4. “To keep oneself from action or interference”
Refrain
“To keep oneself from action or interference”

5. A return or recall to activity from a state of Languor
Revival
A return or recall to activity from a state of Languor

6. Need Revival? Languor Feebleness; dullness; lassitude of body;
Dullness of the intellectual faculty; listless
Softness; laxity
Need Revival?

7. Return, Recall, or Recovery to life from death or apparent death
Revival
Return, Recall, or Recovery to life from death or apparent death

8. Revival
Renewed and more active attention to religion; an awakening of men to their spiritual concerns.

9. Yom Kippur Leviticus 16:29-31
“This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the foreigner who resides among you. Atonement will be made for you on this day to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice
self-denial; it is a permanent stature.”

10. To be occupied, to be busy with Afflict, oppress, humble, to bow down
Self-Denial Afflict
‘Anah
To be occupied, to be busy with
Afflict, oppress, humble, to bow down

11. Godly Fast and Prayer To Refrain from something
So that you can be occupied,
busied with the Lords presence instead!

12. Job 23:12
“I have not departed from the commands of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily food.”

13. Daniel 10:3
“I didn’t eat any rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.”

14. 2 Chronicles 7:14-16
“and My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. My eyes will now be open and My ears attentive to prayer from this place. And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My name may be there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.”

15. Pentecostal Foundation of Prayer
Acts 1:14
“All these were continually united in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.”

16. Refraining is between you and the Lord
Matthew 6:16-18
“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive also their fasting is obvious to people, I assure you: They’ve got their reward! But when you fast, put oil on your head, and wash your face, so that you don’t show your fasting to people but to
your Father who is in secret. And your Father who see in secret will reward you.”

17. Revivals have a foundation of Prayer
Great Welsh Revival –
Evan Roberts and others prayed for 5 years
Second Reformation –
Charles Finney and others prayed for 6 years
Brownsville AG Revival – 1995
2 years of prayer before for revival

18. Foundational Prayer to change the World
Anna
Luke 2:37
“and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting's and prayers.”

19. Foundational Prayer to change the World
Matthew 4:1-2
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. After He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He was hungry.”

20. Foundational Prayer to change the World
Jesus Fasted and Prayed for 40 days in a row.
Can you Fast and Pray for
40 days in the next year?

21. Revival
Harvest
Heart of a Christian
Heart of Everyone else

23. Refrain from What? If it doesn’t mean anything to you,
it won’t mean anything to God.
The more it means to you, the more it means to God.

25. 7 Days