Bible & Prayer Nuggets 0207

1 Come, and let us return to the LORD;
      For He has torn, but He will heal us;
      He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
       2 After two days He will revive us;
      On the third day He will raise us up,
      That we may live in His sight.
       3 Let us know,
      Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD.
      His going forth is established as the morning;
      He will come to us like the rain,
      Like the latter and former rain to the earth.  

The Holy Spirit is on earth today convicting men of sin, righteousness and judgment.  God will accept any man or woman who genuinely repents. You first have to see yourself as unworthy because God is a Holy God whose eyes will not behold iniquity.  In Isaiah 6: 1-8, the prophet before his calling sought the face of God in prayer and had an open vision of God in Heaven in His Holiness and majesty. Isaiah saw himself in his depravity.  Isaiah 6:5

5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

After this experience Isaiah was not the same person again. The Lord touched his tongue and then sent him to take His Word to the nations. He became a powerful prophet, and is classified by Bible scholars as one of the Major Prophets. In his first assignment to an unbelieving King Ahaz of Judah, confronted by war with the King of Syria and the King of Israel, God revealed through the prophet the virgin birth of Jesus which would occur some 18 generations after. Isaiah 7:14

14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Ahaz had refused to see the defeat of his enemies even before the war started. There is an abundance of rain of revival. Ask for it in your life and the heart of others in Jesus Name.

Prayer Nugget 0207

Lord I come to you with all my heart. I shall not follow my own ways or depart wickedly from my God. Lord, make my life whole again. Repair all the broken breaches of my life and send the fire of revival into my bones in Jesus Name. Oh Lord do not tarry to send your revival in abundance. Open my eyes to behold you in your Holiness and transform every area of my life until I am fully yielded to your will. Also, Lord let the heart of men yearn and thirst for your word in Jesus Name.  Let your glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. Open hitherto closed doors to the gospel and let your word mightily prevail.  Let revival take root in the nations of the earth in Jesus name. Amen.