First, I want to thank Oak Park Baptist Church for sponsoring this day by recruiting its members to pray for the City of Gainesville and the rest of Alachua County.
I make a point of praying the Operation Rolling Thunder initiatives every Sunday morning, and as I have done so, I have realized that if our prayers are realized, then God would be directing us and blessing us in every sphere of our community's existence. And I believe that would indicate that we were in revival.
I understand that most of us in the Evangelical Christian Community imagine revival as something particularly eventful. And that event might include a lot of rapturous emotion and large scale conversion of sinners to faith in Christ. But, what if those things seemed to be happening, but God was not directing us nor blessing us in all other areas of life outside of the church? Wouldn't we find this disturbing?
We should have feelings of discontent if all the "change" seems to be confined to our church buildings and our meeting times. This is the reason I am praying for God to move in all spheres of our city, and praying for more Christians to pray AND take action, no matter what sphere they inhabit. I believe that if His people, who are called by His name, shall humble themselves and pray, and turn from their own selfish agendas and devotion to idleness, then He will hear us, forgive us, and change our city. I believe we would have revival.
This is what a prayer request looks like. A woman in my family has been suffering from a debilitating illness for a long time. I pray that the lord will make her well suddenly and fully, and that He will protect her from future relapses.
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