Revival Prayer Series

Acts 3:1-10 & Ch 4:23-31 “Revival Prayer Is” (Lame Man Healed)

I. RESISTED PRAYER - 29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings:

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you

The Reality of Persecution - 4:1 As they spake unto the people,

the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them

The Reason for Persecution - 2 being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

The Result with the Persecution - 3 And they laid hands on them,

and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

The Response to Persecution - 4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about 5000

The Resolve in Persecution - They Didn't -

Deny the Master - 19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

Dispute the Methods - 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Delay the Mission 23 being let go, they went to their own company,

Dilute the Message - 23 and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

II. RESIGNED PRAYER - 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

The Posture Assumed -

Informed Prayer - 24 when they heard that,

Focused Prayer - they lifted up their voice to God

United Prayer - with one accord,

The Person Addressed -

24 - The Title Used - 24 Lord, thou art God, They Recognized -

The Sovereignty of God - 24 Lord, thou art God,

He Alone is - The Sole Creator - 24 Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

The Sovereign Controller - 25 David said, Why did the heathen rage,

Set Conqueror Ps 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

The Purpose Accepted - 25 - 28

The Text Cited - Psalm 2:1-2 They Recognized -

The Security of God - Their Threats were -

Pointless - 25 who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said,

Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

Powerless - 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. 27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

Profitless - 28 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. They Recognized -

The Sufficiency of God -

The Poverty Acknowledged - The Truth Stated - They asked for -

Consideration - 29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings:

Courage - 29 and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

Confirmation - 30 by stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

Campbell Morgan “They did not ask that the threatenings might cease, nor that they might escape from persecution and death.

No, they asked that He would look upon their threatening; and then immediately that they might have boldness to speak the Word”

The Power Attained - 31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

The Arnol Revival - Lewis - Duncan Campbell

III. RESPECTED PRAYER - Ron Dunn - WHEN THE CHURCH PRAYS -

THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS PERCEIVED - 31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together;

THE POWER OF GOD IS RECEIVED - and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost - God is Sovereign - and we are Servants

THE PURPOSE OF GOD IS ACHIEVED - and they spake the word of God with boldness.