Thy Kingdom come

  • Make us zealous for You and Your house


    John 2:13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he [Jesus] found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade. 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will consume me.

    Luke 19:45 And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.

    Isaiah 56:7
    I will bring to my holy mountain,
    and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
    their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
    will be accepted on my altar;
    for my house shall be called a house of prayer
    for all peoples.

    Holy Father, Son and Spirit,

    We confess we are often zealous for all sorts of things but You and Your house.
    We are Your house, we are Your people, built together by You and for You to inhabit us for Your glory.
    How absurd we are not zealous for You and Your house!

    We confess we are often all too zealous for any and all things besides those things for which You are zealous. We are Your people, filled with Your Spirit, being transformed and conformed into Your likeness. Ought we not be zealous for what the Lord Jesus Christ was zealous?

    We confess we are all too zealous for our families, for our careers, for our leisure activities, for our possessions, for earthly prestige, position, power and mammon, but we do not have the same consuming zeal for You and Your house the Lord Jesus had.

    We confess our lukewarmness and indifference toward You and Your house.
    Forgive us, O Lord, that we are not zealous for You and Your house.
    By the working of Your Holy Spirit who dwells in us, give us a consuming zeal for You and Your house.
    Make us zealous for You and Your house like the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our chief cornerstone.

    Holy Father, Son and Spirit,

    We confess we are often zealous for all sorts of things but You and Your house.
    We are Your house, we are Your people, built together by You and for You to inhabit us for Your glory.
    How absurd we are not zealous for You and Your house!

    We confess we are often all too zealous for any and all things besides those things for which You are zealous. We are Your people, filled with Your Spirit, being transformed and conformed into Your likeness. Ought we not be zealous for what the Lord Jesus Christ was zealous?

    We confess we are all too zealous for our church activities and endless programs and plans. We confess we have made Your house a den of thieves by lusting after entertainment and seeking earthly means to grow Your Kingdom. We have made a mockery of Your house. If we were truly zealous for Your house, would we not be making every effort to tarry in prayer for Your house, to intercede in prayer for Your house the way the Lord Jesus did while on earth and continues to do so today at the right hand of the Father? Would we not be assembling together with the members of Your house for prayer more often than we do? Would we not be continuing to ask for Your Holy Spirit to come down and baptize and fill us afresh and anew and empower and equip us for the work You have commissioned us to do?

    We confess our lukewarmness and indifference toward You and Your house.
    Forgive us, O Lord, that we are not zealous for You and Your house.
    By the working of Your Holy Spirit Who dwells in us, give us a consuming zeal for You and Your house.
    Make us zealous for You and Your house like the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our chief cornerstone.

    Holy Father, Son and Spirit,

    We confess we are often zealous for all sorts of things but You and Your house.
    We are Your house, we are Your people, built together by You and for You to inhabit us for Your glory.
    How absurd we are not zealous for You and Your house!

    We confess we are often all too zealous for any and all things besides those things for which You are zealous. We are Your people, filled with Your Spirit, being transformed and conformed into Your likeness. Ought we not be zealous for what the Lord Jesus Christ was zealous?

    How zealous are we for You and Your house? For Your Kingdom? For Your presence? For Your Word? For Your Gospel? For Your glory? For Your renown? For Your blessed Name?

    We confess our lukewarmness and indifference toward You and Your house.
    Forgive us, O Lord, that we are not zealous for You and Your house.
    By the working of Your Holy Spirit Who dwells in us, give us a consuming zeal for You and Your house.
    Make us zealous for You and Your house like the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our chief cornerstone.

    Holy Father, Son and Spirit,

    We confess we are often zealous for all sorts of things but You and Your house.
    We are Your house, we are Your people, built together by You and for You to inhabit us for Your glory.
    How absurd we are not zealous for You and Your house!

    We confess we are often all too zealous for any and all things besides those things for which You are zealous. We are Your people, filled with Your Spirit, being transformed and conformed into Your likeness. Ought we not be zealous for what the Lord Jesus Christ was zealous?

    How zealous are we that Your house be a house of prayer for all people? How can we not be zealous for the lost and perishing souls around us who have not yet heard Your Word? How can we remain sequestered away in Your house knowing there are other lost sheep who must be gathered in? How can they come to Your Holy mountain, to Your house, if they have not heard? How can they hear if we do not go and speak to them?

    We confess our lukewarmness and indifference toward You and Your house.
    Forgive us, O Lord, that we are not zealous for You and Your house.
    By the working of Your Holy Spirit Who dwells in us, give us a consuming zeal for You and Your house.
    Make us zealous for You and Your house like the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our chief cornerstone.

    Holy Father, Son and Spirit,

    We confess we are often zealous for all sorts of things but You and Your house.
    We are Your house, we are Your people, built together by You and for You to inhabit us for Your glory.
    How absurd we are not zealous for You and Your house!

    We confess we are often all too zealous for any and all things besides those things for which You are zealous. We are Your people, filled with Your Spirit, being transformed and conformed into Your likeness. Ought we not be zealous for what the Lord Jesus Christ was zealous?

    How can we say we are zealous for Your Kingdom when we spend precious little time praying for Your Kingdom to come? How zealous are we when we spend little time in praying Your might open a door for us to speak? How zealous are we when we spend little time praying Your might make our words clear as we proclaim Your Word? How zealous are we when we spend little time praying for You to send laborers into the harvest? How zealous are we when we spend so little time praying You to soften the hearts of lost souls to receive Your Word?

