Elijah on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:37-38)

I have prayed Elijah's prayer with pastors in the Philippines and China. I have prayed this prayer with churches in America. The Lord showed up in power.

By faith I have stood on Mars Hill in Athens, Greece, the hills of Honk Kong, and the mountains of Albania calling down fire upon the nations.

Confirmation by Fire:

a. Fire confirmed the reality of God. 
b. Fire confirmed Elijah was God's true prophet.      
c. Fire led the people to a fresh committment put away their gods and follow the true God.
d. Fire opened the way for an outpouring of rain. "Let us press on to acknowledge the Lord. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." (Hosea 6:3 NIV)

Revival fire starts in the heart, spreads to the church, flows out the door to the streets, and across the land. The Laodicean church became lukewarm.  It didn't start that way.  Certain worldly elements sucked the life out of it even though it was prospering in the natural. The law of Thermodynamics says that heat dissipates, things tend to brake down. (Revelations 3:14-22)
            According to Jesus, hot is great. Cold is bad. Lukewarm is worse! It nauseates God.
The status quo is a deception. Static conditions only exist temporarily before they begin to digress or deteriorate. Yesterday's manna breeds worms.
            Paul said to “Stir up the gift…” (2 Timothy 1:6) He was not insulting Timothy, the pastor of the Ephesian church and his son in the faith. The Greek word for stir up means to kindle, to inflame the mind, to have zeal.

Our Prayer:

A. Lord, renew our passion for Jesus. Send fresh fire.
Jeremiah said, "From on high He sent fire down into my bones."
The two men who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus said, "Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us and while He opened to us the Scriptures?" The Greek word, kaio, for burn means to set on fire, to consume with fire. (Lam. 1:13; Luke 24:32)

B. Lord, give us a new passion for the Word of God. The Word is like a fire - I cannot withhold. My Word is like a fire and a hammer. (Jeremiah 20:9; 23:29)

C. Jesus, baptize us with the Holy Spirit and fire. (Mat. 3:11, 12; Acts 2:3, 4)

D. God, give us a renewed passion for lost souls.

O God, don't let my heart grow cold
As time flies by and I grow old,
For souls are dying, lost in sin;
Help me, in love, to bring them in. Anonymous

E. God, give us your love, to burn within us like a supernatural fire.

We are committed to spreading renewal fire wherever we go. We desire to be instruments of God for rivers to begin to spring forth in desert places.

"Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs." (Isaiah 35:6-7 NIV)