Prayer That Brings Revival by David Yonggi Cho

Author:David Yonggi Cho
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780884195801
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 1998-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Part III:

The Forms of Prayer

Prayer takes on different forms in our Christian lives. It is my desire to share with you the forms of prayer that we practice at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, Korea—not that we have exhausted all forms of prayer. Perhaps you may know a form of prayer that I have not included in this section. However, what I am about to share with you is based on our experience and in many ways explains the source of our unique church growth.

Your Personal Devotional Life

To guarantee our continual personal growth as a Christian, we must have a regular personal devotional life. If we stop praying, we begin to slow down as we move from impetus to momentum, as we have explained previously.

In many parts of the world, Christianity has become a traditional religion—full of ritualism and with little pulsating life. In today's fast-moving age, people find it difficult to institute and maintain a personal devotional life. Television plays an increasingly dominant role in our daily lives. This wastes even more important time that can be devoted to prayer. The more advanced the civilization, the more distractions exist to keep men and women from praying every day. The only way to keep from falling into this trap is to see the extreme importance of daily devotions.

There are many reasons we should pray daily. The following are just two of them:

1. Our day must begin in prayer, for then God responds.

God loves to move in our hearts early: "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early [the Hebrew meaning is during the dawn]" (Ps. 46:4-5).

"Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early" (Ps. 57:8). This statement is repeated by David in Psalm 108:2. Both verses show David's practice of getting up early every morning to praise and worship the Lord. It is no wonder that God testified David was a man after His own heart.

However, David not only praised and worshiped God early in the morning; he sought the Lord as well during this precious early time:

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

—Psalm 63:1-4

God has promised that those who make it a practice to get up early to seek the Lord will find Him: "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me" (Prov. 8:17).

2. When we begin our day in prayer, we have the spiritual and physical strength to carry out our responsibilities.

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