fervency

The priests of old stood ministering daily and offering sacrifices on God's altar to keep the fire burning on the altar because it takes sacrifices to keep the fire burning on the altar.

This enlightening teaching (Part 3 in a series) aptly explains how to keep yourself fueled and aflame, burning and glowing with the Holy Spirit, through diligence in the service of God.

This teaching is a divine call to present yourself continually as a living sacrifice to God and to keep abounding in the work of the Lord!

You cannot remain relevant, effective, and fruitful in God's service without remaining fervent in spirit.

You may not finish your race with joy, fulfill your ministry, and be rewarded by the Lord if you don't keep yourself fueled and aflame till the end.

This enlightening teaching (Part 2 in a series) aptly explains how esteeming, pursuing, and growing in the knowledge of Christ can keep your soul burning and glowing with the Holy Spirit till the very end.

This teaching is a divine call to give attention to God's Word! 

In serving the Lord, guarding against becoming sluggish, dull, cold, or lukewarm in spirit is vital.

It is your responsibility to see to it that you keep your spiritual fervor, zeal, excitement, or enthusiasm in the service of God.

This enlightening teaching (Part 1 in a series) explains what it means to be fervent in spirit and why you should remain fervent until the end.

It is a divine call to remain on fire, burning and glowing with the Holy Spirit, till the very end!

Throughout the centuries men of God have often witnessed to the great need for fervency in the prayers of God’s people, and lamented the coldness and formality of what many call ‘prayer’. There is a great difference between ‘saying prayers’ and praying, as the following quotes will highlight. “Prayer without fervency is no prayer; it is speaking, not praying. Lifeless prayer is no more prayer than a picture of a man is a man.” Richard Watson “Incense can neither smell nor ascend without fire; no more can prayer unless it arises from spiritual warmth and fervency…cold, lifeless, and idle prayers are like birds without wings…mere lip prayers are lost prayers.” J W Acker “We need new mighty movements of the soul. We need to awaken and arouse our sleeping selves to take hold of God in mighty prayer. We need to marshal all our spiritual resources and sanctified energies to pray the prayer that prevails. Unless our prayer has fervent force, it has no power to overcome difficulties and win mighty victories.” Wesley L Duewel “Enflamed desires impassioned, unwearied insistence, delights heaven…heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers…Prayers must be red hot. It is the fervent prayer that is effective…It takes fire to make prayers go. Warmth of soul creates an atmosphere favourable to prayer…by flame prayer ascends to heaven. Yet fire is not fuss, not heat, noise…To be absorbed in God’s will, to be so greatly in earnest about doing it that our whole being takes fire, is the qualifying condition of the man who would engage in effectual prayer.” E M Bounds “The prayer that prevails with God is the prayer into which we put our whole soul, stretching out toward God in agonizing desire…If we put so little heart into our prayers, we cannot expect God to put much heart into answering them…When we learn to come to God with an intensity of desire that wrings the soul, then shall we know a power in prayer that most of us do not know now.” R A Torrey “No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off. Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of prayer. We have many organisers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.” Leonard Ravenhill

In Mark Chapter 11:22-25 Jesus speaks about the key part that desire in prayer plays to see the kind of results we are looking for. We take the following definitions from Mary Alice Isleib’s chapter on the subject of fervency: “Fervency means to pray with purpose, with serious intention.” “To pray with fervency means to pray with intensity. It also means that you give your being to God, and you let Him fill it with divine yearning. Your degree of fervency is directly related to the degree of your spiritual desire.” “When you pray with fervency, you pray the different kinds of prayer out of your heart, and you pray them strong, with intensity, following and flowing along with the Holy Spirit inside of you.” “Fervency is surrendering your feelings or your soul to the feelings of the Holy Spirit. It is allowing Him to express Himself through your mind, will and emotions when you pray.”

Three lessons for a praying church.

"Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord" (Romans 12:11).

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