I don’t know if this question was prompted by the Lord, but i remember praying one evening about revival and a provoking question came to me.
“If revival coming to your city depended on your prayers, how hard would you pray?”
Now, i know that revival, like salvation, is a sovereign movement by God to visit his people. But, like salvation, there is a small but crucial point where our “yes” means everything. An individual can deny salvation. A people can deny revival.
God, the great Pursuer, loves to be pursued. He loves being loved. He loves being needed. So he restrains himself to see who will seek him.
If revival coming to your city depended on your prayers, how hard would you pray?
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I also think the Lord, in his infinite wisdom, knows the blessing that prayer is to our lives. He’s so passionate about our good, that he even holds back to see who will find the depth of humility that leads to unending prayer and dependence on him.
It’s a double helping for the Lord. He gets to find pleasure in our pursuit of him, and also in our discovery of the unending riches of a life of prayer!
It’s fun reading your stuff Joshua! Miss you!