Table Of ContentDavid Yonggi Cho
PRAYER THAT BRINGS REVIVAL by David Yonggi Cho
with R. Whitney Manzano
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cho, David Yonggi, 1936-
Prayer that brings revival / David Yonggi Cho.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Prayer, key to revival.
ISBN: 0-88419-580-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Prayer—Christianity. 2. Church renewal. I. Cho, Yonggi
1936- Prayer, key to revival. U. Title.
BV215.C54 1998
248.3'2—dc21 98-44139
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This book was previously published as
Prayer: Key to Revival, Copyright © 1984, by Word, Inc.,
ISBN 0-8499-0453-6
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I , which are called
FMYPEOPLE
by my name, shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear
from heaven, and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
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—2 C 7:14
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ONTENTS
Introduction...................................................................... ix
Preface: The Life of Prayer............................................ xix
PART I: MOTIVATING CHRISTIANS TO PRAY
1 What Prayer Accomplishes.............................................. 31
2 Prayer and the Holy Spirit................................................51
3 Your Personal Response to Prayer................................... 63
PART II: THE THREE TYPES OF PRAYER
4 Prayer is Petition.............................................................. 73
5 Prayer Is Devotion........................................................... 83
6 Prayer Is Intercession....................................................... 89
PART III: THE FORMS OF PRAYER
7 Your Personal Devotional Life...................................... 105
8 Your Family Devotions..................................................109
9 Prayer in the Church Service..........................................113
10 Prayer in the Cell Meeting............................................. 115
11 Prayer at Prayer Mountain............................................. 121
12 All-Night Prayer Meetings............................................. 125
13 Fasting and Prayer......................................................... 127
14 Waiting on the Lord....................................................... 141
PART IV: METHODS OF PRAYING
15 Developing Persistence in Prayer...................................149
16 Praying in the Holy Spirit.............................................. 155
17 The Prayer of Faith........................................................ 161
18 Listening to God's Voice................................................ 169
19 The Importance of Group Prayer................................... 177
PART V: POWERFUL PRAYER IS BASED ON THE BLOOD COVENANT
IN CHRIST JESUS
20 Powerful Prayer............................................................. 185
Conclusion: Get Ready to Be Used................................193
Notes.............................................................................. 197
I
NTRODUCTION
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F G Church, the church I pastor in
OIDO ULL OSPEL
Seoul, Korea, with its 750,000 members, is the
world's largest church. Every month as many as seven
hundred new converts are being saved from Buddhism,
secularism, and nominal Christian backgrounds.
How could a church grow this large?
Is it possible for other countries to have this kind of
revival?
I am convinced that renewal is possible anywhere
people dedicate themselves to prayer.
It is because I believe in revival and renewal that I
have written this book. It has been historically true that
prayer has been the key to every revival in the history of
Christianity.
Before the church was born on the Day of Pentecost,
Luke wrote, "And [the disciples] were continually in the
temple, praising and blessing God" (Luke 24:53). In the
Book of Acts, Luke further amplifies what the disciples
were doing: "These all continued with one accord in
prayer and supplication" (Acts 1:14). The church was
born when the Holy Spirit descended during a time of
concentrated prayer.
Before the missionary era of the church began, the
Holy Spirit revealed to the leaders gathered in Antioch
that they should send Barnabas and Saul. Yet, the Holy
Spirit only spoke after they had fasted and prayed.
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PRAYER THAT BRINGS REVIVAL
Throughout every move of the Spirit upon the church
since its birth, revival has been preceded by prayer. The
Reformation was born after Martin Luther locked himself
in a room within the tower of the Black Monastery at
Wittenberg for a season of prayer and intense study of the
Word. John and Charles Wesley and George Whitfield
spent hours in prayer and fasting and, as a result, the
worldwide Methodist revival was born. As the twentieth
century rolled in, God responded to the prayers of many
men and women of God who were committed to prayer
and fasting for revival, and the Holy Spirit fell as in the
second chapter of the Book of Acts—and Pentecost-alism
was born.
Now, we are at the dawning of a new century. A new
outpouring of the Holy Spirit is desperately needed. At no
time in the history of the modern world has there been
such an outpouring of satanic influence as there is today.
The bottom of the pit of hell is belching out its filth in
murder, rape, pornography, lawlessness, and violence.
Just as the preaching of the Wesleys kept Britain from
following France in revolution in the eighteenth century,
so too a new outbreak of revival can bring about the
social and political changes necessary to keep us from
international destruction and calamity. What will bring
about the revival that can lead the world away from the
brink of total destruction and annihilation? The answer is
a new call to prayer!
In 1991, after a season of intense prayer and fasting, a
prophetic vision began to unfold before my eyes. God
began to speak to me about a sweeping revival that would
finally come to the United States, a nation that seemed to
have been bypassed as God's Spirit flowed throughout
other parts of the world.
At the Holy Spirit's prompting, I pulled out a map of
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