Paul Jehle - Intercede for Revival

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SUMMARY: The speaker discusses the importance of interceding for revival in a strategic way, according to God's plan and will. Revival involves the renewal of the spirit, soul, and body, and is not simply a mystical experience. The speaker emphasizes that revival must start with repentance and a desire for spiritual renewal, and that the external manifestations of culture are a reflection of the internal state of God's people. The speaker highlights the history of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and emphasizes that God has a unique purpose for every part of the globe, including the church's mission to train the youth and those in universities. The speaker encourages listeners to understand their place in God's plan and to intercede accordingly.

The speaker discusses the importance of repentance and the difference between sin and iniquity. Iniquity is the result of unrepentant sin that resides in the general culture. The iniquity of Boston, for example, was the result of the church not repenting of the sin of slavery, which then became a collective, social manifestation of sin. The first step towards revival is to repent and ask God to restore our vision for why we are here. We must also ask God to change our minds so that justice and truth unite with mercy and peace. When the spirit and soul are expressed through the physical body, the results are a unified vision of the Biblical world. Christians need a new vision, a new mind, and an emphasis on the Kingdom of God, which is bigger than the church. The Kingdom of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. Interceding for revival means asking God to renew our vision and straighten us up so that we can become vehicles for the Kingdom of God, which will then descend from heaven to earth and bless others.

I want to talk to you about interceding for revival. There is a rising wave of revival in New England. There are more prayer meetings everywhere, more believers who are hungry for revival. We are in a great flood of holy spirit but we need direction in our prayers. Intercession needs to acquire a strategic dimension. We can't just keep praying randomly and just ask the Lord to flood the culture. What we need is we need to take his plan and locate and direct it, and once we are channeled with his desires, then we can pray according to his will, his designs, for this culture, at this time for what he wants to do. And that is why we need direction to begin to understand what prayer is.

The Bible tells us that we can pray wrongly. We can pray for the wrong things, at the wrong time, in the name of Jesus. And that is why we need to learn to pray not using the name of Jesus, but praying in the name of Jesus, in the very nature of Jesus, in the will of Jesus, in the spirit of Jesus, and therefore we need direction from the word of God about what it means to intercede for revival.