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Welcome to the CDOP 40-Day Prayer Guide!In 1823, nearly every major denomination and universityacross America agreed to a united day of prayer forcolleges. Soon America’s colleges were being radicallytransformed by intense seasons of spiritual awakening!The early records of many of these universities read like avirtual history of spiritual revival. In fact, no other nationhas enjoyed as many student awakenings for as manyconsecutive years as the United States of America.Today, this historic day of prayer is once again beingobserved by pastors and leaders, fathers and mothers,grandparents, alumni, faculty and students all across ournation. On the last Thursday of every February, believersacross many churches, denominations, ministries,ethnicities, generations and walks of life are uniting topray that God would renew His mighty works once againin our day!Our desire is not only to cover every college campus inprayer for revival, but to pray specifically for individualstudents, faculty and staff to experience the life-changingpresence of Jesus. We want to pray with the understandingthat, when we adopt a campus, we are not only praying forplaces and locations, but also for the people who make upthe communities on our college campuses.Would you consider adopting your university, the localcolleges in your region, your alma mater, or the collegeswhere your children and grandchildren attend? Wouldyou consider gathering friends, families, parents andchildren in united, fervent prayer and heart-preparationfor revival?Adopt a Campus:CollegiateDayofPrayer.org
CONTRIBUTINGAUTHORSConnie Anderson, InterVarsity Christian FellowshipDr. Bob Bakke, OneCryDavid Bradshaw, Awaken the DawnDean Briggs, International House of PrayerLou Engle, Lou Engle MinistriesDaniel Grenz, Luke18 ProjectDr. Jason Hubbard, Arizona Christian UniversityPaul Hughes, Ignite Campus Ministries in BirminghamRhonda Hughey Mathisen, Fusion MinistriesNick Jones, Every Nation CampusDavid Kim, Contend GlobalPeter Kim, JHOP BostonThai Lam, Luke18 ProjectJulie Loos, Moms in PrayerJosh MacDonald, Luke18 ProjectKelly Munroe Kullberg, The Veritas ForumChris Ngai, LoveUnitedByron Paulus, OneCryNiko Peele, Ignite MovementVicky Porterfield, PrayerfieldsDr. Glenn Sheppard, National Prayer CommitteeDavid Smithers, Riverside Prayer RanchJeremy Story, Campus RenewalSammy Tippit, Sammy Tippit MinistriesCourtnee White, CruTom Yeakley, The Navigators
DAY 1Revival Preceded byPrayer & RepentanceSammy Tippit“But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued withpower from on high ” — Luke 24:49 (KJV)Every great revival in the history of the Church has been precededby holy, humble, praying men and women. There is no shortcut torevival. If we’re going to have revival that shakes our churches and ourcommunities, we’re going to have to get a group of people, somewhere,sometime, somehow, to pray. I’ve discovered that when the wind of Godblows, it always blows across a praying people. We can’t twist God’s armto send revival, but we can get in a position to receive it. And the positionto receive it is prayer.Perhaps my closest heartbeat to genuine Spirit-sent revival has been inthe nation of Romania. I started traveling there in 1980. I was a pastorin Germany when I went into Romania, and I saw something I had neverseen before There was a pastor who came to that church who taught the people topray. He did two things: he taught the people to pray, and he called forrepentance. They repented of the sins that were in their lives and sinsthat were in the church. They were broken before God and entered into acovenant of repentance.And the people prayed, and they prayed, and they prayed. And themore they prayed, the darker it got, and the worse it became. God waspreparing a people.When the blood of the martyrs began to flow in the streets of Timisoara,there was a release of the wrath of God on the evil Ceausescu regime, anda release of the glory of God on the people of God. An estimated 200,000people gathered in the main square. They were all atheists. They wereall trained from kindergarten to the postgraduate university level inscientific atheism. They were taught there is no God. The pastor of theFirst Baptist Church stood up before the crowd and began to preach. Ashe preached on the cross of Jesus Christ, a dunamis took place.
