My dear brothers and sisters in Christ and co-laborers in Him,

I started up tent of meeting just over eight months ago on March 28, 2009, though I didn't make my first public post until April 14, 2009, when I explained more of my vision/mission for this website.

I've never wanted to post anything here (or on my other blog) that I didn't believe God was leading me to post. I didn't just want to post a prayer here to say I've posted something. Even though I have continued to pray for revival on my own, I've not felt led to post prayers here as regularly as of late. I know that part of the reason is because of the shaking, refining and purifying God has been doing in my own life.

I have decided that for a time I need to consciously put this website aside to pray and seek His face privately. This is something I've been contemplating for a while now. I'm not quite sure when I might begin posting again here, but I do know as God strengthens me it is my earnest desire to continue to pray for revival. I hope and pray you will continue to pray for revival as well.

I still wholeheartedly agree with what I wrote in my very first post here, I am burdened to pray to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for restoration, reformation and revival of Christ's church.

I am thankful for each of you, as well as for others throughout the world whom God is raising up to pray for revival. I thank all of you for your prayers and encouragements. I also thank those of you whose prayers I have posted here.

I am convinced there is no hope for the Church apart from God's Spirit falling afresh on us.

Here are some other concerns I have been and will be continuing to pray about.

I am praying God would bring together in a more cohesive way those of us who have a heart for revival and have received a calling to pray for revival. I believe we are spread too thinly on the wall. I'm not quite sure how that might look in reality, but I have been feeling for some time that we need to be strategic as we rebuild the wall (think Nehemiah). By strategic I don't mean resorting to worldly means but seeking God's ways and His wisdom. The three fold cord is not quickly broken. I confess I have often been tempted to feel like Elijah, that there are no others out there, even though I know there are others. God always has a remnant He is calling. I pray God might raise up a fellowship of believers who can support, uphold and encourage one another as we pray and so we can then be mobilized and sent out into our home churches and communities on mission for Him. I am praying that those of us who have had a taste of revival in our own lives would be able to take that into our churches. I know there are some of us who are specifically called to this blogging community, but all of us are called to battle on the home front as well.

I am praying God would begin to raise up people in the local church to disciple and equip the saints both now and as revival does come, for there will be an influx of hungry souls needing meat. We should all be praying about our responsibility and role in that.

As I said, I hope you will continue to pray. I'm not shutting down the site, so I invite you to come back and read and pray through the prayers that have already been posted. I recently went back and tagged my posts so you may find it a bit easier to search through the blog.

I would also encourage you to read George Whitefield's sermon "Intercession, every Christian's Duty."

Let us continue in prayer knowing that


It has been a privilege and blessing to march alongside you here. May we continue in prayer so we do not faint. By faith and patience we will inherit the promises.

If you wish to contact me, you can do so through private message.

Yours in Christ, seeking His face, with much affection,
Karen

I continue to thank God for the watchmen He is setting up on the walls to pray for revival in their own lives and in the life of the Church.

Along those lines, here's a prayer by David (deepestrecesses@revelife). (His prayer was originally posted here.)

Hear My Prayer - Father

  Romans 7:16-25 

 ¹⁶But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.  ¹⁷So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.  ¹⁸For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.  ¹⁹For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.  ²⁰But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.  

²¹I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.  ²²For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,  ²³but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.  ²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?  ²⁵Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Father-God; inside me there is absolutely no good.  Even apart from you I would not know how to express these pains.  This body has trapped me into weaknesses that I did not want.  The nature of sin, cultivated in the flesh, seems unstoppable!  You have searched my heart- Oh Lord- and I fear.  But I open my heart to you because for you I hope to be found a suitable dwelling place for your Holy Spirit. 

By my life I agree that your law is good—even when I am found lacking; you are exalted all the more as perfect! 

Even though my eyes are dry it does not mean you do not see the tears.
Because you have always been the one to fight away my fears.

By day and by night you have watched over me as my storms have raged.
Seeing the turmoil’s I face, helpless in this flesh; helpless in this cage.

Even though my eyes are dry it does not mean you do not see the tears.
So your Son you gave, in Love; a lamb taken before the sheers.

Humiliated, broken, and mocked he became a curse so that I could be your son.
Emptied of all his rightful power, Jesus hung upon the cross, breathed his last, and said “All is done”.

Even though my eyes are dry it does not mean you do not see the tears.

Father—hear my prayer; I have cast myself before you, I am placing all my trust in you that I may be saved.  I know nothing but that your Son completed your will and fulfilled all that he came to fulfill as he ascended into heaven; sitting by your side—head of the Church—Savior of your children. 

I hope in you.  I trust in you.  I desire only you and yet my body—tired and worn out—seems unwilling to set aside its old ways. 

Father, grant me patience.  Grant me wisdom.  Grant me compassion that I may show compassion.  These are the tools with which I may work. 

I beg, do not let evil hinder me any longer.  Protect me from the temptations so set to destroy me.  If your Spirit dwells in me, then I will be free to wield love, mercy, compassion, tenderness, and knowledge as tools to do your will! 

Your Holy Spirit I desire; my only fear is that I disqualify myself from your Spirit and you take it away.  I pray you destroy my body before you take your spirit from me!!

I marvel at the complex intricacies of your design and your will.  Far more complex than all the universe is your plan for salvation; yet as simple as Jesus Christ—Lord and Savior!

Grant to me that I might know you, Father, and your Son Jesus Christ!!!

Amen!

Brothers and sisters, please add your prayers as the Spirit leads you...