It starts with us

Revival. It starts with us.

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."
- 1 Peter 2:9

We didn't choose God. He chose us.
We aren't to keep him inside to ourselves, what he's doing in our lives, what he means to us, what his love is...
We are to declare them. Father would you give us boldness to declare your praises. Would we celebrate the joy you bring us, the love you shower upon us, the grace that you have rained down on us.
Would we be so captivated by you, so moved by your unfailing love, so delighted by your presence, so IN LOVE with YOU, so much that how could we not want to tell our friends, our neighbors, fellow students, even strangers at UCSD. Your children. God these people are your children. You sent your son to die for them. You love them so much, Father I pray that we as intercessors could see them and this world the way you do. Would we feel this world the way you do. Father, your heart breaks to see your children lost. Living day to day without seeing, feeling, hearing their Father and your Love. This world is trapped in its own brokenness, and Father you sent Jesus to free us, heal us, restore us so we could be with you.

But Father, it breaks my heart to know that not everyone believes this... whether they just never really got the chance to know you or maybe they did and things did not turn out how they expected. Father, it breaks my heart to see people who have tasted you but have not seen. It breaks my heart to see people fall away. It's an injustice. God, I want them to experience you, your love, your true, unfailing love. I want them to see you the way I see you.. and thousands and thousands times more. God you love us so much.

Lord, would this be a motivation for our revival.

Lord, we have tasted and seen how good you are.
Would we share that with others. Would we want to share that with others.
Father, I pray for a revival, starting with us. Starting with our hearts.
Make room in us Father for this revival that so many of us are craving for.

"Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords
strengthen your stakes.
For you will spread out to the right and to the left" - Isaiah 54:2-3


"Yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken" - Isaiah 54:10

Jesus, would we not hold back. Father I ask for more of your grace and more of your love to move in our hearts tonight. Would you continue to prepare the way for revival. And then Father,

would we ask for more.

- grace jiras