The crowd of about 200,000 people, all of whom were trained inatheism, began to shout, “Existe Dumnezeu! Existe Dumnezeu!” (whichtranslated means, “There is a God! There is a God!”) Faith erupted in thewhole population. This spread from one town to another town to anothertown.As I walked on the streets, people who didn’t know me but could tell Iwas from the West, throngs of people on the streets — not church peoplebut people on the streets — would gather around and would begin toshout, “Existe Dumnezeu! Existe Dumnezeu! Existe Dumnezeu!” (Thereis a God! There is a God! There is a God!) The theme song of the days ofrevolution was a song about the second coming of Jesus Christ. I’m notsaying the whole country was converted, but there was a visitation of Godupon the nation in which the spirit of atheism in one divine moment wasblown out of the country.Pray for Christians to humble themselves andcommit to fervent, persistent prayer for God tomake His manifest presence known, especiallywhen things grow darker in the world around us.Pray for a broken heart and contrite spiritamong ministries on campus. Ask God to work soprofoundly among believers that they seek Godwith a greater sense of desperation than they’veever known.Pray for genuine heart change among thoseseeking revival on campuses. Pray fortransparency that results in deep confession ofsin and authentic change of heart and lifestyle.Pray for a divine visitation of the glory of Godupon college campuses that will cause even thehardest of hearts to surrender to Him and declarethat “there is a God!!”[Excerpts from transcript of “God’s Power in Revival” by Sammy Tippit – sermon index.net]
DAY 2America Is in aNineveh MomentChris Ngai“The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with thisgeneration and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching ofJonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.”— Matthew 12:41 (NIV)Years ago, a pastor asked one of the most heart-provoking questions, in a roomfull of praying believers: “Is our level of prayer matching the level of the needof the hour?” While the quantity of prayer is increasing as never before in ournation, a greater question remains: is the depth and urgency of our prayersmatching the level of need in this hour?I’m stirred by the response of the people of Nineveh, in the days of Jonah. Godgave Jonah a message to deliver in that urgent hour: “Forty more days andNineveh will be overturned.” Amazingly, there was no hope of redemption or acall to repent – it was simply a word of judgment, the final hour for Nineveh.America is in a Nineveh moment. We are in the final call for repentance andrevival as a nation! God is giving us a window of mercy, a season of time, torespond as the people of Nineveh did. We will either lose the promises of God asa nation, or we will see the rebirthing of the purposes of God in our nation. ButGod is looking for us to respond, in the same way that the Ninevites responded inJonah’s day!There are five key ways that Nineveh responded that brought in a greatoutpouring of mercy and revival:1. They believed God: this is a profound statement – a completely godlessgeneration heard the word of the Lord, awakened to the urgency of the hour andbelieved God.2. They declared a fast: giving up the enjoyments, pleasures and distractions ofthis life, they humbled themselves and became wholeheartedly focused on theirdesperate need for God!3. All of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth: they allowedthemselves to feel uncomfortable continuously, so they would not forget, even fora moment, the urgency of the hour they were living in.4. Everyone urgently called on God: this was a desperate, heart-wrenching cry
for mercy, from all the people of Nineveh – knowing that if they did not catchthe attention of heaven, in that window of time, there would be no hope for theirpeople or their nation.5. They turned away from their evil ways and violence: they gave up theiroffensive and grievous ways before the Lord, responding with a deep and lifealtering repentance!They did all of this, not even with the guarantee of mercy, but with the hope thatGod might have compassion and “turn from his fierce anger so that we will notperish.”“When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he hadcompassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.”(Jonah 3:5-10)How will we respond in this critical season of our nation’s history, to theinvitation of heaven to return to Him with all of our hearts?Pray that both believers and unbelievers would awakento the urgent hour that our nation is in, that our eyesand ears would be open to the final call for repentanceand revival that is sounding forth from heaven!Pray that both believers and unbelievers wouldrespond with wholeheartedness in the way that God islooking for in this hour. Pray especially for His Spiritof repentance, humility, fasting and urgent prayer tocome upon His people like never before!Ask God how He would have you and your ministryrespond specifically, to the call of God over ourcampuses and nation. What is the level of prayer,humility, seeking and repentance that He is invitingyou into that is needed to match the level of need in thisurgent hour? Write it down and commit yourselves,by the grace of the Holy Spirit, to walk it out over thesenext 40 days!Pray for believers to be rooted and grounded in thelove of the Father and be set free from all comparisonswith others.
