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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s issue of The Remnant Post!
As a quick reminder, The Remnant Post aims to be a blessing to the entire body of Christ in Eugene through weekly encouragement, prayer prompts, and as needed, relevant news for the believers in the city. Unity and partnership are important to Jesus. He even prays for you in this way in John 17:20-21:
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
With that in mind, would you share The Remnant Post with a handful of believers you know and encourage them to join us each week in thought and prayer?
Over the last 6 months, I’ve read a significant number of books about revival, prayer, and eschatology (end times) in an effort towards continued learning about such important topics for the Church - especially as we seek revival here in Lane County.
Intentionally, I’ve been exploring a lot of writing from amazing men of all denominations detailing revivals and awakenings in the 1600’s to the late 1800’s. These are men like Leonard Ravenhill, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, EM Bounds, and lots of Puritan writers who saw amazing revivals.
It’s worth noting that there hasn’t been a whole generation of Christians that was collectively more hopeful about how God will move and change hearts than that of the Puritan Christians. Amidst a very sinful and depraved society in their time, they kept hope and kept praying for God to move in revival. Here’s one example:
“It has not been sufficiently observed, however, that during this period the evangelical ministers who maintained the old period and theology, sometimes in lonely and difficult situations, never questioned that a new springtime of revival would be given from on high. Their inherited view of revivals and unfulfilled prophecy made the future progress and worldwide expansion of Christ’s kingdom a certainty even at a time when, as Montesquieu claimed, the English had no religion at all. According to this Frenchman, who visited England in 1729-31 "If anyone spoke of religion, everybody laughed.”
This sounds a lot like today’s culture. Laughter at and mocking of Christians. A society that “has no religion at all”.
May we be people, who like the Puritans, never question whether or not God will give a new springtime of revival from on high - and let that hope drive our actions and attitudes.
Prayer Prompt of the Week:
Heavenly Father, as we engage together in prayer, may we show honor to you and witness to the world through our unity with one another, in you.
Lord, would you awaken in me a heart that more truly and more deeply believes that you will not fail to give a new springtime of revival from on high. Forgive me for all the days that I look at the broken world around me and get frustrated or impatient - help me to trust your timing and your faithfulness. Your word says that all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord - we declare today the truth of this claim from the Psalms and repent.
In Jesus name, Amen.
[Other prayer prompts]
-Take a few minutes to pray for your spouse, children, and household.
-Pray for the Eugene Mayor, Lucy Vinis, as well as the Lane County Sheriff, Clifton G. Harrold, and Governor Tina Kotek. Pray that they would come to the knowledge of the truth of the Lord Jesus, and faithfully fulfill their role as servants of God in our region. (Romans 13:4)
-Pray for your elders and pastors, for God to guard and keep them in their integrity, humility, faithfulness, and love.
Verse of the Week:
Worship Song of the Week:
This week’s “worship song” is actually a 4-minute spoken word poem in the middle of this Kari Jobe worship set that had me in tears. I pray that it blesses you immensely this week. (This link will take you to part of the song where the poem starts)