Mobile is a big city with many
Christians in it. If something does not happen to change the heart of
the Church in that city, destruction will visit it. In one of the most
profound experiences I have ever experienced, I saw a hurricane hit
Mobile, crushing it to the ground. There will not be a city left when it
is over. God was visiting Mobile out of mercy, but the people of Mobile
did not respond. Because they had not been seeking the face of God,
crying out for His visitation and His glory, when He did come, they did
not care.
That is why there must be preparation.
It is imperative to repent for the sins of the city. You have to do the
preparatory work. Otherwise, if God visits this city, the same thing
will happen here that happened in Mobile. Hearts can be opened only
after prayer has first prepared the way. Not many have been used as
powerfully in revival as was Charles Finney. He would always send two of
the most powerful intercessors on before him. If he did not, God would
raise up others to pray. Weeks and weeks ahead of his visit, they would
go into the city and pray, preparing the spiritual climate so that it
was perfect for his visit.
You do not know what you are stopping
when you intercede. You do not know what God is willing to do when you
pray. You do not know what desires reside within His lofty heart that He
will fulfill in a city, if only you would take the time to pray and
seek His face. You do not ever want to find out that a crisis came
because you did not pray.
So they plan to have revival in Mobile
one day a month. Then they will travel around the country, trying to
determine who wants God. What a sad state of affairs for this nation!
Why isn't God pouring out His glory in a place, and the nation running
to Him, desperate to satisfy its thirst at His open fountain? Why is the
human messenger traveling around the nation seeking to find someone who
wants God? What must happen in us to break the apathetic hardness of
heart and release the flame of passion? Paul said to be aglow with the
passion and fire of God (Rom 12:11).
What has gone wrong that our hearts are so dull, so dispassionate? When
there is a purpose, a place, and a plan where we can join together to
fight through the obstacles until Lord comes, why don't we?
Some might say, “Well, I don't know how
to pray.” Join with other saints who are praying. Prayer is a learning
experience for everyone. It does not matter how eloquent you are or if
you are the best prayer warrior in the world. God does not listen to our
eloquence so much anyway; He listens to the heart. I want You, God!
Come, visit our city! Heal our city! Heal the land! Heal the youth of
this city! Cry out for Him, because if you do not, He will move on to
another place. When He does, I want to go and be where He is. Cry out to
Him with a passion. Let your heart be broken for His Presence.
Prayer:
Break us, God. Bend us. Mold us. Cleanse
us. Prepare us. Make us ready for Your coming! But come; do not go
someplace else. Come here. Do not forget us, Lord. Come here. Hear the
hunger of our heart, Lord, and come here. Visit this city. Visit this
people, Lord. Visit the youth of this city. Visit the poor in this city.
Visit, the CEO’s in this city, Lord! Visit every societal sector. Come
to the Universities. Visit this city, Lord. Do not pass us by. Come,
Lord Jesus, come. The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” Come, Lord
Jesus, come. Do not let Your fire fall someplace else and forget our
prayers, Lord. We need You in this city. You are the only One who can
heal this city and its people, Lord. Come, Lord Jesus, come. Come. We do
not want to be without You, Lord. We want Your glory to come. We need
You, Lord. You are the Healer; You are the Deliverer. You are the
Breaker. Break through, Lord. Send the divine fire on this city, Lord.
Stir up the needy hearts, Lord. Impart faith, hope, courage, love, and
healing into this city, Lord. Take it out of the hands of the Illuminati
and carry it in Your hands, Lord. Take it out of the hands of voodoo
and carry it in Your hands, Lord. Visit this city. Come here with Your
glory.
Oh Lord, do not let this be another
Mobile situation. Give us brokenness. Bend us by Your Spirit. Prepare
us, Lord. Prepare us to be vessels of Your glory. Prepare this city to
be a vessel of Your glory. O God, have mercy. Have mercy. O Lord, it
feels like we cannot bear another month without the rain of Your Holy
Spirit. We dwell in a dry and thirsty land, Lord. We need You. Come.
Visit the youth. Visit the Universities. Visit the High Schools. Visit
the Junior Highs. Visit the Elementary schools. Get the humanism out of
our schools and reveal the glory of the Son. Go into the ghettos, Lord.
Let Your fingers claim the youths who are lost and dying in the ghettos.
Go down into the French Quarter, Lord. Turn that area around for Your
glory. Deal with the voodoo. Wipe it out of this city, Lord. Cleanse
this city. Purge it of voodoo. Get the witchcraft out of the Church,
Lord. The time has come. It must be You sitting on the throne of this
city and not some devil.
Bring unity to the Church, Lord. Bring
humility, holiness, and evangelism, Lord. O Lord, that there would be a
praying Church in this city forever. Listen to our pleas, Lord. Hear our
cries. Come. Turn this city into a Christ fearing city. Come. Come,
Lord Jesus, come. We need Your holiness. We need Your glory. We need
Your fire. We need your power. We need Your rain. We need the revelation
of Jesus Christ in this city. We need Your love. Destroy the altars,
Lord, that are not of You, and establish altars of righteousness, Lord.
Glorious Redeemer! God, You are the
Breaker. Break through. O Lord, that You would rend the heavens and come
down. That the mountain might quake and flow down at Your presence as
when fire kindles a brushwood and causes the waters to boil, in order to
make Your name known to Your adversaries. Lord, that the nations may
tremble at Your Presence. You came down, and the mountain quaked at Your
Presence. Come down, Lord. Rend the heavens, and come down. Come down.
Lord, give this city the revelation of evangelism. Give the Church in
this city such a broken heart for evangelism, Lord, that the Church will
go out, at any cost to evangelize the lost.
Prepare this city, Lord. You will come,
and we will be waiting for You, Lord. Lord, we want to know You in Your
holiness. We want to know You in Your glory. We want to know You in Your
majesty. O God, come! O Lord, in the midst of the years, make known.
Come! Pour out Your glory!
O Lord Jesus, You are a God of pure
goodness. You are a God who is a consuming fire. Come and consume Your
Church in this city, Lord. Lord, we repent that we have not prayed
enough. We offer our humble apology, Lord, that we have not prayed
enough for this city. Lord, we repent for the indifference in our
hearts. We do not know what You want to do, Lord. We do not know what
You want to avoid, but Lord, if this city does not receive You—if You
are not able to come with a full scale revival in this city—Lord, You
told me a long time ago that it was going to be utterly destroyed. Lord,
I ask that You will grip the heart of intercessors in this city. I ask
that You will grip the heart of the people to pray for Your coming. How
great You are, Lord. No one is like You.
My dear Friends, pray. Pray for your city like you have never prayed for it before.
In His Love,
Nita Johnson
