Why hello there! It’s been a while since I last posted on this blog, please forgive me.
For the past few months I have been receiving prayer burdens via beseeching.org and they have been a great help to direct intercessions in my prayer times with the Lord. Primarily, prayer is a matter of contacting God, to be one with Him, to abosrb Him and to express His sentiments which He has revealed to us for Him to carry them out. Though it seems almost second-nature to have specific “prayer items” that we consider before the Lord.
One of these is regarding the matter of being revived in the morning. As a believer in the Lord, this is to be a normal matter. But often times it may seem that we are defeated when it comes to spending time with the Lord to be revived, enlivened, energised, this being our very sustenance for our day, our living in and by Him. So when I came across the following extract, it was specially a Godsend (hehe). Please read on and be enlightened! The following text is from Living Stream Ministry as per citation at the end:
A vital matter that is crucial to the practice of the church life in the new way is our living a life of morning revival and daily victory. We should not consider that to have a personal morning revival is difficult. To be revived is simply to be touched by the Lord anew. Whenever the Lord touches us, we are revived. In only two minutes the Lord can touch us and revive us. You may not have been revived for a long time, and you may feel that you are very far from the Lord. However, the Lord promises that, regardless of what we are, where we are, or how we are, He is always near to us. We may not have a pure conscience, but the Lord’s blood is ready to cleanse us. If we simply confess our failures, defects, wrongdoings, and shortcomings, the Lord will forgive us and cleanse us. Then immediately we touch Him, and He touches us. This is to be revived, and this kind of revival must be fresh every day.
We stress that this should be a morning revival based on God’s natural law. Every twenty-four hours there is a morning to begin the new day. The sun rises anew every morning, and we also must rise up every morning. Therefore, it is good for us to go to bed earlier at night so that we can rise up earlier in the morning. Every morning we should get up, make our bed, and then spend some time with the Lord. If we can give the Lord ten minutes in the morning before doing anything else, surely we will be revived. If we normally get up at six o’clock, we should get up at five fifty. Then we could have ten minutes to contact the Lord and be revived.
In our time with the Lord, the main thing is to clear up our conscience, to get rid of our inner condemnation. This is done by making a thorough confession of all of our failures, defects, defeats, wrongdoings, mistakes, even sinfulness to the Lord. Then we can take one or two verses from the holy Word to use in our prayer. This is pray-reading. Do not be concerned about too many things, and do not care that much for your understanding. Take care of calling on the Lord, contacting the Lord, and touching the Lord with a proper inner sense. This keeps you in a direct, fresh, intimate, loving contact with the Lord…Use this ten minutes mainly to contact the Lord directly; then you will be revived. Because you have been revived, when you go to work, you will go with the Lord. In this way you will be victorious the whole day.
CWWL, 1989, vol. 3, “The Exercise and Practice of the God-ordained Way,” pp. 455-456
This is quite the encouragement to myself, as oftentimes this is a struggle for me. But how precious, that even 10 minutes, much less 2 minutes makes a difference when we truly touch the Lord to be revived. Sometimes I do dedicate this time in the morning but merely go through the motions, or worse yet… but! Being revived by the Lord is our victory! And also in relation to the prayer burden, this is a prayer not merely for oneself – but for every saint, a corporate view! That we would overcome in this matter of being personally revived by the Lord every morning. Briefly this made me recall a song which I have known from my youth:
Lord, grant me today a new start in this way,
A person of life I would be,
Just expressing You in all that I do.
Oh, may this life flow out of me!
When I first believed / Am I a person of life?
And with this song, another sentiment which I have had in recent days – to live each day with meaning and purpose, not wasting precious opportunities whereby I may gain Christ and He can gain me more!
Enjoying the Lord 