Father I am humbled, encouraged and alarmed at all the same time.  The artillery you have sent across the bow of our Christian vehicle has seemingly created rekindling of emotion.  It is all well and good that people “feel” something when they are in a church worshiping your name, but that emotion lacks the requisite Spirit sponsored action following such encounter.  When will we stop being impotent as the Body of Christ?  Have we kept your Holy Spirit at bay for so long that he no longer lives within our vessels?  God help us if this is the case for few shall see eternity through rapture if this stands.

I pray for fire Father, Holy Fire, coming down from on High so that none can doubt your sovereignty.  I don’t want to do great things if the end result of those things fails to bring hearts to you.  I do not want to serve myself and sit back at the end of the day tabulating my accomplishments.  When this life ends I want it to have accounted for something, the only thing worth doing is bringing people to the cross where they may experience relationship with you.  There is no other success.  Father how have we quenched the Spirit in such a way as to effectively eradicate him from the church?  Please show me how to rectify this misgiving.  Without your spirit we are simply flesh.

Father don’t leave us to the non existent mercy of the flesh and some from fallen creation.  Give us Your Holy Spirit so that we may live in abundance, truth and acts of faith that free the lost, heal the sick and banish the fallen.  Father, give us back our hearts of allegiance and commitment to your word and will.  This life is a waste without my purpose and seeing the church in such a weakened state makes me shiver.  Give us hearts of obedience and surrender and let it begin with me Father.  This is the fourth watch when times are cold and dark, let your light shine in our hearts and our eyes so that this forlorn world might find shelter from the pitch of night.  In your precious name we pray Lord Jesus.