DAY 3WholeheartedConsecrationThai Lam“As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill inall literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding inall visions and dreams.” — Daniel 1:17 (ESV)“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in theknowledge of Him.” — Ephesians 1:17 (ESV)In the days of Nebuchadnezzar and Israel’s exile to Babylon, four Jewishteenagers Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah are brought intoNebuchadnezzar’s school of leadership to be trained in the language andliterature of Babylon. Part of the training was a daily regiment of theking’s choice foods. What was Nebuchadnezzar’s objective in taking ahandful of young leaders from a slave nation and giving them a full rideto Babylon’s “Ivy League” university including room and board in theking’s palace and dining hall?I believe Nebuchadnezzar desired to cultivate an appetite in these futureleaders for Babylonian comforts and pleasures, to erode their effortsto preserve Jewish heritage and their zeal to be set apart according toJewish law, and to dull their resistance from imbibing the spirit andculture of Babylon. With their admission to the University of Babylon,these four Jewish teenagers were also given Babylonian names: Daniel,whose name means “God is my judge”, is renamed Belteshazzar, meaning“Lady, protect the King.” Hananiah (“Yahweh has been gracious”) isrenamed Shadrach (“I am fear of god”). Mishael (“Who is what Godis?”) is renamed Meshach (“I am despised, contemptible, humiliated”).And Azariah (“Yahweh has helped”) is renamed Abednego (“Servant ofNebo”). Nebuchadnezzar wanted to redefine their very identity.Like Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, Satan, in the modern context of oursecular, humanistic universities, desires to erode our zeal for holinessand wholeheartedness for Jesus and to dull our resistance to the lustof the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. The same holyprescription applies for us today as it did for Daniel and his comrades
in the days of Babylon: these young leaders gave themselves to aconsecrated lifestyle of extended fasting and regular prayer.They voluntarily chose to forego the pleasures of the king’s fine diningand embraced a prayerful lifestyle of fasting on vegetables for the threeyears they were at the University of Babylon. In learning to refuse thelegitimate pleasures of food, favor, and comfort, they grew in grace andstrength to refuse the illegitimate pleasures of compromise, pleasingman, and selfish ambition. By allowing the Lord to operate on theappetites of their bellies through a lifestyle of fasting and prayer, Godgave them “learning and skill in all literature and wisdom” ten timesbetter than their peers, and they became leaders with understandingfrom heaven that shifted history.Pray for God to raise up ones like Daniel oncollege campuses that would be set apart forGod’s purposes and would fast and pray forbreakthrough on their campus.Pray for God to raise up leaders on campuslike Daniel who have the spirit of wisdom andrevelation in the knowledge of God.
DAY 4Into theWildernessDavid & Audry Kim“Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into thewilderness. And He was in the wilderness forty days.”— Mark 1:12-13 (NASB)The life and ministry of Jesus on the earth were spectacular. Had Hea ministry newsletter, it would have read: “the blind receive sight andthe lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead areraised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.” But beforeJesus “returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit” (Luke 4:14), the“Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness” (Mark 1:12). Betweenthe transitional moment between His public commissioning and Hispublic ministry, there was a 40-day wilderness of fasting and prayer.Before God manifests His power, He first “impels” His Body into thissame wilderness.From the First and Second Great Awakenings in the 1700 and 1800sto the Jesus Movement of the 1970s, every great move of God has beenpreceded by great movements of prayer and fasting. God has impelledHis people into this wilderness throughout church history, and they cameforth in His power. Historically, universities have been ground zero forsuch seasons of revival. In the words of Jonathan Edwards, “it all beganwith the young people.”So it is true in our day. Before there can be any Jesus movement, theremust come first a Jesus fast. As the Holy Spirit impelled Jesus into thewilderness, may the Lord impel us in this season of prayer and fasting.Pray for supernatural grace for fasting — thatour hunger for His presence would far exceedour hunger for comfort, strength and earthlyenjoyments.
