A Global Call to Prayer 21 Days of Prayer for Revival and a Great Awakening January 1-21

Introducing 21 Days of Prayer 

Revival of God’s People Leads to Spiritual Harvest During the 40 days between Jesus’ resurrection and His return to heaven, He gave one final command to His disciples: 

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matt. 28:19-20). 

Jesus entrusted the future of His kingdom to His followers. When His followers are right with Him, obedient to His command, and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit of Christ, they will be used of God to multiply disciples among all nations (people groups). 

 “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself… and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor. 5:19-20). 

Christ’s followers have been given the ministry and message of reconciliation. They are Christ’s ambassadors. If His ambassadors are to fulfill their mission, they must live, think, act, and talk like Him. When people repent of their sin and come to faith in Christ, they are changed as their old sinful life is replaced with a Christlike life. God begins His work of transforming them into the image of Christ and they have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). When large numbers or high percentages of a population are transformed, we call it a great awakening, a great spiritual awakening. THAT is what we need in America today, and that is why we are praying for God to do His work in us and through us. 

During these 21 days, we daily will pray for God’s people and His churches to be revived; so they will be the salt and light Jesus intends them to be (Matt. 5:13-16). When God’s spiritual light shines into the darkness of an evil world, it dispels darkness as lives are changed. We will also pray to have God’s heart of compassion for the lost world around us. As we become the instruments that demonstrate God’s love, and as we share the message of the gospel (the good news about Jesus’ provision of salvation) with those who need to be saved, God will draw people to faith in His Son (John 6:44, 65). 

Each day we will pray in four major categories: 

I. Personal and Individual Transformation in Christlikeness 

II. Restoration of Health in Our Churches and Denominations 

III. Tears of Compassion for the Broken and Hurting in Our Communities 

IV. Spiritual Awakening in Cities and Nations