There needs to be a desire to return to the Lord, in order
that the breath of life that he breathed into Adam and Eve may once again fill
us again. We need to ask for his
cleansing for our spiritual lungs, which have narrowed and become clogged with
'gunge' from the atmosphere of the world in which we live.
Maybe the prayer of the hymn by
Bessie Porter head would help:
O Breath of life, come sweeping through us,
revive your church with life and power.
O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us,
and fit your church to meet this hour.
revive your church with life and power.
O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us,
and fit your church to meet this hour.
O Wind of
God, come bend us, break us,
till humbly we confess our need.
Then in your tenderness remake us;
revive, restore, for this we plead.
till humbly we confess our need.
Then in your tenderness remake us;
revive, restore, for this we plead.
O Breath of
love, come breathe within us,
renewing thought and will and heart.
Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us;
revive your church in every part.
renewing thought and will and heart.
Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us;
revive your church in every part.
O Lord, have mercy upon us, that revival may be true of us.
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