DAY 5A DifferentKind of PrayingDavid Smithers“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”— John 14:14 (NKJV)Prayer proves the promises of God. Unlike anything else, answeredprayers are living proof that God is our Father and King. God sovereignlyrules everything in His Kingdom by the laws of asking and receiving.King Jesus invites us, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you willfind; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asksreceives” (Matt. 7:7-8). This red-letter promise still stands and dares tobe proven.But what kind of praying proves God’s revival promises — What doesrevival asking look like? James 5:16-18 says, “Elijah prayed earnestlythat it would not rain, and it did not rain Then he prayed again,and the heavens poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.” Revivalprayers are hungry prayers—They chase hard after God’s presence andrefuse to give up until Heaven comes down! 1 Kings 18:41-45 tells usthat Elijah prayed repeatedly, not once, not twice, but seven times beforethe rains came. Revival prayer doesn’t stop until God says stop. Likeeverything in God’s Kingdom, our praying must be done earnestly andrepeatedly, with all our heart, soul and strength (Deut. 4:29, Deut. 6:5).True revival praying is more than just engaging God with artwork, musicor dance. It’s more than convenient Daniel fasts or quick visits to theprayer room. The need of the hour demands a different and deeper kindof praying. We need the heartache and travail of the old revival weepers.It’s time to stop the ministry treadmill, and come down off our platformsand stages and learn how to wait on God again! Some say such methodsare only for the faithless and fearful. But Jesus never struggled with fearor unbelief, yet He often tarried long through the night with tears andfervent cries. Hebrews 5:7 says, “He offered up prayers and petitionswith loud cries and tears.”
Jesus prayed like no one else has ever prayed, because His heart wasbroken by the eternal needs of the whole world. Jesus wept overmultitudes of lost souls all rushing toward Hell. While we freely weep forourselves, we have no tears for our lost and sin-sick generation! Today,Jesus sees the peril and pain of our nation, but He doesn’t turn away orhide His eyes. No, He sees it all and weeps, and wonders, where are theintercessors? Where are the ones who care and hurt enough to stand inthe gap and keep on asking until the answer comes? Jesus says, “Ask Meand I will answer you!”Pray specifically, so you can clearly recognizewhen and how the answer comes.Pray with an urgency that is consistent with theneed of the hour.Ask, seek and knock until God’s revival promisefully comes.
DAY 6Waiting in OneAccord for the SpiritPeter Kim“And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: buttarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued withpower from on high.” — Luke 24:49 (KJV)On the eve of our Lord’s ascension and the greatest outpouring ofthe Holy Spirit at Pentecost, Jesus commands His disciples to do onething: wait for power to come from on high to be witnesses of Him inJerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts1:4,8).Before Pentecost and three thousand souls being saved in a single day,Scripture tells us that the believers were of “one accord in prayer andsupplication” while tarrying for 10 days in the upper room (Acts 1:14). Bydevoting themselves to prayer in humility before the Lord, they receivedthe promise of the Father for power to be witnesses.God sets His church on fire to set the world on fire. If we are to see revivalin our generation, we too must come together, realize our great need forGod, and cry out to Him for the power of His Spirit. Paul Washer wiselypreached, “Men and women who are used of God, if I had only a fewwords to describe them: they are the passionately weak and the violentlydesperate.”Pray for believers on campus to realize theirabsolute dependence on Him.Pray for believers to devote themselves to prayerfor another Pentecost on their campus.
DAY 7This Is MyBeloved SonLou Engle & Dean Briggs“You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”— Matthew 3:17 (NKJV)Before Jesus begins his 40-day season of fasting in the wilderness, theFather declares over Jesus, “This is My beloved Son!”Every test that follows must be seen in this light. Satan’s strategy is totempt Jesus to act in such a way that He will deny the Father’s wordsthrough insecurity or impatience. After all, He has not healed a singleperson, cast out a single demon or preached a single message. Nowater has been turned to wine. No storm has stilled. Neither cross norresurrection has yet occurred. How many of us feel the need to proveourselves? Satan tries to tempt Jesus: You are the son of God — act likeit! Do something. Get this Messiah show on the road!But a son does not need to prove anything to his father. He simply abidesin love. Before any public ministry or private triumph, before Jesus doesany work at all, His relationship to His Father is secure as a matter ofsonship and not achievement. One of the great lies in Satan’s arsenal isto convince us that God loves human doings more than human beings.Even when Jesus had no resume, He had the Father’s love. He did notearn it — He received it. He was driven into the wilderness to confrontthe enemy on this very ground.Pray for believers to understand their identity asGod’s children and for the confidence that comeswith it.
