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Romans 1:1-4

Romans 1:5-7

Romans 1:8-10

Romans 1:11-15

Romans 1:16-17

Romans 1:18-19

Romans 1:20-21

Romans 1:22-23

Romans 1:24-25

Romans 1:26-27

Romans 1:28

Romans 1:29-31

Romans 1:32

Romans 2:1-2

Romans 2:3-4

Romans 2:5-6

Romans 2:7-8

Romans 2:9-12

Romans 2:13-16

Romans 2:17-19

Romans 2:20-23

Romans 2:24-26

Romans 2:27-29

Romans 3:1-4

Romans 3:5-9

Romans 3:10-11

Romans 3:12-13

Romans 3:14-16

Romans 3:17-18

Romans 3:19

Romans 3:20

Romans 3:21-23

Romans 3:24

Romans 3:25-26

Romans 3:27-28

Romans 3:29-31

Romans 4:1-3

Romans 4:4-6

Romans 4:7-9

Romans 4:10-12

Romans 4:13-15

Romans 4:16-18

Romans 4:19-21

Romans 4:22-25

Romans 5:1-2

Romans 5:3

Romans 5:4-5

Romans 5:6-7

Romans 5:8-9

Romans 5:10-11

Romans 5:12-13

Romans 5:14-15

Romans 5:16-17

Romans 5:18-19

Romans 5:20-21

Romans 6:1-3

Romans 6:4-5

Romans 6:6-7

Romans 6:8-10

Romans 6:11

Romans 6:12-14

Romans 6:15-17

Romans 6:18-20

Romans 6:21-23

Romans 7:1-3

Romans 7:4-6

Romans 7:7-13

Romans 7:14-20

Romans 7:21-25

Romans 8:1

Romans 8:2-3

Romans 8:4

Romans 8:5

Romans 8:6-8

Romans 8:9

Romans 8:10-11

Romans 8:12-13

Romans 8:14-15

Romans 8:16-17

Romans 8:18-19

Romans 8:20-21

Romans 8:22-23

Romans 8:24-25

Romans 8:26-27

Romans 8:28

Romans 8:29-30

Romans 8:31-33

Romans 8:34-36

Romans 8:37-39

Romans 9:1-5

Romans 9:6-8

Romans 9:9-13

Romans 9:14-18

Romans 9:19-21

Romans 9:22-24

Romans 9:25-28

Romans 9:29-33

Romans 10:1-4

Romans 10:5-7

Romans 10:8-11

Romans 10:12-15

Romans 10:16-18

Romans 10:19-21

Romans 11:1-4

Romans 11:5-8

Romans 11:9-11

Romans 11:12-15

Romans 11:16-18

Romans 11:19-21

Romans 11:22-24

Romans 11:25-27

Romans 11:28-32

Romans 11:33-36

Romans 12:1

Romans 12:2

Romans 12:3-6 Romans 12:7-9

Romans 12:10-13

Romans 12:14-17

Romans 12:18-21

Romans 13:1-2

Romans 13:3-4

Romans 13:5-7

Romans 13:8-9

Romans 13:10-11

Romans 13:12

Romans 13:13-14

Romans 14:1-3

Romans 14:4-6

Romans 14:7-9

Romans 14:10-12

Romans 14:13-15

Romans 14:16-19

Romans 14:20-23

Romans 15:1-3

Romans 15:4-6

Romans 15:7-10

Romans 15:11-14

Romans 15:15-18

Romans 15:19-26

Romans 15:27-33

Romans 16:1-4

Romans 16:5-12

Romans 16:13-18

Romans 16:19-24

Romans 16:25-27

CODE RED:
PRAY FOR REVIVAL

Restore us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your indignation toward us to cease. Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations? Will You not Yourself revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? Show us Your lovingkindness, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation. (Psalm 85:4-7)

O God, restore us And cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved. O LORD God of hosts, How long will You be angry with the prayer of Your people? (Psalm 80:3-4)

Bryon Paulus, director of Life Action Ministries, has said our greatest obstacle for revival is failure to pray, to plead, to intercede, to cry out. Leonard Ravenhill summed it up...

The self-satisfied doesn't need to pray. The self-sufficient doesn't want to pray. The self-righteous cannot pray!

Paulus commented: "Those three principles apply to revival: We are so self-satisfied that we don't want revival, so self-sufficient that we think we don't need revival, and so self-righteous that we can't have revival." (Ouch!)

Consider joining with other believers at One Cry - A Nationwide Call for Spiritual Awakening (Dearly beloved of God, watch the Video and join Cry Out!)

May God Grant Us Grace|

To Intercede For America

While we still have time!

God addressed Israel in the following famous passage but the timeless principle is apropos to believers in America ...

If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2Chr 7:13, 14)

J. Barton Payne writes that "This great verse, the best known in all Chronicles, expresses as does no other in Scripture God’s requirement for national blessing, whether in Solomon’s land, in Ezra’s, or in our own. Those who believe must forsake their sins, turn from the life that is centered in self, and yield to God’s word and will. Then, and only then, will heaven send revival."

May God grant His children grace to plead for a Spirit driven, God glorifying, Word centered, Christ exalting revival of the Body of Christ in America.

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. (1Ti 2:1,2)

Our Heavenly Father desires to hear His children cry out with "fasting, sackcloth and ashes" (Da 9:3), reflecting not the external appearance of our bodies, but more accurately the internal condition of our hearts - sinful (Da 9:5 - "we" not "they"!), rejecting His Holy Word (Da 9:6-"we"), shameful (Da 9:8-"us"), contrite, and broken (Ps 51:17), over our national rejection of God's righteous and holy Name...

Daniel's prayer (Da 9:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) is an excellent "template" for all saints to emulate as we begin to intercede with a sense of urgency for America and especially for God's Name and reputation considering that the world thinks of us as a "Christian nation" and we once called ourselves "One Nation Under God"!

Matthew Henry's comments on Lev 26:40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 (directed first to Israel but applicable to any nation that rejects Him)

Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicted according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperity was the effect of national obedience, and national judgments were brought on by national wickedness. Israel was under a peculiar covenant.

National wickedness will end in the ruin of any people,

especially where the Word of God and the light of the Gospel are enjoyed.

Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the reproach, of every people.

Oh that, being humbled for our sins,

we might avert the rising storm before it bursts upon us!

(Note: Henry's comments were published in 1706 and national revival, the First Great Awakening, occurred in the 1730's and 1740's! Brethren, there is hope because there is a "God of hope"! Ro 15:13)

God grant that we may, in this our day,

consider the things which belong to our eternal peace.

Righteousness exalts a nation,

But sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 14:34

My (Our) soul cleaves to the dust;

Revive me (us) according to Thy word.

Psalm 119:25