Lakeview Christian Center

On Mondays, the targets from the corporate prayer gathering on Saturday at 9a will be posted here. Here are this past weekend’s targets:

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“Awakening Prayers for Awakening”

“Revival is a season in the life of the church when God causes the normal ministry of the gospel to surge forward with extraordinary spiritual power…. Revival is seasonal, not perennial. God causes it; we do not. It is the normal ministry of the gospel, not something eccentric or even different from what the church is always charged to do. What sets revival apart is simply that our usual efforts greatly accelerate in their spiritual effects.” –Raymond Ortlund, When God Comes to Church, p. 9

Personal and Family Revival:

-Revival in private times of prayer – perseverance to “persist in prayer”
-Experiencing God through his Word – revelation and illumination
-Fresh vigor and empowerment in the battle against sin
-Awakening of boldness in personal witness
-Experience of the presence of the Spirit in daily living
-Revival in the life of family worship and devotions

Corporate Revival:

-Awakening of a deep reverence for God’s holiness
-Vibrant joy and celebration of God’s goodness
-Protection of our hearts from empty worship
-Church to break out in a spirit of self-sacrifice
-Restoration of a full-orbed ministry of the Spirit – both in the miraculous
and seemingly ordinary
-Most importantly: that the Gospel would be central in the life and ministry of the church!

Revival in the City:

-God to bless this city…with the grace of repentance
-Gospel to shine into the Lakeview community and beyond
-Culture of violence, drug addiction, and racism to be replaced with an atmosphere
of Christ-centeredness
-Christ to exert his claim on the hearts of this city!