This is the day the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Prepare your hearts to enter His courts with and praise! Hallelujah! What are you thankful about? What have you experienced this week that is praiseworthy? Sing it! Share it! Lift it!
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Good Morning Living Water! The Living Water of God has flooded our souls and overflows to all around us bringing life. PTL! We are vessels of revival and God wants to use us as His sweet aroma and living water daily. Keep praying for revival, living water to flow from you to be part of the watering of this dry and weary land, and for God to fill our physical and spiritual aquifers. Spend time with Him being refreshed and readied. Allow His Spirit to anoint and wash you clean so you are prepared. Soak in THE Living Water. Then go! Flood the land with Good News and Living Water of God. Be part of the revival! Pray for many to be open to things of God and release those that think we and our faith are a stench. God is preparing you and someone for you to water and refresh. You are the aroma of God and His vessel of Living Water! Be who he made you to be and do your custom part in His Good News Delivery and Revival Co. Amen!
Connection Blogs:
- A Picture of Revival
Death Valley is an expansive desert in California, known as the lowest, driest, and hottest location in all of North America. It is a barren, desolate place that holds the record for the highest recorded temperature in the Western Hemisphere—a mere 134 degrees Fahrenheit!
Death is obviously a fitting description. Not much survives in Death Valley, whether vegetation or any human life exposed to the elements. But that doesn’t necessarily mean life is not possible.
In 2005, a rare torrential downpour deposited six inches of rain into the cracks of the rock-hard valley floor. Suddenly this lifeless desert blossomed with abundant and gorgeous flowers that had not been seen in 20 years! Dormant seeds, sitting underneath the soil for years and barely hanging on to life, were suddenly awakened when saturated with life-giving rain. The desert was alive, much like the promise of Isaiah 44:3-4:
“For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.”
This is a picture of revival—when the Spirit saturates a church with God’s Word about God’s Son so that God’s people come alive to His glory in whole new ways.
Living Christ, please come and pour out the life-giving rain of Your Spirit upon me, my family, my church and my nation! May Your people everywhere be saturated with Your Word so that we will come fully alive to Your glory! Revive us for the sake of those whose lives are lifeless and dry. Empower us to be Your hands and feet to those who hunger and thirst for the Living Water.
Praise the sovereign God who opens doors for the gospel of Christ (2 Cor.2:12).
Thank God for leading you “in triumphal procession in Christ” and using you to spread “the fragrance of the knowledge of him” (2:14).
Confess any lack of desire to be part of this procession.
Commit to joining this great procession, and ask God to use you to bring “the knowledge of him” to your areas of influence.
Pray for those for whom “the aroma of Christ” in the “triumphal procession” is “the smell of death,” asking God to work his grace into their hearts to change it to “the fragrance of life” (2:14-17).
Prayer Points taken from Patterns for Prayer by Alvin VanderGriend. This book is available at prayerleader.com. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.
