When Jesus ascended into heaven, He instructed His chosen disciples, and the other followers (about 120), to gather and wait for power by the Holy Spirits coming. They immediately went to the upper room and stayed and …prayed . . . and stayed and waited . . . and stayed and prayed! You see, they had a promise of power, and they had expectancy! They prayed until the promise came!
Today, we are less hungry, and so, less powerful. Even in the throes of what our modern world faces, we approach God and prayer differently. We do not like to wait, but we do like to schedule.
Our practice today seems to be that we plan a day, perhaps months in advance, to meet together in modern day PC type of repentance. Our hope seems to be that God will notice all of our planning, advertising costs, high caliber preachers and praise bands, have pity on us and send revival.
My feeling is, in spite of the thousands of dollars spent on such gatherings, it is like trying to buy cheap grace. What God truly wants of us has a much higher value in His heart. What does God want? Nothing less than hunger, expectancy, and waiting — salted heavily with brokenness and repentance.
What might happen if God’s people just made a few calls to one another saying: “Meet me at church! We must pray! We must have Jesus!”. . . And, then waited, and prayed, and wept . . . night and day . . . together . . . until power came?
“If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (II Chronicles 7:14)
What about it CHURCH? You/we must get this right! Pray On!
