PRAYER:
NECESSITY OF; CHURCH: SPIRITUAL CONDITION; REVIVAL: NEED FOR

For some years I have had a growing conviction that the world situation as God sees it presents two major goals to be reached by praying people, two objects at which to aim our prayers.

One is that the glory of God be seen again among men, and the other that the church be delivered from her present Babylonian captivity.…

I believe we are under positive spiritual obligation to pray effectively till the present veil is torn away and the face of God is seen again by believing men.

The second object at which our prayers should be aimed is the restoration of the spiritual life of the church. We must continue to pray that she should cease her disgraceful fornication with the world and return to her first love and her true Lord. Her living has degenerated, her tastes have declined, her standards have sunk to the bottom. Nothing short of a radical reformation can save her. Only those with anointed eyes are able to see her plight and only those with Spirit-filled hearts can intercede for her effectively.

Exodus 40:34–35; Matthew 24:10–12; 2 Timothy 3:13–17; Revelation 2:4–5

Keys to the Deeper Life, 62, 63.