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Prayers for Revival: Scripture Prayers, Prayers to the Holy Spirit and Prayers for the Church

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Summary

  • Habakkuk 3:2 (“O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years”) and Psalm 85:6 (“Wilt thou not revive us again”) are complete prayers for revival.
  • Three traditional prayers to the Holy Spirit are quoted: “Come, Holy Ghost” from the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers, the Orthodox “O Heavenly King” from Hapgood’s 1906 service book, and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer collect “Stir up, we beseech thee.”
  • Short prayers cover spiritual dryness, repentance, returning to one’s “first love” (Revelation 2:4–5), humility, hunger for God, temptation and courage to speak about Jesus.
  • 2 Chronicles 7:14 was spoken to Solomon for Israel; Christians apply its pattern of humility, prayer and repentance to the church.
  • The early church prayed together before Pentecost (Acts 1:14) and was “filled with the Holy Ghost” after praying under threat (Acts 4:31).

“O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy” (Habakkuk 3:2). Psalm 85:6 asks the same thing: “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” Either verse is a complete prayer for revival, for one person or for a whole church. Prayers for revival in the words of Scripture In the King James Bible, to revive is to bring back to…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalm 51:10–12; 63:1; 80:19; 85:6; 104:30; 119:25; 138:7; Isaiah 57:15; 64:1; Hosea 10:12; Habakkuk 3:2; Matthew 5:6; Luke 11:13; John 13:35; Acts 1:14; 4:29, 31; James 4:8; Revelation 2:4–5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Prayers before Mass, “Come, Holy Ghost,” pp. 89–90. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Third Hour, “O heavenly King,” p. 43. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For the Church,” p. 37; The Sunday next before Advent, Collect, p. 225. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf

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