PRAYER FOR WEEKS 12-13 – RETURN, REVIVE, RESTORE
(17 – 30 May 2021)
Acts 2:1-3
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
Sunday 23rd May is Pentecost Sunday. As we have been fasting and praying, let us now ask for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit on ourselves and our churches. Revival will come to our land when we prepare ourselves for Him.
DECLARATION
Hosea 6:1-3 (NIV)
“Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us;
he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises, he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth.”
PRAYERS
Return to the Lord
Lord, I thank you for your great compassion towards us and I now heed your call to “return to You with all our heart, with fasting and weeping”. (Joel 2:12)
I do not want to live a lukewarm Christian life and be cast away from Your presence. I now respond to Your call to open the door of my heart and I invite You to be the Lord of my life. (Rev 3: 20)
I now declare You are my Lord and My God. I promise to obey your words with all my heart. Be merciful as you have promised, as I return to following your laws. (Psalm 119: 57-58)
He Will Revive Us
Lord, we thank You that You long for us to always be filled with Your life-giving Spirit. Today Lord, we confess that the church in Malaysia needs a powerful fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will enable us to be powerful witnesses of the gospel.
We need You to breathe Your word of life into our churches so that every dry bone will come to life, and become a mighty army. (Ezekiel 37: 4-10)
Lord, we ask that this outpouring will be accompanied by great repentance so that every unholy allegiance, every unholy covenant will be broken.
We ask that as You revive us, we will break every stronghold of the enemy and experience the victory over darkness as You desire.
He Will Restore Us
We thank You Lord that You say that You “will build Your church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. And You will give to Your church the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then whatever the church forbids on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever the church permits on earth will be permitted in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19)
Restore this authority Lord, to Your church in Malaysia.
Restore to us Lord, the years the locusts have eaten. (Joel 2:25)
As we return to You, fully raise the church in Malaysia to become Your instrument, standing against the gates of the enemy in our land.
Thank You Lord. I now turn my heart fully back to You so that Your kingdom will come and Your will be done in Malaysia as it is in Heaven. I commit to praying for my church and for my pastor so that we can see this outpouring of the Holy Spirit in all the churches in Malaysia. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.