Scripture

Our verse for today comes from 2 Kings 19:16, “Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.”

Background

Hezekiah knew how to pray big! The king of Assyria had destroyed 46 cities and now he was after Jerusalem. So Hezekiah got right to the heart of the matter and cried out in a very bold and almost brazen way to God. In essence, he prayed for God to listen and look, and to see that His honor was at stake. God heard his desperate cry, answered his prayer, saved the people and demonstrated His power for all to see. Do you know God well enough to pray that boldly?

Application

In 1906 John “Praying” Hyde, a Presbyterian missionary to the Punjab region in India, “prayed big.” He asked the Lord, with great sobs and flowing tears, to give him one soul a day for the first year, two for the second and then four souls a day for the third year. Following that three-year period, he had personally won about 2,600 Asian Indians to Christ. Now that is praying big! Are you praying big for your church, your nation and your world? If not, when will you start?

Charge

As we seek Him today, pray for the Lord to break your heart because of the moral and spiritual decline in the American church. Ask Jesus to give you a heart to pray big toward revival and awakening in North America.

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