DAY 8Hunger for theWord of GodCollegiate Jesus Fast Team“Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word thatproceeds out of the mouth of God.” — Matthew 4:4 (NASB)For 40 days, our Lord fasted and prayed in the wilderness. Jesus did notsimply endure a 40-day season of misery, but He emerged victoriousover the powers of Satan. He was not at His weakest after He had fasted,though He “became hungry.” He was at His strongest, triumphing overthe devil, and launching from these 40 days into 3 years of ministry thatwould change the world. In studying the accounts of Jesus’ 40-day fastthat are detailed in the Gospels, we see both the secret and the source tothe success of His fast: the Word of God.The Word is our sustenance. As Deuteronomy 32:47 majestically states:“[The Word] is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life.” Whenwe fast, we feast on a different bread: the bread of life, the very Word ofGod. In one sense, we not only “eat the scroll” but nothing else entirely.In fasting, we voluntarily remove the rocks and thorns of the pleasuresof this world, so that the seed of the Word of God may find a fertile soul.In feasting on the Word, we discover the promise of Scripture is true: welive on every word that proceeds from His mouth. When we put aside thescraps of this world, we find full pleasure in the buffet of His Word, somuch so that we might exclaim with the psalmist: “My soul is consumedwith longing at all times for your law” (Psalm 119:20).The Word is our sword. Ephesians 6:17 declares that the word of God isthe “sword of the Spirit.” In the wilderness, as the enemy tries to temptJesus, He responds with “it is written.” In doing so, He sets a modelfor all of His disciples: to wage war against darkness with His eternaldecrees set forth in the written Word. The Scriptures are the absoluteauthority, and it is the foundation for all of our prayers. When we praythe Scriptures, we pray in His name and by His authority.
Let us heed the wise words of Charles Spurgeon: “The Sword wouldhave no edge at all if it were not for the Spirit’s presence within it andHis perpetual working by it The Holy Ghost rides in the chariot ofScripture and not in the wagon of modern thought The Spirit of Godworks in by, through and with the Word, and if we keep that Word,we may set assured that the Holy Ghost will keep us and make ourtestimony to be a thing of power.”Pray for spiritual hunger to increase on collegecampuses for the Word of God.Pray that the Word of God would become thesource and sustenance for the Body of Christ oncampus.Pray that believers on campus would pray theWord of God with confidence and faith.
DAY 9A Return toObedienceNick Jones & CDOP Team“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine andputs them into practice is like a wise man who built his houseon the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and thewinds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall,because it had its foundation on the rock.”— Matthew 7:24-25 (NIV)In Luke 6:46 Jesus says, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’, and notdo what I say.” Many in our nation have called Jesus their Savior, butfewer have fully surrendered to Jesus their Lord. Oh, that there wouldbe a great returning to His heart and an even greater returning to HisWord! “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm119:105).If we are calling Jesus, ‘‘Lord’’, we must ask ourselves if we are doingwhat He tells us to do. Are we merely hearing His Word, or are we alsoobeying His Word? Biblical obedience means to trust, to submit and tosurrender to God’s leadership.As A.W. Tozer said, “The final test of love is obedience — not sweetemotions, not willingness to sacrifice, not zeal but obedience to thecommandments of Christ.”The promise of God to those who obey His commands is both captivatingand enduring: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and myFather will love him, and we will come to him and make our home withhim” (John 14:23).Ask the Lord to draw attention to any areas inyour life that you need to allow Him to adjust.Pray for revelation of the fear of the Lord in ourlives that would overcome the fear of man.
DAY 10Revival ofHolinessDavid Kim“So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and Hisglory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall comein like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standardagainst him.” — Isaiah 59:19 (KJV)A key characteristic that precedes revival is when there was an increase ofholiness in the Body. This is true in every revival: a great fear of the Lord,an avalanche of the conviction of sin that cuts the hearts and repentancetowards faith in Christ (Acts 2:37-40).We might think of the 1700s, the days of Jonathan Edwards, as a tightlyreligious, puritanical society. This could not be further from the truth. Infact, the debauchery and drunkenness of society in those times were at itspeak, and the secular humanistic ideas of the Enlightenment mocked andpersecuted authentic Christians. Thomas Paine, the famous author ofCommon Sense, declared that Christianity would be eradicated from theAmericas within 30 years.It was in this context that the magnanimous preachers of the GreatAwakening emerged. They rode out of the closets of prayer and the studyof the Word, thundering against false ideologies, exposing sin and callingall men to the saving knowledge of Christ. These were not men boundby the fear of man; they were heralds from heaven, hounding lost menand wayward Christians until they repented of their sins and believed inChrist.Within a decade, the entire atmosphere of the eastern seaboard hadchanged. Bars and brothels were closed, worship filled the cities streets,and society was transformed. Jonathan Edwards remarked that,especially among the young people, “radical holiness was the standardof the day.” When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of theLord shall lift up a standard against him.
