As best I can tell, the five15 Retreat is 57 days away. As the days crawl by, one way you can prepare is to pray. I want us to pray for revival. I was inspired by reading these words from D. A. Carson:

But if the Lord visited his people with revival, it was immediately evident in an extraordinary sense of the presence of God, in deep-seated repentance and a renewed passion for holiness, and ultimately in the sound and indisputable conversion of many people. Carson, For The Love Of God, Vol 1, 6/15.

I want more of that. I think we’ve been blessed with incredibly blessed by the presence and power of the Spirit at previous retreats and meetings, but we need to be filled again with the Holy Spirit. Let’s use the ideas above and the words of Ephesians 5:18-21 to guide our prayers:

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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