Eternal Father,
In the majesty of Thy glory,
look
down in mercy on these men.
As they fall before Thee in prayer,
be
pleased to fall upon them in power!
As they enter their seclusion as preachers,
may they
emerge from it as prophets.
According to Your promise,
give
them a new heart.
According to Your Holy Word,
put a
new spirit within them.
Anoint their eyes with holy eyesalve
that
they may see what heretofore they have not seen.
Unstop their ears that they may hear Your voice
in a way
You could not previously speak to them.
Touch their lips with a live coal from the altar of
eternity
that
they may step back into time
like men
who have tasted the powers of the world to come.
Grant that their theology
may
become almost a theophany.
In these days of Noah-like society,
when the
earth again is corrupt before Thee
and when
violence has become a way of life,
and
sexual immorality a sport;
when
iniquity is legislated
and
unborn babes are mutilated in the womb;
in this
dread hour, challenging Thee to judge us,
grant
these men a compassion
and a
passion, motivated by the love of Thy Son,
for
doomed humanity.
We tremble as we see
the
over-blest, over-fed, over-come nations
wallow
in sin
on the
brink of destruction;
As we
see that
the law
of the day is lawlessness,
the
faith of the day is faithlessness,
the
philosophy of the day is hopelessness,
the
evident condition of the Church is powerlessness.
In this
unprecedented state of moral anarchy
and
spiritual debility,
Let
these men not dare to see the faces of men again
until
they are renewed in the Holy Ghost.
If these men are not the men to shake the nation
before
The King comes,
then in
mercy find such men to shake earth and hell,
and fill
heaven with praise
that He
has seen of the travail of His soul
to His
satisfaction.
These things I ask
in the
name of and for the glory of
Thine
only begotten Son,
the only
Saviour of men,
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