Lausanne World Pulse – Prayer and Revival

August 2006

By John Godson

How Can You Become a Vessel for Revival?
The following are nine suggestions to becoming a vessel for revival:

  1. Be baptized and continually filled with the Holy Spirit.
  2. Consecrate your life to God. Make yourself available and at God’s disposal.
  3. Devote your life to spending quality time in prayer. Grow in your intimacy with God through private and secret prayer.
  4. Pray for the lost and unreached. Pray with passion and desperation.
  5. Pray for opportunities and open doors to share the gospel and edify others.
  6. When you have the opportunities, share your faith boldly.
  7. Be watchful and vigilant. The devil will do everything in his power to discourage or neutralize you.
  8. Pray with others. 
  9. Be faithful and never despise small beginnings.

Luke 11:9-13 says, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”  

Let us also follow the words of Charles Finney:

“When Christians humble themselves and consecrate their all afresh to Christ, and ask for his power, they will often receive such baptism that they will be instrumental in converting more souls in one day than in all their lifetime before. While Christians remain humble enough to retain this power, the work of conversion will go on, till whole communities and regions of country are converted to Christ.”

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John Abraham Godson, a native of Nigeria, has been serving as a missionary in Poland for the past thirteen years. He is international director of Pilgrim Mission International. Godson also serves as chair for the Lausanne Intercession Working Group in Eastern Europe/Eurasia and as international facilitator for the Network of Nigerian Missionaries Overseas.

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