Revive Us Again by John Abiola is not your regular kind of book in every sense of the word.
It is more of the heart and the passion of the author than the content.
As you peruse this seemingly large volume, you will almost certainly have an encounter that will transform your life.
The book is written in everyday language yet with palpable signs of groaning on each page as you flip through it.
The lines breathe and impart God’s manifold grace on the reader.
Two things will happen to you as you read through with an open heart; you will be revived and ultimately become an agent of revival.
The lines of the book are coded in a way that drags the reader into the realm of the author whose passion and desire is to see a world that bows to the will of God.
And he is able to drag as many people along with him in this intercessory mould through his writing.
The prayer subjects examined in the book are derived from the day-to-day life and happenings from.around the world including Nigeria.
But the beauty about the compendium is that the author gives a biblical perspective to every prayer subject.
The book breathes scriptures and paints the world with the words of the Bible.
The book takes you across the globe, brings the issues in many countries to the fore and makes you bend your knees in prayers.
It’s also about giants of faith who have in time past influenced our world.
You will read stories of great servants of God who lived lives that were devoted to prayer.
You will find within these pages the story of John Hyde and others like Andrew Murray, George Mueller, Charles Finney, Evan Roberts and a host of other prayer warriors in church history.
This book comes across as a manual for this age. You can also be certain that what you have within this volume is not the imprecatory prayers many pick from the book of Psalm to combat their enemies.
There are no lines of hate here.
What you have buried in the 331 pages of this volume are the heart cry of a soul desiring that men and women will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus.
It is a book on prayer filled with love and concern for a degenerating world.
It is a collection that longs for a world that will ultimately bow to Jesus.
It is an intercessory manual put together by a man who has dedicated his entire life to prayers.
The words of Jesus ring loud and clear in the collection, ‘men ought always to pray and not to faint.’
John Abiola demonstrates in the entire book that prayer can be a lifestyle and ultimately what we breathe.
His concerns are two fold, a dying world and a dying church.
As he intercedes for the world through the pages of this book, he weeps for the church; calling the attention of those who care to listen to the rot that has become of many assemblies in the Body of Christ.
Apart from making you pray this book will inform you of the tactics of the enemy and equip you with the instruments of spiritual warfare.
Reading the book is akin to embarking on a journey.
You can only determine when you start, you may never know when it ends because the fallout of the book transcends the time of reading it.
This book will inform you, reform you revive you and refresh you.
John Abiola is to be commended for heeding the call to a life devoted to prayer.
The grace of our Lord Jesus is evident in this book. The love of God streams through the pages and the presence of the holy spirit is clearly seen in the collection.
The reader is invited to embark on this journey prayerfully; with a heart set for a life-changing encounter.
You may not end up becoming a praying Hyde like John Abiola; but one thing is certain, your heart will burn within you and your views of prayer will change at the end of the day
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Gbenga Osinaike Publisher Church Times Nigeria