REVIVAL PRAYING

'Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? v. 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hat not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." Psalm 24:3-4

I call these two verses, 'Revival Praying'. It is the prayer of the deacon in the Hebrides revival. When he stood and lifting up his face toward heaven and spoke to the Lord God; 'Are my hands clean? is my heart pure?' It is the question for everyone that reads this to ask. It is the question for everyone to answer.

There are two parts to this for self-examination in prayer, the hands and the heart. LEt us search the Scriptures and find this message for prevailing prayer for revival.

1. 'Are my hands clean?'
one must have clean hands to approach before God. 'If I regard iniqutiy in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.' Now this says the heart, but is there sin on our hands? The acknowledgement of sin in the heart shuts down our prayer with God. We cannot afford to move forward without God. There must be a cleansing, a purifying, a washing in the blood of the Lamb that taketh away the sin of the world.'
'Touch not the unclean thing'. Here is the use of our hands. What sins are found on the hands and its works?
--Touching the unclean thing; this is touching anything that is not clean. Can we discern between clean and unclean? In the law of Moses, especially in Leviticus there is huge portions defining what was exceptable and what was not. Sin is not acceptable; holiness is. LEt us simply gauge ourselves on such a scale.

--Blood on my hands; one of the most desecrating sins of the church today; WE have allowed for millions of souls to perish and their blood is on our hands. In Ezekiel, the word of the Lord is there for our instruction. "I have set you as a watchman on the tower. And if the enemy comes and you fail to soudn the warning and they perish. I will require their blood at thy hand. For you knew but you did not warn them.' How many souls has been set before us? How many souls are in need of the Gospel? And yet we have allowed them to live in our homes, in our towns, sit in our churches, work beside us, go to school with them; and never ask them of their eternity. We have the blood of a nation on our hands. SCrup your hands as well you might, the blood still remains. But perfume, scents, lotions, aftershave or any other sweet smelling aroma, still the blood remains. thsi cannot be removed except through the execising of declaring the whole counself of the Gosple to a lost soul. Upon telling them the truth of the Gospel, you deliver your own soul and keep the blood off.

--laboring with my hands for vanity , idleness and works of self; When trying to telling people today in America, that they need God, they reply, 'With my own two hands I've worked for what I got'. They fail to see that God gave them two hands to work. But the message behind what they are saying is the point; they worked for things. OUr society is bent on 'things'. Don Miller, recently stressed this in his prayer conference about the life that keeps men from God. Things of this earth are set before us for success, to rule our lives and to live and die for. Things keep us from dying to self, and following the Lord. The rich young ruler went away from Christ because he was told to 'go sell all that you ahve and come follow Me.' He could not do it. Increased with goods has a high costs with it. Unelss we be willing to give all up, it will destroy us. Peole set out in life to accomplish this. They live and work for money, for possessions, for things to gratify the flesh. It is all vanity and vexation of spirit.