UNBLOCKING THE WELL OF THE LIVING WORD

Each daily devotional below begins with an excerpt from a transcript of Duncan Campbell telling the story of how the 1949 Hebridean revival began(.1)

Duncan Campbell said:- 

“ I tell you dear people; here were men that meant business… The dear old lady said if you do that, my sister and I will get on our knees at 10 o’clock on Tuesday and 10 o’clock on Friday and we will wait on our knees until 4 o’clock in the morning. I tell you this puts us to shame… so they went to prayer and I want to mention that they had but one promise from God… and that promise declared, “I will pour water on him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground”. That is God’s promise and in their prayers, according to the minister, they would say again and again, “You are a covenant keeping God and you must be true to your covenant engagement”.

Intercessors frequently use holy pleas to powerfully and boldly pray before God’s throne. It is important to make sure you have a pure heart before God and that there is nothing between you and your God. Lynn Green has said: (2)“Revelation 3:19 says ‘When people are my friends, I tell them when they are in the wrong. I will punish them for it. So, stir up your spirits and repent. I am standing here knocking at the door. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come to them and eat with them and they with me. This will be my gift to the one who conquers. I will sit them beside me on my throne just as I conquered and sat with my Father on his throne’. We are called to be conquerors “How do we conquer?” We conquer by remaining friends with him. When we are friends, He tells us when we are in the wrong. We must never lose that hunger to be God’s friend. Sometimes He punishes us because He wants us to repent; that is how we remain with Him on his throne… Do not quit regularly waiting upon God and asking Him to search your heart. Don’t substitute anything for waiting on God as a team, as a community…. When we enter into prayer with our brothers and sisters… we should ask Him to reveal any sin in our hearts. The Holy Spirit will begin to convict and it leads to repentance and confession for one another. That is how we secure our place on throne… that keeps us where we belong above the principalities and powers… You have a friend in Jesus; He wants to work on your behalf… He may want to correct you first. Get to that point where you are praying and you know what His will is, because we can all have this confidence if we ask anything according to His will then He hears us and if He hears we know we have the requests we have made.”

Having come to that place of forsaking all known sin… we can plead before God and arguing for that which glorifies God, for the extension of His kingdom, in accordance with His will that has not yet broken out.(3) Lou Engel says that we can evoke the memory of the covenant. He says that ‘appealing to the covenant is more powerful than prayer.’ (4)Engle explains that the word covenant means ‘to bond or fit together.’(5) Thefriendship between God and Abraham demonstrates the components of a covenant relationship. ‘God says to Abraham, “Give me your son,” and Abraham is bound by covenant to do so. As a blood brother of God, he must obey. But then God is bound by the very nature of the same covenant to fulfil His promises as well – including the provision of His ownSon tomeet our great need for atonement. The thought that God would enter into such a binding agreement is staggering’.(6) ‘John Dawson says, “Covenant is much more than a sterile legal transaction. God’s covenants are covenants of divine passion initiated with those who have moved His great heart. Therefore when we pray, ‘Lord, remember eg. David, it evokes such memories in the Father, of the man after His own heart, that He cannot contain Himself. These memories stir Him to act”’(7)

Having forsaken all known sin… we now pray…”We stand on the covenant that you Lord made with Peggy Smith. Do it again Lord! Bring revival in Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. You promised that you would pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on dry ground. Fulfil your promise Lord. The land is dry again. We need a fresh outpouring of your Spirit, and you promised, Lord!”

References

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXIZOSWvXaE

(2) Malachi Gathering: Lynn Green https://youtu.be/kYSKuuSCJT0 starting 57 mins 15 secs

(3) Duewel,W. Mighty prevailing prayer, 301

(4) Engle, L. Digging the wells of revival, 63

(5) Engle, L. Digging the wells of revival, 54

(6) Engle, L. Digging the wells of revival, 55

(7) Engle,L Digging the wells of revival, 60