LESSON 126
REVIVAL PRAYERS - PART 4

INTRODUCTION: In the previous study, we began to learn how to pray revival prayers. Revival prayers must be purposeful, intense, sincere, expectant, earnest and intimate among several other things. When you pray revival prayers, you must forget past failures and press on, praying often and fighting all hindrances to prayer. Today, we want to take a close look at Mark 11:22-24 where there are several important truths concerning revival prayers. May God grant us a deep understanding of these truths in Jesus, name. Amen.

1. THERE IS A TEACHER, FOUNDATION AND STUDENT OF PRAYER
Christ is the true Teacher of all prayer. Before lie left, He promised to replace Himself with the Holy Spirit. Jesus was called Rabboni i.e. Teacher of teachers and so also is the Holy Spirit who guides into all truths. The foundation of all true prayer is God Himself. Thus, how we view God determines how we pray. And of course where there is a Teacher, there must be at least a student. Anyone willing to learn can enroll in Christ’s school of prayer; be he a King or a beggar by the roadside.

John 20:16; Matt. 23:8; John 16:13; Luke 1:37; Gen. 18:14; Jer. 3 2:17-27; Ps. 51:1-2; Mark 10:46-52; Ps. 34:6.

2. THERE IS A MYSTERY, DESIRE, REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE OF PRAYER
The real mystery of prayer is that God has empowered us to command a situation to take care of itself, to speak things into or out of existence. The desire of prayer is the point around which prayer revolves. The greater the desire, the more intense the prayer. The true requirement of prayer is faith. Faith in God not faith in power. The promise of God concerning sincere prayers prayed according to His will is simply that they will be answered.

Mark 16:17-18; Matt. 18:18; Ps. 122:10; Pr. 10:24; I Cor. 14:1; Ps. 107:23-30; Heb. 11:6; James 1:6-7; Chr. 20:20; John 6:28-29; Mark 9:23; John 16:24; Ex. 15:23-25; I Sam. 1:27; 7:9-10; I Kings 18:37-38; II Chr. 18:31; Acts 4:31; Ps. 91:15; Matt. 18:19.