At the darkest hour, God raises up consecrated ones who will be a holybanner of light against the kingdom of evil — ones like Noah, Elijah,Daniel and John the Baptist. They are not given to holiness out oflegalism, but out of abandoned love to the God who loved them first.These are the ones who “know their God and do great exploits” (Dan.11:32).There has never been a revival apart from a revival of holiness.Pray for a revival of holiness on collegecampuses.Pray for college students to lay hold of leading aholy, consecrated lifestyle.Pray for believers on campuses to be able to resistthe temptation that comes their way.
DAY 11A Deep Work ofRepentanceChris Ngai“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may bewiped out, that times of refreshing may come from theLord ” — Acts 3:19 (NIV)“ without holiness no one will see the Lord.”— Hebrews 12:14b (NIV)If we truly want to see the presence of the Lord flood our campuses,we must prepare the way for the refreshing waters to come! As thesescriptures clearly tell us, His outpouring and His presence being revealedfirst depend on these conditions: repentance and holiness.John the Baptist came to prepare the way of the Lord. His message andhis baptism were both of repentance. People from the entire region begancoming out to confess their sins and to be baptized as a sign of theirrepentance. He called them not only to confess, but also to turn fromtheir sins, bearing fruit in keeping with repentance. (Matt. 3:2-3, 5-6, 8)This heart preparation allowed for the ministry of Jesus to be revealed toIsrael and for heaven to draw near to an entire people!Frank Bartleman of the Azusa Street Revival said this: “The depth of anyrevival will be determined exactly by the spirit of repentance it obtains.”Indeed, there cannot be a lasting move of God without a deep work ofrepentance among us. When the great revival came upon Wales in 1904,“Nothing had ever come over Wales with such far-reaching results.Infidels were converted, drunkards, thieves and gamblers saved; andthousands reclaimed to respectability. Confessions of awful sins wereheard on every side. Old debts were paid. The theatre had to leave forwant of patronage. Mules in the coal mines refused to work, beingunused to kindness. In five weeks, 20,000 joined the churches.”In less than a year, over 100,000 souls were brought into the kingdom inthis mighty outpouring of the Spirit!Leading up to the Welsh Revival, Evan Roberts delivered a message
regarding the four conditions for receiving the Holy Spirit that became acatalyst in and throughout this outpouring:1. We must confess before God every sin in our past life that has not beenconfessed.2. We must remove anything that is doubtful in our lives.3. Total Surrender. We must say and do all that the Spirit tells us.4. Make a public confession of Christ.Are we ready to prepare the way of the Lord? For without repentance,there will be no times of refreshing. Without holiness, no one will see theLord!Read Psalm 139:23-24, and then take time toask God to search and reveal our hearts and toconfess our sins before Him. Ask specifically howwe are to make it right before Him, and how toreplace them with His ways of seeing, thinkingand acting.“Father, we are longing for times of refreshingto come to our campus! We ask that Youwould release a spirit of humility, prayer andrepentance among the student body of [yourcampus]. We are asking that You would release amovement of repentance and holiness that wouldsweep through the student body, even amongstthe professors and administration, and that everyheart would be consumed with longing for Yourpresence! Let this campus become an altar, andevery heart a living sacrifice upon that altar, uponwhich the fire of heaven will fall! In Jesus’ mightyname. Amen.”[Excerpt from Repentance: The Forgotten Key of Revival by Chris Ngai and Jacob Lawlor, p. 4]
DAY 12ForgivenessBreaks the CycleKelly Monroe Kullberg“Then Peter came to Jesus and a
blows, it always blows across a praying people. We can't twist God's arm to send revival, but we can get in a position to receive it. And the position to receive it is prayer. Perhaps my closest heartbeat to genuine Spirit-sent revival has been in the nation of Romania. I started traveling there in 1980. I was a pastor
