O Lord please send Revival!

It is a momentous time in the life of Cedar Creek Baptist Church. We have started a study entitled Fresh Encounter. The Spirit of God is moving among our people.

Last night during our Wednesday Night prayer time, one of the most memorable, uniting, and honest prayer times took our congregation through cooperate confessions of failures as a body before the Lord. We confessed sin and asked for a fresh blessing from the Lord. It is my hearts desire that God would do something amazing among us his people.

After reading through the book of judges three things strike me. One, everyman did would seemed good in his own eyes, two, the Lord punished sin, then three, the Lord revived the people when they cried out to him. I know that we have done many things that seemed good in our own eyes, yet we missed the heartbeat of God for our church and community. There is no single person to blame, or single group, we are all one body and we are all in need of repentance and a fresh encounter with God.

Lord, I pray that you will give us an intense hunger for your Word and brake our hearts that we could hear your Word. May we learn as our Pastor John has told us many times, who you are, who we are, and the vast difference between the two. I ask that you, Lord, turn us away by whatever means necessary from what seems good in our own eyes. Return us once again to the cross, to cherish it. To live its truth. To die again to ourselves taking up our cross and following you. May we cling to Jesus our Savior and Lord, the head of our church and authority in our lives, with everything that is in us. Grant us the grace and mercy to return once again to a love relationship with our only hope and foundation, Jesus Christ. Rescue us from ourselves and send revival Lord. Please send us revival.

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. Acts 3:19-21 (ESV)