    We confess our lukewarmness and indifference toward You and Your house.
    Forgive us, O Lord, that we are not zealous for You and Your house.
    By the working of Your Holy Spirit Who dwells in us, give us a consuming zeal for You and Your house.
    Make us zealous for You and Your house like the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our chief cornerstone.

    Please add your prayers of confession and prayers for zeal for our God and His house as His Spirit leads you...

  • appealing to the zeal of the LORD of hosts

    Isaiah 9:7

    Of the increase of his government and of peace
    there will be no end,
    on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
    with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
    The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    Lord of heaven
    Lord of earth
    Lord of the church
    Lord of all

    You are everlasting
    You always were
    You always are
    You always shall be
    We are but a vapor
    We are but the branches
    Apart from You we are nothing
    Apart from You we can do nothing

    You sent Your only begotten Son to fulfill the very words Isaiah spoke hundreds of years beforehand
    Jesus Christ came of the line of David, yet born of the Holy Spirit in the virgin womb
    fully God and fully man
    through Whom Your Kingdom came to earth
    the King came to earth
    the King of kings

    You have promised of the increase of His government there will be no end
    You have promised of the increase of His peace there will be no end
    You have come to rule in human hearts by Your Spirit
    You have come to bring peace to men through Your blood

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You have established your Kingdom here
    Yet Your kingdom is not of this world
    Your kingdom is within us who believe
    We are Your chosen people in whom You have put Your Spirit

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    We are a kingdom of priests, a holy nation
    Now we are asking that You keep Your promise
    Now we are asking that You uphold the Kingdom You have established in us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We have no power of ourselves to be Kingdom people
    We look at ourselves and see we are so far from the Kingdom You intended.
    Forgive us our sins, O Lord of hosts.
    Conform us into Your image.

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    You have birthed Your people by Your incorruptible seed
    Apart from You we were not a people,
    but now by Your grace we are Your people

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You have imparted to Your people Your everlasting life
    Apart from You we had no life
    but now by Your grace we have everlasting life

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You have promised to sustain Your people by Your life
    You are the beginning and You are the ending
    and now by Your grace You are upholding us by the word of Your power

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You are the alpha and You are the omega
    We have no beginning and we have no life
    apart from Your sovereign grace breathing life into us

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    You are the author and You are the perfecter
    We have no story and we have no faith
    apart from Your sovereign grace intervening in our stories

    Lord of hosts, we praise Your holy name
    Your zeal has done this

    Lord of hosts,
    We are strangers and aliens here
    Sustain and uphold us
    Carry and strengthen us
    By Your resurrection power
    For the pilgrim journey that yet lies ahead for us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are Your new creation
    Ordained to walk in good works
    Sanctify and purify us
    Complete and finish in us
    The work You have begun in us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are Your ambassadors
    Fill and empower us
    Anoint and embolden us
    Send us out into the world
    As You sent Your Son into the world

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are ministers of New Covenant glory
    not sufficient of ourselves
    may Your grace toward us not be in vain
    but let us work harder
    yet not us but Your grace in us

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    We are stewards of Your Gospel
    the power of God to those who believe
    may we guard it carefully
    may we proclaim it boldly
    may we never be ashamed of it or of You

    Lord of hosts, we appeal to You, to Your zeal
    Surely the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

    Amen.

    As His Holy Spirit leads you, please add your prayers to the Lord of hosts...

  • "...carry on Thy Kingdom in believers' hearts" (Whitefield)

    Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

    Oh that the Lord may revive His work in the midst of the years. The world is now up in arms. Blessed Jesus, whilst the kings of the earth are striving to extend their dominions, do Thou secretly carry on Thy Kingdom in believers' hearts, till the earth be filled with the knowledge of Thee, our Lord, as the waters cover the sea!

    –George Whitefield, April 14, 1740

    He put another parable before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. 33 He told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.

    –Matthew 13:31-33

    Oh that Thou, O Lord, may revive Thy Kingdom work in us in the midst of the years. The world is now up in arms. Blessed Jesus, whilst the kings of the earth are striving to extend their dominions, do Thou secretly carry on Thy Kingdom in our hearts, till we be filled with the knowledge of Thee as the waters cover the sea! Blessed Jesus, do Thou secretly carry on Thy Kingdom in our hearts, so we might be sent out with Your Kingdom seed and leaven to the ends of the earth, that the earth be filled with the knowledge of Thee as the waters cover the sea! Blessed Jesus, do Thou secretly carry on Thy Kingdom in our hearts, so we might be become Your Kingdom seed and leaven to the ends of the earth, that the earth be filled with the knowledge of Thee as the waters cover the sea!

    Show us, O Lord, those parts of our hearts where we have not yet welcomed Your Kingdom.
    May You carry on Your Kingdom work in our hearts and extend Your rightful dominion in us.
    Send us, O Lord, to those parts of the earth that have not yet welcomed Your Kingdom.
    May You carry on Your Kingdom work and extend Your rightful dominion throughout all the earth.

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"he called it the tent of meeting..."

I am burdened to pray to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the reformation and reviving of Christ's church.

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.

This blog is a place for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to come and seek God's face for revival. My intention is for this tent of meeting to be a holy place where we can enter into PRAYER together to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit leads you, please enter into prayer either here (think of "comments" as prayers) or on your own.

Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

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