A Sojourner's Quest

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congregation, Bible Study group, family, or gathering. We are calling for all who share our burden to host prayer concerts, directing people in prayer for a spiritual awakening and the advancement of the Kingdom in America’s inner cities – bringing together people who would be willing to intercede on behalf of the church and the lost in the inner cities of America and the world! You can join the ever- growing number of intercessors who are facilitating prayer concerts in their congregations, Bible Studies, and family gatherings. Faith honors the Lord, and our Lord honors the faithful prayers of his people! Join us in praying for the city’s revival and transformation! Let’s Humble Ourselves before Him The cities of America and the world are beyond our best efforts, our concerted missionary strategies, and our most resolute plans to win them. The enemies are too numerous, our flesh too weak, the spiritual climate too dark for us to pretend that the cities can be won without divine power and unction. Only with a new manifestation of the power of God, an extraordinary outpouring of his Spirit, and a fresh mobili- zation of the people of God under the direction of our Lord himself can we win these dark hulks of human rebellion. We have seen how God has done incredible works in individuals, families, churches, cities, and nations when individuals have humbled themselves before the Lord, in prayer and repentance, and sought him with new levels of hunger and passion. If the cities of America and the world are to hear the Word of God regarding the Lord Jesus Christ in a fresh and powerful way, we must humble ourselves before him. If thousands of laborers are to be sent to the far-flung regions of the great cities of the world with new energy, direction, and passion, we will need the Lord’s own unction and power. If new churches are to be planted in neighborhoods currently plagued by corruption, immorality, and addiction, God himself will have to visit us with his own glorious presence. Nothing short of God’s own presence will do; no amount of effort, working, and strategy will break the power of the enemy and cause the thunderclouds of blessing to pour on our tired, diseased cities the showers of blessing they need.

Let us set our hearts, therefore, to plead to God in a new and determined way. Let us determine to hold nothing back as we seek his presence