Scripture for October: “Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, till He comes and rains righteousness on you.” Hosea 10:12b (New King James Translation)
Quotation for October: “Many of us have no heart-sickness for the former glory of the Church because we have never known what true revival is. We stagnate in the status quo and sleep easy at night while our generation moves swiftly to the eternal night of hell. Shame, shame on us!”
Leonard Ravenhill (Why Revival Tarries)
Director’s Message: Like breaking fallow ground, praying for revival is hard work. But a “heart-sickness” over sin—over the souls all around us headed straight to hell & over the church’s fading compassion for the lost—will keep our hands on the plow of intercessory prayer. It will shake us out of our complacency and our self-centered tendency to strive primarily for our own creature comforts. It will get us out of bed at odd hours & drive us to our knees. It will cause tears to course down our cheeks at seemingly the slightest provocation. Such heart-sickness over sin will cause us cause us to hunger for the soul-winning power that our churches knew in past generations. I close by asking you to consider these hard-hitting questions posed by Leonard Ravenhill: “Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?”
Daily Prayer Emphasis for October:
MONDAY – Pray for the Lord to lead and empower our Cornerstone Conference officials as they lead us forward in Kingdom Expansion.
TUESDAY – Pray for a move of God among the foreign-born residents of your community. Pray that Christians will befriend them & show them the love of Jesus.
WEDNESDAY – Pray for a revival of repentance—sparked by an agonizing awareness of sin—in our churches and in our communities.
THURSDAY – Pray that President Obama and the members of the 111th Congress will prove to be friends of Israel and friends of the innocent.
FRIDAY – Pray for new IPHC churches to be birthed and for like-minded unaffiliated churches to seek fellowship with the IPHC.
SATURDAY – Pray for more of our churches to become passionate about supporting our missionaries with their prayers and their finances.
SUNDAY – Pray that our pastors will preach with an increasing unction and that increasing numbers will be saved, sanctified, & filled with the Holy Spirit in our services.
