I am writing this just after I took a group of Koreans back to the airport. They came to our community this past week to pray that God would bring revival to our churches and a Spiritual Awakening to our nation.  They poured their hearts out to God again and again, morning, afternoon, and evening, with one theme God would you pour out the oil of your Holy Spirit on your church and bring a great movement of God to our land. Each time they prayed, they spent not 5 minutes, 30 minutes or even an hour in prayer.  They typically spent two hours in prayer crying out to God and their passion never wavered.

They taught me this week to have a passion for prayer. That passion comes from a desperation for God to do only what He can do. Isaiah 61:1 says, “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.” Isaiah had a deep yearning for the salvation of Jerusalem. He cannot stop praying for her “until her righteousness goes forth as brightness.” In verse 7, he urges his fellow Israelites to give God, “no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.”

The question is do we desire for God to revive our churches and bring thousands to the kingdom. If we truly desire it, and believe that God is able, then we cannot help but to cry out to the Lord and give him no rest until He answers our prayers. Psalm 137:5-6 says, If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,