Revival and Awakening Introduction

The world is desperate.  The enemy knows his time is short sand is creating as much havoc and destructions as he can.   Christians around the world are now being targeted.  Obviously some persecution is much worse than others, but in very few places in the world today are believers respected.  In Muslim and Hindu majority nations, many believers are very lives are at risk.  In non-Muslim nations of the West, Christianity is mocked and derided by most of the establishment. The level of persecution varies between those extremes.  

That does not include issues such as famines, disease, war.   The war continues in Syria and Afghanistan.   There are reports of chemical weapons continuing to be used in Syria.   Wars leave refugees fleeing from the war zone and many of them are making their way to nations where they are taxing the resources of those nation and their presence is leading to problems with the locals in the community as cultures clash.

There is great tension between nations.  North Korea vs the United States and South Korea.  China vs the United States, Taiwan, Japan, India, and Vietnam.   Russia and Syria vs Syrian rebels or freedom fighters and Kurds.  Russia vs Ukraine. In Venezuela, many are on the verge of starvation.  In South Africa tension between blacks and whites are on the rise again.

We need a God sized intervention in this World and while we’re cannot change prophesy.  We can as intercessors intervene.  God listens to the prayers of his people.   He will respond with help

We need him to heal our lands.

So the prayer focus for this series will be 2^nd Chronicles 7:14 from the Old Testament.  This was given to the Jewish people, but since our God does not change, it is just as valid today.

II Chronicles 7:14

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

You’ll notice this has nothing to do with the lost.  They have no say in this.  Only those who are the Lord’s actually have a say in this and in many ways are responsible for our situation. It wasn’t anyone’s plan, in most cases, it was inattentiveness to what was happening in the world around us.   But, God gave us the solution – the Key if you will to turning things around.

If the church is revived and takes its role seriously, then we will impact the world and the Lord will heal not just our churches, but our communities and nations and many who are lost will repent and come to the Lord Jesus Christ.