July 9, 2009

• How good and pleasant it is that He is setting watchmen on our walls

  Over the past several months, because God had been giving me a burden to pray for revival I started tent of meeting, this blog dedicated to prayer for revival in Christ's Church.

  This is my mission statement:

  I am burdened to pray to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for Christ's church and for revival. The phrase tent of meeting comes from Exodus 33:7: Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. This site is devoted to God first and foremost. In all that is done here, my prayer is that God is glorified and His Name magnified and Christ and Him crucified is lifted up so He might be preeminent and God might receive all the praise, honor and glory due His Holy Name. All who have come to a saving knowledge of our Father by grace through faith in the all-sufficient sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ are welcome to enter this tent of meeting to seek the Lord.

  
  You can find more information about tent of meeting here.

  Since beginning to pray here, we've been praying through the Lord's Prayer. We are at the section, "Forgive us our sins," and have been focusing on and praying over Jesus' words to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3.
  
  Earlier this week I asked some of the friends and subscribers of tent of meeting to pray about writing a prayer related to Revelation 2-3 that I might post here. I have been excited to see how God is giving His people a heart to pray for revival. I consider it a privilege to be able to include the prayers of many of my brothers and sisters here at tent of meeting. As my brothers and sisters in the Lord submit their prayers I plan to post them here. May the Lord continue to help us to persevere in prayer for we know that the effectual fervent prayers of righteous men and women and boys and girls do avail much! May this blog bring glory to Him for He alone is worthy! Though we come from many different denominations and backgrounds, I believe as I post the prayers of many here we will be reminded the Body of Christ is bigger than our congregations and transcends our denominations – that tent of meeting would serve as a visible demonstration of the unity we have in Christ. In Ephesians 4, the apostle Paul reminds us:

  There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.

  
  and in Psalm 133 we read:

  Behold, how good and pleasant it is
  when brothers dwell in unity!
  2 It is like the precious oil on the head,
  running down on the beard,
  on the beard of Aaron,
  running down on the collar of his robes!
  3 It is like the dew of Hermon,
  which falls on the mountains of Zion!
  For there the Lord has commanded the blessing,
  life forevermore.

  
  As we see the many prayers here may we continue to be encouraged that this is God's work, that He is raising up people to pray from all corners of the Church. I know we do not agree on all things, but we do agree on the essentials of our faith and we do agree that Jesus Christ must be exalted and given the preeminence once more in His Church. For too long He has not been given His rightful place. We agree that the Church is in a sad and sorry state and apart from His Holy Spirit falling fresh on us, apart from reviving breath and apart from His purifying and igniting fire, we can do nothing.

  Isaiah wrote:

  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
  and rely on horses,
  who trust in chariots because they are many
  and in horsemen because they are very strong,
  but do not look to the Holy One of Israel
  or consult the Lord!
  
  (Isaiah 31:1)
  

  
  God has been raising up some dedicated intercessors who so love Him and love His Bride and are grieved over the current state of the Church:

  On your walls, O Jerusalem,
  I have set watchmen;
  all the day and all the night
  they shall never be silent.
  You who put the Lord in remembrance,
  take no rest,
  and give him no rest
  until he establishes Jerusalem
  and makes it a praise in the earth.
  (Isaiah 62:6-7)

  Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. Exodus 33:7.

  
  O, Lord God, how good and pleasant it is for us to dwell in unity. How good and pleasant it is when we come together to seek You in prayer. How good and pleasant it is that You are setting watchmen on our walls from all across Your Body. Even as You raised up and led Moses and many of the children of Israel to seek You in the tent of meeting outside the camp, You are raising up Your people to seek Your face and to pray to You now. You are filling us with a zeal for Your house. We want Your house to be a house of prayer, not a house of idolatry. We want Your Church to be a praise in the earth. We have seen that the golden calves we have fashioned and have bowed down to are of no help. Forgive us for bowing down to our golden calves of human ingenuity. Forgive us for not giving Jesus Christ the preeminent place. He alone is worthy of all praise, honor and glory. We confess we have grieved and quenched the Spirit of God and have limited You, O holy One of Israel. Forgive us, O Lord. We confess we tried to do Your work apart from Your power. We have cut ourselves off from the true Vine. Forgive us, O Lord. May You continue to turn us from seeking help in our golden calves of human ingenuity and seek You alone, for there is no true help and there is no real hope for us apart from You. May we never be silent but continue in prayer at Your throne. May we give You no rest until You establish Your Church and You make us a praise in the earth. The effectual fervent prayers of righteous men and women and boys and girls avail much. Keep us boiling in the Spirit and fervent in prayer. As we unite in prayer before Your throne may You rain down blessing on Your Church and renew us with Your life so blessing and life might flow like precious oil into the world. Lord of the harvest, continue to raise up laborers for the harvest, both intercessors who pray for the harvest behind the scenes and laborers who go out to reap the harvest. And we will rejoice and shout together with singing as You give the increase for we know You are ready to do great things! Amen.
  
  

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