to do here - I'm convinced that this revival will need to be 2-fold: youth &...the ELDERLY. Please pray.

[El Ben]

Wow. I've been feeling the exact same thing. You would think we were serving the same God or something, huh? Weird... :)

All jokes aside, I've been feeling the burn to pray for revival. I really feel something on the horizon, too. I tell you what, though, Pastor Dan Harris said something incredible yesterday in his sermon "Fuel for the Fire."

"...Arthur Burt once told us that fire would never fall on an empty alter. That's true. It profits us nothing to pray for the fire of God when we offer nothing for it to consume. All the things in your life that stand between you and God, that's the fuel for your fire. Let God get ahold of your fear, let God get ahold of your failures, let God get ahold of your secret sin, and let him burn it up. It might be painful, but when the fire falls on your alter, there'll be something there to for it to burn."

He's talking about holiness, and I've been more moved toward holiness (to the point of confessing to things I thought were too small to even matter) since I've been here than ever before. Something is definitely getting stirred up.

[SaintLewis]

Honestly, I thought you might.
One thing that struck me as a "hmm - is God doing something" is the fact that I felt led to schedule a night of worship at St. Simons Community Church for June 8th, during which I will be announcing a series of open-mic coffee-house outreach events over the Summer...
Without so much as mentioning it to anyone else, I found out that First Baptist in Brunswick had already started the same thing - and now I find that you at SSI Christian Renewal & my sis-n-law, Bethany are holding a night of worship this Friday...
and until AFTER she had begun planning her event we had no idea that we were both working on something like that!
Apparently there is a move among young people in Glynn County - worshiping God + Evangelism/Outreach, which strike me much as the same thing: if you can't help but sing God's praises among the redeemed, how can you help but speak God's praises among those who aren't yet?
Exciting times, eh!?

[El Ben]

I don't know if you were at the Glynn County national day of prayer, Shannon, but it was POWERFUL. I've never been in a place where there was such a collective stirring for prayer. The presence of the Lord was definitely in the place and everyone there, regardless of denomination was earnestly seeking the face of God concerning our nation. It was incredible!

[SaintLewis]

I was unable to attend - the coals are smoldering.
I wonder if you've ever read R.T. Kendall & Paul Cain's little book/prophecy "The Word & the Spirit". Deep in my soul, I think much of what they said there is true about the future revival/renewal in the church: something is about to happen by God's Spirit that will be a powerful move of God, involving spiritual gifts and evangelism and worship and radical 'kingdom of God' living, but which will look very unfamiliar to Charismatics/Pentecostals (in that it won't fit that mold whatsoever and would probably not go by that 'label'). They believe at it's center will be a combination of a Gospel-centered (not 'experience centered') church, with deep, passionate, detailed teaching of the Word of God and theology with a risky, yet Scripturally balanced, walking in God's gifts, and that in that combination this new move will look very different from what has come before, mainly because the spiritual gifts won't 'define them' as they do many charismatic churches - the gospel will.
Anyway, when I first read that book 4 years ago something deeply resounded with me, and I'm feeling more and more like that revival/renewal that I can't even entirely picture or understand is right around the corner for us.

[El Ben]

I have not read that book, but Leonard Ravenhill references it in my personal favorite book: Revival Praying. It's a POWERFUL, powerful little book from a powerful giant of the faith. It pretty much has the same characteristics of the book you've just described.