Picturing Theology, Revised Edition

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Scatter to Work and Wait

Fervently

Gather to

Surrender Your All to Christ

Intercede on

Confess Your

Powerlessness

Another in Truth and Testimony

Encourage One

Behalf of Others

Let God Arise! The Seven “A’s” of Seeking the Lord and Entreating His Favor Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis Theme Scripture Awareness Concert of Prayer “Seek the Lord” Zechariah 8:18-23 • Isaiah 55:6 1 Adoration • Delight and enjoyment in God • Overwhelming gratefulness • Acknowledging God in his person and works Ps. 29:1-2 Rev. 4-11 Rom. 11:33-36 Ps. 27:4-8 Of God’s Majestic Glory God’s Face Worship and Pray 2 Admission • Powerlessness • Helplessness • Awareness of one’s desperate need for God Ps. 34:18-19 Prov. 28:13 Dan. 4:34-35 Isa. 30:1-5 Of Our Brokenness before God 3 Availability • Dying to preoccupation with self and love of the world • No confidence in fleshly wisdom, resources, or method • Consecrating ourselves as living sacrifices to God Rom. 12:1-5 John 12:24 Phil. 3:3-8 Gal. 6:14 Of Our Yieldedness to God 4 Awakening Global and Local • Refreshment: outpouring of the Holy Spirit on God’s people • Renewal: obedience to the Great Commandment – loving God and neighbor Hos. 6:1-3 Eph. 3:15-21 Matt. 22:37-40 John 14:15 Asking for the Spirit’s Filling Fullness 5 Advancement Global and Local • Movements: outreaches to unreached, pioneer regions • Mobilization: of every assembly to fulfill the Great Commission • Military mindset: adopting a warfare mentality to suffer and endure hardness in spiritual warfare Acts 1:8 Mark 16:15-16 Matt. 28:18-20 Matt. 11:12 Luke 19:41-42 2 Tim. 2:1-4 Asking for the Spirit’s Moving Fulfillment 6 Affirmation Ps. 107:1-2 Heb. 3:13 2 Cor. 4:13 Mal. 3:16-18 The Redeemed Saying So The Faith 7 Acknowledgment Ps. 27:14 2 Chron. 20:12 Prov. 3:5-6 Isa. 55:8-11 Ps. 2:8 Keeping Our Eyes on the Lord The Fight “Entreat the Favor of the Lord” Zechariah 8:18-23 • Jeremiah 33:3

• Giving testimony over what the Lord has done • Challenging one another by speaking the truth in love • Waiting patiently on God to act by his timing and methods

• Living confidently as though God is answering our petitions • Acting as if God will do precisely what he says he will do